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In mid-October, several days before authorities intercepted two bombs planted on cargo airliners bound for the United States, Saudi Arabian intelligence officials tipped off their French counterparts about another terrorist plot. Read more
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The Obama administration sought Monday to dilute the fallout from the disclosure of more than 250,000 State Department cables, insisting that strong foreign partnerships could withstand the damage and that the leaks will not force any U.S. policy changes. Read more
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SEOUL (Reuters) – Secretive North Korea boasted advances in its nuclear program on Tuesday, making sure it held the world’s attention, saying it had thousands of working centrifuges, as pressure built on China to rein in its ally. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders take their battle over taxes into a face-to-face meeting on Tuesday with no breakthrough expected soon and Republicans showing no sign of compromise. Read more
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The European Commission has launched an investigation into Google after other search engines complained that the firm had abused its dominant position. Read more
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AP – **ALTERNATIVE CROP OF DR103** A riot police runs as a patrol police car burns during riots in Barcelona … Slideshow:Anti-austerity protests sweep Europe Play Video Barack Obama Video:‘Young Guns’ in Power FOX News Related Quotes Symbol Price Change ^DJI 11,052.49 -39.51 ^GSPC 1,187.76 0.00 ^IXIC 2,525.22 0.00 – 1 hr 2 mins ago MADRID – The yields on government bonds [...]
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SEOUL (Reuters) – Secretive North Korea boasted advances in its nuclear program on Tuesday, making sure it held the world’s attention, saying it had thousands of working centrifuges, as pressure built on China to rein in its ally. Read more
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WHEN the newly appointed US ambassador to Kyrgyzstan sat down to a business leaders’ brunch with the Duke of York — Prince Andrew — she was no doubt expecting a brisk one-hour briefing on investment opportunities in the central Asian republic. Read more
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Chancellor George Osborne said the reduction from 490,000 job losses over the next four years to 330,000 resulted from ‘the action we have taken to cut welfare bills rather than public services’. 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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This much can be said of the latest WikiLeaks dump that began hitting the Internet tonight: Relations between the United States and Liechtenstein are still probably as they ever were, very much intact and harmonious. Now to the rest of the dirt in the of the 251,287 leaked cables and State Department directives, [...]
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Earlier this month at the Seaway Mall in Welland, Ontario: Read more
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Sarah Gordon, Sky News Online US Secretary of State is set to give the Obama administration’s first live response to the WikiLeaks documents after worldwide uproar over their contents. [...]
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WENN Rihanna has admitted that she is just as vulnerable as any other woman. In a discussion with Kanye West for Interview magazine, the popstar revealed that she tries to hide her emotions from the public. “I think a lot of peoÂple have a misperception of me,” Rihanna said. She added: “They only see the [...]
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In a joint statement Monday, Wal-Mart and Massmart said the U.S. company is offering 148 rand per share to Massmart stockholders in a 17 billion rand deal for its first African foothold. Read more
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ROME — A self-described “escort” says Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi personally invited her to two parties at his villas, where young, foreign women were plentiful. Nadia Macri, 28, yesterday said she believed many of the mostly Brazilian and Russian women were minors. She’s the latest woman to recount such evenings at the villas, [...]
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John Boehner and Mitch McConnell have much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. Boehner, the Republican congressman from southern Ohio, is preparing to becoming Speaker of the House in January, while… 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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“American exceptionalism” is a phrase that, until recently, was rarely heard outside the confines of think tanks, opinion journals and university history departments. But with Republicans and tea party activists accusing President Obama and the Democrats of turning the country toward socialism, the idea that the United States is inherently superior to the world’s other [...]
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A vast trove of secret State Department cables obtained by WikiLeaks expose the inner workings of U.S. diplomacy and offer bluntly candid assessments of American diplomats, according to news organizations granted advance access to the more than 250,000 confidential documents. Read more