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Tibetan activists are confronted by Indonesian police during a "Free Tibet" protest Tuesday, April 22, 2008 in Jakarta, Indonesia. 1,500 Tibetans protest in Nepal ahead of Olympics -
Yahoo Daily News
20 minutes ago KATHMANDU, Nepa (AFP) - An estimated 1,500 Tibetans staged a protest in Nepal's capital on Thursday, expressing their anger towards China on the eve of the Beijing Olympics, police and eyewitnesses said....
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** FILE ** In this Dec. 7, 2006 photo, reviewed by a U.S. Dept of Defense official, U.S. soldiers patrol in a humvee in front of the perimeter of Camp Delta detention center, Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba, the only U.S. military base in a country that has no diplomatic relations with Washington. Bin Laden driver to seek leniency from Gitmo jury
The Boston Globe
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba—Osama bin Laden's former driver is expected to ask the Pentagon jury that convicted him of a war crime to spare him from life in prison Thursday, his defense lawyers said. Salim Hamdan wiped tears from his face on Wednesday as the panel of six military officers delivered a split verdict at the first U.S. war crimes trial since World War II, declaring him guilty of aiding terrorism but acquitting him of...
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President signs guest book with Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej in the Ivory Room of the Government House Bush speaks out in Asia against China's repression
Seattle Post-Intelligence
BANGKOK, Thailand – With all eyes on Beijing, President Bush bluntly told China that America is strongly opposed to the way the communist government represses its people, a rebuke delivered from the heart of Asia on the cusp of the Olympic Games. In perhaps his last major address in Asia, Bush said that America speaks out for a free press, free assembly and labor rights not to antagonize China's leaders, but because it's the only path the potent...
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1940's -- ATOMIC BURST. At the time this photo was made, smoke billowed 20,000 feet above Hiroshima while smoke from the burst of the first atomic bomb had spread over 10,000 feet on the target at the base of the rising column. August 5, 1945. The lies of Hiroshima live on, props in the war crimes of the 20th century
The Guardian
The 1945 attack was murder on an epic scale. In its victims' names, we must not allow a nuclear repeat in the Middle East When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect impression of a human being at ease: legs splayed, back bent, one hand by her side as she sat waiting for a bank to open. At a quarter past eight on the morning of August 6, 1945, she and her silhouette were burned into...
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An unidentified woman pressing herself to Alexander Solzhenitsyn's portrait at his grave after the writer's funeral at the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008. The famous Russian author, Soviet dissident and Nobel literature prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who exposed the horrors of Soviet slave labor camps, was buried Wednesday in a Russian Orthodox ceremony that included goose-stepping guards and the dirges of a religious Solzhenitsyn Laid to Rest at Moscow Monastery
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President Dmitri Medvedev, left, and Yermolai Solzhenitsyn, Alexander Solzhenitsyn's son, right, are seen during funeral service in Moscow, 06 Aug 2008 Russian Nobel Laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the dissident author whose writing exposed the...
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Imam Samudra (nu1) Bombers' execution confusion
The Australian
A LAST-DITCH attempt by the death-row Bali bombers to stave off their executions has thrown Indonesia's political and legal establishment into uproar. Imam Samudra, Amrozi bin Nurhasyim and Ali Ghufron, also known as Mukhlas, were due to face firing...
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Kashmiri Muslim protesters shout pro-freedom slogans during a demonstration in Srinagar, India, Sunday, June 29, 2008. Court overturns Indian Islamists ban
The Australian
INDIA'S war on jihadi militancy was in disarray last night following a court decision to lift the ban imposed after September 11, 2001, on a key Islamic organisation accused of links to al-Qa'ida and involvement in most recent major acts of terrorism in India. There was uproar following the court ruling...
