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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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MONTREAL — Haiti’s government made an emotional appeal for more aid Monday, asking for food to feed 1.5 million people for 15 days, as international donors gathered for a conference here to attempt to organize an orderly path to recovery for the quake-devastated nation. Read more
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PARIS — Long before Osama bin Laden, Ilich RamÃrez Sánchez, a.k.a. Carlos the Jackal, was the most famous terrorist of his era, bursting onto the scene with a spectacular hostage-taking of 11 OPEC oil ministers in 1975 and feeding his fame with more bloody attacks in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Read more
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s neighbors gave their backing on Tuesday to plans to reconcile with Taliban insurgents two days ahead of an international conference to set a framework for handing security over to Afghan forces. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama, under pressure from deficit hawks, will seek a three-year freeze on domestic spending in his 2011 budget that would save $250 billion by 2020, administration officials said on Monday. Read more
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Parliament should pass a resolution denouncing full Muslim face veils Ban the veil in all schools, hospitals, public transport and government offices Bar foreign women from obtaining asylum or French citizenship if they insist on veiling their faces in state buildings Take into account in asylum requests the coercion to wear the full veil as [...]
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WASHINGTON (AFP) – The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday the global economy was poised to rebound from last year’s contraction and grow 3.9 percent, better than previous forecasts. Read more
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AP – An Iraqi woman grieves during a funeral of a relative killed in a suicide bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, … Slideshow:Iraq Play Video Video:Police targeted in new Iraq bombing Reuters Play Video Video:Dozens die in Iraq triple blasts Reuters By ADAM SCHRECK, Associated Press Writer Adam Schreck, Associated Press Writer – 2 hrs 37 mins ago BAGHDAD – A suicide [...]
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A “LOVING and caring” mother walked free from court yesterday after being cleared of attempting to murder her seriously ill daughter by giving her morphine and a cocktail of drugs. Read more
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The data brings the UK’s s longest-ever recession to an end, but the minuscule nature of the rise – lower than the 0.4 per cent predicted – will raise fears the country could slip back into a ‘double dip’ recession and heap further pressure on Gordon Brown. 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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And that just counts those who have been buried by the government: there are still more bodies under rubble from the magnitude 7.0 earthquake, victims in rural areas or those who were already buried by relatives or those other than government workers. More from the Associated Press: “‘Nobody knows how many bodies [...]
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A self-described “longtime fan” at Mediaite asks Is Keith Olbermann Losing it? and visits the controversy that recently started a mini-feud between me and Olbermann: Strange…. was his handling of a near-afterthought by Countdown contributor Richard Wolffe in the wake of the attempted bombing of Flight 253. In describing what lines of inquiry the [...]
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4:09am UK, Tuesday January 26, 2010 Andy Jack, Sky News Online Bomb blasts in Sri Lanka’s Tamil heartland escalated tensions as the country went to the polls in the first presidential election [...]
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Rex Features Studio 20th Century Fox has reportedly come out on top of a bidding war to secure the domestic distribution rights to Robert Rodriguez’s Machete. Based on the director’s fake trailer for 2008′s Grindhouse, the film has since attracted widespread studio interest with Paramount and Lionsgate among the unsuccessful bidders for the title, Variety [...]
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A soldier who was killed by a blast in Afghanistan has been hailed by comrades as “the complete package”. Lance Corporal Daniel Cooper, from 3rd Battalion The Rifles, was killed in an explosion as he tried to clear a path in an area south of the Sangin district centre, in northern Helmand, on Sunday morning. [...]
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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a routine bill setting dues for the state’s 214,000 lawyers, after vetoing an earlier version because of a dispute over the state bar’s treatment of one of his… 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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Tony Blair, the Prime Minister who led Britain into the Iraq war, will give evidence to the Chilcot inquiry this week. He is expected to face questions on the legality, funding and planning of the war, the intelligence on weapons of mass destruction and his personal relationship with President Bush. Some of the [...]
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ZHUCHENG, CHINA — What killed the dinosaurs? Scientist Wang Haijun thinks the answer may be buried inside a 980-foot-long ravine in the Chinese countryside 415 miles southeast of Beijing where hundreds of the creatures may have huddled in the final moments before their extinction. Read more