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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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Fears of a market bubble in China have tempered enthusiasm for investments in that country even as confidence in U.S. markets has risen, according to a Bloomberg News survey. Read more
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BEIJING — China’s Foreign Ministry sharply criticized Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s call Thursday for broad Internet freedom, saying that the United States should “cease using so-called Internet freedom to make groundless accusations against China.” Read more
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — Hundreds of the capital’s Catholic faithful gathered Saturday morning to bury Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot, who was killed with scores of parishioners when the Jan. 12 earthquake broke apart the cathedral where he worked and prayed. 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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As Canada braces for a nearly $1 billion effort to secure next month’s Winter Olympics in Vancouver, B.C., American eyes also will be scanning the land, sky and seas from south of the border, 30 miles away. Read more
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ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — On his first trip here in three years, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates had a hard time making up his mind about the Taliban. Read more
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PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – After more than a week of searching for trapped survivors, Haiti prepared on Saturday to mourn its dead amid signs that daily life in the earthquake-shattered country is beginning to resume. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama launched an extraordinary attack on the Supreme Court on Saturday, saying a ruling on corporate donations to political campaigns this week “strikes at democracy itself.” Read more
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Haiti’s government has made the “heartbreaking” decision to declare the search and rescue phase for survivors of the earthquake over, the UN says. Read more
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WASHINGTON (AFP) – The International Monetary Fund said Friday that Brazil finalized an agreement to buy 10 billion dollars worth of IMF bonds over the next two years. Read more
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Play Video AP  – Raw Video: Miraculous Haiti rescue of woman Slideshow:Massive earthquake hits Haiti Play Video Video:Final farewell to Haiti’s fallen AFP Play Video Video:Orphans leave Haiti Reuters AP – Emmannuel Buso rests at the Israeli Defense Force field hospital after being rescued from the rubble … By BEN FOX and MIKE MELIA, Associated Press Writers Ben Fox [...]
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Hunting through dense woodland, Sgt Richard Vernon came upon what he now describes as “the most distressing scene I’ve ever dealt with”. Read more
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Detectives will examine revelations of violence, drug and alcohol abuse with a view to bringing child neglect charges. Read more
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Searchers have pulled two survivors from the rubble of Haiti’s devastating earthquake, rescuing a man and an elderly woman a staggering 10 days after homes collapsed on top of them. In one part of the capital city, an Israeli search team pulled a 22-year-old man from a crevasse in what once [...]
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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 first thought, notes the Times of London, is that the increase in the threat level — which had been at the middle level, “substantial” — is tied to Thursday’s upcoming conference with various foreign ministers on the way forward in the Afghanistan war. There’s also the view that this is a general [...]
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June 26, 1987 REFORM REVENUE CHIEF OUSTED By James Strong, Chicago Tribune. Patrick Quinn, the city’s revenue director, was dumped from his $67,000- a-year job Thursday after a running battle with top aides to Mayor Harold Washington over Quinn’s efforts to reform the scandal-plagued department and [...]
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11:31pm UK, Friday January 22, 2010 Adam Arnold, Sky News Online Rescuers have pulled two barely alive survivors from the rubble of Port-au-Prince 10 days after a massive earthquake devastated the Haitian [...]
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Sony has confirmed that UK sales for its PS3 console have passed the 3 million mark. Read more