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SEOUL (Reuters) – North and South Korea exchanged gunfire across their heavily armed land border on Friday, the South’s military said, despite an apparent thaw in tensions on the divided peninsula in the past few months. Read more
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A high-profile Silvio Berlusconi political appointment has been drawn into a prostitution investigation involving a teenage Moroccan belly dancer. Read more
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Net lending totalled just £112 million during the month, down from £1.62 billion in August, according to the Bank of England. 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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Argentina’s president grieved her predecessor, former President Nestor Kirchner, and husband on Thursday, the day after he died of a sudden heart attack at age 60. President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, accompanied by the couple’s two children, placed a hand on her husband’s flag draped coffin as it was lying in state inside the Casa [...]
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 The traditionally blue state is drowning in red ink — budget deficits in excess of $10 billion, massive shortfalls in the pension funds — and the Republican candidate for governor says he knows how to staunch the flow. He promises to cut spending and taxes, eliminate “waste, fraud and abuse” and get flinty with public [...]
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5:30am UK, Friday October 29, 2010 Miranda Richardson, Sky News Online Germany and France are piling the pressure on EU leaders in Brussels to alter the Lisbon Treaty in order to avoid [...]
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A filmmaker has posted a video online which claims to show evidence of time travel. The clip is from a DVD extra of the Charlie Chaplin film The Circus. In the clip, a woman is seen in the background, holding to her ear what appears to be a mobile phone. Speaking to the BBC, George [...]
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A Brazilian court ruled this week that McDonald’s must pay a former franchise manager $17,500 because he gained 65 pounds while working there for a dozen years. Read more
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Hundreds of thousands of French strikers took to the streets Thursday in a last-ditch bid to force President Nicolas Sarkozy to scrap a just-passed law raising the retirement age. But while the crowds marching under a sea of trade union banners remained impressive, the interior ministry and unions reported numbers approximately half those [...]
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Fresh off of her World Series panderbet o f a San Diego-made surfboard, GOP guv candidate/self-proclaimed Giants fan Meg Whitman — who is “rooting for them every day ” — has scheduled a… 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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TEHRAN – The United States and Europe have worked cooperatively on Iran policy since President Obama took office, but a small crack might have begun to open over sanctions that are beginning to pinch ordinary Iranians. Read more
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HANOI — In the run-up to a visit by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Vietnam has arrested two bloggers, refused to release another blogger after he completed a prison sentence and convicted three labor activists and six Catholic villagers on human rights-related offenses. Read more
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A division of Johnson & Johnson is recalling 43 over-the-counter medicines made for infants and children — including liquid versions of Tylenol, Motrin, Zyrtec and Benadryl — after federal regulators identified what they called deficiencies at the company’s manufacturing facility. The voluntary recall, which was announced late Friday by McNeil Consumer Healthcare, affects hundreds of [...]
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BOGOTA, COLOMBIA – Nestor Kirchner, an Argentine power broker who as president from 2003 to 2007 helped guide his country out of a calamitous economic crisis, died Oct. 27 after an apparent heart attack. Read more
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Solicitor General Elena Kagan Year born: 1960 Hometown: New York City Education: Princeton University; Oxford University; J.D., Harvard Law School Experience: Solicitor General; former associate White House counsel; former dean of Harvard Law School Kagan is a former dean of Harvard Law School, worked in the Clinton administration and was a colleague of President Obama‘s [...]
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PARIS — For many Europeans, Islamic terrorism has a new face: Abdelhamid Abu Zeid, the “emir of the south.” Read more
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TEHRAN – The United States and Europe have worked cooperatively on Iran policy since President Obama took office, but a small crack might have begun to open over sanctions that are beginning to pinch ordinary Iranians. Read more
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (Reuters) – A tsunami and a volcanic eruption in Indonesia have killed more than 300 people with over 400 missing and tens of thousands displaced, authorities said on Wednesday. Read more