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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Preparations for the provisional release of 10 Americans detained in Haiti on child kidnapping charges may be on hold after questions arose about a Dominican man who served as their legal adviser. 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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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — Reeling from the earthquake that devastated their country one month ago, Haitians have turned to their vivid and sometimes quirky spiritual life in a search not only for consolation but also for an explanation of why such a catastrophe was visited upon them. Read more
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PUNE, India (Reuters) – A bomb ripped through a packed restaurant in the Indian city of Pune on Saturday, killing at least eight people including one foreigner in the country’s first big attack since the 2008 Mumbai massacre. Read more
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MARJAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Marines spearheaded one of NATO’s biggest offensives against the Taliban in Afghanistan on Saturday, in an early test of President Barack Obama’s troop surge policy. Read more
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Nato-led forces say they are making good progress hours after launching the biggest offensive in Afghanistan since the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001. Read more
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ROME (AFP) – The global economy is recovering but is especially “fragile” in the eurozone, Bank of Italy Governor Mario Draghi said Saturday. Read more
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Play Video AP  – The biggest battle yet in Afghanistan Slideshow:Afghanistan Play Video Video:U.S. forces hunting “scoundrels” in Afghanistan AP Play Video Video:Exclusive: Gates on Afghanistan and Iran FOX News AP – In this handout photo released by Ministry of Defence via PA, soldiers of the 1st Battalion the Royal … By ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU and CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated [...]
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Dennis Hopper‘s wife has agreed to stay 10ft (3m) away from the ailing actor and not contact him directly as they wrangle over their divorce, court records showed. Read more
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This is more than double the number recently predicted by the City minister Lord Myners, who has slammed the pay bonanza as ‘grotesque’. Read more
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The New Zealand Government has made an initial contribution of $200,000 to the cyclone-hit Cook Islands as a second cyclone bears down on neighbouring Pacific Islands. Tropical cyclone Pat blasted the Cooks yesterday, causing widespread damage to the island of Aitutaki. It has now been downgraded to a tropical storm and has moved into [...]
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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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Haiphong, Vietnam, in the Gulf of Tonkin, was hit by a devastating typhoon in 1881 that killed an estimated 300,000 people. Little is known of what preparation or precautions may have been lacking at the time, but the city was hit again in 2005. That storm came onshore with 100 mph sustained winds, but the [...]
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I cringed Wednesday night when Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert announced that freshman U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley (D.-Chicago) was his guest on that night’s pre-taped “Better Know a District” segment. Colbert’s character is a blunt, occasionally clueless right-wing gasbag and in “Better Know a District” he conducts daffy interviews with members of congress that [...]
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US-led airstrikes began as dawn broke in the Taliban stronghold of Marjah in Helmand province where up to 1,000 insurgents are believed to be holed up. A Ministry of Defence spokeswoman said 1,200 British troops were involved in Operation Moshtarak, which is being led by the US Marine Corps. Read more
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Rex Features Mos Def has confirmed plans to embark on a short UK tour in April. The rapper and sometime actor will play a trio of gigs, kicking off in Glasgow before heading on to Bristol and concluding later that month with a show in London, which was confirmed last month. Mos Def is currently [...]
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As sex tapes go, it’s fairly tame – a man gets undressed in a bedroom, slides under the covers, plumps the pillows and calls to a woman to join him. 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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We take a dawn flight into Mitilini on the Island of Lesbos, which is one of the entry points into Europe for migrants coming from Africa and Afghanistan. At its narrowest point, it’s 4 km from Turkey. Almost every night, dinghies and small motor boats ferry people across the channel. For migrants entering Europe illegally, [...]