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Sarah Brown, the Prime Minister’s wife, pledged her support to Gary McKinnon’s mother Janis Sharp. Read more
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LONDON – Two children, including a 3-week-old baby, were killed and some 30 people had to be rescued when fire ripped through a high-rise apartment building in London yesterday, emergency services said. Read more
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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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(Minnesota’s new senator Al) Franken is considerably brighter and far more stable than his enemies, a group whose public behavior and personal conduct are replete with embarrassment, not to mention disgrace. Unlike many of them, he has a solid marriage and raised two outstanding children who adore him… from Rush Limbaugh is still a big [...]
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Diprivan, a powerful sedative, has been found in the home where Michael Jackson suffered a fatal cardiac arrest, a US law enforcement official has said. 17,500 tickets will be available to fans [...]
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Marvel Comics has released a synopsis for its upcoming mini-series Dark X-Men. Read more
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North Korea fired a barrage of short-range missiles off its east coast in a possible prelude to the launch of a long-range missile toward Hawaii over the U.S. Independence Day holiday. Read more
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official statements carried on Iranian media. Read more
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California State Attorney General Jerry Brown says his office has now taken a role in the inquiry involving possible drug abuse in the sudden death of singer Michael Jackson — with his department… Read more
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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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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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WASHINGTON — Some readers assume a few things about me, such as my stance on the divisive issue of immigration. And after making that assumption, some of them have suggested — in less than kind terms — that I “go back to Mexico,” even if I never came from there. Read more
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MOSCOW, July 1 — Thousands of casinos and slot-machine parlors across Russia were outlawed Wednesday as new restrictions on gambling took effect, shutting down an industry that had come to embody the seedier side of capitalism in the post-Soviet era. Read more
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TARLAHI, Pakistan — At the end of a village road, behind a grassy bluff, lies a hidden valley carpeted with thick red dust and canyoned with craggy mounds of earth. At the bottom, clay-colored figures squat barefoot all day, shaping balls of mud into bricks. In the distance, a dozen scattered chimneys spew clouds of [...]
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, July 2 — Honduran leaders who supported the coup against President Manuel Zelaya maintained a defiant stance Thursday in the face of international pressure, as diplomats conceded that a quick, painless resolution to the regional crisis might not be possible. Read more
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PARIS, July 2 — French crash investigators said Thursday they have determined that an Air France jetliner that plunged from a stormy sky on June 1 was intact when it smacked belly-first into the Atlantic Ocean at high speed, killing all 228 people aboard, but acknowledged they still have no clear idea what caused the [...]
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MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia’s information minister says the country’s national security minister has been killed in an explosion in a western town. Read more
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TOKYO, July 2 — North Korea on Thursday continued to rattle its neighbors by firing four short-range missiles into waters off its east coast. Read more
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PARIS (Reuters) – The Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic last month hit the water intact and at high speed but was missing for six hours before an emergency was declared, French investigators said on Thursday. Read more