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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: [...]