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If sex sells, then Argentina’s president is doing her best to give a boost to the pork industry. Of course, it may not have been as much a sales pitch as simply too much information. More:
“Many people in the beef-loving nation reacted with surprise after Cristina Fernandez promoted pork in a speech during which she […]
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Comptroller Dan Hynes is getting clobbered in the final weekend before the election on the Burr Oak Cemetery story — the Quinn campaign has, down the final stretch, unearthed, so to speak, more documents and stories suggesting that Hynes’ office if not Hynes himself failed to exercise due diligence when things started looking hinky at […]
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Rob Cole and David Williams,
Sky News Online
Most of the Haitian children taken by Americans in an alleged attempt to move them out of the country “have family” that survived the earthquake, according to reports.
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Michael Jackson has won a special posthumous lifetime achievement Grammy, along with stars including Leonard Cohen.
According to Reuters, Jackson’s family did not attend the ceremony at Wilshire Ebell Theater.
Jackson’s award was accepted by Frank Di Leo, who described the late Thriller star as “a funny guy, he had a sense of humour like none […]
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In this Nov. 26, 2008 file photo, Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud is seen in Orakzai tribal region of Pakistan.
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Chronicle photo An envelope sent to one voter. The recipient’s name has been erased. A national Republican fundraising campaign that invokes the word “census” and claims to be an “official document” is…
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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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JANUARY 29, 2010
The sound of sweeping is covered by hammering as Haitians start to rebuild their lives.
Yesterday was hot. Will Pavia and I went in search of people preparing their […]
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PARIS — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called on China Friday to overlook its short-term interest in Iranian oil and consider the long-term implications of a Persian Gulf arms race as it decides whether to support stepped-up international sanctions against Iran.
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China’s indignant reaction to the announcement of U.S. plans to sell weapons to Taiwan appears to be in keeping with a new triumphalist attitude from Beijing that is worrying governments and analysts across the globe.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — Repeatedly stymied in its efforts to deliver food in the stricken Haitian capital, the United Nations announced Saturday that it will establish 16 distribution sites staffed by relief workers and protected round-the-clock by American and other international troops.
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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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DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — The Obama administration is quietly working with Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf allies to speed up arms sales and rapidly upgrade defenses for oil terminals and other key infrastructure in a bid to thwart future military attacks by Iran, according to former and current U.S. and Middle Eastern government […]
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A shipment of weapons from North Korea seized by Thai authorities last month were headed for Iran, according to a confidential report the Thai government sent to a U.N. Security Council committee.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Critically injured Haitian earthquake victims are no longer being flown by the U.S. military for treatment in the United States, raising fears some will die in a dispute over where to treat them and who should pay the costs.
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US doctors in Haiti have voiced concern about the suspension of evacuation flights to America for critically injured Haitian earthquake victims.
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DAVOS, Switzerland (AFP) –
The global banking elite left Davos on Sunday battered and bruised by the latest round of the blame game over the world financial crisis.
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AP – A US army soldier, with the 82nd Airborne Division, is cheered by locals as he arrives to the scene where …
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Tony Blair never left George W Bush in any doubt that Britain would back the US in military action to topple Saddam Hussein, the former prime minister made plain in a six-hour appearance before the Chilcot inquiry yesterday.
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England captain John Terry was booed on the football terraces this afternoon after it was revealed he had cheated on his wife with a team-mate’s girlfriend.
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