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PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN — When terrorists last week blew up the Mina Bazaar, a market for women and children, they detonated a car bomb so powerful it left more than 100 people dead and 15 missing in a nightmarish scene of scattered limbs, charred corpses and victims trapped alive under mounds of debris. Read more
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RIO DE JANEIRO — Like her neighbors in Rio’s elegant Flamengo district, Yvonne Bezerra de Mello enjoys the trappings of wealth, from riding show horses to escaping on weekends to a mountain estate north of the city. Read more
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ROME — The United Nations says it is running out of food for millions of starving Somalis, in part because the United States is delaying aid amid fears it could be intercepted by militants linked to al-Qaeda. Read more
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After months of negotiations with Russia, Obama administration officials are hopeful about a breakthrough — possibly this week — that would enable the two sides to sign a successor to their most extensive nuclear weapons treaty before it expires Dec. 5. Read more
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed an anti-Taliban village mayor and 11 other people in an attack near Pakistan’s volatile city of Peshawar on Sunday, officials said. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The House of Representatives narrowly endorsed on Saturday the biggest healthcare overhaul in decades, giving President Barack Obama a crucial victory in a battle that now moves to the Senate. Read more
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US President Barack Obama has hailed as “historic” the approval of a health bill by the House of Representatives. Read more
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SYDNEY (AFP) – Withdrawing Australia’s government stimulus now would interrupt the recovery underway, Treasurer Wayne Swan said Sunday as he warned the country was not immune to the risks to the global economy. Read more
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AP – A Pakistani holds his baby girl, who was killed in a suicide bombing, as her grandmother mourns inside … Slideshow:Pakistan Play Video Pakistan Video:Blast hits busy Pakistan market Reuters Play Video Pakistan Video:Pakistan shows anti-Taliban mission Reuters By RIAZ KHAN, Associated Press Writer Riaz Khan, Associated Press Writer – 47 mins ago PESHAWAR, Pakistan – A suicide bomber [...]
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East Germans may have arrived in West Berlin hours before history records. Read more
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A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil. Read more
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Two British lottery players are unaware they are sitting on a record-breaking £90million fortune. Read more
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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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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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Here’s a good story from the AP: A Vietnamese child flees the fall of Saigon, then returns to his homeland as an adult… and as the commander of a U.S. Navy destroyer. Especially as we approach Veterans Day here in the U.S. — and are reeling from the tragedy of an Army major taking 13 [...]
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Earlier this week I blogged on the movie “Call Northside 777″ and touched on the true story behind the 1948 film classic shot in Chicago. On that post, the son of the real-life prison inmate on whom the story turns, left an extended comment, which I’ll re-publish here along with a couple [...]
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6:18pm UK, Saturday November 07, 2009 Joe Braidwood, Sky News Online A British man shot dead in a US bar was just “in the wrong place, at the wrong time”, his family [...]
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Rex Features Tilda Swinton has claimed that she is glad she wasn’t a pretty teenager. The actress explained that she has always been happy with her appearance, Bang Showbiz reports. “When I was 9 or 10 I wasn’t pretty anymore, which is a big advantage,” she said. “It must be a nightmare to be a [...]
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Shimon Peres spoke to a crowd of thousands at the square where Rabin was gunned down by a Jewish extremist who opposed his peace policies on Nov. Read more
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The phone lines to the offices of two Democratic holdouts from the San Joaquin Valley have been tied up all day. Reps. Jim Costa and Dennis Cardoza have not yet committed to vote for the Democratic health… Read more