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Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose, clarified her quote in the Washington Post story yesterday that caused such a stir. She said she did emphasize California’s importance to the national economy, but that her… Read more
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Meet the Narcycist. He’s an Iraqi slice of the rich and varied world of Arabic hip hop and his new video is quite entertaining if only for its title of PHATWA, which the great man told The Times, “stands for Purposeful Hatred Attacking The Wrong Arabs OR Political Hip-Hop Attracting The World’s Attention,” addressing the [...]
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First the figures. Unemployment has hit a 12-year high of 2.26 million, the worst figure since the first months of the Blair administration. In the three months to April, the jobless total has risen by 232,000. The same batch of figures from the Office for National Statistics show youth unemployment (18-24) reaching its worst [...]
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Mientras tropas ecuatorianas se posicionaban en la frontera con Colombia esta semana y horas después de que el Presidente de Ecuador Rafael Correa rompiera relaciones con ese paÃs, una guerra diplomática de palabras entre los paÃses vecinos empezó aquà en la Organización de Estados Americanos. Read more
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The turmoil in Iran since last week’s election has confused the foreign policy debate here in the United States in interesting ways. Supporters of President Obama, who until very recently had railed against the Bush administration’s “freedom agenda” and who insisted on a new “realism,” have suddenly found themselves rooting for freedom and democracy in [...]
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Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III told Congress yesterday that the Obama administration is exploring ways to involve two Russian radar installations in a missile-defense system for Central Europe. Read more
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LAHORE, Pakistan, June 16 — The modest office where Sarfraz Naeemi kept his library and received visitors seeking spiritual guidance is now a charred hole. The floor is strewn with burned pages, glass shards and ball bearings from a young suicide bomber’s lethal vest. Read more
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TEHRAN, June 17 — Iran’s capital was tensely quiet on Wednesday after four days of demonstrations and violence in response to a hotly disputed presidential election. Read more
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SEOUL (Reuters) – The leaders of South Korea and the United States told North Korea to drop its atomic ambitions and stop threatening the region while media reports on Wednesday said Pyongyang was moving ahead with plans to launch a long-range missile. Read more
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TEHRAN (Reuters) – Defeated presidential candidate Mirhossein Mousavi urged supporters to stage protests or gather in mosques to mourn those killed after disputed elections that set off Iran’s worst unrest since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Read more
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Supporters of Mir Hossein Mousavi are planning a new demonstration in Tehran in protest at what they see as a fraudulent presidential poll in Iran. Read more
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DUSHANBE (AFP) – The global economy should begin showing signs of recovery by next year, IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said on Wednesday during a visit to the Central Asian state of Tajikistan. Read more
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Play Video ABC News  – Unrest Plagues Iran After Election Slideshow:Iran Election Play Video Video:Tehran Tweets: Iran Twitters amid election chaos AP Play Video Video:How do Iran’s elections work? AP AP – In this image issued by the government run Fars News Agency, demonstrators attend a state-organised … By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writers Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated [...]
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A FATHER who killed his six-year-old son by launching him from a hotel balcony in Greece arrived back in Britain yesterday. Read more
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PARIS (June 15) — A burn victim who received a simultaneous partial face and double hand transplant in a French hospital has died, the Paris Public Hospital authority said Monday. Read more
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The issue has triggered petitions and public demonstrations, with residents in one town marching on the council offices. Read more
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US man missing for 50 years comes forward New 1:54PM Wednesday Jun 17, 2009 NEW YORK – More than 50 years after a two-year-old boy disappeared from outside a Long Island bakery, a Michigan man has come forward to claim that he was the missing boy. The man approached police and federal authorities [...]
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A Georgian civilian is checked at a Russian army position on Aug. 16, 2008, in the village of Igoeti on the road from Gori to Tbilisi, about 45 kilometers from Tbilisi, Georgia. Read more
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Some of the highlights from the Israeli prime minister’s speech tonight: “In my vision of peace, in this small land of ours, two peoples live freely, side-by-side, in amity and mutual respect. Each will have its own flag, its own national anthem, its own government. Neither will threaten the security or survival [...]