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Oil prices climbed above $98 per barrel Monday after shoppers pumped up holiday retail sales in the U.S., and investors bet that Europe would find a last-minute solution to its financial crisis. Read more
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani ruled out “business as usual” with the United States on Monday after a NATO attack killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, and the army threatened to drastically curtail cooperation with Washington on Afghanistan. Read more
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THE Russian newsreader who lost her job after appearing to brandish her middle finger at Barack Obama during a live broadcast has accused her critics of having a sense of humour failure and has said she was only fired after the clip went viral on the internet. Read more
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Happily posing up with a fan: Last picture of Gary Speed just hours before he hanged himself Nothing will stop us striking! Two thirds of schools to shut, airports set for chaos, Army on standby – but unions won’t discuss peace deal Daring film director Ken Russell who made ‘Tommy’ dies at 84 The double-dip [...]
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Surging Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich won the endorsement of New Hampshire’s biggest newspaper, which turned its back on establishment favorite Mitt Romney with just six weeks remaining before the state’s first-in-the-country nominating election. Read more
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A civil law specialist at Moscow law firm Firestone Duncan, Magnitsky stayed behind in Moscow after Hermitage CEO Bill Browder’s expulsion despite Browder’s warning for his firm’s lawyers to leave the country. His probe reportedly unveiled the biggest tax fraud scheme in Russia’s history, a plot that interwove the Interior Ministry, police, the Russian mafia, [...]
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Opening statements commenced this past week in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in a trial that aims to bring perpetrators of one of the 20th century’s greatest atrocities to justice. The last trial of Khmer Rouge leaders, that of Kang Guek Eav, or “Duch,” in 2010, brought the head of the notorious S-21 prison (a torture, interrogation [...]
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A little background reading on prison prior to former Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s sentencing Dec. 6: You’ve Got Jail (Jennifer Senior, New York Magazine) -If the latest miscreants think a spell in jail means catching up on the classics and refining their backhand, they should think again. Club Fed is dead, and hard time [...]
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Tweet Military personnel gather for a group funeral of comrades killed in an apparent armed ambush 9:17pm UK, Sunday November 27, 2011 The Arab League has backed strict sanctions against Syria as pressure is stepped up on the regime to end violence. Damascus has slated the move as a betrayal of Arab solidarity. [...]
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48 Hours Mystery topped the Saturday night ratings with 5.9m viewers and a 1.2 demo share. However, CBS lost out to both ABC, which averaged 5.2m (1.5) for College Football, and Fox, which had 4.3m (1.5) for Cops and 1.8m (0.6) for a Terra Nova rerun. The Tiffany Network’s repeats of How I Met Your [...]
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An “overhaul” of European treaties is needed to help restore market confidence in the eurozone’s ability to reduce high state debt and deficits, the French budget minister said Sunday. Read more
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We’ve been exhausted watching the pundits, the lawyers, bloggers and the Tweeters trying to untangle the real story behind GOP 2012 candidate Herman Cain and those sexual harassment charges. But here’s our early holiday present to you, our faithful readers. We have found the perfect guy to get to the bottom of this mess: the [...]
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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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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistan on Sunday buried 24 troops killed in a NATO cross-border air attack that has pushed a crisis in relations between the United States and an ally it needs to fight militancy toward rupture. Read more
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YAKKAGHUND, Pakistan (Reuters) – NATO helicopters and fighter jets attacked two military outposts in northwest Pakistan Saturday, killing as many as 28 troops and plunging U.S.-Pakistan relations deeper into crisis. Read more
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Pakistan has ordered a review of all co-operation with the US and Nato after the alliance struck a Pakistani army checkpoint, killing at least 24 people. Read more
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PARIS (Reuters) – French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s ruling UMP party dismissed allegations on Saturday of a political plot to bring down disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, following an investigative report by a U.S. journalist. Read more
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YAKKAGHUND, Pakistan (Reuters) – NATO helicopters and fighter jets attacked two military outposts in northwest Pakistan Saturday, killing as many as 28 troops and plunging U.S.-Pakistan relations deeper into crisis. Read more
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British schools are being told to recruit a volunteer army of parents, sports coaches and scout leaders in an attempt to beat the biggest teachers’ strike in history. Read more