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Glib insouciance is not only a great name for a blog, but it’s also probably a decent public relations strategy when you’re charged with a non-violent crime – political corruption, say. Read more
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6:22pm UK, Sunday May 10, 2009 At least 378 civilians have been killed after Sri Lankan forces fired a massive barrage of artillery shells at Tamil Tiger rebels, a government health official has said. [...]
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EastEnders star Nina Wadia has revealed that she receives “kinky” letters from fans. The actress confirmed that her bossy soap character Zainab Masood has attracted worldwide attention since she made her debut in 2007. Speaking to The People, Wadia explained: “I get a number of letters from Germany and America. A lot of them are [...]
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This week the New York-based Equality Now launched a campaign this week “against rape simulator games and the normalisation of sexual violence in Japan.” One developer of such rape simulator games wasn’t impressed. Read more
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Psychiatrist Daniel Amen studied the effects of addictions on brain activity, giving patients a small amount of radioactive tracer before administering a 15-minute 3-D imaging technique called SPECT, or single-photon emission computerized tomography. Read more
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger got some much-needed help from an unusual source today as former Gov. Gray Davis, the man he replaced in the 2003 recall election, endorsed the package of budget measures Schwarzenegger is backing on the May 19 ballot. 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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WASHINGTON — It has been a frustrating start of the century for those promoting economic integration of the Americas. The hemisphere seems more ideologically divided than at any time since the Cold War, putting off any hopes of reviving the idea of a Free Trade Area of the Americas, snuffed out two and half years [...]
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The striking thing about the present international situation is the degree to which America remains what Bill Clinton once called “the indispensable nation.” Despite global opinion polls registering broad hostility to George W. Bush’s United States, the behavior of governments and political leaders suggests America’s position in the world is not all that different from [...]
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No presidential election is about one thing only. It takes many strands fused together to account for victory or defeat. But when the last ballots are counted, that will not stop a judgmental world from using one criterion above all to analyze the outcome: Did the United States elect a black president or not? Read [...]
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In an Obama administration characterized by youth, they are a Cold War throwback, the aging arms-control experts who haggled with Soviet officials over nuclear weapons and testing. Read more
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For more than a decade, the bank managers lived in high style, jetting to Las Vegas and Macau to bet millions at the baccarat tables, staying for free in casino hotels and lavishing gem-studded watches on their wives. Read more
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LA GLORIA, Mexico — For years, farmers in the communities that dot this arid valley complained about the effects of the industrial pig farms that had multiplied near their fields. Read more
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JOHANNESBURG, May 8 — To the rarefied ranks of first ladies such as Michelle Obama and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, South Africa will add Sizakele Khumalo. Read more
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 9 — When black-turbaned Taliban fighters demanded in January that Islamic sharia law be imposed in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, few alarm bells went off in this Muslim nation of about 170 million. Read more
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AMMAN (Reuters) – Pope Benedict on Sunday visits the site believed to be where Jesus was baptized as he wraps up his visit to Jordan and prepares to leave for Israel to start the most delicate part of his first Middle East trip. Read more
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MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani helicopter gunships and warplanes hit Taliban positions in the militants’ Swat Valley stronghold Saturday, while a curfew prevented civilians from fleeing the fighting. Read more
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Pakistan’s government is lifting a curfew in the Swat valley to allow residents to escape an intense battle between the army and Taleban militants. Read more
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PRISTINA (AFP) – Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci hailed Saturday the International Monetary Fund’s offer of membership to the breakaway Balkan republic. Read more
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MINGORA, Pakistan – Civilians cowered in hospital beds and trapped residents struggled to feed their children Saturday, as Pakistani warplanes pounded a Taliban-held valley in what the prime minister called a “war of the country’s survival.” Warplanes and troops killed dozens of entrenched militants Saturday in the assault on northwestern Swat Valley, the army said. [...]