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Retired British detectives are pursuing “potentially significant” information received after the broadcast of a new TV documentary about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, her family’s spokesman said. Read more
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SEATTLE, Washington (May — What started as a romantic Southeast Asia vacation for a Seattle couple ended with Ryan Kells preparing Friday to return from Bangkok carrying the ashes of his fiancee to give to her family in California. Read more
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Don’t blame us! As expenses scandal rocks Westminster, an all-too predictable response Police hunt expenses mole after ‘businessman’ hawks details of MPs’ receipts Female MP claimed £25,000 to pay for security men at her Soho flat (but isn’t her husband worth £13m?) Cameron’s ally Greg Barker rakes in £320,000 in two years Pensioner shot dead [...]
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TEXAS – A man arrested for allegedly failing to appear for jury duty was released Saturday after spending 83 days in jail, a length of detention that a judge called “unacceptable.” Read more
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Relatives of the Srebrenica massacre victims attend the funeral of their family members at the Srebrenica Memorial site during the 10th anniversary of the massacre on July 11, 2005, in Srebrenica, Bosnia Herzegovina. Read more
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The great dog debate — it started with Your dog does not love you and other cold-nosed truth and continued at Moxie’s owner weighs in on dog-love column — seems, in many instances, to come down to a debate over what mean by “love.” Pet Photo Oh, sure, there were more than a few commenters [...]
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1:09pm UK, Saturday May 09, 2009 Emma Hurd, Africa correspondent Jacob Zuma has been sworn in as South Africa’s new president after a remarkable political comeback. Jacob Zuma takes his [...]
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Rex Features Andrew Sachs has accused Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand of making “hollow” apologies at the height of the Manuelgate scandal. Ross and Brand both expressed contrition in personal letters to the Fawlty Towers star after their telephone stunt sparked outrage from the public. The controversial incident, which occurred in October last year, saw [...]
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Armenians in the oldest town in Nagorny Karabakh remember how a decade ago their forces captured it from the Azerbaijanis – and then burned it. For Khachaturian, who used to teach in the college, and other Armenians still living in Shusha (or Shushi as they call it) the bitter irony is that it was Armenians, [...]
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AMMAN, Jordan — Pope Benedict XVI began his first trip to the Middle East yesterday, expressing his “deep respect” for Islam and hopes that the Catholic Church would be a force for peace in the region as he treaded carefully following past missteps with Muslims and Jews. Read more
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In media interviews today, Michigan Rep. Pete Hoekstra, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said the CIA report on torture briefings (see below) proves Pelosi knew about the torture in… Read more
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It is jokingly dubbed ‘the most expensive B&B in the world’. Then again the trailer camp is the only ‘bed and breakfast’ that also provides lunch, dinner, a gym, 24-hour Internet access and a relatively secure place to stay in Basra.Situated within the newly-acquired American military base in this southern-Iraqi province, the B&B provides private [...]
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Pergola Margaret Beckett£711 labour and materials in the garden The caravan-loving Cabinet minister’s appreciation for the outdoor life does not end with the odd wet weekend in Wales. Her ambitious back-garden construction plans were re-buffed when the fees office raised concerns over paying for her summer house, shed and pergola. The £600 bill for [...]
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Ha sido un comienzo de siglo particularmente decepcionante para aquellos que promueven la integración económica de las Américas. El hemisferio parece hoy más dividido ideológicamente que en cualquier otro momento desde la Guerra Fría, lo que ha disipado cualquier esperanza de revivir la idea de un Área de Libre Comercio de las Américas, extinguida hace [...]
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If an air and missile strike could destroy Iran’s nuclear weapons program, it might seem the best of many bad options. But the likely costs outweigh the benefits. Read more
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South Africa has selected a new president in its fourth democratic and peaceful national election since its liberation from apartheid. So much for the cynics’ slogan “one man, one vote, one time” as the unyielding rule of African politics. Read more
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JERUSALEM, May 8 — Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Amman on Friday for an eight-day visit to Jordan and Israel that he said should be viewed as a personal pilgrimage. Read more
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Pakistan has told the Obama administration that it is sending an additional six army brigades to join a major government offensive against Taliban forces in the northwestern part of the country, and it has pledged to hold territory where extremist forces are dislodged, Pakistani and U.S. officials said yesterday. Read more
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TOKYO, May 4 — Armed with thermographic guns, Japanese health inspectors in surgical gowns, goggles and masks boarded United Airlines Flight 803 from Washington Dulles. They prowled the aisles, pointing their fever-seeking machines at jet-lagged faces. Read more
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MEXICO CITY — The staff was overwhelmed. The director was sleeping only a few hours a night. The telephones kept ringing and ringing as thousands of saliva samples from sick patients were rushed in. But the national testing laboratory was unable to identify a deadly new strain of swine flu. Read more