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In this Thursday, July 24, 2008 file photograph of a sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin, reviewed by the U.S. Military, defendant Salim Ahmed Hamdan, left, watches as FBI agent Craig Donnachie testifies about his interrogations of Hamdan, while a picture of disguised U.S. agents is displayed on a screen, during Hamdan's trial inside the war crimes courthouse at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, in Cuba. A jury of six military officers reached a split verdict on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008, in the war crimes trial of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, clearing him of some charges but convicting him of others that could send him to prison for life. The judge scheduled a sentencing hearing for later Wedne U.S. convicts bin Laden's driver at Guantanamo
The Star
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - A jury of U.S. military officers on Wednesday convicted Osama bin Laden's driver on charges of providing material support for terrorism in the first U.S. war crimes trial...
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Workers march to protest high power prices, Pretoria, South Africa, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008. Mining officials say their key industry was among the hardest hit by Wednesday's strike, called by the powerful Congress of South African Trade U South Africa hit by strikes
The Independent
South Africa's giant mining companies were badly hit by a strike today over rising power, food and fuel prices that threatened to bring the continent's biggest economy to a standstill. As global mining leaders such as Anglo Platinum (Angloplat) , the world's top producer of the precious metal, counted their losses, powerful unions prepared for marches across the country. Mines, refineries, car makers, textile factories, businesses and...
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Next to a picture of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, an Iranian student, flashes a victory sign, during a demonstration in front of the French Embassy, in Tehran to protest against the big three European powers, Britain, Germany and France, who seek to persuade Iran to abandon the enrichment of uranium and instead import fuel for its nuclear program, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2005. Hundreds of Iranian students gathered in front of the British, German, and French embassies to support Iran's nuclear programs. Khamenei said on Friday Iran has no intention of building nuclear bombs, but it will not give up its right to enrich uranium as it aims to be self-sufficient in nuclear reactor f U.S. says major powers mull new U.N. Iran sanctions -
Yahoo Daily News
By Sue Pleming 38 minutes ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department said major powers had agreed on Wednesday to consider more U.N. sanctions against Iran after Tehran gave no concrete reply to their demand that it freeze its nuclear activities. But Russia's U.N. ambassador said Moscow had not set a deadline for Iran to respond to the six powers' offer to refrain from more U.N. penalties if Iran freezes expansion of its nuclear...
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sugar Sugar futures open up on festive demand hopes
The Times of India
                MUMBAI: Sugar futures opened higher on Thursday on...
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Refrigerator Experts offer tips to help college students save
Chicago Sun-Times
We gathered savings tips from a number of experts: Choose your dorm meal plan wisely. Unlimited meal plans are costlier. If you'd be satisfied with lighter fare, choose a limited plan, but if you're a big eater, choosing the unlimited plan may be a better choice. Snacks can be a budget buster. Avoid buying them from vending machines or convenience stores. Stock up on discounted items. Avoid rent-to-own stores, pawn shops and check-cashing stores....
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gold bracelet jewelry Jewels of the city
Chicago Sun-Times
Let's admit it, we feel cooler wearing a piece of jewelry from a Chicago artist: It's like being part of a club nobody knows about. Local artist Sarah Fox of Cursive Design agrees. "It's almost like an indie band you just found out about." Fox has some tips for local artists trying to work their way into Chicago boutiques. She says if "you're approaching a store that has a similar feel to your line, it's really not that hard." Her advice is to...
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Nestle Food giant Nestle posts rise in profits -
Yahoo Daily News
20 minutes ago VEVEY, Switzerland (AFP) - Swiss food giant Nestle said on Thursday that net profit rose 6.1 percent in the first half of the year to 5.2 billion Swiss francs (3.2 billion euros, 4.9 billion dollars). The group's core earnings rose 6.1 percent to 7.3 billion Swiss francs, while sales totalled 53.1 billion Swiss francs, or an increase of 3.8 percent over the...
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Lufthansa Titles Lufthansa open to Austrian talks, watching Alitalia
The Times of India
                FRANKFURT: Germany's Deutsche Lufthansa is interested in holding intensive talks over a stake in Austrian Airlines with the Austrian government, executive board member Stefan Lauer said. Lufthansa was also keeping a close eye on the Italian market, including developments at loss-making national carrier Alitalia, Lauer told journalists in Frankfurt late on Wednesday....
