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KABUL — President Hamid Karzai said on Thursday that the disclosure of the names of Afghan informants in the trove of classified U.S. military documents posted online by the WikiLeaks Web site was “extremely irresponsible and shocking.” This Story In Taliban hotbed, any ally will do For Petraeus, rooting out Afghan corruption is a priority [...]
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NEW YORK — Whatever troubles Charles B. Rangel has in Washington, they haven’t seemed to follow him to the streets of Harlem, where he is the only congressman many people have ever voted for, and where on sidewalks and stoops his recent trials are sometimes chalked up to conspiracy and dismissed as D.C. drama. Read [...]
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LEBANON Hezbollah militants may be charged in Hariri death Lebanon is braced for another political crisis as a special tribunal set up to try the killers of Rafiq al-Hariri, the former prime minister, appears to be heading toward indicting members of Hezbollah, the Shiite militant group. Hasan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, which is supported [...]
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Remember when Barack Obama vowed to voters in the industrial Midwest that he would renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement to make it more advantageous to U.S. workers? His promise, made to appeal to Democratic primary voters in his battle with Hillary Clinton, set off alarm bells among free-trade advocates, worried that he would [...]
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BRITAIN Former arms inspector: U.S., U.K. misjudged Iraq The United Nations inspector who led a doomed hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq told the British inquiry into the 2003 invasion Tuesday that the U.S. and Britain relied on flawed intelligence and showed dubious judgment in the buildup to war. Hans Blix, 82, former [...]
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Ten years ago, many experts thought you couldn’t bring antiretroviral therapy to people with AIDS in poor countries. The drugs cost too much, there weren’t enough doctors, the patients wouldn’t take the medicines correctly, and the risk of creating a resistant virus was too high. None of that turned out to be true. About 5.2 [...]
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ISTANBUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Iran and the United States sent positive signals on Wednesday about the possibility of fresh talks on the Iranian nuclear program, which Washington suspects aims to develop atomic weapons. Read more
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PHOENIX (Reuters) – A judge on Wednesday blocked key parts of Arizona’s tough new immigration law hours before it was to take effect, handing a victory to the Obama administration as it tries to take control of the issue. Read more
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The government is planning to scrap the default retirement age in the UK from October 2011. Read more
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) and Citigroup Inc (C.N) will sell a $788.5 million commercial mortgage-backed security, according to a term sheet sent to investors, in the largest deal of its kind since volume began crawling back after the financial crisis. Read more
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ISLAMABAD – A passenger jet that officials suspect veered off course in monsoon rains and thick clouds crashed into hills overlooking Pakistan’s capital Wednesday, killing all 152 people on board and scattering body parts and twisted metal far and wide. The Airblue jet’s crash was the deadliest ever in Pakistan, and just the latest tragedy [...]
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A seven-year-old girl starved to death after a catalogue of “missed opportunities” by social services and other professionals, a serious-case review found yesterday. Read more
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Along with his ‘Maid Marian’ – a stunning Brazilian model who calls herself Lady Greice – Robin, who insists on maintaining his anonymity, has set up a website inviting people to send in their hard-luck stories and apply for up to £30,000. Read more
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Princess Victoria of Sweden and Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex watch the military parade as part of Monaco’s National Day celebrations which doubled as Prince Albert II of Monaco’s enthronement at Monaco Palace on Nov. 19, 2005, in Monte Carlo, Monaco. Read more
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Of his home country Haiti, that is, which the singer has tried to help in the wake of the devastating 7.0 earthquake in January, killing some 250,000. More from Reuters on the potential bid for the November election: Read more
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…or at least heard it. The audio from closing arguments in the corruption trial of former Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich in a packed courtroom on the 25th floor of the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse Tuesday was piped down to an equally packed “overflow” courtroom on the 17th floor. And I can’t think of one even [...]
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6:46pm UK, Sunday July 25, 2010 Jo Couzens and Damien Pearse, Sky News Online German prosecutors have launched an investigation into a stampede at a techno music festival in which 19 people [...]
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Rachel, Ben, Andrew and Mario entertained housemates this evening by performing an amateur production of The Jerry Springer Show. After trying to gather all the housemates in the sitting room for their performance, Mario became annoyed at John James and Josie, who were talking in the bathroom and refused to leave. “Can’t they spend two [...]
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WASHINGTON a ” The Pentagon has released the name of a sailor who went missing last week in Afghanistan and is presumed to be in the hands of the Taliban.The Pentagon lists Petty Officer 3rd Class Jarod Newlove as ‘whereabouts unknown.’ The Pentagon is not confirming that Newlove was captured.The Taliban has said militants captured [...]
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A former model has claimed she was drugged, handcuffed and repeatedly raped by Roman Polanski, Sky News reported Tuesday. The alleged new victim, Edith Vogelhut, says she was 21 when she was brutally attacked by the film director at actor Jack Nicholson’s Hollywood mansion in 1974. She claims she met Polanski at a [...]