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SORKHDOZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Thousands of U.S. Marines stormed deep into Taliban territory in an Afghan valley on Thursday, marking the start of a major new effort by the Obama administration to regain the initiative in the war.
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Debbie Rowe, the ex-wife of Michael Jackson, says she will fight for custody of the two children she had with the late pop icon.
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It wasn’t so long ago — against the backdrop of the financial crisis and its aftershocks, amid a tide of popular anger — that financial-industry representatives took pains to acknowledge the need for financial reform, even in their own corners of the sector.
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Two young children and a man injured in the Italian rail disaster on Monday have died.
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SEOUL, South Korea (July 2) — North Korea test-fired four short-range missiles Thursday, South Korea’s Defense Ministry said, a move that aggravates already high tensions following Pyongyang’s recent nuclear test and U.N. sanctions imposed as punishment.
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A spokesman for the force said: ‘Nottinghamshire Police reported the death
of two German shepherd police dogs to the RSPCA on Tuesday, June 30,
after they were discovered at force headquarters at 2.15pm.
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US petrol station robbers run out of gas
1:39PM Thursday Jul 02, 2009
KIRKWOOD, New York - State police say two men robbed a gas station and might have got away if they had also fuelled up.
New York state police officers said they caught 29-year-old Lonnie Meckwood and 51-year-old Phillip Weeks after their getaway car […]
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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 resembled […]
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Nearly as quickly as TMZ reported the news of Michael Jackson’s death, I noticed the story popping up to high prominence on Arab news sites — and staying there as user comments added up. Especially in the past decade, the bulk of Jackson’s popularity seemed to be outside of the United States, and the singer […]
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If President Barack Obama said he and his wife, Michelle, were soul mates, I’d buy that. If Mayor Richard Daley called Maggie his soul mate, I wouldn’t wince.
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10:03am UK, Thursday July 02, 2009
Pakistan’s army has deployed troops to a stretch of the Afghan border to stop Taliban fighters fleeing a major US military push.
The offensive is set to last 36 hours in its first highly aggressive phase
American Marines stormed into the Taliban heartlands of southern Afghanistan in their biggest offensive airlift since […]
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Justin Timberlake has admitted that he is hoping to get Princes William and Harry to wear his designer jeans.
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A court in India has made a groundbreaking ruling to decriminalize consensual gay sex in the capital of the deeply conservative society.
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VIAREGGIO, Italy — Elia Quiroz was about to go to bed in his home near the railroad station in this Tuscan seaside town when the train rumbled by. His kitchen table started shaking.
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Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman , Republican candidate for governor, has something to crow about: her camp just announced that her exploratory committee “has raised more than $6.5 million since launching her…
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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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Environmental groups are demanding that the Queen withdraw the award of a knighthood to a Malaysian tycoon accused of making his fortune from the illegal destruction of huge areas of tropical rainforest.
The announcement of the honour for Tiong Hiew King, billionaire chairman of the Rimbunan Hijau conglomerate, comes just six weeks after Prince Charles […]
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Another school very evident at Chelsea Flower show was Writhlington School. Pupils embarked in March 2009 on a trip to Sikkim in the Himalayas to take part in the Gangtok Schools’ Orchid project. This has furthered the work of the botanical team at the school and resulted in a stand in the Continuous Learning area […]
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Algunos lectores suponen ciertas cosas sobre mÃ, como mi opinión ante el polémico tema de inmigración. Y debido a ello, algunos han sugerido — en términos poco amables — que debo “regresar a México” — a pesar de que no vengo de allá.
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