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Winter’s Bone has taken the Grand Jury Drama Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. According to USA Today, director Debra Granik’s picture was snapped up by Roadside Attractions for national distribution as soon as the awards were announced. The film is about a 17-year-old in the Ozark Mountains who goes hunting for her fugitive [...]
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Two British soldiers were killed by roadside blasts while on foot patrol in Afghanistan. Read more
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Change your Monday night plans. Turns out that James O’Keefe — the filmmaker whose oeuvre includes numerous petite documentaries about ACORN — has postponed his planned appearance Monday night at San… 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 31, 2010 From Ben Gurr in Port Au Prince, Haiti A group of American Baptists has been arrested at the border with the Dominican Republic after trying to transport over thirty children out of Haiti. They didn’t have the right documents. To combat child traffiking all border movements of [...]
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Americans who hid money from the Internal Revenue Service in secret Swiss bank accounts may escape exposure, at least for now. Read more
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has ordered the Air Force and Navy to study what future joint weapons system, available 20 years from now, will be able to surveil an enemy target, survive any electronic interference, and then deliver precision strikes from platforms that either penetrate the foe’s defenses or are launched from a distance. [...]
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — International relief organizations backed by American soldiers delivered hundreds of tons of rice to homeless residents of the Haitian capital Sunday, laboring to ease a food shortage that has left countless thousands struggling to find enough to eat. 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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KABUL — As part of President Obama’s plan to dramatically increase the size of the Afghan National Army, the first contingent of additional U.S. troops has arrived and begun taking over the training of new Afghan recruits, hoping to build up the local force to 134,000 battle-ready soldiers in 10 months. Read more
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) – Suspected drug hitmen burst into a high school birthday party and killed 14 people in Ciudad Juarez on Sunday, the latest massacre in one of the world’s deadliest cities. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will seek on Monday to strike a balance between taming skyrocketing U.S. budget deficits and giving the economy a boost to ease the pain of double-digit unemployment. Read more
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HAITI EARTHQUAKE NEWS AND FEATURES Error or kidnap? Were the Americans who ‘saved orphans’ misguided or criminal? US to resume Haiti victim airlift UN begins major Haiti food push ‘My mission to help’ Haiti holds US ‘child smugglers’ ‘Ghost’ tent villages BBC broadcast in Creole RESCUED FROM THE RUBBLE Survivors’ stories Pulled out alive after [...]
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Reuters – Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange January 28, 2010. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid Slideshow:Stock Markets Play Video Wall Street Video:1/30 Bloomberg weekend report WRAL Raleigh Related Quotes Symbol Price Change MSFT 28.18 0.00 ^GSPC 1,073.87 0.00 ^IXIC 2,147.35 0.00 By JEREMIAH MARQUEZ, AP Business Writer Jeremiah Marquez, Ap Business Writer – 2 hrs 56 mins ago [...]
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Ten U.S. Baptists arrested trying to take 33 children out of earthquake-shattered Haiti say they were just trying to do the right thing, applying Christian principles to save Haitian children. Prime Minister Max Bellerive told The Associated Press Sunday he was outraged by the group’s “illegal trafficking of children” in a country [...]
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POPE Benedict yesterday appealed to businesses and politicians to prevent further job losses. Read more
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Labour’s waiting-time targets have been blamed for the 50 per cent rise in emergency readmissions of patients within days of them being discharged. Read more
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CAIRO — Egypt will soon reveal the results of DNA tests made on the world’s most famous ancient king, the young Pharaoh Tutankhamun, to answer lingering mysteries over his lineage, the antiquities department said. Read more
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The news stories that shaped the first decade of the new millennium, from terrorism to natural and humanitarian disasters. (Note: These are not ranked in order of importance.) Read more
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The news stories that shaped the first decade of the new millennium, from terrorism to natural and humanitarian disasters. (Note: These are not ranked in order of importance.) Read more