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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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MEXICO CITY — The United States has spent a fraction of the money pledged — just $24 million of $1.3 billion appropriated — to help Mexico in its bloody three-year-old battle against the drug cartels that have turned parts of country into a war zone and left 15,000 dead, according to a U.S. government report [...]
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NAIROBI — A man dressed in a black burqa blew himself up at a graduation ceremony of doctors in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Thursday, killing 19 people, including parents, students and three government ministers. Read more
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KIRYAT ARBA, WEST BANK — Mayor Malachi Levinger does not consider himself a lawbreaker, but when Israeli building inspectors arrived in his West Bank town Tuesday to check for compliance with a newly imposed moratorium on construction in Jewish settlements, he and several dozen local residents blocked their path to ensure that work continued. Read [...]
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CONAKRY (Reuters) – Guinea junta chief Captain Moussa Dadis Camara flew to Morocco on Friday for hospital treatment after being wounded in a gun attack by a former military aide, Moroccan authorities said. Read more
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Obama vows to tackle jobs challenge head-on Alister Bull WASHINGTON Fri Dec 4, 2009 7:32am EST Factbox Obama’s jobs forum on Thursday Thu, Dec 3 2009 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama urged corporate America on Thursday to help tackle the nation’s highest unemployment in 26 years but also hinted at federal tax credits and [...]
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Nato’s top official says countries will send at least 7,000 extra troops to support the US surge in Afghanistan. Read more
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LONDON – European stock markets and Wall Street futures shot higher Friday after much better than expected U.S. jobs data fueled optimism about the pace of recovery in the world’s largest economy. In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was up 34.91 points, or 0.7 percent, at 5,347.91 while Germany’s DAX rose [...]
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AP – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrives at NATO headquarters ahead of a NATO foreign ministers … Play Video Barack Obama Video:President Obama Headed To Pennsylvania CBS 3 Philadelphia Play Video Barack Obama Video:Dueling Job Summits FOX News Play Video Barack Obama Video:President Obama To Visit Lehigh Valley Friday CBS 3 Philadelphia By ROBERT BURNS, [...]
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AMANDA Knox said yesterday that she feared “the mask of an assassin” might be forced on her as a jury in Italy retired to consider if she is guilty of murdering her British flatmate, Meredith Kercher, in an alleged sex attack. Read more
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American student Amanda Knox tried one last time Thursday to convince the Italian court trying her for murder that she is not a killer, urging jurors not to brand her with the mask of an assassin. Read more
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An official report concludes that bailouts, guarantees, insurance and loans offered by the Government and the Bank of England reached £850billion. 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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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin becoming president again? Two words: foregone conclusion. After all, the current makeup of the Kremlin was scripted with precision by the two-term president, who made sure when he was forced out due to term limits that not only would a hand-picked puppet ascend to the presidency — technocrat [...]
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Chicago Public Schools chief Ron Huberman is floating a few ideas for how to improve teacher quality. He says fewer third year teachers should be granted tenure…WBEZ-FM I understand the need for tenure at colleges and universities where it serves as bulwark for intellectual freedom. Academics should be free to pursue whatever scholarly [...]
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6:50pm UK, Thursday December 03, 2009 Nick Pisa, in Perugia Suspect Amanda Knox has dramatically pleaded her innocence in the Meredith Kercher murder trial as a jury prepares to decide her fate. [...]
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Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 helmer Keith Arem is to make his feature film debut as the director of Frost Road. Read more
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A renegade faction of Guinea’s presidential guard opened fire on the African country’s leader Thursday, slightly wounding him amid rumors of deep divisions within the army nearly three months after a military-led massacre of protesters at a peaceful rally. Read more
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LONDON — The British government says it has refused to allow a son of Osama bin Laden to travel to Britain. Omar bin Laden had appealed an earlier decision by U.K. authorities to keep him out of Britain. The 28-year-old son of the al-Qaida leader wants to come to Britain to be with [...]