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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senate Democrats cleared the last 60-vote hurdle on U.S. President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul on Wednesday, virtually ensuring final passage of its version of the biggest health policy changes in four decades. Read more
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FROM OTHER NEWS SITES Times Online Iranian security forces suppress new protests - 38 mins ago National Post Iran police clash with mourners, opposition says - 1 hr ago Telegraph Iran warns of ‘fierce confrontation’ with protesters - 3 hrs ago Reuters UK Iran forces [...]
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WASHINGTON (AFP) – The International Monetary Fund said Wednesday its executive board approved the release of 1.2 billion dollars to Pakistan under a 11.35 billion dollar loan program to the cash-starved nation. Read more
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RIO DE JANEIRO – A Brazilian family has decided to end its legal fight for custody of a 9-year-old boy and will obey a court order to turn him over to his U.S. father, an aide to the family’s lawyer said Wednesday. “It is certain the family will not pursue any more legal channels,” the [...]
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Britain’s Prince William spent last night sleeping rough in freezing temperatures to raise awareness of the plight of Britain‘s homeless young people. Read more
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The continuing freezing weather comes as 12million drivers in the UK are expected to attempt to travel to family and friends for Christmas, staggered over today and tomorrow. Read more
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The news stories that shaped the first decade of the new millennium, from terrorism to natural and humanitarian disasters. (Note: These are not ranked in order of importance.) Read more
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Thai worker walks through a line of bodies waiting to be buried at a mass burial site in Bang Ma Roan Temple, Jan. 7, 2005, in Takua Pa, Thailand. Because of fear of disease, authorities wanted quick burials for the thousands killed. Read more
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Vandals, profiteers, anti-Semites? These questions remain as police in Poland have detained five men in connection with the theft of the infamous sign over the gate of the Auschwitz death camp, which will observe the 65th anniversary of liberation on Jan. 27. The “Arbeit Macht Frei” sign, stolen on Friday night, was recovered early Monday [...]
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The recent, unusually heavy snowfall brought the dibs debate to Washington, D.C. Â The District Department of Transportation seems to want to tamp down on any DIY on-street spot reserving, noting that anyone who tries to set aside a public parking spot for their future use can be slapped with a fine. Â Read [...]
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8:28am UK, Wednesday December 23, 2009 Neal Walker, Sky News Online An American Airlines Boeing 737 has overshot a runway and broken apart while landing in heavy rain in Jamaica. [...]
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Titan Publishing’s free Wallace & Gromit digital comic has racked up over half a million downloads, the studio has confirmed. Read more
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The governor of a southern state was found dead Tuesday, his throat slit, the day after being abducted by leftist rebels in the the first kidnapping of a major Colombian politician since 2002. Read more
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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, and other members of the California Congressional delegation today laying out his concerns with the health care bill being debated in Washington, D.C. 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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We’ve been swapping tales of heroism and near-disaster as we arrive for work at Times central this morning – but we’re obviously the lucky ones. The airports are going pear-shaped, trains are running on emergency timetables, Eurostar is faltering back into life, Basingstoke and Reading are pretty much snowed in. Read more
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VILNIUS, LITHUANIA — Lithuania’s intelligence agency helped the CIA set up secret prisons in the Baltic country, but it is unclear whether the facilities were actually used in the interrogation of terrorism suspects, a parliamentary panel said Tuesday. Read more
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To supply troops in landlocked Afghanistan, the United States is relying on short-term relationships with dictatorial nations in Central Asia without factoring any long-term strategy for the region, according to testimony delivered last week to senators. Read more
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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 [...]