War crimes envoy has personal touch
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UNITED NATIONS — Stephen J. Rapp, the new U.S. ambassador at large for war crimes, knows what it feels like to be victimized.
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India’s plan to open chemical disaster site brings protest
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BHOPAL, INDIA — Twenty-five years after poisonous plumes of chemicals leaked from the Union Carbide factory here, survivors are protesting a government plan to open the site to the public.
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IAEA votes to censure Iran over nuclear cover-up
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VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog voted on Friday to rebuke Iran for building a uranium enrichment plant in secret but Tehran rejected the move as “intimidation” which would poison its negotiations with world powers.
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Black Friday draws strong traffic, less frenzy
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. consumers kicked off the holiday shopping season on Friday, with a strong turnout for early-morning bargains, though many said they were being more selective about what they buy and paring back what they spend.
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Iran rebuked by UN nuclear body
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The UN nuclear watchdog’s governing body has passed a resolution condemning Iran for developing a uranium enrichment site in secret.
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Banks, world leaders play down Dubai debt threat (Reuters)
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DUBAI/LONDON (Reuters) –
Banks outside the Gulf played down their exposure to Dubai debt on Friday after fears of default shook global markets, and European leaders said the world economy was now strong enough to cope with the setback.
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Diplomats: Iran censured at UN nuclear meeting (AP)
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AP – Iran’s Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh briefs the media …
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Iraq deal ’signed in blood’
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TONY BLAIR and George W Bush may have secretly “signed in blood” a deal to overthrow Saddam Hussein a year before ordering the Iraq war, according to a former senior diplomat.
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Iran Seized Nobelist’s Medal, Norway Says
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Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi\’s medal, the Norwegian government said Thursday, accusing Iran of a shocking first in the history of the prize.
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Recession ‘is even worse than feared’: Chancellor predicts steepest slump ever
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The Chancellor will forecast the steepest annual slump since modern records began.
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World's Worst Earthquakes
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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 […]
World's Worst Earthquakes
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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 […]
Abbas: No Third Intifida
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is banking on a Mideast solution from the White House, and not a fresh wave of violence against the Jewish state, to get the peace process on the road again. More:
“The Palestinian people will not launch a new intifada against Israel, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Monday night, referring to […]
Say `Not cheesy!’ A surefire, homemade gift idea for the holidays
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On my hard drive is an absurd, unwieldy and, I suspect, not uncommonly large archive of roughly 1,300 digital family photos taken in just the last 12 months.
Row upon thumbnail row of kids’ sports, school events, vacations, reunions and other gatherings. Included are five snaps of the cake my daughter baked and decorated for our […]
Archbishops ‘Covered Up’ Child Sex Abuse
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5:50pm UK, Thursday November 26, 2009
Adam Arnold,
Sky News Online
Four archbishops and the Irish police have been accused of covering up decades of crimes against children by Catholic priests.
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Weaver: ‘Age gives a new perspective’
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WENN
Sigourney Weaver has revealed that she likes being 60.
The Avatar actress told Parade that she can’t understand why people lie about their age.
“I see actresses who I know are much older than I am, who now say they’re 60,” she said. “It’s like, whatever, you know? I just can’t be bothered. People are going to […]
Top official: Afghan prison abuse well known
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Canada’s former top official on Afghanistan says allegations of abuse in the country’s jails were well known in 2006 when the military was turning over detainees to Afghan authorities.
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Irish Catholics covered up abuse
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DUBLIN — Roman Catholic Church leaders in Dublin spent decades sheltering child-abusing priests from the law and most fellow clerics turned a blind eye, an investigation ordered by Ireland’s government concluded Thursday.
Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, who handed over more than 60,000 previously secret church files to the […]
Left in revolt on Afghanistan
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When President Obama addresses the nation on Afghanistan Tuesday night, he will own the war. And Democratic solidarity will be shattered. His decision is widely viewed as the most consequential of his presidency.
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Staying at the Basra ‘B&B’
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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 […]