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TEHRAN — Iranian authorities have arrested the fugitive leader of the country’s main Sunni Muslim insurgent group, Iran’s minister of interior told reporters Tuesday. Read more
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Megacities are something new on the planet. Earthquakes are something very old. The two are a lethal combination, as seen in the recent tragedy in Port-au-Prince, where more than 200,000 people perished — a catastrophe that scientists say is certain to be repeated somewhere, and probably soon, with death tolls that once again stagger the [...]
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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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MARJA, AFGHANISTAN — The Afghan official responsible for governing Marja paid his first visit to this strife-torn community Monday, imploring residents to forsake the Taliban and promising employment programs as an inducement for local men to put down their weapons. Read more
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TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran said on Tuesday any exchange of nuclear fuel must take place on its soil, underlining its rejection of a plan to ensure it does not amass possible atom bomb material. Read more
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) – The number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan has reached 1,000, an independent website said on Tuesday, with deadly bombings in the south and east highlighting the struggle to stabilize the country. Read more
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Western diplomats have expressed deep concern at a decree from Afghan President Hamid Karzai granting him total control over a key election body. Read more
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LONDON – German shares underperformed other European stocks Tuesday after a closely watched survey reinforced market fears that the recovery from recession in Europe’s biggest economy remains subdued. A solid opening on Wall Street — the Dow Jones industrial average was up 0.2 percent at 10,407.79 while the broader Standard & Poor’s 500 was unchanged [...]
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VIENNA – Iran has formally set out its terms for giving up most of its cache of enriched uranium in a confidential document, and the conditions fall short of what has been demanded by the United States and other world powers. Read more
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DOWNING Street’s top civil servant made an extraordinary plea to staff yesterday to come forward if they had been bullied. Read more
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Gaffe-prone Immigration minister Phil Woolas blundered into the furore by ripping into the head of the National Charity Helpline, Christine Pratt. Read more
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Former Us Vice President Dick Cheney. Photo / AP Former US Vice President Dick Cheney has been admitted to George Washington Hospital after experiencing chest pains. Cheney’s assistant, Peter Long, said in a statement today that the 69-year-old Cheney was resting comfortably and his doctors were evaluating the situation. [...]
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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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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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That cult favorite of the Winter Olympics is showing up in Morgan Freeman-voiced Visa commercials during the Vancouver Games, but the tropical sledders are nowhere to be found. The team first competed as a curiosity at the 1988 Calgary Games, crashed their sled and walked it through the finish line as a crowd favorite. The [...]
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Occasionally I get requests from students to address media matters for papers they’re working on. I reply when I can and figure I might as well post the Q & A in case anyone else aside from the student’s teacher is interested. This came in today from a college junior: Read more
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11:29pm UK, Monday February 22, 2010 Rob Cole, Sky News Online An al Qaeda suspect has pleaded guilty to a plot to bomb New York and bring “martyrdom to Manhattan”. [...]
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Wesley Snipes has reportedly said that he would be interested in reprising the role of Blade. Read more
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A former Denver airport shuttle driver admitted Monday to a plot to bomb the New York City subways, saying he was recruited by al-Qaida in Pakistan for a “martyrdom plan” against the United States. Read more
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This was the first Monday in a while that Bay Area fans of conservative talk radio woke up to KSFO (560 AM) without listening to Lee Rodgers at the helm of the station’s morning show. (You’d be surprised… Read more