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If you try to deceive by moving the potatoes or peas around with a fork, that it may appear you have eaten what you have not, you will fall into iniquity. And I will know, and you shall have no dessert.…from the 1997 classic for parents, “Laws Concerning Food and Drink; Household Principles; [...]
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3:05pm UK, Friday February 19, 2010 Katie Cassidy, Sky News Online Soldiers who have seized power in Niger say they want the country to be “an example of democracy and good governance” [...]
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Tickle Cock bridge in Castleford, Yorkshire has got its original name back after a campaign from local residents when it was renamed. Read more
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Ukraine’s embattled premier Yulia Tymoshenko said Saturday she has withdrawn her legal challenge to the results of the presidential runoff election that she lost by a narrow margin earlier this month. Read more
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Just confirmed that GOP guv candidate Meg Whitman has agreed to debate state Insurance Commish Steve Poizner Sunday May 2 sponsored by Comcast. Live on the TeeeVeee. This will be their second scheduled throwdown after their March 15 tussle. 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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Spain announced Monday it will accept five detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the largest commitment by a European country and a boost for the Obama administration’s dragging effort to close the military detention center. Read more
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PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN — A suspected U.S. drone strike in Pakistan’s remote border region killed the brother of a ruthless Afghan Taliban leader whose fighters pose one of the biggest threats to international forces in Afghanistan, Pakistani officials said Friday. Read more
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PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Providing shelter for hundreds of thousands of homeless earthquake victims in Haiti jumped to the top of the country’s relief priorities on Thursday after heavy rain turned makeshift survivors’ camps into muddy quagmires. 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 — Helta Exanville spent the night in tears, cradling her infant son as a tropical rain drummed on the tarp-and-tin roof overhead. Water leaked relentlessly through the seams, she said, invading her little shelter, soaking her clothes, turning the earthen floor into mud and, in the darkest hours before dawn, driving her to [...]
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende’s coalition government collapsed on Saturday when the two largest parties failed to agree on whether to withdraw troops from Afghanistan this year as planned. Read more
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DETROIT/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The largest U.S. auto insurer alerted regulators earlier than first believed about a worrying trend of accidents involving Toyota Motor Corp vehicles, while the Obama administration’s top transportation official said on Friday he would not relax pressure on the carmaker. Read more
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The Dutch government has collapsed over disagreements within the governing coalition on extending troop deployments in Afghanistan. Read more
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Play Video Economy Video:Coupons Help Beat The Recession & Save The Planet CBS4 Denver Play Video Economy Video:Paul: Faith in the Fed? CNBC Related Quotes Symbol Price Change GE 16.17 -0.07 ^GSPC 1,109.17 +2.42 ^IXIC 2,243.87 +2.16 By STEPHEN MANNING, AP Business Writer Stephen Manning, Ap Business Writer – Fri Feb 19, 7:02 pm ET General Electric’s overall work [...]
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Play Video Reuters  – NATO says “progressing” in Afghanistan Slideshow:Afghanistan Play Video Video:Afghanistan: U.S. Marines in Firefight ABC News Play Video Video:Allied forces meet resistance in Afghanistan AP AP – A U.S. Marine from 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment takes a defensive position while on patrol in Marjah … By ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU, Associated Press Writer Alfred De Montesquiou, [...]
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“MOTHER courage” — how else could you describe Angie Baker who suffered 18 miscarriages trying for a baby before hearing the patter of tiny feet. Read more
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Unscrupulous speculators cashing in on the weak pound have created a shortage of at least 40 drugs, a Daily Mail investigation has found. Read more
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A young volunteer New York firefighter who prosecutors say wanted to be a hero was convicted today of murder for setting a fire that killed a mother and three of her children. He tried to bolt from the courtroom after the verdict was announced but was tackled and subdued by about a dozen court [...]
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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