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At hearing into the case of Katia Zatuliveter her QC, Tim Owen, said spooks assigned to her case bore no resemblance to formidable spymaster George Smiley of John le Carré novels but went about their business like the clueless character from the Pink Panther films. Read more
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The Fukushima nuclear disaster released twice as much radioactive substance into the atmosphere as Japanese authorities estimated. A preliminary report says more than 40 per cent of the total radiation released at Chernobyl was leaked at Fukushima. Read more
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The more than 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables and directives leaked by WikiLeaks on Nov. 28, 2010, included some unflattering descriptions of world leaders. The lampooning of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il is nothing new — see the movie “Team America: World Police” — but diplomats quoted sources describing stroke victim Kim as a “flabby old [...]
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Don’t forget: 7-8 p.m. tonight (Saturday) on WFMT FM 98.7, I’ll be the guest host of a special “Sweet Folk Chicago” featuring musical requests from regular commenters here at Change of Subject Read more
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10:21am UK, Saturday October 29, 2011 Holly Williams, Asia correspondent They call the Chao Praya the River of Kings. It is the lifeblood of Bangkok, winding its way through this crowded city of 12 million people. But, on Saturday, the Chao Praya unleashed its destructive power. At high tide, just after 9am, the [...]
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Syrian security forces opened fire on protesters and hunted them down in house-to-house raids, killing about 30 people in what was the deadliest day in weeks in the country’s 7-month-old uprising, activists have said. Read more
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White House press secretary Jay Carney was grilled by media in a press gaggle Thursday about the depth of President Obama’s awareness of the  ”Occupy Oakland” demonstrations – and said the president understands “the frustrations” that have lead to them. 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. 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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THE HAGUE (Reuters) – From deep in the Sahara, fearing that he will share his father’s bloody fate at the hands of vengeful Libyans and calling in old favors bought with oil from desert tribes and African strongmen, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi may be bartering a future. Read more
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BEIJING (Reuters) – The head of Europe’s bailout fund sought financial support from China on Friday to help resolve the bloc’s debt crisis, saying that while no quick deal was in sight he was still confident Beijing would keep buying bonds issued by his fund. Read more
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International prosecutors have had “informal contact” with the son of slain ex-Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Read more
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ZURICH (Reuters) – Swiss Re (SRENH.VX) has regained a prized credit rating lost during the financial crisis, a key step toward the reinsurer’s goal of expanding its business. Read more
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TUNIS (Reuters) – The leader of the Islamist party which won Tunisia’s first free election appealed for calm in the town where the “Arab Spring” began, accusing forces linked to the ousted president of fanning violence there. Read more
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AN 18-YEAR-OLD man has been detained by police investigating the death of barman Stuart Walker. Read more
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The Prime Minister will put an end to more than 300 years of history by thrashing out an agreement with Commonwealth leaders to end the rule that the first-born male inherits the throne ahead of any elder sisters. Read more
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Expand Roland Weinstein, owner, of Weinstein Art Gallery, holds up a recovered Pablo Picasso art work during a news conference in San Francisco. Photo / AP A US man who walked out of a San Francisco gallery with a pencil sketch by Pablo Picasso worth $275,000 pleaded guilty [...]
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The Mission des Nations Unies pour la stabilisation en Haïti — or MINUSTAH — was born from the chaos that arose in Haiti after President Jean-Bertrand Aristide claimed victory in the 2000 elections with about 10 percent voter turnout. Aristide fled the country before the end of that term due to a coup that saw [...]
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Al-Qaeda took key swipes against the United States in its 1998 bombings of the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and the late Osama bin Laden spent time in Sudan strategizing with his No. 2 and new al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. As Zawahiri puts his muscle into retooling the message and tone of the terror group, [...]
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Those people in the Republican primary have got to lay off this stuff. They’re forcing their leaders, the front-runners, into positions that will mean they lose the general election…You appeal to the narrow base. And they’ll applaud the daylights out of what you’re saying, and then you hit the general election and they say ‘no [...]