Castro cryptic on Russian bomber report |
| | | Ailing Fidel Castro said Wednesday that Cuba's president was right to adopt a "dignified silence" over a Moscow newspaper report that Russia may station nuclear bombers on the island, and said Cuba doesn't owe any explanation to Washington about the story. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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Karadzic seeks extradition delay |
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Dolly hammers northern Mexico |
| | | Hurricane Dolly toppled trees and sent billboards flying Wednesday in the Mexican city of Matamoros, and authorities south of the U.S. border warned of possible flooding. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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Report: Israel to build settlement in West Bank |
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NKorea angrily reacts to 'enemy' remarks |
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Correction: Sudan-Darfur story |
| | | In a July 23 story about Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir's trip to Darfur, The Associated Press erroneously reported that it was his first visit to the western Sudanese region in more than three years. Al-Bashir has visited Darfur on several occasions since 2003, most recently in July 2007. It was al-Bashir's first visit since an international prosecutor filed genocide charges ... | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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1 dead in N.H. storms that leveled several homes |
| | | Violent storms in a 25-mile-long swath of central New Hampshire on Thursday destroyed several homes, damaged dozens of others and left at least one person dead, authorities said as police and firefighters went door-to-door searching for more possible victims. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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Church surrenders lot near ground zero for $20M |
| | | Leaders of a church destroyed on Sept. 11 have surrendered land needed to rebuild the World Trade Center site in a $20 million deal with the government. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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At least 3 dead in explosion aboard Philippine bus |
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Billionaires Fight 'Tobacco Epidemic' |
| | | Microsoft founder Bill Gates and New York mayor Michael Bloomberg are pooling their millions in a bid to cut the number of smokers in developing countries like China and India. | | From Sky News | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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Turkey bombs Kurdish targets in northern Iraq |
| | | Turkey's military says warplanes have bombed 13 Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq. A statement posted on the military's Web site says warplanes attacked rebel "facilities" in the Zab region near the border late Wednesday. There was no immediate information on casualties. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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Private social network Facebook to go Web wide |
| | | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The leader of a youth movement that swept the world this past year by encouraging Web users to share bits of their lives with selected friends, spoke on Wednesday of spreading his service across the Web, even while apologizing for past excesses. | | From Reuters | Add a commentary | Report abuse |
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Dollar falls against Swiss franc Wednesday night |
| | | The dollar was lower against the Swiss francs late Wednesday night in New York. The U.S. currency traded at 1.0378 Swiss francs, just below 1.0390 francs it traded in the late afternoon. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse |
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New Drug Shrinks Size of Prostate Tumors |
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Mexico grounds 2 airlines on back bills |
| | | Mexico's transportation secretary says it has grounded two airlines for lacking proof they paid for fly rights in the country's air space. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse |
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Food Price Catastrophe In Africa |
| | | Rising food prices are pushing millions of people towards severe hunger and destitution across East Africa, prompting Oxfam to launch a new appeal to bolster its aid work in the region. | | From Sky News | Add a commentary | Report abuse |
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Ex-Cop's Madeleine Book Published |
| | | A book called "Maddie - The Truth of the Lie" is to go on sale in Portugal today, with claims from its author that someone who was there on the night Madeleine McCann vanished is hiding the truth. | | From Sky News | Add a commentary | Report abuse |
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Mag Pokes Fun At Satire Backfire |
| | | US magazines have not been afraid to show a bit of front of late - and it appears Vanity Fair has had the last laugh by parodying a satire that backfired on a rival. | | From Sky News | Add a commentary | Report abuse |
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Canadian teen dies after being shot with Taser |
| | | A teenager wielding a knife died after police shot him with a Taser, the latest in a string of deaths linked to the stun guns, officials said Wednesday. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse |
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WTO talks make "some progress," but mood somber |
| | | GENEVA (Reuters) - Urgent talks to salvage a global trade deal made "some progress" in the early hours of Thursday, ministers said, but officials warned the mood was dark behind closed doors at the World Trade Organisation. | | From Reuters | Add a commentary | Report abuse |
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