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TEHRAN (Reuters) – Backers of beaten presidential candidate Mirhossein Mousavi will decide on Saturday whether to defy a stern warning by Iran’s top authority and stage mass protests over a disputed election. Read more
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TEHRAN (Reuters) – Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a strong warning on Friday to leaders of mass demonstrations against a disputed presidential election that they would be responsible for any bloodshed. Read more
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Iran’s supreme leader has issued a stern warning that protests against the country’s disputed presidential election results must end. Read more
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Related Quotes Symbol Price Change AIG 1.50 +0.03 JPM 34.96 +0.79 ^GSPC 922.38 +4.01 By MARCY GORDON, AP Business Writer Marcy Gordon, Ap Business Writer – 41 mins ago WASHINGTON – The previous head of the federal thrift supervision office is leaving the government amid criticism of the agency’s role in the run-up to the financial crisis. [...]
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Play Video Reuters  – Supreme leader: halt Iran protests Slideshow:Iran Election Play Video Video:Ayatollah’s speech backs Ahmadinejad BBC Play Video Video:Supreme Leader calls for an end to protets AP Reuters – EDITORS’ NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on leaving the … By ALI AKBAR DAREINI and NASSER KARIMI, Associated Press Writers Ali Akbar [...]
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BRITISH MPs faced universal condemnation yesterday over a “disgraceful” attempt to censor their expenses claims. Read more
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PARIS (June 19) — Air France said Friday it would give about $24,000 as an advance to the families of the victims of the crash of Air France Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. Remains of some of the 228 dead, and hundreds of pieces of wreckage reclaimed from the sea off Brazil [...]
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The doctor who was sacked from Great Ormond Street after she failed to spot Baby P’s broken back is demanding compensation from the hospital. Read more
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Man with swine flu dies in Australia 10:16PM Friday Jun 19, 2009 Swine Flu Swine flu victim remains in critical condition Tamiflu restrictions in Wellington ADELAIDE – A West Australian man suffering from swine flu has died in an Adelaide hospital, in the first death of a person with [...]
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Answer: In Persian, the suffix “stan” means “place of.” In Russian — remembering that Kazakhstan borders Russia, and five ‘stans used to be part of the Soviet Union — the word “stan” means “settlement.” So we have seven countries in Central Asia that share the “stan” suffix: Afghanistan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Pakistan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan The [...]
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The Yomiuri Shimbun ran a story today citing Japanese defense sources as saying North Korea’s next long-range missile test will be pointed toward Hawaii and — oh, that rascally Kim Jong-Il — likely to launch on America’s Independence Day or in the few-days window after July 4. The missile was reportedly brought to the launch [...]
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On his TV show, early in the Clinton administration, (Rush) Limbaugh put up a picture of Socks, the White House cat, and asked, “Did you know there’s a White House dog?” Then he put up a picture of Chelsea Clinton, who was 13 years old at the time …. Molly Ivins Read more
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The supreme leader of Iran is addressing the nation for the first time since the disputed presidential election result led to mass protests and violence. Followers of Mr Mousavi held a day [...]
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Heather Locklear has sparked rumours that she is engaged to boyfriend Jack Wagner after being spotted wearing a diamond ring. Read more
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Suspected US missile strikes pounded the hide-outs of a Taliban commander in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least eight people, government officials said. Read more
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LE BOURGET, France — Search teams have recovered more than 400 pieces of debris from Air France Flight 447 but investigators still do not know why the plane crashed into the Atlantic, the French accident chief said Wednesday. Read more
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If you’re looking for more clues to whether State Attorney General Jerry Brown will be making the 2010 Democratic run for governor — come on, it’s starting to look inevitable — there’s a nice fat one, in the coding on his own website. Read more
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Oooh, Iraq’s deputy PM Barham Salih is Twittering. He follows Barack Obama, John McCain and Oprah, seems unconcerned about security in revealing his upcoming locations and has an exuberant appetite for the exclamation mark: “Went, with family,to verify voter registration yesterday!” Read more
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If you were up with the birds to pore over MPs’ expenses claims on the Commons website, you’ll be well bored by now trying to work out what’s hiding behind all those big black censors’ blocks. So let’s play another game. We’re offering a brand new bathplug to the newsblog reader who can find [...]
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WASHINGTON — While Ecuadorian troops were positioning themselves this week at the border with Colombia, and hours after Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa severed relations with that country, a diplomatic war of words between the two neighbors began here at the Organization of American States. Read more