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KLps1 - January07 - Automobile - Car - Cars - Technology - Hyundai - Hyundai Showroom.(ps1) Hyundai India defers third shift plan on slowdown fears
The Times of India
                  CHENNAI: Country's second largest car manufacturer Hyundai Motor India Ltd. has deferred a decision to introduce a third shift at its new plant near here, according to a top company official, in the wake of predictions that the Indian auto industry will slow down in the coming months following rising interest and input costs. "We are watching the situation and a decision will be...
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Bank of England Bank of England expected to hold interest rates at 5%
London Evening Standard
The Bank of England is juggling with inflation and fears of recession Bank of England policymakers are expected to keep interest rates on hold today, but experts are warning that a shock rise cannot be ruled out. Most economists forecast that the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) will leave rates at five per cent for the fourth month in a row amid fears of recession....
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Corn Farm Agrium earnings soar amid farming frenzy
Canada Dot Com
Agrium Inc., North America's No. 3 fertilizer-maker, saw its profits nearly triple in the second quarter as buoyant grain prices continued to drive demand for its crop nutrient products. "This remains a story about food and the world wants and needs more food production," Agrium chief executive Mike Wilson told analysts Wednesday following the release of the Calgary company's best quarterly earnings. Agrium posted net earnings of $636 million US,...
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KLps1 - January07 - Automaker - Automobile - Technology - Car - Cars - Toyota - Toyota Showroom. (ps1) Toyota reports fall in fiscal first-quarter profit
The Boston Globe
TOKYO— fiscal first-quarter profit plunged 28 percent from the previous year as slipping North American sales, a strong yen and rising material costs dented the earnings of the Japanese automaker. Toyota Motor Corp. has so far avoided the kinds of deep losses racked up by U.S. automakers such as and But even Toyota, Japan's top automaker, is seeing the momentous pace of its sales growth slow amid a U.S. downturn and soaring gas prices....
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A trader looks during activities at the Philippine Stock Exchange in the financial district of Makati, south of Manila, on Tuesday Oct. 9, 2007 while shares plunged as investors cashed in gains from a heady six-day rally that pushed the bourse to its rec Asian stocks fall as growth fears swirl
Inquirer
HONG KONG -- Asian stocks fell and government bonds rose on Thursday, as a sustained decline in oil prices could not shake a sense of gloom among investors about financial sector instability and the worsening global growth outlook. The US dollar slipped against the yen after jumping to a seven-month high on Wednesday. It was also slightly weaker against the euro ahead of a European Central Bank policy decision due later, widely expected to keep...
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Jennifer Aniston Jennifer Aniston emerges from two week hideaway looking trimmer than ever at 39
London Evening Standard
Jennifer Aniston may fast be approaching 40, but the Hollywood actress looked better than most women half her age as she stepped out yesterday. The former Friends star showed off her trim and toned physique as she strolled in the Beverly Hills sun following two weeks out of the spotlight. Hard as it may be to believe and to the envy of women everywhere, Aniston, who turns 40 next February, looks better now...
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Britney Spears Brit to play a lesbian killer
News24
Los Angeles - Britney Spears is set to play a killer lesbian stripper in Quentin Tarantino's next movie. The troubled singer is Tarantino's first choice to play a deranged dancer called Varla in the remake of 1965 cult film Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!. A movie insider said: "Quentin is convinced Britney will be brilliant." "Britney is delighted, she thinks it could turn her career and her life around. A successful film could help her get out of...
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Paris Hilton / aaeh 'Her duty as a citizen'
Chicago Sun-Times
See more videos at Funny or Die » You thought Paris Hilton couldn't act, but in her now-famous political spoof she actually seems, uh, kind of bright -- thanks to a funny filmmaker from Chicago. Even people who have never liked Hilton might give the hotel heiress verbal high-fives this week. It's all thanks to her starring role in the spoof of the John McCain ad calling Barack Obama ''the most famous celebrity in the world.'' The satirical...
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Cameron Diaz Cameron to dump her lover?
