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KABUL – Afghanistan’s parliament on Saturday rejected more than half of President Hamid Karzai’s nominations for his cabinet, including at least two close allies and the powerful former guerrilla commander Ismail Khan. Women’s affairs minister Husn Bano Ghazanfar was the thirteenth of 24 candidates who failed to win approval, when she fell two [...]
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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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SEOUL — North Korea said it was committed to a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula in a New Year’s message Friday, brightening the prospect that Pyongyang might rejoin the stalled international talks aimed at ending its nuclear weapons programs. Read more
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RIO DE JANEIRO — Teresiña Lopes Vieira da Silva peddles spices and peppers from a street stall, but hers is no fly-by-night business. Read more
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MEXICO CITY — A visitor here might be confused when suddenly, at the end of December, there appears in street stalls and market bins a mountain of underwear for sale. At subway stops, in grocery aisles, in department stores, it’s all about ladies’ undergarments, and always in the colors red or yellow. The recently arrived [...]
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KARACHI, PAKISTAN — A suicide bomber blew up his sport-utility vehicle in the middle of a village volleyball game in northwestern Pakistan on Friday afternoon, killing 75 people and injuring more than 100 in a community that has repeatedly defied Taliban extremists. Read more
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Danish police said on Saturday they shot and wounded a Somali man with al Qaeda links when he tried to break into the home of a cartoonist whose 2005 caricatures of Prophet Mohammad sparked global Muslim outrage. Read more
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HONOLULU (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said on Friday it appeared the man suspected of trying to bomb a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas was a member of al Qaeda and had been trained and equipped by the Islamic militant network. Read more
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A Somali man has been charged with trying to kill a Danish artist whose caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed sparked riots around the world. Read more
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TORONTO (Reuters) – Toronto’s main stock index was higher on Thursday morning — and looked on track to record its best year since 1983 — following along as global markets, gold and oil were all up on the final trading day of 2009. Read more
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Play Video AP  – Raw Video: Pakistan gas explosion injures dozens Slideshow:Pakistan Play Video Video:CCTV shows Peshawar suicide blast Reuters Play Video Video:On a Mission to Be Martyred? ABC News AP – A Pakistani police officer mans a checkpoint as the sun sets marking the end of the year on the outskirts … By IJAZ MOHAMMED and NAHAL TOOSI, [...]
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A letter from Genghis Khan‘s grandson demanding homage from the Pope is among a collection of documents from the Vatican’s secret archives that has been published for the first time. Read more
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(Jan. 1) — In 2004, an Iraqi national walked into a dining facility on a U.S. military base in Mosul and detonated a bomb that killed 22 people. Wednesday’s suicide bombing at a U.S. military outpost in eastern Afghanistan echoes the 2004 bombing, which was, at the time, one of the deadliest attacks on U.S. [...]
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Motorists guilty of minor ‘crimes’ such as parking misdemeanours are to be hit with a £15 surcharge to help victims of domestic violence or sex attacks. 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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It has been a great gift to make a living trying to make sense out of the world around me. That is as much a disposition as an occupation.…Ellen Goodman in her farewell column today. Read more
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2:56am UK, Saturday January 02, 2010 Rob Cole, Sky News Online Danish police say they have shot an al Qaeda-linked man armed with an axe who broke into the home of a [...]
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NBC is ordering more pilots for next season than it has in seven years, president Angela Bromstand has revealed. Speaking to Business Week, the exec said she would be choosing from ten dramas and eight comedies for the network’s 2010-11 lineup. The figure is a significant increase on the 11 pilots that were in contention [...]
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The bodies of six men — including a California educator — were found Thursday in the north-central Mexican state of Durango, hours after they had been abducted from a nearby restaurant, the man’s relatives said Friday. Read more
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Former President Bill Clinton’s charity released a donor list Friday under an agreement with President Barack Obama to prevent conflicts with Hillary Rodham Clinton’s role as secretary of state, but it failed to identify who gave in 2009, her first year in the Cabinet post. Read more