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Play Video AP  – Sri Lanka: Rebel leader has been killed Slideshow:Sri Lanka Unrest Play Video Video:Sri Lanka claims war victory Reuters Play Video Video:Tamil rebels concede defeat Australia 7 News AP – In this image made available by the Sri Lankan army, a group of Sri Lankan soldiers pose for photographs … By RAVI NESSMAN, Associated Press Writer [...]
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BRITISH parliamentary officials colluded with MPs to let them make vastly inflated claims on their mortgages, leaked internal documents have disclosed. Read more
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His apology and plans for an emergency meeting of party leaders within 48 hours to hammer out interim expense reforms were welcomed but branded too little, too late. Read more
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YANGON – Riot police behind barbed wire barricades ringed a notorious prison where pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi went on trial yesterday for allegedly harbouring an American man who swam to her lakeside home. Read more
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The trial of Michel Fourniret — who reportedly enlisted his wife’s help to seize virgin girls to rape and kill — began March 27, 2008, with Fourniet refusing to speak unless court went into closed session and refusing to let the press take his photograph. The Times of London reported the gory details: “The couple [...]
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Exciting news out of the Middle East yesterday as four women were elected to the previously all-male Kuwaiti parliament! From Al-Jazeera: “The vote on Saturday was the third in just under three years after Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah dissolved the outgoing parliament in March following a standoff between MPs and the [...]
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You will hear the charge quite a bit in the coming days. To better evaluate that claim, I suggest you read What you need to know about the `Born Alive’ controversy and Barack Obama my wedge-issue primer. Read more
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11:22am UK, Monday May 18, 2009 The Sri Lankan military says it has won the final battle with Tamil Tiger separatists, putting the entire nation under government control for the first time since 1983. [...]
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NBC has finalised a deal to bring back Chuck, multiple sources confirm. Josh Schwartz’s action-comedy will return for a 13-episode third season in the fall. According to Entertainment Weekly, the pick-up came after Warner Bros. agreed to scale back the number of episodes in which several members of the cast appear. In addition, it is [...]
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FILE May 6, 2002. Aung San Suu Kyi Myanmar opposition leader surrounded by supporters in a massive… FILE May 6, 2002. Read more
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — A pair of spacewalking astronauts overpowered a stubborn bolt and successfully installed a new piano-sized camera in the Hubble Space Telescope on Thursday, the first step to making the observatory better than ever. Read more
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California could fire as many as 36,000 state workers under a budget plan released this afternoon by former San Jose Rep. Tom Campbell, a likely Republican candidate for governor next year. The layoffs… 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 — Probably no event could stand as better proof of a U.S. foreign policy failure than the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, to be marked on Jan. 1. Nineteen days later, a new U.S. president — the 11th since Fidel Castro toppled Fulgencio Batista’s regime — will inherit that policy. Read more
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President Obama’s effort to block the release of photographs of U.S. prisoner abuse is a mistake that can be corrected. The president acts with good intentions — and a profound understanding of the overstimulated times and society in which he lives. That alone represents progress at the White House. Read more
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NAZARETH, Israel, May 14 — A newly erected concrete spire sliced high into the air over an altar spread beneath, turning a dusty amphitheater here in northern Israel into a church for tens of thousands. Read more
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NEW DELHI, May 17 — Stunned by its dismal showing in the national elections, India’s opposition Hindu nationalist party held a series of informal meetings Sunday in which members assessed the causes of their trouncing and asked whether a more moderate tone would have served them better. Read more
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With four Washington area schools closed over the swine flu outbreak and the region bracing for another tense week of flu news, top health officials here and abroad projected yesterday a cautious optimism that the new virus is not as lethal as initially feared. Read more