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SIRTE (Reuters) – Libya’s new rulers said on Wednesday they believed fugitive former leader Muammar Gaddafi was being shielded by nomadic tribesmen in the desert near the Algerian border, while his followers fend off assaults on his hometown. Read more
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The family of murdered British student Meredith Kercher are expected to return this weekend to the Italian city where she died, their lawyer said today. Read more
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Amazon today changed the internet giant’s course forever by releasing a tablet that costs just $199, which will put it in direct competition with Apple. Read more
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Expand Prime Minister John Key and Minister of Defence Wayne Mapp have defended the government’s commitment of troops to Afghanistan. Photo / Getty Images Prime Minister John Key has defended his decision to recommit troops to Afghanistan after the death of another New Zealand SAS soldier. The [...]
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi said that the shirt being held aloft by Batebi in the famous photo belonged to Ezzat Ebrahim-Nejad, a student who was shot and killed by Iranian authorities or militia in the 1999 democracy demonstrations. Batebi would later describe physical torture during nine years at Evin Prison that included having [...]
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Highlighting the continued fears of China that Taiwan has independence on its mind, the PRC is again up in arms over America’s decision to continue to provide weapons assistance to the self-ruled “breakaway province.” With that comes the usual warnings that Sino-U.S. ties will be irreparably harmed. More from Reuters: Read more
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Sept. 28, 2011 print column: The Barack Obama I voted for — the presidential candidate this newspaper endorsed and who won the support of 53 percent of the electorate in 2008 — told many of us what we wanted to hear. “The pundits like to slice and dice our country into red [...]
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9:53pm UK, Tuesday September 27, 2011 Nick Pisa, in Perugia Jailed Amanda Knox has been likened to the sexy cartoon character ”Jessica Rabbit” – just 24 hours after being labelled a “satanic she-devil”. Amanda Knox listens intently to evidence during the appeal hearing Knox was [...]
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Public disclosure of graphic photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden after he was killed in May by U.S. commandos would damage national security and lead to attacks on American property and personnel, the Obama administration contends in a court documents. Read more
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Caught up with Rep. Paul Ryan, the Republican budget chair, after he chatted up the faithful at the conservative Hoover Institution thinktank Tuesday. He was talking up the GOP health care plan (and downing the new health care law). We asked him to respond to something that President Obama said about the GOP plan during [...]
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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. Read more
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VENEZUELA Chávez opponents jailed in crackdown Two foes of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez who had publicly criticized the socialist government in recent days found themselves in jail this week as part of a crackdown on opposition figures that has prompted alarm about the state of democracy in the oil-rich Latin American country. On Monday, former [...]
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SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) – A Libyan commander leading the attack on Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte said on Tuesday he was in talks with elders inside the city about a truce, but the head of another anti-Gaddafi unit rejected negotiations. Read more
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BERLIN/PARIS (Reuters) – Talk of beefing up the euro zone’s bailout fund lifted stocks on Tuesday but complicated the debate in Germany where Angela Merkel is struggling to rally her coalition behind her in aiding Europe’s weak economies and banks. Read more
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A powerful typhoon has struck the Philippines, triggering floods and cutting power in the capital Manila and throughout the main island, Luzon. Read more
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BERLIN – Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou is telling a German industry forum that debt-ridden Greece has “great potential” and can emerge from its deep economic crisis. Read more
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SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) – Libyan provisional government forces have closed in on Muammar Gaddafi loyalists holed up in Sirte, one of the last two bastions of the deposed leader. Read more
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David Cameron once again suffered seeing his side fail to win an outright victory as an own goal caused him misery. Read more
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Aspiring model dies of date-rape drug overdose after leaving apartment of NYC’s ‘king of all pimps’, investigators say America’s most wanted paedophile, on the run for 17 years, is caught living in London Do you trust the NYPD with air-to-air missiles? Police chief says cops can now shoot down planes over New York Caught on [...]
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Expand Police believe that the woman was trying to park her car on the lawn when she mistakenly hit the accelerator instead of the brake. Photo / Thinkstock A woman who mistakenly hit the accelerator instead of the brake has crashed her car into her home, killing her [...]