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The Bolivarian philosophy pushed by Chavez incorporates the Marxist influences gleaned from another hero and mentor of Chavez, Fidel Castro. Unlike Castro’s insulated Cuba, though, Chavez has tried to push his agenda onto the regional stage and use Venezuela’s oil power to give a higher profile to this brand of Latin American leftism. Chavez has [...]
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“Hang Up and Listen,” a weekly Slate podcast, seems to be hurting for an audience. This week the hosts asked every listener to pledge — not money, but pledge to get at least one new person to give them a try. Read more
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4:40pm UK, Friday February 19, 2010 Alison Chung, Sky News Online The Foreign Office has strongly refuted claims that it knew about plans to use fake British passports in an alleged plot [...]
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Lady GaGa has revealed that the she will perform previously unheard material on her UK tour. Read more
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North Korea vowed Friday not to dismantle its nuclear program — not even in exchange for economic aid — as long as the United States continues a “hostile policy.” “It was none other than the U.S. that pushed [North Korea] to acquiring nuclear deterrence and it is, therefore, wholly to blame for the nuclear issue [...]
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Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman has said that her admittedly “atrocious” voting record was the result of being “busy with my career and family” — and she never registered to vote when she lived in an upscale… 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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JERUSALEM — Dubai’s police chief said Thursday that there is a “99 percent” chance that Israel’s Mossad spy agency was behind the killing of a Hamas operative in the city-state last month, marking the most direct accusation yet in the developing controversy. Read more
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PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN — A U.S. drone strike Thursday in Pakistan’s remote border region killed the adult son of the founder of one of the most vicious and powerful militant organizations directing attacks at international forces in Afghanistan, a Pakistani intelligence official said. Read more
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — As engineers inspect cracked and sagging buildings here, a team of U.S. scientists is probing deeper, hoping to learn what caused the earth to shudder and where it might rumble again. 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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There are worse places for a Mexican family to hock its jewels than the national pawnshop, headquartered atop the ruins of the Aztec emperor Montezuma’s residence in the heart of the capital. Read more
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Scientists have deciphered the genetic blueprint of South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu and an indigenous Bushman from Namibia as part of an ambitious and controversial project to bring modern genomic medicine to the developing world. Read more
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KARACHI, PAKISTAN — The capture of senior Afghan Taliban leaders in Pakistan represents the culmination of months of pressure by the Obama administration on Pakistan’s powerful security forces to side with the United States as its troops wage war in Afghanistan, according to U.S. and Pakistani officials. Read more
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NIAMEY (Reuters) – Mutinous troops led by an army colonel captured Niger’s President Mamadou Tandja after a gun battle on Thursday, and said they were suspending the constitution and dissolving all political institutions. Read more
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AUSTIN (Reuters) – An apparently disgruntled man crashed a small plane into a federal building housing U.S. tax offices in Austin, Texas on Thursday in what local officials said was likely a deliberate attack. Read more
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The United Nations has increased its humanitarian appeal for Haiti to $1.44bn (£929m) – an all-time high. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve raised its emergency lending rate for the first time since the financial crisis, lifting the dollar and hitting bonds as markets brushed off Fed assurances it was not a prelude to a rise in the main policy rate. Read more
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AP – U.S. Marines with NATO forces keeps vigil as Marines and Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers setup a … Play Video Afghanistan Video:Soldier Surprises Daughter At Lancaster School CBS 2 / KCAL 9 Los Angeles Afghanistan Video:Asylum boat fire suspects Australia 7 News Play Video Afghanistan Video:Holbrooke in Pakistan Reuters By DEB RIECHMANN and MUNIR AMHAD, Associated [...]
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AT the same time as the human population of the world is set to hit seven billion, over half of the earth’s primate species are facing extinction. Read more