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When faults let loose with a mighty rumble, the reverberations are felt across the globe. As Mother Nature takes lives and property with such minute warning, super temblors anywhere in the world remind those in quake-prone zones of the vulnerability of great metropolitan regions and remind us to be prepared with good building codes and [...]
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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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Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is making his first visit to the U.S. next month for the U.N. General Assembly, and let’s just say that the timing of the Lockerbie bomber’s release is going to be following Moammar everywhere. Now it appears that he’s not going to be pitching a tent in a New Jersey backyard, [...]
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News release:  Hundreds of University of Illinois students petition Governor Pat Quinn to retain David Dorris for Board of Trustees Students at the University of Illinois have collected hundreds of signatures in an effort to convince Illinois Governor Pat Quinn to retain UI Trustee David V. Dorris. The effort, spearheaded by the progressive registered [...]
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5:32pm UK, Sunday August 30, 2009 Japan’s prime minister has conceded defeat in the country’s election – as media exit polls indicated the opposition had won by a landslide. Members of the [...]
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Lisa has told David that she thinks that Siavash is “crafty” after discovering that he nominated her six times. Read more
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Aug. 30 – Iraq continues to suffer from a rash of violence which has questioned the quality of the country’s local security forces over the past two months. Read more
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The British government decided it was “in the overwhelming interests of the United Kingdom” to make Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber, eligible for return to Libya, leaked ministerial letters reveal. Read more
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State Attorney General Jerry Brown said today that “at the request of the Los Angeles Police Department,” his agents will complete an “independent investigation” into the death of Michael Jackson. 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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LONDON, Aug. 29 — All Laura Dekker wants to do is sail alone on her yacht for the next two years until she has circumnavigated the globe. The problem? She is 13 years old. Read more
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The White House has assembled a list of about 50 measurements to gauge progress in Afghanistan and Pakistan as it tries to calm rising public and congressional anxiety about its war strategy. Read more
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EBOCHA, Nigeria — Kingsley Okene is the chief here. But despite his authority, he says he has never managed to snuff the giant gas-fueled flames that have towered over his Niger Delta village for decades. Read more
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PARIS, Aug. 29 — Deserted by voters and torn by internal rivalries, France’s once-powerful Socialist Party sought at a seaside convention this weekend to restore morale and find a way to mount a credible challenge to President Nicolas Sarkozy. Read more
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KABUL (Reuters) – Partial Afghan election returns released on Saturday showed President Hamid Karzai extending his lead in last week’s vote, but still falling short of the 50 percent needed to avoid a run-off. Read more
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese voted in an election on Sunday that looked set to oust the long-ruling conservative party and give the untested opposition the job of nurturing a recovery from the country’s worst recession since World War Two. Read more
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US Senator Edward Kennedy has been buried with military honours close to his assassinated brothers at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington. Read more
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Related Quotes Symbol Price Change FNM 2.04 +0.12 FRE 2.40 +0.16 ^GSPC 1,028.93 -2.05 By J.W. ELPHINSTONE, AP Real Estate Writer J.w. Elphinstone, Ap Real Estate Writer – Fri Aug 28, 3:22 pm ET For thousands of low-income renters nationwide — but especially in rural towns and small cities — the recession is hitting home in an unexpected way. [...]
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AP – Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, leader of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, greets supporters … By ERIC TALMADGE, Associated Press Writer Eric Talmadge, Associated Press Writer – Sat Aug 29, 6:30 pm ET TOKYO – Japanese cast ballots Sunday in hotly contested parliamentary elections in which the ruling conservative party, battered by a laggard economy and voter desire for change [...]
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Silvio Berlusconi‘s relationship with the Catholic Church was in the deep freeze last night after he was forced to pull out of a Mass intended to begin his religious rehabilitation after his family’s newspaper mounted a personal attack on the editor of ‘Avvenire’, the bishops’ newspaper. Read more