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KABUL (Reuters) – Pakistan has agreed to hand over to Afghanistan captured Afghan Taliban number two, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, and other militants, the president’s office said on Thursday. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama and Republicans clashed frequently on Thursday at a summit on his stalled healthcare overhaul, battling over the size and cost of the proposal and moving no closer to a compromise agreement. Read more
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Differences have emerged as President Barack Obama urged top Republicans and Democrats to focus on agreements at a six-hour televised healthcare summit. Read more
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LONDON – Greek shares led a retreat in world markets Thursday as investors worried that credit ratings agencies may downgrade the country’s government debt further. Disappointing U.S. jobs data added to the gloom, sending Wall Street sharply lower at the open. In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was down 67.30 points, [...]
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Play Video AP  – Mullen urges patience in Afghan offensive Slideshow:Afghanistan Play Video Video:NATO leader apologizes to Afghans AP Play Video Video:NATO airstrike kills Afghan civilians AP AFP – Afghan residents of Marjah sit at the foot of the national flag after an official flag raising ceremony. … By ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU, Associated Press Writer Alfred De Montesquiou, Associated [...]
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A former cancer patient has made medical history by giving birth to two babies after her fertility was restored with frozen ovarian tissue. Read more
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After diving, the whale held Dawn Brancheau, 40, under water until she drowned at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida. Read more
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Tunnelling under the prison walls has long been a favourite method of breaking out of jail, but now one female convict in the Netherlands has managed to gain her freedom by digging herself out with a spoon. Read more
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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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Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader who is now standing trial for war crimes at The Hague in the 43-week siege of Sarajevo and the Srebrenica massacre, spoke to “The Rageh Omaar Report” on Al-Jazeera. Karadzic, whose trial is about to resume at the International Criminal Court, talks about his life on the run [...]
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In an extraordinary, two-hour interview with a handful of reporters and commentators — including some who have been highly critical of his office — Du Page County State’s Attorney Joe Birkett said Wednesday morning that, in his opinion, charges never should have been brought against the three initial suspects in the Jeanine Nicarico murder case. [...]
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8:48am UK, Thursday February 25, 2010 Huw Borland, Sky News Online Argentina has urged UN chief Ban Ki-moon to step into a row over a British firm drilling for oil in waters [...]
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Bindi Irwin has started dating boxing champion Muhammad Ali’s grandson, it has been reported. The 11-year-old wildlife warrior, whose father is the late Steve Irwin, has reportedly begun referring to Jacob Wertheimer as her “boyfriend”. A friend of the Irwin family told Woman’s Day magazine: “During the last year Bindi has started calling Jacob her [...]
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India and Pakistan are holding formal diplomatic talks in New Delhi for the first time since the terrorist attack on Mumbai 15 months ago. Read more
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The following report was written by Katie Brandenburg of the Washington bureau. Support for the Democratic Party among young voters is waning and Republicans are gaining strength among Americans under the… 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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The dry steppe stretches to the horizon in all directions from this remote outpost in southern Kazakhstan. But peeking out of the sandy soil, amid the sagebrush and desert shrub, are thousands of wells arranged in geometric patterns, each extracting radioactive treasure. Read more
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An adviser to former president Bill Clinton intervened in 2005 to help win Kazakh approval of a uranium mining deal benefiting a major donor to the Clinton Foundation, according to a video statement made by the former chief of Kazakhstan’s state nuclear firm. Read more
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — Faced with a disaster of overwhelming proportions, Haiti’s fractious political opposition is trying to set aside its differences and work with President René Préval to reach a consensus on how to rebuild the devastated country. Read more