The Times of India
7 Aug 2008, 1305 hrs IST, ANI             It looks like American actress Cameron Diaz is all set to...
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Emma Watson Emma Watson's date with dashing actor she met at polo (and he even carries her bags)
The Daily Mail
As Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films, Emma Watson exudes squeaky clean innocence. But it appears the 18-year-old leads a typical teenage life off-screen, if her date last night with a young Italian actor is anything to go by. The cute couple enjoyed drinks at the trendy Sway bar in central London, less than two weeks after they were photographed cosying up to one another at a society polo event in Windsor, Berkshire. Gallant: Camera-shy...
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Cedella Booker, mother of Jamaica's reggae legend Bob Marley, looks at his picture during the 20th anniversary of his death, at her home in Nine Mile, St. Ann parish, Jamaica, in this May 11, 2001 file photo. A Legend Beyond - Bob Marley
WorldNews.com
Article by Worldnews.com Guest Writer Diana BenAvides "Turn your lights down low and unfold your window curtains...I wan to give you some good, good loving" Call me a poet, an artist or a crazy soul; but I can't deny my passion for that sexy voice. Reggae music- well, let me rephrase that...Bob's music excites my...
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Jackie Chan Jackie Chan to star in Hollywood spy comedy
Lexington Herald-Leader
HONG KONG -- Jackie Chan's next Hollywood project is an action comedy about a Chinese spy working undercover in the U.S. whose cover is blown, the movie's producer said Thursday. "The Spy Next Door" will start shooting in mid-October,...
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AG2 Paris Hilton and Brandon Davis, Miami, Florida August 15, 2006. Newly crowned pop star Paris Hilton celebrated the release of her debut album PARIS with a mini tour hitting Miami the week before the release on August 22, 2006 on Warner Bros. Recor Jenice Armstrong: Paris has the answer
Philadelphia Daily News
By Jenice Armstrong Philadelphia Daily News Daily News Columnist AW GEESH, AM I hallucinating or is Paris Hilton making sense? Not about running for president or painting the White House pink, should she get elected. I'm talking about the over-exposed celebutante's proposal to combine elements of both Sen. John McCain's and Sen. Barack Obama's energy plans. In a spoof of a campaign advertisement produced just days after McCain's now infamous...
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ag2 Keith Urban, country singer and husband of Nicole Kidman performing at Jamboree in the Hills on July 19-22, 2006 in Ohio. Urban released his debut self-titled album in 2000 on Capitol Nashville. Despite his somewhat grungy look, he was gradually ac Sunday Rose - a red-head who looks like her dad
Sydney Morning Herald
Australia's newest celebrity baby, Sunday Rose, looks like her father Keith Urban and has a "bit of a reddish tint" to her hair, her mother Nicole Kidman says. Kidman and Urban last night returned to Australia with Sunday Rose for their first trip back since the birth of their daughter in the US on July 7. The couple, who were greeted by a small group of media when they flew into Sydney on a private plane, today called a Sydney radio station to...
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Bollywood actress Preity Zinta Preity plans to dub 'Heaven On Earth'
The Times of India
7 Aug 2008, 0000 hrs IST,IANS             Preity Zinta, who is currently touring with the Bachchans on their 'Unforgettable' tour, plans to join Deepa Mehta in Toronto for screening of "Heaven On Earth". The...
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Health News
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pollution - environment - air pollution - factory - industry (sa0) Fair Park residents complain of dust pollution again
The Star
IPOH: Residents living around Fair Park here had a temporary reprieve from the dust pollution problem when a nearby cement factory stopped one of its plants for maintenance work. However, the problem returned two weeks ago and it is now affecting them again. Residents Action Committee secretary Sonny...
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Infant Mortality /wam2 Syphilis kills 5 Alta. babies
Canada Dot Com
EDMONTON - Five infants have died of syphilis in Alberta since 2005, a sign of a syphilis outbreak described as having reached a critical state in the province. "To have one of those deaths is a tragedy. To have five of them is something that means we're exploring as many ways as we can to bring those numbers down," said Dr. James Talbot, associate medical officer of health for Capital Health. Most of the infant deaths occurred in the Edmonton...
