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LONDON, July 25 — Thousands of people poured into the streets of cities around the world Saturday in a show of solidarity with Iranians protesting the results of their country’s presidential election last month. Read more
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Three years ago, while working for the U.S. Agency for International Development in Kyrgyzstan, Clifford H. Brown came across an idea that he thought could help stem the spread of radical Islam in the Central Asian nation. Read more
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ACAPULCO, Mexico, July 29 — The body of a Mexican radio journalist was found beaten, gagged and partially buried in the resort city of Acapulco, police said Wednesday. Read more
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TEHRAN, July 30 — Iranian security forces clashed with thousands of demonstrators across Tehran and struggled to maintain control Thursday after opposition leader Mir Hussein Mousavi was prevented from visiting the graves of those killed in protests last month, including 27-year-old Neda Agha Soltan, whose final moments were filmed and broadcast around the world. Read [...]
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TEHRAN (Reuters) – Baton-wielding Iranian police fired tear gas on Thursday and arrested protesters mourning the young woman killed in post-election violence who has become a symbol for the opposition to Tehran’s hardline leaders. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – With polls showing public support for President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform waning, Senate negotiators hit another snag on Thursday when a key Finance Committee Republican said the panel would not be ready to vote until September. Read more
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Ports and airports in the Spanish island of Majorca have been closed after a bomb at a Civil Guard base there killed two officers. Read more
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AP – Sony Playstation 3 game machines are sold at a game console department at a Yamada Denki electronics … Play Video Movies Video:Pitt and Tarantino take ‘Basterds’ to Berlin AP Play Video Movies Video:A Couple of ‘Funny People’ ABC News By YURI KAGEYAMA, AP Business Writer Yuri Kageyama, Ap Business Writer – Thu Jul 30, 7:02 am ET TOKYO – Sony [...]
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Play Video AP  – Protesters call for end to Iranian rights abuses Slideshow:Iran Election Play Video Iran Video:Iranian police shut down memorial CBC.ca Play Video Iran Video:Solidarity with Iranian camp residents in Iraq AFP AP – FILE – This photo dated May 2009 and provided by Caspian Makan, 37-year-old photojournalist in Tehran … 9 mins ago TEHRAN, Iran – Iranian police [...]
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Mention the name Aeroflot and most Western travellers will recoil in horror, conjuring up images of rusting Soviet planes, appalling service, inedible food and a service ethos reminiscent of the days when collectivism trumped consumer culture in the USSR. Read more
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An international search is under way for a 29-year-old Auburn University veterinary student who vanished under what appears to be unusual circumstances in Thailand. Michael Griffin Harrie, 29, disappeared earlier this month during a vacation in Thailand, Auburn University says. Read more
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As the Met Office rather sheepishly announced that it had ‘revised’ its seasonal forecast, the tourism industry was asking how the experts got things so badly wrong. Read more
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AUSTIN, Texas – So much for the stereotype. Texas librarians are baring their skin and revealing their tattoos – all to raise disaster relief money to help damaged libraries. 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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Victor Matfield of the Springboks cuts a birthday cake as the rugby team celebrate former President Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday on July 17, 2008 in Perth, Australia. Post-apartheid, Mandela used the team to promote racial unity in South Africa. Read more
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I’ve covered Iran long enough to know that there’s usually an ulterior motive behind anything done by the mullahocracy in Tehran. OK, so how many governments don’t have ulterior motives, you might ask? Well, there’s seldom anything good in the Iranian regime’s motives. Except if you’re talking about their semantics: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered the [...]
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I was robo-polled yesterday on the Walmart issue and couldn’t get to a recording device quickly enough to get the words being read by a recorded voice on the line. Read more
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12:30am UK, Thursday July 30, 2009 Seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher is making a sensational return to Formula One to replace the badly-injured Felipe Massa. Massa and Schumacher ride a motorbike in [...]
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Rex Features Mariah Carey has admitted that she had great fun dressing as a man in the music video for her upcoming single ‘Obsessed’. The singer, who donned male clothing to portray the part of a stalker, told MTV News that the outfit allowed her to walk around unnoticed on the set of the promo [...]
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Foxconn will compensate the family of a worker who committed suicide after an iPhone prototype he was responsible went missing, it was announced Tuesday. Read full story from technologyexpert.blogspot.com Read more