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KABUL — With the deaths of six troops on Thursday and Friday, July has become the deadliest month for U.S. forces in the nearly nine-year-long war in Afghanistan. Read more
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ISLAMABAD/LONDON (Reuters) – Pakistan’s spy chief has canceled a trip to Britain, a spokesman said on Saturday, but Islamabad played down a row over remarks by British Prime Minister David Cameron suggesting Pakistan was not doing enough to fight terrorism. Read more
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BILOXI Mississippi (Reuters) – BP said on Friday it could seal its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well by next week as the House of Representatives voted to toughen regulation of offshore energy drilling. Read more
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Pakistani intelligence officials cancel a visit to Britain in protest at comments made by David Cameron about Pakistan’s alleged links to terror. Read more
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WASHINGTON (AFP) – The IMF on Friday lowered its 2011 growth forecast for the Spanish economy to 0.6 percent from the 0.9 percent it foresaw in April and warned the recovery “is likely to be weak and fragile.” Read more
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DUISBURG, Germany – Germany was holding a memorial service on Saturday for the victims of the Love Parade techno music festival, where 21 people were crushed to death and 500 injured. The memorial was to be held at Salvator Church and shown live on screens in a football stadium and a dozen other churches in [...]
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THE two surviving daughters of the French nursing assistant who admitted killing eight of her babies have said that “she was a model mother who supported us at all times”. Read more
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Here we just boo our players when they fail (or give them more money) but in Pyongyang they do things differently. Read more
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LONDON – An Iranian woman whose sentence of death by stoning was lifted earlier this month says she’s grateful for the international support she’s received, but remains heartbroken at the separation from her children and tormented by the fear she could still be executed, a rights activist said Friday. 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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Coach Kim Jong Hun, after North Korea’s 7-0 trouncing at the hands of Portugal in its second game of this year’s World Cup, said there would be no punishment for the players: “Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose; it doesn’t always turn out the way you want,” he said before the team went on to [...]
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 More than 33 years and 1,600 miles separate Dan Walker from his days in the governor’s mansion in Springfield. Yet he’s bracing to have his name dragged into the news again when another federal jury renders another verdict in another corruption trial of another former governor of Illinois. Whether Rod Blagojevich is acquitted or [...]
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4:07pm UK, Friday July 30, 2010 Adam Arnold, Sky News Online A new offensive involving hundreds of British and Afghan troops is taking place in southern Afghanistan to try to clear a [...]
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Rex Features Paul McCartney is reportedly a fan of Glee. Speaking to E! Online, the show’s creator Ryan Murphy suggested that the musician has asked for a guest role on the series. “The other day a package arrived at my office and I opened it up and it said ‘Mixtape from Paul McCartney’,” Murphy explained. [...]
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The toll from the deluge was expected to rise because many people were still reported missing. Read more
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TOKYO — Toyota is recalling 412,000 passenger cars, mostly the Avalon model, in the United States, and another 16,420 vehicles in Japan for steering problems, the automaker said yesterday. The 373,000 Avalons being recalled in America span the 2000 through 2004 model years, and have improper casting of the steering lock bar, causing [...]
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A group of immigrant-rights groups today demanded that state Attorney General Jerry Brown meet with them to discuss his decision to force San Francisco to follow a federal program that they say… Read more
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Farmer Darrell Anderson burns whins in the hills on the outskirts of Menstrie in Perthshire. Fires are lit to clear undergrowth so that lambs don’t get trapped. I had hoped that this silhouette might work with a piece about the odd rural consituency of Ochil and Perthshire south, in which Gordon Banks is defending a [...]
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It’s hard to believe that ratification of the New START treaty is turning into a pitched battle between some Republicans and the White House. It’s even harder to believe that advocates for and against the treaty are trying to turn it into a stand-in for some imagined ideological contest over arms control and nonproliferation. It’s [...]
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Edited excerpts of interview by Washington Post’s Janine Zacharia, with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, Friday, July 23, 2010 This Story Israeli official offers warnings Q&A with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak WP: You arrive in Washington on Monday. What is the primary objective of your trip? Barak: [...]