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Ayam - Ternakan - Agrikultur - Flu Burung. (ps1) Indonesia testing 13 for bird flu in Sumatra village
The Star
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Thirteen people from a village in North Sumatra are due to be tested for bird flu after falling sick, Indonesian health officials said on Thursday. The 13, from Air Batu village, were hospitalised this week after suffering fever, but their conditions had improved on Thursday and they might not be suffering from the disease, a health official said. A bird flu surveillance team from Indonesia's health ministry has been...
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Hospital Pharmacy Tainted sleep medicine baffles Health Canada
Canada Dot Com
Health Canada does not know how powerful prescription tranquilizers ended up in herbal sleep-aid products, and on Canadian shelves. Nearly two years after 55-year-old Michael Berggren died in a single-vehicle rollover after unwittingly taking prescription estazolam in a herbal sleep medicine, the government has learned little about who tainted the herbal remedies, where they did it, or how. "While some of the raw materials in four of the products...
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** ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND, SEPT. 24-25 ** Cancer patient Lynne Lobel, 47, watches a television program as she gets her treatment in kemo therapy suite at Nevada Cancer Institute in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2005. The $52 million center, which official Cancer patients denied critical drugs -
Yahoo Daily News
45 minutes ago LONDON (AFP) - Patients suffering from advanced kidney cancer may be denied access to four treatments by the NHS under new proposals on Thursday. The drugs - Avastin (bevacizumab), Nexavar (sorafenib), Sutent (sunitinib) and Torisel (temsirolimus) in spite of providing "significant gains" in survival were rejected by the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence as they did not offer value for money....
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Jan´07 - Pharmacie - Rue St.Germain - Paris - France - Medicine - Health - Health warnings (mv3) Many prescriptions don't get filled
Canada Dot Com
NEW YORK -- One in three people who are prescribed medications never get them filled, a new study in patients being treated for skin conditions has found. When a prescribed treatment fails doctors should consider that a patient may not have purchased the medication, Dr. Andreas Storm of Copenhagen University Hospital in Bispebjerg, Denmark, and colleagues conclude. They used the Danish National Electronic Pharmacy Register, which includes all...
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Participation of Androula Vassiliou, Member of the EC in charge of Health, at the launch of the logo for the European campaign on antibiotic awareness Bupa supports health promotion initiatives
Independent Online
In line with its primary objective to provide the very best in health care in a professional, caring and understanding manner, Bupa has recently extended its support for a newly launched platform that facilitates health promotion – SMS4Health. GlobalCapital Health Insurance Agency, representatives of Bupa in Malta, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Medical Portals Ltd, developers and promoters of SMS4Health, to support the initiative...
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7th st e waste (sl1) India a thriving global e-waste dump yard
The Times of India
                  NEW DELHI: If you thought your old outdated PC or television was safely in a junkyard rotting away or being dismantled, think again. A study by a leading environmental group says it is poisoning our soil and water, causing serious health problems. Booming economies like India and China that are increasingly...
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Medicine - health - science - disease - drugs UN goal for HIV drug access won't be reached by all: experts -
Yahoo Daily News
by Richard Ingham 1 hour, 2 minutes ago MEXICO CITY (AFP) - The UN goal of achieving "universal access" to anti-HIV drugs and care by 2010 is unlikely to be reached worldwide, two leading figures in the campaign against AIDS have said. Looking to the mounting bill for the drugs that keep millions of poor people alive, they also said China and other fast-advancing economies could shoulder more of their own burdens in the future, freeing...
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Sandwiches - Food - Bread. (ps1) Sandwiches recalled from grocery stores
The Boston Globe
State health officials are warning consumers to throw away ready-to-eat sandwiches sold by two grocery chains in Eastern Massachusetts because they might be contaminated by bacteria. "Roller Sandwiches" made by World...
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice testifies on Capitol Hill Rice warns of more Iran sanctions -
Yahoo Daily News
Mike Allen Wed Aug 6, 11:48 PM ET Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in an interview Wednesday that Iran’s response to an international demand for a freeze in the regime's nuclear activity “is not a really serious answer” - and said new economic sanctions are likely to result. “Iran has a way out if they ever wish, but we will seriously pursue sanctions if they don’t,” Rice told Politico and Yahoo!...
