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Colombian Farmers Get Broad Incentives to Forgo Coca Crops

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VISTA HERMOSA, Colombia — Colombia, with $8 billion in U.S. backing since the late 1990s, has tried everything to eradicate the crop used to make cocaine. Read more

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Suu Kyi pleads not guilty in U.S. intruder case

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YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi pleaded not guilty on Friday after a prison court formally charged the Nobel laureate for allowing an univited American intruder inside her home. Read more

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GM prepares for bankruptcy

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DETROIT (Reuters) – General Motors Corp won a cost-cutting deal from its Canadian labor union on Friday, part of a package of concessions the automaker is expected to take into a federal bankruptcy court by the end of this month in a showdown with its bondholders. Read more

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Counter-attack on Mogadishu Islamists

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Pro-government forces in Somalia have launched a major attack against Islamist militants controlling parts of the capital, Mogadishu. Read more

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US lawmakers seek deeper US-China ties on visit (AFP)

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WASHINGTON (AFP) – China-bound US lawmakers said Friday that their visit aimed to deepen cooperation on pulling the world economy out of its slump and to ease any worries about investments in sky-rocketing US debt. Read more

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AP Interview: Insurgents crossing into Pakistan (AP)

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AP – Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Schloesser speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the U.S. base in … Slideshow:Afghanistan Play Video Pakistan Video:Pakistan militants vow revenge over Swat offensive AFP Play Video Pakistan Video:Sen. McCain Uncut FOX News By FISNIK ABRASHI, Associated Press Writer Fisnik Abrashi, Associated Press Writer – 1 min ago BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan – [...]

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Spider-Man actress (28) found hanged in her Parisian flat

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Lucy Gordon, a British actress who appeared in ‘Spider-Man 3′ and was an emerging film star in France, has been found dead in her flat in Paris after apparently committing suicide by hanging. Gordon, a former model from Oxford, was two days short of her 29th birthday. Police said there was no suspicion of foul [...]

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Taxman Seeks Teen Who Sold Virginity

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(May 21) – A teenager who sold her virginity for about $14,000 may have to pay half of it in taxes, London’s Daily Mail reported. An Italian businessman reportedly paid Romanian-born Alina Percea, 18, in cash for a weekend of sex after the teen auctioned off her virginity online. Skip over this content BARM / [...]

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British paedophile suspect in Madeleine McCann case faces extradition from Germany for sex attacks

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He was living just an hour’s drive from the resort of Praia da Luz when she disappeared in May 2007. Read more

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American in spotlight at Suu Kyi trial

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YANGON, Myanmar -The middle-aged American man whose nighttime swim to visit democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi may cost her a chance at freedom came into fuzzy focus as a court in Myanmar showed a home movie he allegedly shot at her lakeside residence. Read more

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France's Worst Serial Killers?

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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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Has America suddenly taken a `pro-life’ turn?

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Let’s unpack last week’s big number: 15. That’s the percentage-point swing toward the “pro-life” position on abortion in the last year, according to new   Gallup Poll results. Read more

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Emergency Aid Appeal As Pakistan War Rages

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10:33am UK, Friday May 22, 2009 Stuart Ramsay, Sky News chief correspondent The UN is to launch an emergency aid appeal for more than one and a half million people displaced by the war between the Taliban and Pakistan’s [...]

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Blagojevich’s wife to star in US ‘I’m A Celeb’

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Rod Blagojevich’s wife will reportedly star in NBC’s reality show I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here. Read more

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Dynasty Vs Democracy: Vivek ji

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An article written by Vivek ji on the issue of congress party of India which is moving towards the party of Dynasties in a biggest Democracy of the world . Read more

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47 MILLION-YEAR-OLD FOSSIL TOUTED AS ‘MISSING LINK’

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POST STAFF REPORT Click for photo gallery Loading new images… PHOTOS: ‘Missing Link’ Fossil TODAY’S HOT TOPICS PATTI SCIALFA JOHN GOTTI ANAL CANCER more topics HILARY RHODA ANAL CANCER JILL ZARIN BROOKE ASTOR MARK SANCHEZ THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF NEW YORK CITY FARRAH FAWCETT hide topics [...]

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Obama having “active conversations” on changing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

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Check out the wee glimmer of a change in the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” saga, buried in Thursday’s press conference by Obama mouthpiece Robert Gibbs. The last we heard, the Obama Administration was moving… Read more

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Staying at the Basra ‘B&B’

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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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Young person’s ‘Chelsea’

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On the back of the Chelsea Flower Show, garden designers of the future will showcasing their own ‘mini’ gardens during the half-term break (May 23-31) at RHS Wisley. A number of schools across all age ranges have created 1 metre by 1 metre gardens, many following the theme of growing vegetables. ‘The environment’ is also [...]

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Will Extradition Serve Justice Beyond U.S. Anti-Drug Aim?

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WASHINGTON — Early last week, the government of Colombia extradited 13 commanders of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia to the United States. They are among the most feared men in Colombia, accused of unconscionable acts of torture, massacres and the displacement of entire villages. Read more

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