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URUMQI, China (July 12) – China on Sunday raised the injured toll from ethnic clashes a week ago to 1,680 — one more bit in the trickle of information the government has released on the unrest in the far west, though much remains unknown. Read more
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Senior British soldiers have launched a lacerating attack on Gordon Brown over Afghanistan. Read more
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US: Body found in secure building New 8:15AM Monday Jul 13, 2009 A female body was found stuffed inside an air-conditioning duct yesterday in a Manhattan skyscraper where a cleaning woman disappeared last week. Police discovered the corpse as they began searching the secure 26-storey tower for 46-year-old Eridania Rodriguez. Cameras cover every [...]
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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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I’ve never bought into the idea that there’s something wrong with putting ketchup on a hot dog — it’s not my thing, but who am I to tell people what they should and shouldn’t enjoy eating? — but I have to give credit to the Vienna Beef folks for this humorous poster. Read more
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In an exclusive interview with Sky’s political editor Adam Boulton during his trip to Ghana, the US president said: “My heart obviously goes out to the families of those British soldiers. Read more
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WENN.com Kerry Katona has decided to release a fitness DVD with her husband Mark Croft, a report claims. The reality TV star is believed to be making plans to slim down after her recent weight gain left her feeling “traumatised”. Despite paying for liposuction surgery last year, Katona has reportedly shot up from a size [...]
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During the height of the swine flu panic, Afghanistan locked up its only pig. Yep, as a Muslim country, there was only one pig in the entire nation, in a zoo. He was sequestered for his own protection, but he’s now been released. Read full story from snafu-ed.blogspot.com Read more
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Furious faculty at Columbia University claim administrators skirted rules by granting tenure to a controversial Arab-studies professor — and angry alumni are threatening to withhold donations. Read more
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Yes, Michael Jackson has a connection to the imprisoned Current TV journalists . He apparently grew interested in the case several weeks ago and reached out — through his and Laura Ling’s mutual friend… 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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Muchos inmigrantes ilegales permanecen animados con su futuro Sentada en la sala de espera de una clÃnica a las afueras de Washington este mes, Angélica Vivar estaba ansiosa por compartir su optimismo. No importa que esté sufriendo de gastritis, que haya perdido recientemente uno de sus trabajos porque su empleador quebró, que a veces no [...]
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Surprised to see the news the other day that the Obama administration is sending an ambassador back to Syria? So were officials in Hillary Clinton’s State Department. They were still hoping to win more movement from Damascus on Middle East issues when President Obama’s decision was leaked. Read more
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TOULOUSE, France, July 10 — Alain Refalo, a veteran elementary schoolteacher in this luxuriant corner of southwestern France, decided enough was enough. Read more
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NAWA, Afghanistan — Most of the mud-brick stalls that line the street in this sweltering town on the Helmand River closed down a year ago when Taliban fighters began swaggering through the bazaar, levying taxes on merchants and seeding the roads with homemade bombs. Shopkeepers placed their wares behind padlocked tin doors, teachers shuttered the [...]
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said today the U.S. government is refraining from formally declaring the ouster of Honduras’s president a “coup,” which would trigger a cutoff of millions of dollars in aid to the Central American country. 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 coming to their country. Read more
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URUMQI, China — The Yu siblings could hardly bear to look at the police snapshots of the dead — the images so full of anger and cruelty. So they took turns sifting through them in search of their brother, who had been missing since ethnically charged riots shook this city in far western China on [...]