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The Harper government is waiting with “anticipation” to learn how many more troops U.S. President Barack Obama will send to Afghanistan, in part to replace the withdrawal of Canadian soldiers scheduled for 2011, Defence Minister Peter MacKay said Friday. Read more
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PERUGIA, Italy — American student Amanda Knox “coveted hatred” for the British roommate she is accused of murdering and “killed her to take revenge,” a prosecutor told an Italian court Friday. Knox, 22, and her 25-year-old former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito are accused of murdering Meredith Kercher after she refused to take part in [...]
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Interesting trend to watch as Palinpalooza wends it’s way through America: How Republicans react to her. The ones who want to cuddle up to conservatives and the Tea Par-tayers will sing her praises. The… 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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BRUSSELS — Champions of European unity hoped their new president would be a continental George Washington, a brand name who could pull the European Union closer together and fulfill their dream of a strengthened role for Europe in world affairs. Read more
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SEOUL — With none of the tension presented by a rising China and a willful Japan, President Obama’s visit to South Korea on Thursday was short, congenial in substance and splendid in form. 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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PAKISTAN Separate blasts kill 21 in Peshawar A blast early Friday killed two police officers a day after a suicide bomber killed 19 people outside a courthouse in northwestern Pakistan, the latest attacks by Islamist insurgents retaliating against an army offensive near the Afghan border. The bombings brought to eight the number of attacks in [...]
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VILNIUS, LITHUANIA — Twice in the past three years, the Lithuanian Parliament investigated reports that the CIA secretly imprisoned al-Qaeda leaders in this Baltic country. Both times, legislators concluded that there was no evidence. Read more
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union leaders named Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy, who is little known outside his own country, as the bloc’s first president on Thursday to lead efforts to make it more influential on the world stage. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats in the U.S. Senate geared up for a fierce battle over a new healthcare reform plan on Thursday as Republicans condemned the bill’s price tag and tax hikes before the first crucial test vote on Saturday. Read more
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The appointment of two little-known figures to the new top jobs in the EU has drawn a mixed response. Read more
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AP – Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009.(AP Photo/Seth … Slideshow:Stock Markets Play Video Wall Street Video:Market Slam: Gold Options TheStreet.com Related Quotes Symbol Price Change DELL 15.87 0.00 ^GSPC 1,094.90 0.00 By STEPHEN WRIGHT, AP Business Writer Stephen Wright, Ap Business Writer – 1 hr 54 mins ago BANGKOK [...]
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SEOUL, South Korea – A South Korean official says a gunman has opened fire on the island of Saipan, killing four people before fatally shooting himself. Read more
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The bids of John Bruton and Tony Blair to become EU president perished last night as European leaders appointed two low-profile figures to the new top posts created by the Lisbon Treaty. Read more
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After years of effort the European Union named its first full-time president and powerful foreign policy chief on Thursday _ but handed the jobs to two little-known compromise figures instead of global heavy hitters. Read more
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In a move derided as an EU stitch-up, Baroness Ashton was Britain’s ‘consolation prize’ after Tony Blair’s dream of the presidency was crushed. 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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Belgian Prime Minister Herman van Rompuy was unanimously selected today to be the first permanent, full-time president of the European Council, after the UK said it was no longer pushing for former Prime Minister Tony Blair to get the post. Instead, the other top post created by the Lisbon Treaty – High Representative for Foreign [...]