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Play Video CNBC  – Sen. Shelby on Bernanke, New Bank Rules Slideshow:Ben Bernanke Play Video Economy Video:AP Top Stories AP Related Quotes Symbol Price Change ^DJI 10,120.46 -115.70 ^GSPC 1,084.53 -12.97 ^IXIC 2,179.00 -42.41 AP – FILE – In this Dec. 7, 2009, file photo Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is introduced before speaking … By JEANNINE AVERSA and [...]
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AP – Former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin speaks after the verdict of the slander trial at the Paris … By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY and VERENA VON DERSCHAU, Associated Press Writers Nicolas Vaux-montagny And Verena Von Derschau, Associated Press Writers – 1 hr 6 mins ago PARIS – A court ruled Thursday that former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin did not take [...]
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KATE and Gerry McCann opened up their hearts last night to the anguish of living without their daughter, Madeleine, marking 1,000 days since her disappearance. Read more
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Mother who ‘killed her two young children and left their bodies in car boot’ had lost baby to cot death By Stephen Wright Last updated at 6:42 PM on 28th January 2010 Add to My Stories A mother arrested on suspicion of murdering her two young children had lost a baby girl to cot death [...]
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Russia will test fly a “fifth generation” stealth fighter in the next few days that aims to challenge the United States for technical superiority, an aviation industry source said. This would be the first new military aircraft Russia has built since the Soviet Union collapsed. However, it would take up to seven years before [...]
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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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Embattled incumbent Cook County Board President Todd Stroger will discuss our newspaper’s frequent criticisms of him with Tribune Deputy Editorial Page Editor John McCormick live at 10 a.m. Friday on WGN AM 720. Look for the rhetorical fur to fly. Read more
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For those insurgents who refuse to accept the conditions for re-integration, we have no choice but to pursue them militarily Gordon Brown on plans to reintegrate Taliban fighters Read more
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Rex Features Kylie Minogue is recording new material with Girls Aloud producers Xenomania, she has revealed. The Aussie pop singer posted the following message on her Twitter page: “Been in the studio again… this time with Xenomania!! Worked w so many great people so far… whooop!!!… more and more songs for you all!!” Minogue, 41, [...]
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A North Korean soldier guards the country’s borders. The highly secretive country has reported the detainment of a US citizen for entering illegally. Read more
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President Obama’s State of the Union speech Tuesday night gave us a preview of the balancing act that will dominate the second year of the presidency. AP photo Unifying figures: Fort Hood police officers… 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 26, 2010 We headed to the UN this morning where I join a World Food Programme convoy taking a consignment of rice to people living in refugee camps in the centre of Port Au Prince. The UN have based their operations at the city’s airport and hundreds of their vehicles clog the [...]
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UNITED NATIONS — U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday named Staffan di Mistura, a veteran U.N. civil servant, as his envoy to Afghanistan, making him the international point person for efforts to promote the embattled nation’s capacity to govern itself and pursue peace. Read more
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LAHORE, PAKISTAN — Pakistan, which once sponsored Taliban forces but turned against them under American pressure in 2001, now hopes to play a role as a broker in proposed negotiations among Taliban leaders and the Afghan government, with support from the United States. Read more
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — Fifteen days after an earthquake devastated this nation, a teenage girl was rescued from the rubble of her house — weak and thirsty — on a hillside in the capital. 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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U.S. military teams and intelligence agencies are deeply involved in secret joint operations with Yemeni troops who in the past six weeks have killed scores of people, among them six of 15 top leaders of a regional al-Qaeda affiliate, according to senior administration officials. Read more
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LONDON (Reuters) – Yemen must act to push through reforms to tackle the root causes of poverty and instability fuelling militancy in the country, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told an international conference on Wednesday. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will recast his agenda in a high-stakes address to the American people on Wednesday, focusing on jobs and deficits as he seeks to weather his worst political storm since taking office. Read more