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Answer: In Persian, the suffix “stan” means “place of.” In Russian — remembering that Kazakhstan borders Russia, and five ‘stans used to be part of the Soviet Union — the word “stan” means “settlement.” So we have seven countries in Central Asia that share the “stan” suffix: Afghanistan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Pakistan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan The [...]
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This has already been a tough year for temblors, with the magnitude 7.0 quake striking impoverished Haiti and killing some 230,000 on Jan. 12, 2009. Early this morning, an earthquake 500 times stronger than that struck offshore 70 miles from the second-largest city in Chile, Concepcion. The quake belonged to all of South America, being [...]
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A few months back I took note of how common it is for politicians to promise on the stump that they will “look” at an issue, rather than to say specifically what they plan to do about it if elected. But no one I quoted was as relentlessly speculative as Jason Plummer, the Republican [...]
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Katie Cassidy, Sky News Online Chile’s president says more than 700 people are dead after a massive earthquake hit the country. Michelle Bachelet has warned [...]
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WENN Quinton Aaron has joked that he is in love with Sandra Bullock. Aaron, who starred alongside the actress in The Blind Side, explained that he was starstruck when he first met her. “I’ve been a fan of hers for years,” he told People. “I was in love with her for years! So I found [...]
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Police in Constitucion, Chile stop looters attempting to steal goods in the wake of Saturday’s deadly earthquake. Read more
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Democratic State Attorney General Jerry Brown answered the GOP’s needling about “Where’s Jerry” Friday — saying he has a plan for running for governor “if and when I jump into the fray.” 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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BERLIN — Greek extravagance touched off the biggest crisis in the 11-year history of the euro. But the world’s most ambitious monetary union faces a less obvious problem that might be even harder to lick — German frugality. Read more
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KABUL — Behind the combat troops and military trainers, alongside the aid workers and agriculture experts, come the lawyers. Read more
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Friday gave a strong defense of Ways and Means Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.), lending her continued support for the embattled lawmaker a day after the ethics committee admonished him for accepting privately paid travel against House rules. Read more
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SANTIAGO, CHILE — One of the most powerful earthquakes on record jolted central Chile on Saturday, smashing homes and bridges and unleashing tsunami waves that coursed across the Pacific, prompting alerts in Hawaii and dozens of countries. More than 300 people have died in the coastal South American nation. Read more
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NIGERIA Ailing leader returns, prompting concerns Nigeria faced a renewal of political instability Wednesday after Umaru Yar’Adua, the ailing president, returned to sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest energy producer under a cloak of secrecy after a three-month absence. The 58-year-old ruler’s spokesman said that Goodluck Jonathan, the vice president granted full interim powers by parliament two weeks [...]
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TEHRAN — In his first statement since protest rallies planned for Feb. 11 largely fizzled, Iran’s top opposition figure, Mir Hossein Mousavi, described the Tehran government Saturday as a “gang with no respect for Iran’s interests.” Read more
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CONCEPCION, Chile (Reuters) – Chileans fearful of aftershocks camped outside on Sunday in towns shattered by a massive earthquake, as officials struggled to grasp the scale of the damage to the country’s transport, energy and housing infrastructure. Read more
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CONCEPCION, Chile (Reuters) – One of the world’s most powerful earthquakes in a century pounded Chile on Saturday, killing more than 300 people as it toppled buildings and triggered tsunamis that ravaged a port town and threatened Pacific coastlines as far away as Japan. Read more
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Two million people have been affected by the massive earthquake that struck central Chile on Saturday, President Michelle Bachelet has said. Read more
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AP – Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou is seen at his office in the parliament in Athens on Friday, Feb. … Slideshow:Greek protests Play Video Tax Season Video:Free tax help offered at Seattle libraries KING5 Seattle Related Quotes Symbol Price Change ^DJI 10,325.26 +4.23 ^GSPC 1,104.49 +1.56 ^IXIC 2,238.26 +4.04 By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS, Associated Press Writer Nicholas Paphitis, [...]
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TALCA, Chile – One of the largest earthquakes ever recorded tore apart houses, bridges and highways in central Chile on Saturday and sent a tsunami racing halfway around the world. Chileans near the epicenter were tossed about as if shaken by a giant, and authorities said at least 214 people were dead. The magnitude-8.8 quake [...]
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TO the horror of Latvia‘s political establishment, a group of computer hackers is threatening to expose the incomes of top officials after stealing millions of government tax records. Read more