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BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Bomb blasts and rocket and mortar fire killed 38 people as Iraqis voted on Sunday in an election they hoped would distance their nascent democracy from years of sectarian slaughter as U.S. troops pack up to leave. Read more
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KARACHI (Reuters) – Pakistani security agents have arrested an American al Qaeda spokesman wanted in the United States for treason for threatening violence unless al Qaeda demands are met, Pakistani officials said on Sunday. Read more
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Iraq’s second parliamentary election since the 2003 invasion has been hit by multiple attacks, with at least 35 people being killed. Read more
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PARIS (AFP) – European governments are ready to help Greece pull itself out of its financial crisis “if necessary”, French President Nicolas said Sunday following talks with the Greek prime minister. Read more
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Play Video ABC News  – Violence and Hope Clash in Iraqi Elections Slideshow:Iraq Play Video Video:Communist party survives on Iraq’s political margins AFP Play Video Video:US ponders if Iraq elections vindicate Bush AFP AP – Zahiya Kadim, who is blind, displays her inked finger after casting her vote in Basra, Iraq, Sunday, … By HAMZA HENDAWI and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, [...]
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The Government has insisted it is committed to getting £2.3 billion of savings back from Iceland despite people there appearing to resoundingly reject a plan to repay the money. With more than 40% of the ballot counted, 93% had voted “no” in a referendum over whether to pay billions of pounds back to [...]
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Senior Tory MP Ed Vaizey raises the extraordinary possibility in a Channel 4 film to be broadcast tomorrow. Read more
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Japan reportedly plans to arrest a New Zealand activist being held on a whaling ship which he secretly boarded, planning to make a citizen’s arrest of its captain. Peter Bethune, a member of the anti-whaling Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, has been in Japanese custody since he climbed aboard the vessel in Antarctic waters in [...]
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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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Haiphong, Vietnam, in the Gulf of Tonkin, was hit by a devastating typhoon in 1881 that killed an estimated 300,000 people. Little is known of what preparation or precautions may have been lacking at the time, but the city was hit again in 2005. That storm came onshore with 100 mph sustained winds, but the [...]
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An unusual number of edits for folk video. Read more
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Alison Chung, Sky News Online Dozens of bomb and mortar attacks have hit polling stations in Iraq killing at least 20 people as voting in parliamentary elections gets under way. [...]
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WENN Ke$ha has insisted that she is not a “party girl”. Speaking to The Times, the popstar admitted that she enjoys going out but added that she is also committed to her work. “So many people say, ‘So what, are you a party girl?’” she explained. “And I say, ‘I’m a walking good time’. “Do [...]
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Iraqis cast ballots in election that will test fragile democracy A resident casts his vote at a polling station in Baghdad’s Sadr City March 7, 2010. Read more
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Well, color us surprised — San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced his endorsement of District Attorney Kamala Harris today, calling her an “effective and dedicated partner” (she gushed back, calling him an “exceptional leader”). 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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MARJA, AFGHANISTAN — The newly appointed top official in Marja, Abdul Zahir Aryan, is the Afghan face of the American-led military offensive. As the lone government representative in this town, he stands at the center of the next phase of the battle: the fight to build an Afghan government that is more attractive than Taliban [...]
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PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN — Pakistani officials said Saturday that a top Taliban leader was probably killed in an airstrike in the northwest, dealing another blow to a militant group that fighters say has been leaderless since January. Read more
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MEXICO CITY — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called for Latin America to fight drug corruption in a regional swing that ended Friday in Guatemala, days after that country’s drug czar and national police chief were jailed on suspicion of leading a police ring that stole cocaine from drug traffickers. Read more