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MANILA (Reuters) - Former President Corazon Aquino, whose “people power” revolution swept dictator Ferdinand Marcos from power in the Philippines, died on Saturday after a 16-month battle against colon cancer, her family said. She was 76.
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WASHINGTON/DETROIT (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress moved to triple the funding for the government’s successful “Cash for Clunkers” auto rebate program, which has brought car buyers back into showrooms and raised the outlook for an industry beset by abysmal sales, bankruptcies and job cuts.
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Nigerian Islamic sect leader Mohammed Yusuf was alive when he was captured, the commander of the operation against the militant group has told the BBC.
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GENEVA (AFP) –
China on Friday asked the European Union for talks under the first stage of a World Trade Organization disputes procedure over EU measures on imports of Chinese-made screws and bolts.
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AP – In this photo released by the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), Iranian President Mahmoud …
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Arachnophobia has gripped southeastern France after a pensioner suffered a near-lethal bite from a rare spider whose venom is said to be “as dangerous as a cobra’s”.
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A French official says about 60 crew members on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship have been diagnosed with swine flu and confined to their cabins while the ship is in a French port.
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Firefighters and paramedics refused to save an accident victim lying in 18 inches of water, saying it was too dangerous, an inquest has heard.
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Tiger loose on Vegas streets
6:30PM Friday Jul 31, 2009
LAS VEGAS - Police in Las Vegas say a tamed tiger that escaped from a magic act has been captured.
Police say the residents in the city’s northwest section reported seeing the tiger wandering their streets Thursday night.
Police Lt. Les Lane says the cat belongs to […]
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The son of a wealthy businessman, and a businessman in his own right, who became president of Honduras in January 2006 and was driven from the country in June 2009 when he pressed forward with a constitutional referendum — deemed illegal by the country’s supreme court — that would have allowed additional presidential terms.
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The veteran DuPage County state’s attorney and Republican candidate for Illinois attorney general is leading the effort to have confessed child killer Brian Dugan sentenced to death. And he and the other lawyers in the case appeared before DuPage Circuit Judge George Bakalis to argue several fine points related to Dugan’s sentencing hearing, scheduled to […]
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9:16am UK, Friday July 31, 2009
The verdict in the trial of Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been postponed.
Aung San Suu Kyi has been under house arrest for 14 of the past 20 years
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate is accused of breaching the terms of her house arrest by allowing an American man […]
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Cast your votes for the 2009 Digital Spy Movie Awards below. Voting closes on Friday, August 28, with the winners announced on DS in early October.
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Nearly 10,000 Uighurs involved in deadly riots in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region went missing in one night, exiled Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer said Wednesday, calling for an international investigation.
“The nearly 10,000 (Uighur) people who were at the protest, they disappeared from Urumqi in one night,” Kadeer told a news conference in Tokyo through an interpreter. […]
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BURGOS, Spain — A powerful car bomb destroyed a police barracks housing officers and their families in northern Spain on Wednesday, slightly injuring about 60 people and causing major damage in the surrounding area. The attack was blamed on Basque separatist group ETA.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued health care talking points this morning for members sure to face a month-long barrage of questions, fueled by hourly barrages from the GOP under the general headline …
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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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Iranian mourners are marking the death of Neda Soltan this afternoon, 40 days after she was shot dead in Tehran. Foreign journalists are banned from reporting inside Iran but we are trying to gather as much information as possible.
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Hasta hace pocos años Bolivia dependÃa tanto de Washington como fuente de ingresos que con frecuencia sus ministros hacÃan visitas para solicitar préstamos que le permitiera al paÃs pagar la nómina de su gobierno. Normalmente no tenÃan dificultades en obtenerlos ya que habÃa confianza de que seguirÃa al pie de la letra las recetas económicas […]