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OSLO (Reuters) – President Barack Obama defended the right of the United States to wage “just wars” as he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday, acknowledging that as a wartime president he was a controversial choice. Read more
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President Barack Obama has said the US must uphold moral standards when waging wars that are necessary and justified, as he accepted his Nobel Peace Prize. Read more
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OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada has no need to restrict bank bonuses because its banks withstood the financial crisis without taxpayer help, but the government will step in if banks ignore new global financial rules, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Thursday. Read more
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COPENHAGEN – The $10 billion a year proposed by rich nations to help the poor adapt to climate change is “not sufficient” and the gap between what’s offered and what’s needed could wreck the Copenhagen climate conference, American billionaire George Soros said Thursday. At a European Union summit in Brussels, meanwhile, wealthier members of the [...]
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PRESIDENT Barack Obama will skip the traditional programme of events when he receives his Nobel Peace Prize in Norway today. Read more
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(Dec. 10) — President Barack Obama used his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize to make an unapologetic defense for the use of force, even unilateral force, to keep peace and defend his nation, but argued just as strongly that “no matter how justified, war promises human tragedy.” Obama’s much-anticipated speech — or lecture, in [...]
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Public anger over MPs’ expenses was reignited today as thousands of new receipts emerged just hours after the Chancellor imposed crippling new tax rises. 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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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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First from two leading human-rights organizations: “Amnesty and Human Rights Watch said this pragmatism had sometimes come at the expense of speaking out about human rights in countries like China, Washington’s biggest creditor and a major player in efforts to tackle the financial crisis. ‘He has created a false choice between having to [...]
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5:41am UK, Thursday December 10, 2009 Jo Couzens, Sky News Online At least 17 people have died as a massive winter storm sweeps across the United States burying central areas under dangerous [...]
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Rex Features Kraftwerk have confirmed that they are recording a new album. The iconic dance group insisted that they are not worried about getting older and have no plans to quit making music in the foreseeable future. When asked about the possibility of new material, frontman Ralf Hutter told German magazine Spiegel: “Of course. Why [...]
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Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, helped produce ‘The Young Victoria’ and says the experience left her wanting to do more in Hollywood. Read more
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistani police on Wednesday arrested five American men believed to have gone missing from the Washington, D.C. area last month, officials from both countries said. The men were picked up in a raid on a house in Sarghoda in the eastern province of Punjab, police officer Tahir Gujjar said, adding that [...]
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The American Medical Association’s former veteran lobbyist predicts Senate passage of the health care legislation by Christmas. Julius Hobson, now a senior policy advisor at the law firm Bryan Cave, said… 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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LONDON — Britain’s ruling Labor Party on Wednesday slapped a one-time levy on bankers’ bonuses and vowed future spending cuts and tax hikes to tackle the government’s biggest budget shortfall since World War II. Read more