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks to the Council on Foreign Relations at the Organization of American States, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2007, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (js1) Rice says surge helps McCain, Obama -
Yahoo Daily News
Mike Allen 40 minutes ago Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she understands some of the questions Sen. Barack Obaam (D-Ill.) raised about the surge policy in Iraq, but says today's conditions in the war zone would be only "wishful thinking" without it. In an interview Wednesday with Politico and Yahoo! News, Rice pointed out that the two presidential candidates’ positions on Iraq “seem to be narrowing...
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Pakistani lawyers step on a picture of Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf during a rally to celebrate release of Pakistan's deposed chief justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry in Multan, Pakistan on Tuesday, March 25, 2008. Troubled Pakistan's President Musharraf 'to be impeached'
The Daily Mail
Defiant: Pervez Musharraf says he will resist attempts to remove him Pakistan faces fresh upheaval today as it was reported that President Pervez Musharraf is to be impeached. Mr Musharraf is flying out to Beijing for the Olympic Games despite claims that the ruling coalition has agreed on steps to remove him from office. The leaders of Pakistan's main coalition parties, Asif Ali Zardari and Nawaz Sharif, concluded two days of talks early today...
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Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, left, salutes as he along with his successor Gen. Ashfaq Kayani, right, arrives for a change of command ceremony in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2007. Musharraf stepped down from his powerful post as Pakistan's military commander, a day before he was to be sworn in as a civilian president as part of his long-delayed pledge not to hold both jobs. (rks2) Pakistan coalition set to announce Musharraf fate: parties -
Yahoo Daily News
23 minutes ago ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistan's ruling coalition said it expects to announce later Thursday whether it will impeach President Pervez Musharraf, as marathon talks between the leaders of the alliance neared an end. Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto, and former premier Nawaz Sharif have been locked in three days of meetings in a bid to resolve a paralysing dispute over how to...
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In front of an anti-aircraft gun, Iranian women make their way at the conclusion of a rally in front of the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility, some 200 miles (322 km) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Thursday, March 9, 2006, to support Iran´s nu U.N. atomic inspector in Iran for talks: agency -
Yahoo Daily News
50 minutes ago TEHRAN (Reuters) - A top U.N. nuclear watchdog official arrived in Iran on Thursday for talks on cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency over Tehran's disputed nuclear program, Iran's IRNA news agency reported. Diplomats in Vienna, where the IAEA is based, said the visit was a fresh effort to get Iranian clarification about intelligence reports suggesting it is illicitly trying to design atomic...
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A view of the towers of the Prophet Mohammad´s Mosque as the sunsets in Medina in Saudi Arabia Wednesday Jan. 3, 2007. After taking part in the Hajj, Muslim pilgrims head to Medina to pray at the Prophet´s mosque, Islam´s second holiest Blears 'to give Muslims a voice'
BBC News
Hazel Blears has said there will be "far more" work with Muslim communities to tackle radicalism, but ruled out talking to the most extreme groups. Ten years after US embassy bombings in Africa, the communities secretary said she wanted to help angry young people channel anger through democratic means. But it was not right for ministers to engage with those who justified suicide bombing or the destruction of Israel. A leading de-radicaliser says...
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President George W. Bush emphasizes a point as he responds to a question Monday, Aug. 21, 2006, during a news conference at the White House Conference Center Briefing Room. He told the gathered media "America is making a long-term commitment to help Bush's Worst Legacy -- The Desecration of "Patriotism" -
Yahoo Daily News
Larry Gellman 2 hours, 33 minutes ago Reasonable people can disagree about which of George W. Bush's disastrous decisions will prove to have damaged the American people most. After all, he is the president who decided to invade Iraq for reasons that all proved to be false and then proceeded to mismanage that war horribly. With the help of a Republican Congress he proceeded to take the country from a budget surplus to a multi-trillion dollar...
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