Video: Shield sledge police in hot water
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Fun-loving policemen filmed using a riot shield as a makeshift sledge have been reprimanded for the prank, a force has said. Read more
Britain enjoys respite from Big Freeze… but snow is set to return midweek
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Road or river? A beer barrel floats by the Kings Arms pub in York today as water levels in the River Ouse rose as warmer temperatures melted the recent snowfall Read more
World's Worst Earthquakes
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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 [...]
World's Worst Earthquakes
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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 [...]
Ahmadinejad: Pay Up for World War II
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Ah, the nerve: As the latest distraction from its flourishing nuclear program — for which Iran answered the expired deadline from the international community with an ultimatum of its own — and from the continued violence against pro-democracy demonstrators, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad now wants World War II reparations. You read that correctly. More: “Meanwhile, [...]
Hoffman for mayor, advice for Sammy sosa, a salute to `Mr. Tea’ and things of that nature in the print version of `Change of Subject’
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In the print editions of the Sunday Tribune. Click on the links to comment. A spoken-word version of this column is available at my new and still under construction podcast feed. Hoffman for mayor! Watching the erosion of the service economy Best line of the GOP debate comes from Mr. [...]
Hunger And Misery Amid Haiti Aid Logjam
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2:38pm UK, Sunday January 17, 2010 James Jordan and Huw Borland, Sky News Online World leaders have pledged aid to rebuild earthquake-hit Haiti – but survivors are still waiting for food, water [...]
Minogue plans to raise child in Australia
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Dannii Minogue is apparently planning to move back to Australia so that her child is given an Antipodean upbringing. Read more
Pakistani officials: Suspected US drone kills 12
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Suspected U.S. unmanned aircraft fired on a house in Pakistan’s volatile tribal region Sunday, killing at least a dozen people in an area hit by a surge of such strikes since the beginning of the year, intelligence officials said. Read more
Analysis: Bush’s classy ex-presidency couldn’t be any more different than Cheney’s path
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It was a remarkable scene. Watching George W. Bush at the microphone in the Rose Garden this morning, calling on Americans to unite to overcome a global disaster brought back the finest hours of his… Read more
Staying at the Basra ‘B&B’
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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 [...]
Major powers reach no deal on new sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program
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NEW YORK — Top diplomats from six key powers focused on possible new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program at a meeting Saturday but reached no agreement, diplomats said. Read more
Born in Japan, but ordered out
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TOKYO — Fida Khan, a gangly 14-year-old, told the court that immigration authorities should not deport him and his family merely because his foreign-born parents lacked proper visas when they came to Japan more than 20 years ago. Read more
As lives and houses shattered in Haiti quake, so did some religious differences
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PORT-AU-PRINCE — At night, voices rise in the street. Sweet, joyful, musical voices in lyric Creole. A symphony of hope in a landscape of despair. Read more
Chile race reflects Latin America’s growing preference for free-market centrists
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Whether a billionaire businessman or a former president wins Chile’s presidential election Sunday, the outcome will reflect a broader trend in Latin America — the rise of the pragmatic centrist. Read more
Haitians struggle to find the dead and keep survivors alive after earthquake
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — Desperate Haitians clawed at the rubble of their ruined capital for a second day Thursday, retrieving their dead and rescuing the living, as an international armada of ships and aircraft struggled to provide food, water, medicine and shelter. Read more
World Digest: Pakistani Taliban claims tape proves leader is alive
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PAKISTAN Taliban claims tape proves leader is alive Pakistani Taliban militants issued an audiotape Saturday they said was of their leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, and that they claimed proved he had not been killed in a U.S. airstrike last week. Pakistani security officials said on Thursday that an unmanned U.S. aircraft had targeted Mehsud in the [...]
Poor schooling slows anti-terrorism effort in Pakistan
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ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — With a curriculum that glorifies violence in the name of Islam and ignores basic history, science and math, Pakistan’s public education system has become a major barrier to U.S. efforts to defeat extremist groups here, U.S. and Pakistani officials say. Read more
U.N. confirms death of Haiti mission chief Annabi
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. mission chief in Haiti, Hedi Annabi, died in Tuesday’s earthquake that devastated the country’s capital, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced on Saturday. Read more
U.S. pours aid into Haiti, survivors fight for food
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PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Saturday declared one of the largest relief efforts in U.S. history to help Haiti’s earthquake victims as survivors begged for aid still only trickling through to them and looters fought in the streets. Read more