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TOKYO, July 9 — South Korea was bombarded Thursday with a third wave of cyberattacks, which disrupted and in some cases halted access to government, banking and media Web sites. Read more
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, June 30 — The two presidents of Honduras were headed on a collision course Tuesday, as the president ousted by a coup vowed to return and his replacement threatened to arrest him the minute he lands. Read more
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General Motors emerged from bankruptcy this morning, with chief executive Fritz Henderson promising that the fallen corporate giant will be reformed and that “business as usual is over.” Read more
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LAGOS, Nigeria — When the White House announced two months ago that President Obama would visit Ghana this week, Nigerians read a different, glaring message between the lines: The American leader was not going to their country. Read more
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — It was the biggest story in Honduras in years — soldiers burst into the president’s bedroom, dragged him off in his pajamas and bundled him onto a plane out of the country. Hours later, his foes announced the formation of a new government. Read more
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URUMQI, China (Reuters) – Chinese riot police broke up a small demonstration by Uighurs leaving Friday prayers in a Muslim Uighur neighborhood of Urumqi, arresting several who were taken away with hands above their heads. Read more
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DETROIT (Reuters) – A new General Motors emerged from bankruptcy protection on Friday — far more quickly than most industry-watchers had expected — as a leaner automaker pledging to win back American consumers and pay back taxpayers. Read more
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Leaders of the G8 developed nations have pledged $20bn (£12bn) for efforts to boost food supplies to the hungry, on the final day of a summit in Italy. Read more
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LONDON – European stock markets fell Friday ahead of an expected retreat on Wall Street as investors await more direction from the U.S. second-quarter earnings reporting season. The FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was down 31.09 points, or 0.8 percent, at 4,127.57 while Germany’s DAX fell 35.02 points, or 0.8 percent, at 4,595.05. [...]
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Play Video AP  – Raw Video: Man gored, dies during bull run Slideshow:Pamplona’s San Fermin Festival Reuters – A man looks at a traditional San Fermin red scarf left on the barrier where 27 year-old Spaniard Daniel … By ALVARO BARRIENTOS, Associated Press Writer Alvaro Barrientos, Associated Press Writer – 18 mins ago PAMPLONA, Spain – A charging bull gored a [...]
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It was the day when the wives of the world’s most powerful leaders went from rubble to truffles. Their tour of the earthquake damage in L’Aquila was certain to be a conversation at a banquet last night where they had veal in pastry with truffles. Read more
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JERUSALEM (July 9) – An attempt by Hamas police to detain a young woman walking with a man along the Gaza beach has raised alarms that the Islamic militant group is seeking to match its political control of the coastal territory with a strict enforcement of Islamic law. Read more
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London is days away from an epidemic with the West Midlands not far behind. Read more
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Nigerian militants ‘seize tanker’ 2:05PM Friday Jul 10, 2009 MANILA, Philippines – A Philippine official says Nigerian militants have seized a Singaporean-flagged tanker with a crew of six, including two Filipinos. Philippine Foreign Affairs spokesman Eduardo Malaya says armed militants boarded the tanker July 4 about 30kilometres off Koko in Nigeria’s oil-rich Delta [...]
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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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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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[DuPage County State's Atty Joseph] Birkett hedged a little Thursday on earlier statements that he planned to run [for attorney general] no matter what the Democratic incumbent did. “Right now, obviously, the plan is the plan,” Birkett said. “I didn’t formally announce, but I was indicating I would not be a candidate for governor and [...]
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10:50pm UK, Thursday July 09, 2009 Alex Crawford, Islamabad The Pakistani government has appealed to the international community for support – as it claimed virtual success against the Taliban in the Swat Valley. [...]
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ITV Former Coronation Street actor Ian Reddington will make a guest appearance in BBC daytime medical drama Doctors. The 50-year-old, who played Liz McDonald’s (Bev Callard) down-and-out partner Vernon Tomlin for three years – will play sleazy entrepreneur Tim Clayden for one episode. Tim and The Mill’s Dr Jimmi Clay (Adrian Lewis Morgan) meet at [...]
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An earthquake rocked southwest China on Thursday evening, injuring at least 336 people and collapsing 10,000 homes, state media said. Read more