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You’ll find a page of comprehensive coverage at the Jerusalem Post’s website, a visit not without controversy because of both the Jewish community’s fondness for Benedict’s predecessor and the landmark strides made in Israeli-Vatican relations by Pope John Paul II, and because of uproar over a breakaway Holocaust-denying bishop and other issues. Over at Al-Jazeera, [...]
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Maureen Dowd’s Next Step–Having confessed to lifting copy, the New York Times’ columnist almost sets things right. By Jack Shafer (Slate) Read more
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For years we were told that evolution and Darwinism are fact and already proven. Now this article quotes scientists saying that it wasn’t really proven and that prior to this discovery they had no proof. So more than anything this proves scientists are willing to lie and exaggerate to prove their pet [...]
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Anime fighting mash-up Tatsunoko Vs Capcom will be released in both North America and Europe. Read more
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Many in Britain and the United States are in mourning for whats taken as the suicide of the American (or Thatcherite, or Chicago-school) model of capitalism, accompanied by the non-interventionist state that hands the national economy over to business and financial leaders to run. Not least among the mourners ought to be The Economist magazine [...]
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Atlantis’ astronauts gingerly dropped the Hubble Space Telescope overboard Tuesday, sending the restored observatory off on a new voyage of discovery and bidding it farewell on behalf of the planet. Read more
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Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman , on CNN today, said that she would take a “no new taxes” pledge as California’s next governor and could solve that massive ($21 billion or $15 billion, take your pick) state… 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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While only three gold medals were awarded to the main show gardens at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, exhibitors at the Grand Pavilion weighed in with 46 golds in what Bob Sweet, Head of Shows Development for the Royal Horticultural Society, described as a “firework display of floral brilliance” Read more
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Probablemente ningún suceso podrá emerger como mejor prueba de un fracaso de la política exterior estadounidense que el 50 aniversario de la Revolución Cubana el próximo primero de enero. Diecinueve días más tarde, un nuevo presidente estadounidense — el undécimo desde que Fidel Castro derrocó el régimen del General Fulgencio Batista — heredará esa política. [...]
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LONDON, May 18 — The speaker of Britain’s House of Commons apologized Monday for his role in the burgeoning lawmaker expenses scandal and sought to retain his office by pledging to lead efforts to restore Parliament to respectability. Read more
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America’s auto titans are dismantling their global empires. But across the Pacific, it’s as if the global economic forces that have pummeled Detroit never struck. Chinese auto sales are up, and this year China is projected to displace Japan as the world’s largest car producer. Read more
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BOGOTA, Colombia, May 18 — Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos, celebrated for driving back Marxist guerrillas with U.S. backing in Latin America’s longest-running civil conflict, announced his resignation Monday, saying he will run for president in 2010 if the current leader, Álvaro Uribe, declines to seek a third term. Read more
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ATLANTA Nancy Cox’s phone connection to Mexico kept cutting off. Rain came down in sheets above the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Read more
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NAIROBI More than a year after ethnic gangs burned to death 28 people hiding inside a church during Kenya’s post-election violence, a memorial service was held for the victims at the church’s compound in the country’s western Rift Valley region on a chilly day last week. Read more
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 18 — One of the world’s most ruthless and elusive rebel leaders, Tamil Tiger chief Velupillai Prabhakaran, was reportedly killed Monday by Sri Lanka’s military in a firefight that signaled the effective end to one of Asia’s longest-running military conflicts. Read more
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COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka declared total victory on Monday in one of the world’s most intractable wars, after killing the separatist Tamil Tigers’ leader and taking control of the entire country for the first time since 1983. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday pressed a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict but failed to win a commitment from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to back Palestinian statehood. Read more
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The two leaders emphasised very different issues during the comments they made to the cameras. Mr Obama reiterated his commitment to a two-state solution between the Israelis and the Palestinians but Mr Netanyahu refrained, as he has done since he’s taken office, from uttering the words “Palestinian state”. The Israeli prime minister emphasised repeatedly that [...]
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WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US House of Representatives on Monday passed legislation to battle financial fraud and create an independent commission to investigate the causes of the global financial meltdown. Read more