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Democratic State Rep. challenger Joe Laiacona blogs today: The Election Board ruled against my objection to placing (incumbent Northwest Side State Rep.) Deb Mell on the ballot. That’s no surprise as that is how the hearing officer ruled as well. We are still deciding whether to take the question to the Circuit Court as [...]
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9:55pm UK, Tuesday December 01, 2009 Alex Watts, Sky News Online President Barack Obama is to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, a senior US official has said. [...]
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Rex Features Jeremy Renner has dropped various hints that he will play Hawkeye in the upcoming Avengers film. According to SuperHeroHype.com, who interviewed the Hurt Locker star at the Independent Film Gotham Awards, Renner is in talks to portray the bow and arrow-wielding hero with Marvel Studios. “I talked to them three weeks ago. I [...]
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Citing security, India has blocked millions of cell phone from its cellular networks. These phones are mostly unbranded, cheap knock-off phones. The issue is that most of them do not have a valid 15-digit International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number, which carriers can use to track devices. Read more
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan over six months, a senior administration official said Tuesday, on an accelerated timetable that would dispatch several hundred Marines by Christmas. With the full complement of troops expected by next summer, the heightened pace of Obama’s military deployment in the [...]
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The effort to get same sex marriage on the California ballot in 2010 took a hit Monday. Rick Jacbos, the leader of the 700,000-member Courage Campaign just told us that after spending more than $200,000… 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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PRISTINA, KOSOVO — Nearly two years after the newest country in the world declared independence, outside powers are still firmly in control. Read more
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President Obama will outline Tuesday his intention to send an additional 34,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan, according to U.S. officials and diplomatic sources briefed Monday as Obama began informing allies of his plan. Read more
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TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS — The United States split with some of its Latin American allies Monday over whether to recognize the results of Honduras’s presidential election, with Washington commending the balloting but Brazil saying the vote will not erase the stain of a coup. Read more
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TOKYO — For politicians in Japan, the road to scandal usually winds through construction companies, defense contractors or a mistress. For newly elected Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, the road leads to his mother, an octogenarian heiress. Read more
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TEHRAN/LONDON (Reuters) – Iran will take serious measures against five British yachtsmen detained in the Gulf if it proves they had “evil intentions,” a close aide to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama plans to announce on Tuesday that he will send about 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan in a long-awaited war strategy shift that he hopes will defeat the Taliban and allow for a U.S. exit. Read more
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Sri Lankan authorities say they have opened up huge camps holding people detained since the army’s victory over Tamil Tiger rebels earlier this year. Read more
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DUBAI (Reuters) – Efforts by Dubai World to restructure about $26 billion in debt out of the estimated $59 billion it owes reassured investors that the emirate’s debt problems can be contained, helping global markets edge higher on Tuesday. Read more
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MANILA, Philippines – Philippine prosecutors charged the heir of a powerful clan with murder Tuesday in the massacre of 57 people, more than half of them journalists or their staff who were accompanying the family and supporters of an election candidate. Read more
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THE SPECTRE of religious and racial intolerance was raised over Switzerland last night as a majority of voters backed a deeply controversial proposal to ban the building of minarets at mosques in a referendum which instilled fear among Muslims and shocked the Swiss government. Read more
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Iran is holding five British sailors after stopping their racing yacht in the Persian Gulf, the British government said Monday. The move could heighten tensions between Iran and major world powers, including Britain, that are demanding a halt to its nuclear program. Read more
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The Conservative leader drew battle lines for the general election with a scathing attack on Children’s Secretary Ed Balls, who had said marriage was not the key to a happy family. 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 [...]