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SINGAPORE — Hours after declaring that China’s growing economic muscle doesn’t pose a threat, President Obama traveled Saturday night to this usually pro-American city-state to wrestle with another tricky issue: is the United States itself the trouble-maker? Read more
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TOKYO — White House Counsel Gregory B. Craig is expected to announce his departure as early as Friday, people familiar with the situation said, ending an embattled tenure in which he struggled to lead the closure of the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Read more
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CARACAS, Venezuela — Every day, Pascual Cicenia plays golf on an emerald course that is 18 holes of tropical heaven in the middle of this chaotic city. He doesn’t take it for granted, he said, especially now that President Hugo Chávez has disparaged the sport as an elitist endeavor with few friends in his populist [...]
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As a mixed-race girl growing up in this most cosmopolitan of mainland Chinese cities, 20-year-old Lou Jing said she never experienced much discrimination — curiosity and questions, but never hostility. Read more
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MAZRAQ, YEMEN — Along the jagged, oatmeal-colored mountains of northern Yemen, civil war has transformed the windswept landscape into a canvas of human misery, bolstering al-Qaeda’s efforts to create a haven in the Middle East’s poorest nation. Read more
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – A suicide attacker set off a car bomb at a police checkpoint in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Saturday, killing 10 people, officials said. Read more
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama called on Saturday for a new strategy to rebalance global growth, but leaders around the Pacific rim, gathering for a weekend summit, took aim at signs of U.S. trade protectionism. Read more
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Fresh allegations of abuse by the UK military in Iraq do not warrant a new public inquiry, the Armed Forces Minister Bill Rammell has said. Read more
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SINGAPORE (AFP) – US President Barack Obama came under fire Saturday from Asia-Pacific leaders for backsliding on free trade at a regional summit devoted to driving the world economy out of crisis. Read more
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TOKYO – President Barack Obama pressed on with his mission to repair America’s global standing, telling Asians he was determined to engage them as equal partners in the economy, diplomacy and security. In a 40-minute speech Saturday that ranged across the multitude of issues, the president declared the United States a “nation of the Pacific. [...]
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THE extraordinary impact the Grimes twins are having on the public consciousness was underlined yesterday when the ruling British Labour party used their image to attack political rivals. Read more
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A 5-year-old English girl is battling a very rare illness that threatens to turn her body into crystal. \nLillie Sutcliffe was just 23 months old when she was diagnosed with cystinosis. Read more
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Despite improvements in medicine and standards of living, they are more likely to be blighted by problems from aching knees and creaking hips to diabetes, asthma and strokes. 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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Paris. New York. Milan. Karachi? Yes, in the face of the usual irritated fundamentalists, Pakistani designers finally got to send their creations down in the catwalk in that country’s first ever fashion week. And perhaps that bravery makes the clothes even more beautiful. More: “Some women strode the catwalk in vicious spiked [...]
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In Catholic archdiocese gives ultimatum to D.C. we learn: The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington said Wednesday that it would be unable to continue the social service programs it runs for the District of Columbia if the city refused to change a proposed same-sex marriage law. The threat could affect tens of thousands of people [...]
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2:45am UK, Saturday November 14, 2009 Damien Pearse, Sky News Online The crew of a Royal Navy vessel was forced to watch a British couple being kidnapped by pirates, it has been [...]
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Square Enix has unveiled a video announcing the Western release date for Final Fantasy XIII. Read more
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American screen icon Clint Eastwood was made a commander in France’s prestigious Legion of Honor on Friday. Read more
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LOS ANGELES — NASA says a spacecraft that was intentionally crashed into the moon has turned up the best evidence yet of water. Scientists have been analyzing a mile- (1.6 kilometer) high plume of debris kicked up by the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite last month after it crashed into a crater [...]