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REYKJAVIK, Iceland – The Icelandic parliament decided after an emergency session Friday how to stage a national referendum on repaying $5.7 billion to Britain and the Netherlands — a poll that is seen as a defining moment in the bankrupted country’s economic recovery. The government was forced into organizing the nationwide vote after Iceland’s president, [...]
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Police arrested a man Friday in connection with a series of oil and gas pipeline bombings in northeastern British Columbia. Read more
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AN EMBATTLED Gordon Brown last night attempted to dismiss a plot against his leadership as “a storm in a teacup”, insisting he had the full backing of his cabinet. Read more
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Labour’s deputy leader kept her driving licence for crashing her car while talking on a mobile phone, despite admitting a charge of driving without due care. 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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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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The film “There Will Be Blood” appeared on several “best of the decade” lists I read so, having missed it when it came out, I rented it last weekend. My question is simple: Really? Daniel Day-Lewis ably chews a lot of scenery in the lead role, but my guess is [...]
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2:23pm UK, Friday January 08, 2010 Katie Cassidy, Sky News Online The father of America’s so-called Balloon Boy has maintained the stunt was not staged – despite pleading guilty to perpetrating a [...]
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Kim and Khloe Kardashian have reportedly revealed which celebrity men they secretly have a crush on. Read more
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Israeli airstrikes against targets in Gaza killed three men early Friday in a smuggling tunnel along the Gaza-Egypt border, Palestinian officials reported. Read more
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SARGODHA, Pakistan — Five Americans detained in Pakistan are denying they planned to carry out terrorist attacks. The young Muslim men from the Washington, D.C., area appeared in court Monday in Pakistan. Their defense lawyer said the court granted police two weeks to prepare terrorism charges against them. The attorney, Ameer Abdullah Rokri. [...]
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We told you that Bill Jones isn’t going to take on ex-Tracy Rep. Richard Pombo et al in the CD-19 race that’s drawing national attention, but another member of the Jones family might: His daughter Andrea… 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 — It took almost seven hours Wednesday for David Miliband, the British foreign secretary, to issue even lukewarm comments backing his prime minister, Gordon Brown, in the face of a party revolt. Others among Brown’s top lieutenants, including the defense minister, were even less ringing when they did come to his defense. Read more
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KABUL — The U.S. military has begun investigating allegations that two Afghan teenagers were beaten and humiliated by guards while in American custody last year at a secret detention center at Bagram air base, according to U.S. and Afghan officials. 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 [...]
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TOKYO — Strong-armed currency reform in North Korea, which has confiscated the savings of small businesses and forbidden the use of foreign money, is now causing runaway inflation and contributing to food shortages, according to several reports from inside the closed state. Read more
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SANAA (Reuters) – A Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a U.S.-bound plane on Christmas Day was recruited by al Qaeda in London and met a radical American Muslim cleric in Yemen, a senior Yemeni official said on Thursday. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama took ultimate responsibility on Thursday for security lapses that allowed the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a U.S. airliner and ordered reforms aimed at thwarting future attacks. Read more