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Two RAF Hercules aircraft have evacuated more than 150 civilians to safety from desert locations south of Benghazi in Libya, Defence Secretary Liam Fox said. Read more
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CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — New Zealand’s premier said the Christchurch quake may be the country’s worst disaster ever, as officials raised the toll today to 145 dead and more than 200 missing while giving a grim prognosis for the city’s downtown. Engineers and planners said the city’s decimated central area may be completely [...]
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We caught up with San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee this afternoon, who was on his way back from meetings in the Capitol on redevelopment. Lee, along with the state’s other nine big city mayors, have been… Read more
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UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. Human Rights Council adopted a European-drafted resolution condemning Moammar Gaddafi’s government for its bloody crackdown on demonstrators and establishing a U.N. commission of inquiry to probe possible war crimes by Libyan authorities. Read more
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BEIJING – Chinese authorities continued to tighten controls on Internet use Friday in the face of murky calls for “jasmine rallies” to emulate the anti-government protests convulsing the Middle East and North Africa. 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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USHUAIA, ARGENTINA – Here at the end of the Earth, just 600 miles from Antarctica, tourists hike over glaciers and flock to rocky beaches to photograph penguins and 700-pound sea lions. Read more
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MEXICO CITY – Thousands of U.S. agents and local police arrested and interrogated suspected associates of Mexican drug cartels across the United States on Thursday in response to the killing of a U.S. anti-narcotics agent in Mexico last week. Read more
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CAIRO – One month after their uprising began, tens of thousands of Egyptians gathered Friday in the square where their unexpected journey originated, taking stock of what they have accomplished and affirming what they want next. Banners, chants and conversations made clear that the crowds in Cairo’s Tahrir Square were of a single mind: Freedom [...]
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WEST POINT, N.Y. – Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, in one of his last addresses to the Army, said Friday that he envisages a future ground force that will be smaller, pack less heavy firepower and will not engage in large-scale counter-insurgency wars like those in Iraq or Afghanistan. Read more
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Muammar Gaddafi vowed to “crush any enemy” on Friday, addressing a crowd of supporters in Tripoli as Libya’s popular uprising closed in around him. Read more
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Government forces shot dead at least two protesters in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Friday, television stations reported, as a popular uprising against Muammar Gaddafi closed in on his main power base. Read more
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Anti-government protesters in Tripoli have come under heavy gunfire, latest reports from the Libyan capital say. Read more
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BAAR, SWITZERLAND (Reuters) – On Christmas Eve 2008, in the depths of the global financial crisis, Katanga Mining accepted a lifeline it could not refuse. Read more
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BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – The Libyan coastal town of Zawiyah was under the control of anti-government protesters on Friday, a witness said, bringing a popular uprising against Muammar Gaddafi within 50 km of the capital Tripoli. Read more
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It was only a lifeboat. But it gave hundreds of people a chance to cheer yesterday when prince William and his fiancee Kate Middleton made a rare appearance to dedicate the new vessel. Read more
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Printing the forms with all the different translations will cost an estimated £50,000 – and the move has been branded ‘time-consuming and bureaucratic’ by critics. Read more
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Expand Tokyo. Photo / Thinkstock TOKYO – Japan says its population has seen the slowest growth since 1920. The government said in its census report issued today that Japan’s population stood at 128.05 million as of October 2010, up 0.2 per cent from the previous census in 2005. [...]
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Definition: Used in the formal name of Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s Libya — the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya — the term “jamahiriya” is meant to mean “the masses,” as a plural form of the Arabic “jumhuriya,” or “republic.” This is used to indicate a communist society ostensibly ruled by the masses, though Gadhafi’s government [...]
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The exact location of Rahm’s political heart has remained obscure. He has never tried to be all things to all people, but he has succeeded in being many things to many people – precisely why his press is so good and why he won on Tuesday….E.J. Dionne Read more