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COPENHAGEN – Wealthy nations would commit to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the next decade, and the world should strive to nearly eliminate them — or at least cut them in half — by 2050 under a draft agreement circulated Friday at the U.N. climate talks. The draft pulled together the main elements of [...]
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THE decision of a Portuguese policeman to launch his second book on the day a libel trial is to start concerning his first book on Madeleine McCann was described as “regrettable” by her parents’ spokesman yesterday. Read more
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Moscow, Russia (Dec. 11) — The remains of Adolf Hitler were burned in 1970 by Soviet KGB agents and thrown into a river in Germany on direct orders from the spy agency’s chief, a top Russian security official said this week. The head archivist of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) — the successor to the [...]
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Rebecca Ireland went on a 14-hour drink and drug-fuelled bender before falling asleep with six-week-old Katie in her bed, Preston Crown Court heard. 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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A spate of stories and online postings heralding the end of the aughts – “Worst decade ever,” proclaims Time, “Goodbye (at last) to the Decade from Hell” — has me in a retrospective mood. To say that the years 2000 through 2009 have been an eventful 10 years is to state the obvious. But [...]
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9:41am UK, Friday December 11, 2009 Damien Pearse, Sky News Online Convicted Meredith Kercher killer Raffaele Sollecito has spoken from his jail cell – and insisted Amanda Knox is a “sweet girl” [...]
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Rex Features Sir Paul McCartney has said that his marriage to Heather Mills is his biggest regret of the past ten years. The Beatles singer, who divorced former model Mills in 2008 after six years together, said that he has to look at their 6-year-old daughter Beatrice to see the positive side of the marriage. [...]
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A leader of the most persistent Palestinian protest movement against Israel’s West Bank separation barrier was asleep in his home when troops broke down his door and arrested him. Read more
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Every day, it seems, we get word of yet another proposed ballot initiative that’s been cleared by the Secretary of State. There’s not enough time in the day to tell you about all of them — and why would… 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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 The recycling at Conservative Party conference this year After the MPs’ duck houses, moats, faux Tudor beams and porn video claims last time round – will any of today’s expenses reach the same embarrassing heights? We are scouring thousands of pages of claims and receipts from 2008 to 2009 as quickly [...]
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UNITED NATIONS — A U.N. sanctions committee expressed “grave concern” Thursday about what it called apparent Iranian violations of a U.N. ban on arms exports, triggering a renewed threat by the United States and its European allies to press for broader sanctions against Tehran if it does not mend its ways. Read more
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KABUL — The arrest in Pakistan of five Americans who authorities say may have been on their way to terrorist training camps highlights the growing internationalism of Pakistani militant groups — both in their aims and their appeal. Read more
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Everything about the shipyard here is colossal — the 4,000-man workforce, the billions sunk into it in capital costs, the half-finished 10-story-high production platforms. Read more
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The Department of Homeland Security has initiated unspecified actions against personnel involved in the bungled online posting this spring of a government document that revealed airport screening secrets, Secretary Janet Napolitano told senators Wednesday. Read more
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MALE, MALDIVES — President Mohamed Nasheed, one of the world’s youngest heads of state, likes to joke about his age. Read more
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and key Western powers are seeking a new U.N. envoy to Afghanistan to help lead the “civilian surge” U.S. President Barack Obama has promised, U.N. diplomats and officials said. Read more