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President Alvrao Uribe, fresh from a Union of South American Nations summit on Friday, has come down with swine flu and will be working from home for a while. The announcement was followed by assurances that the 57-year-old Uribe is not a high-risk patient, and gloating from Venezuelan president and Uribe rival Hugo Chavez that [...]
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Since this column went viral over the weekend and the comment thread has been dominated by the indignati, I’d like to point out that the question at the heart of his discussion is simple: Whatever you believe about the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident –Â and no one has risen to defend Kennedy as having acted [...]
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10:03pm UK, Monday August 31, 2009 Greg Milam, in Antioch, California Jaycee Lee Dugard and the two children she had with her suspected kidnapper Phillip Garrido cried when he was arrested, according to her stepfather. [...]
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Rex Features Wyclef Jean and wife Claudinette have reportedly celebrated their 15th wedding anniversary by renewing their marriage vows. According to Contactmusic, the couple dressed in all white for a ceremony in New Jersey that was attended by close family and friends. Jean and Haitian-American fashion designer Claudinette first married in 1994. As previously reported, [...]
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Two bombings in Afghanistan’s most violent region killed two U.S. service members Monday, the last day of the deadliest month of the war for U.S. forces. Read more
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President Obama is expected to moderate a meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in late September, a discussion that could lead to the resumption of peace negotiations, Israeli President Shimon Peres told FOX News. Read more
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You’ve heard that Equality California and other same-sex marriage groups suggest waiting until 2012 to ask California voters to approve same sex marriage. But don’t sleep on seeing a ballot measure in… 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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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan, Aug. 25 — Pakistani Taliban commanders acknowledged Tuesday that the militant group’s top leader, Baitullah Mehsud, was dead, ending weeks of claims and counterclaims over his fate after a U.S. missile strike on his father-in-law’s home this month. Read more
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Aug. 2 — Nigerian authorities ignored dozens of warnings about a violent Islamist sect until it attacked police stations and government buildings last week in a bloodbath that killed more than 700 people, Muslim clerics and an army official said. Read more
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TOKYO, Aug. 31 — Breaking a half-century hammerlock of one-party rule in Japan, the opposition Democratic Party won a crushing election victory Sunday with pledges to revive the country’s stalled economy and to steer a foreign-policy course less dependent on the United States. Read more
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s next prime minister began forming a government on Monday as investors worried that the untested Democratic Party would overspend in a bid to revive the economy or would ruffle ties with Tokyo’s closest ally, Washington. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Fewer Americans are afraid that they will be unable to pay for healthcare services and fewer expect to postpone medical treatments due to costs, according to a Thomson Reuters survey published on Monday. Read more
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Japan’s next leader, Yukio Hatoyama, is beginning a transition to power after winning a landmark general election. Read more
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NEW DELHI (AFP) – World trade ministers meet in the Indian capital this week for a fresh round of talks aimed at building momentum to conclude the long-stalled Doha Round of global free-trade talks. Read more
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Photo:Map tracks Hurricane Jimena in the Pacific Ocean as of 11 a.m. EDT AP Slideshow:Tropical Storms and Hurricanes Play Video Hurricanes & Tropical Storms Video:Hurricane Danny Still Brings Rough Waters To L.I. CBS 2 New York Play Video Hurricanes & Tropical Storms Video:Coney Island Bustling As Tropical Storm Weakens CBS 2 New York By MARK [...]
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SIMON Dee, the Jaguar-driving playboy and DJ who became Britain’s first chat-show host, but whose rise and fall as a household name in the ’60s became a by-word for the fickle nature of celebrity, died yesterday from cancer. He was 74. Read more
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A giant burrowing cockroach that\’s native to Australia is vying for a cringe-worthy title: the world\’s heaviest insect. His name is Heathcliffe and he\’s on display at Sydney University where visitors are invited to guess his weight. Read more
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A British study has found that daily use of aspirin almost doubled the risk of dangerous internal bleeding, while having no effect on heart attacks or strokes. Read more
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New record for world’s most expensive sheep New 10:36AM Monday Aug 31, 2009 LONDON – A British farmer who paid a new world record price for a sheep says the animal is the finest specimen he has ever seen. Farmer Jimmy Douglas shelled out 231,000 pounds (NZ$548,920) for the 8-month-old Texel ram [...]