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TAMPA — After a five-day suspension of medical evacuation flights from Haiti that threw the fates of hundreds of gravely injured earthquake victims into doubt, new Federal Coordinating Centers are now open for business at airports in this city and in Atlanta.
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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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BAGHDAD — Almost four years after his accidental rise to power, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is trying to retain his job without the allies who made him Iraq’s ruler the first time around.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan said on Thursday the security situation there remained serious but was not deteriorating, giving a more upbeat view than from other U.S. military and intelligence officials.
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DETROIT (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp plans to recall an estimated 270,000 units of its new-generation Prius hybrid in the United States and Japan to fix a brake problem, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Thursday.
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The US Transportation Department has opened an investigation into brake problems in the 2010 Toyota Prius.
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ATHENS, Greece – European stock markets sank Thursday, led by concerns over debt-ridden Greece and Portugal and whether their governments will be able to push through unpopular austerity programs to tame their ballooning deficits.
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AFP/File – File photo shows the traffic in Dubai. The government of Dubai, facing dwindling oil resources and a …
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Avram Grant, the Premier League football manager, faces being questioned by UK vice squad officers after he was seen visiting a brothel which is the subject of a police investigation.
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But this was slashed by £27,000 on appeal - making Labour minister Barbara Follett, who is married to a multi-millionaire author, the largest over-claimer with a bill for more than £42,000.Â
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A 9-year-old girl who gave birth to a baby boy last month has become one of the world’s youngest mothers.
The baby was delivered by caesarean section on January 27 at a hospital in Changchun, in north-east China, according to the Telegraph.
The girl, who was from the city of Songyuan, was eight and a half months […]
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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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Why the Valentine’s Day party poopers? Valentine’s Day = St. Valentine = not an Islamic holiday. Plus, as an Islamic scholar told the Saudi Gazette, “As Muslims we shouldn’t celebrate a non-Muslim celebration especially this one that encourages immoral relations between unmarried men and women.” So in Saudi Arabia, the religious police — agents of […]
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A 62-year-old Independence Township (Michigan) man hosting an outdoor winter party in his backyard was rushed to the hospital Sunday night after the explosive backpack he rigged to power him on a sled exploded, police said.
The man is thought to have constructed the backpack from a used automotive muffler, which he filled with gasoline and […]
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9:26pm UK, Wednesday February 03, 2010
Tim Hewage,
Sky News Online
Sudan’s President Omar al Bashir could still face genocide charges, an international court has ruled.
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The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Bashir in March last year […]
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Rumours that DC Comics and Warner Bros are planning a Young Justice League animated series are in circulation.
According to Mania, actress Stephanie Lemelin revealed that she has been cast as Arrowette in the cartoon via her website. However, the report has since been removed.
“I am beyond thrilled to announce that I was recently cast in […]
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CBS News chief Sean McManus said Wednesday that it’s unfair to criticize Katie Couric’s multimillion-dollar salary at a time news division jobs are being cut and that he expected the evening news anchor to stay at the network “for a long time.” Although no negotiations have taken place, McManus offered the strongest public signal yet […]
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Legislation is in the works at the state capitol that would dramatically change how marijuana is regulated in the state and bring in a good chunk of cash to California’s beleaguered state budget.
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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 […]