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BANGKOK — A series of bomb blasts wounded 14 soldiers and police officers Wednesday as the Malaysian and Thai prime ministers staged a historic joint visit to Thailand’s insurgency-plagued southern provinces. Read more
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Police in Brazil’s two-largest metropolitan areas have killed 11,000 people since 2003, many of them extrajudicial executions that were later covered up by officers, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Tuesday in Rio de Janeiro. Read more
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The Department of Homeland Security has initiated unspecified personnel actions against individuals involved in the bungled online posting this spring of a government document that revealed airport screening secrets, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told senators Wednesday morning. Read more
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SEOUL — A rift between the United States and Japan over the future of a military air station on Okinawa widened Tuesday, as Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada told Japanese media that talks on relocating the base have been suspended. Read more
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO will step up fighting in Afghanistan next year as 37,000 more troops join the conflict, and is aware that increased civilian casualties may be the result, a military spokesman said on Wednesday. The United States is sending 30,000 more troops to the war, and NATO allies this week promised a further [...]
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KABUL (Reuters) – Secretary of Defense Robert Gates visited U.S. commanders in Afghanistan on Wednesday, promising that President Barack Obama’s surge of extra forces would give them what they need for success against the Taliban. Read more
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PRE-BUDGET REPORT 2009 Live coverage The latest news, analysis and reaction on our Live Event page LATEST NEWS Darling raises National Insurance At-a-glance: key PBR points Labour has lost trust – Osborne Darling to borrow more this year Banks face new tax on big bonuses Boiler scrappage scheme unveiled More pupils get free school meals [...]
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LONDON – European stocks rose Wednesday and Wall Street was expected to edge up on the open, though investors remained cautious because of sovereign credit risks. In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was up 11.66 points, or 0.2 percent, at 5,234.79 while Germany’s DAX rose 7.29 points, or 0.1 percent, at [...]
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COPENHAGEN – The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says she will take commonsense steps to regulate carbon emissions to protect the health of Americans. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said her newly declared power to regulate greenhouse gases will be used to complement legislation pending in Congress, not replace it. She said “this is [...]
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THEY say opposites attract but even Cupid would have refused to take a bet on the odds of the uber-glamorous Jackie Kennedy and zany comedy legend Peter Cook being lovers. Read more
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A suicide car bomb flattened a court building and an explosives-rigged ambulance blew down walls like dominos near the Finance Ministry during a wave of coordinated attacks Tuesday that targeted high-profile symbols of Iraqi authority. At least 127 people were killed. Read more
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British health care is little better than that of former Communist countries, which spend a fraction of the billions poured into the NHS. Read more
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RIO DE JANEIRO – Police in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo have killed more than 11,000 people in the past six years, many execution-style, according to a report released by Human Rights Watch. 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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Got a hankering to gaze down on planet Earth and an extra $200,000 to spare? More than 300 people have already put down deposits or paid that full ticket price for a ride aboard Richard Branson’s Virgin Space Ship Enterprise – also known as SpaceShipTwo – on the billionaire thrill-seeker’s Virgin Galactic line. CNET has [...]
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I’m preparing to write a column about what’s new in the past decade — what brands and services and technologies and concepts have come on the scene or into their own since Jan 1, 2000; today’s household words and names and idea that were unknown or all but unknown in these parts10 years ago. Read [...]
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9:13pm UK, Tuesday December 08, 2009 Adam Arnold, Sky News Online Tiger Woods’ mother-in-law has been released from hospital after being rushed by ambulance from the golfer’s Florida home. [...]
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Robert De Niro and Ed Norton have both been confirmed to star in Stone. According to Cinema Blend, Overture Films has picked up the US distribution rights to the film, about a convicted arsonist (Norton) who attempts to ensure his release by manipulating his parole officer (De Niro) into sleeping with his wife, played by [...]