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Police with water cannon fired tear gas and rubber bullets Saturday to separate violent demonstrators from a protest opposing a meeting of top world trade officials, but the hooded black bloc activists were able to cause damage before 14 were arrested, spokesmen said.
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A dozen hospitals are ’significantly underperforming’ in terms of basic safety measures despite nine trusts being rated good or excellent by the official health regulator, a report said today.
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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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I’ve always enjoyed the World Cup, one of the reasons being that it’s like a world war without the gunfire. I may have spoken too soon, though, as Egypt and Algeria are coming to blows — Egypt has even recalled its ambassador — over the three-match qualifier earlier this month in which Algeria took the […]
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In comments on another thread, a reader has called my attention to an essay on Huffington Post by Henryk A. Kowalczyk, one of that site’s few Republican/libertarian voices, in which he makes a point that’s been occurring to me lately as well:
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4:04pm UK, Sunday November 29, 2009
Tom Bonnett, Sky News Online
Switzerland has backed far-right calls to ban the building of new minarets, official referendum results have revealed.
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Switzerland’s biggest party, the Swiss People’s Party (SVP), claims the turrets […]
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Dermot O’Leary is apparently being considered to host the US version of The X Factor.
Simon Cowell has reportedly recommended the presenter to bosses at the Fox network, which is developing the show.
O’Leary told the News of the World that he would love to be in the running, although he added that he is focusing all […]
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Several white wooden coffins - all but one shut to hide the journalists’ disfigured remains - were crammed into a rundown funeral parlor in the southern Philippines, not far from where they were slaughtered with guns, machetes and a backhoe.
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A homemade bomb sent a high-speed Moscow-to-St. Petersburg train careering off its tracks, killing at least 26 people in what Russian officials said yesterday was an act of terrorism.
Authorities found pieces of an explosive device that detonated Friday night as the train raced over […]
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We sure love our ballot initiatives here in sunny Cali, and 2010 is shaping up to be no exception. Consider this: in the past month, the Secretary of State has announced that no less than 17 ballot…
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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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Dec. 1, 2009:
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Russian investigators discovered traces of an improvised bomb Saturday on the rail line between Moscow and St. Petersburg, where a train derailment killed at least 26 people in what appeared to be the nation’s worst terrorist attack in years outside the volatile North Caucasus.
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KABUL — Days after President Obama outlines his new war strategy in a speech Tuesday, as many as 9,000 Marines will begin final preparations to deploy to southern Afghanistan and renew an assault on a Taliban stronghold that slowed this year amid a troop shortage and political pressure from the Afghan government, senior U.S. […]
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TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS — This Central American country holds a presidential election Sunday in a bid to regain international legitimacy after a coup that has rattled the hemisphere and frustrated the Obama administration’s efforts to improve relations with Latin America.
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BOGOTA, COLOMBIA — Ever isolated by the United States and its European allies, Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is increasingly forging ties in Latin America, and not just with fervently anti-American leaders such as Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.
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NAIROBI — Kenya’s Chalbi Desert is a bleak, forbidding stretch of coarse sand and ash-gray ridges broken by clusters of tiny huts. It is also one of the windiest places on Earth, experts say, and it soon will be the site of Africa’s largest wind farm.
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Russian investigators discovered traces of an improvised bomb Saturday on the rail line between Moscow and St. Petersburg where a train derailment killed at least 26 people in what appeared to be the nation’s worst terrorist attack in years outside the volatile North Caucasus.
The device exploded with the force of 15 pounds of TNT as […]
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia said on Saturday it had taken control of a strategic mountain on the Saudi side of the border with Yemen, clearing the area of Yemeni Shi’ite rebels.
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