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Pakistan rules out new offensive against militants Pakistani Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar shakes hands with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates as U.S ambassador to Pakistan Anne Patterson looks on at the Foreign Ministry in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad January 21, 2010. Read more
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If at first you don’t succeed, try again. That’s San Francsico Assemblyman Tom Ammiano’s M.O., apparently: he succeeded in getting a bill through an Assembly committee Thursday, the same bill that Gov… 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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JANUARY 21, 2010 After the dramatic release of ‘Natalie’ and finally getting to bed at 4.30am, we were rudely awakened by what felt at first like a massive aftershock but turned out to be another earthquake in its own right – it measured 6.1 on the Richter scale. I’m proud to say I [...]
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ISLAMABAD — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates made an unannounced visit to the Pakistani capital Thursday to reassure a skittish ally about the Obama administration’s revised war strategy in Afghanistan as well as its long-term commitment to Pakistan. Read more
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Nerves frayed Thursday morning as Haitians tried to rebuild their earthquake-shattered lives, setting up crude food stands, hawking clothes and other supplies and offering taxi transport at significantly inflated prices. 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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JERUSALEM — The American editor of a Palestinian news agency was removed from Israel on Wednesday after being questioned by authorities about his “anti-Israeli” views. Read more
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RIO CARIBE, Venezuela (Reuters) – Powering through Caribbean swell in a heavy gray patrol boat and toting new Kalashnikov guns, soldiers scouring the craggy coves of Paria peninsula for cocaine smugglers look like they mean business. Read more
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PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – The search for survivors of Haiti’s killer earthquake has started to wind down as international rescue teams begin pulling back and aid, though more plentiful, is still not enough for the tens of thousands left homeless and injured. Read more
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It is impossible to know for certain yet but economists may look back and say this was the moment China overtook Japan to become the world’s second biggest economy. Official figures showed the economy expanded by 8.7% in 2009 to $4.9tn. That figure is the size of Japan’s economy in 2008. Japan’s numbers for 2009 [...]
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AP – FILE – In this Jan. 7, 2010 file photo, World Bank chief economist Justin Yifu Lin speaks about China’s … Slideshow:Stock Markets Play Video Wall Street Video:Biggest Private Investor in Haiti CNBC Related Quotes Symbol Price Change ^DJI 10,603.15 -122.28 ^GSPC 1,138.04 0.00 ^IXIC 2,291.25 0.00 By JEREMIAH MARQUEZ, AP Business Writer Jeremiah Marquez, Ap Business [...]
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Workers are carving out mass graves on a hillside north of Haiti’s capital, using earth-movers to bury 10,000 earthquake victims in a single day while relief workers warn the death toll could increase. Read more
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SOUL diva Amy Winehouse yesterday pleaded guilty to assaulting a theatre manager who asked her to leave a family Christmas show because she’d had too much to drink. Read more
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The Lord Chief Justice freed a father jailed for attacking an armed burglar, saying the case demanded mercy in the face of a national outcry. 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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Mother Nature has dealt the deadliest blows around the globe with these tragic disasters. Read more
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To get an idea of what sentiment this topic generates, the above photo is of protesters outside a news conference held by Dutch MP Geert Wilders in London in October. The controversial lawmaker, who wound up on al-Qaida’s hit list back in 2008, released his film “Fitna” — “Ordeal,” in Arabic — that year, comparing [...]
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One of the things that was so repulsive about former Gov. George Ryan was that he used to accept cash gifts from employees at his public office. Anyone who doesn’t instinctively grasp the magnitude of this ethical and moral breach is simply unfit for the pubic trust. Read more
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12:15am UK, Thursday January 21, 2010 Roddy Mansfield and Huw Borland, Sky News Online An 11-year-old girl has been pulled out alive from the rubble of Haiti’s earthquake, it has been reported. [...]