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 According to recent reports, former Hewlett-Packard Co. Chief Executive Carly Fiorina has been diagnosed with breast cancer. She found out about the disease on February 20, the day before she appeared at a GOP convention in Sacramento.Carly Fiorina underwent surgery at Stanford University Hospital Monday for breast cancer, her chief of...
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 A report by the Federation of American Scientists, conducted by the 304th Military Intelligence Battalion, showed the potential mobile device and service threats that terrorists may use to coordinate future attacks. One of them is Twitter, the social network and microblogging site, which occupied two pages in the report. Twitter has...
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 EBay Inc. will ban the sale of all types of ivory products by January 1, 2009, after a conservation group investigation found more than 4,000 elephant ivory listings on the online auction site. The company said in its blog on Tuesday that they feel this is the best way to protect the endangered and protected species from which ivory...
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The rockers from Bon Jovi are to
play a free concert in Central Park on July
12. The "All-Star Concert in Central Park"
will go on in association with the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, which
is prearranged for July 15 at Yankee Stadium.
In the face of this
collaboration, the New Jersey
band’s lead...
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For six decades, China tried in vain to recover Taiwan with military force and political rhetoric. Now it has changed its tactics, by sending Taiwan a pair of giant pandas to win over the hearts of Taiwan people.
The tactic has worked even before the two panda bears arrived in Taipei Tuesday. In the past month, news about the two...
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Industrialized countries are continuing to emit more greenhouse gasses despite goals set by the Kyoto agreement to curb carbon pollution, a UN body said Monday.
The UN Climate Change Secretariat said planet-warming gases released by 40 industrial states that signed up the Kyoto framework increased an average 2.3 per cent between...
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The scramble for the White House was dead even between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, according to two separate polls released late Sunday, the eve of the opening of the Democratic nominating convention.
The Gallup Poll showed each candidate with 45 per cent support from registered voters, while a CNN/Opinion...
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Texas was preparing to execute a 33-year-old
Mexican man on Tuesday, defying a ruling by an international court,
orders from US President George W Bush and demands from the
Organization of American States, the US secretary of state and the US
attorney general. The case, which has become a cause celebre
among death penalty...
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 The heads of developed and developing countries, including President Bush, and international officials, met in Toyako, Japan do debate the problem of climate change, among other matters.In the last G-8 summit of George Bush's presidency he declared "significant progress" had been made regarding combating global warming. The...
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The Anglican Communion’s divided views upon female bishops
and homosexuality have launched a serious crisis that could probably lead to
the point where the idea of an irrevocable schism is taken into consideration.
The Times communicated Tuesday in a first-page article upon
the quit threat the 1,300 Anglican clergy made over women...
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 According to an annual report organized
in 150 countries by the Amnesty International (AI), at least 81 countries are
closing their eyes when it comes to torture or bad treatment of their citizens.
The freedom of speak is not respected in at least 77 countries and unfair trial
has been reported in at least 54 nations.
How is this...
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 On Tuesday, Blizzard Entertainment announced that the third BlizzCon Gaming Convention will take place at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California on October 10 and 11. This is the perfect event for PC game enthusiasts, as they will get the chance to meet other Starcraft, Diablo or Warcraft fanatics and also take part in a...
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 On Thursday, the "Scientific Assessment of the Effects of Global Change on the United States" report was released by the Bush administration. Four years of research were needed to put all the information together; however, it was thanks to a court order that the report eventually came out. One of the conclusions of the report...
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 On Wednesday president Bush gave the year 2025 as deadline for halting the growth of greenhouse-gas emissions. According to Mr.Bush, new technologies are "the key" for resolving the soon-to-be delicate issue of climate change. One of the more specific aspects the president went into was this: power plant emissions should peak...
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Chris Carter, the mind behind “The X-Files,” hinted there might
be soon a third Hollywood movie installment
based on the cult TV series, EW.com reported. The creator appeared at the Comic
Con convention in New York
Friday, and mentioned this summer’s sequel to the original 1998 “X-Files” movie
could ultimately be part of a...
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 Fans of the HBO series “Sex and the City” will be happy to
find out that Sarah Jessica Parker will come back as Carrie Bradshaw in “Sex
and the City: The Movie.” on May 30. The audience will now be able to find out
what happened to the four women of New
York City. The actress spoke with Access Hollywood about
the much anticipated...
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 Librarian of Congress James Billington announced the 25
additions to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress as part
of its efforts to preserve the nation's aural history by archiving recordings
deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant,” Reuters
reported.
The titles range from Michael...
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 Take good care of your change, it might pay off in a couple
of centuries! A collection of 301 rare pennies earned its owner the incredible
sum of $10.7 million at an auction this week-end.
Walter Husak was still flabbergasted at the end of the event
that took place at the Long Beach
Convention Center,
calling the total...
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Barack Obama won the spoken-word Grammy for his best-selling
audio book “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.”
This is the second Grammy award for Obama, who previously received the award in
2006, for the audio book “Dreams from My Father,” a memoir he first published
in 1995.
The senator was not...
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 The 65-year-old soul diva Aretha
Franklin was honored Friday night for her outstanding achievements in music and
also for her humanitarian efforts, in a ceremony which marked the launching of
the Grammy weekend. She was designated MusicCares Person of the Year.
“As we celebrate the milestones
of 50 years for The Recording Academy...
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 Anti-tobacco campaigns registered some significant gains in
2007, with more states banning smoking in public places.
But there's still too little federal and state funding for
smoking-prevention and cessation programs and many states haven't increased
their cigarette taxes.
That's the conclusion of the American Lung...
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Dozens of suspected dealers in illegal wildlife products have been arrested and one ton of ivory products seized in an operation encompassing five African countries, INTERPOL said Monday.
The operation - which targeted local ivory markets, airports and border crossings in Kenya, Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Uganda and Zambia - saw 57...
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Animal rights activists and a renowned conservationist on Thursday slammed the sale by South Africa of 47 tonnes of ivory, calling four recent auctions of tusks to Asian buyers "irresponsible" and a "disservice to conservation."
The ivory trade has been banned since 1989. However, the 171 members of the UN-backed...
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The last and the biggest of four special auctions of ivory stockpiles got underway in South Africa Thursday after a nearly two-hour delay caused when Asian buyers refused to bid for 51 tonnes of tusks in front of the media.
Around two dozen mainly Chinese and Japanese buyers threatened to boycott the one-off sale unless journalists...
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Ivory tusks will be sold for the first time in nearly 10 years in southern Africa on Tuesday as four one-off auctions of ivory stockpiles to Chinese and Japanese buyers kick off in Namibia.
South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe, all of which have booming elephant populations, have been given permission by the Convention on...
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The latest round of United Nations climate talks got underway in Ghanian capital Accra Thursday, with over a thousand delegates gathering for a week to iron out the technical details of a new climate change treaty.
Talks in Bangkok in April set up a work programme for a long-term international agreement to be concluded in Copenhagen...
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The ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said
Thursday he will seek to prosecute rebel groups in Sudan's Darfur
region just as he is prosecuting Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for
genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur's ethnic
conflict. Moreno-Ocampo said the International Criminal Court
(ICC) based at The...
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 A court in Chad Wednesday sentenced six French aid workers to eight
years of forced labour for attempting to kidnap more than 100 African
children, reports said.
The members of L'Arche de Zoe (Zoe's Ark) were arrested in late
October as they attempted to resettle to Europe 103 children they said
were Darfuri orphans.
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 New Zealand and Australia announced Wednesday they will lead a formal
diplomatic protest against Japan's move to catch more than 1,000 whales
in the Antarctic over the southern hemisphere summer.
At the same time, the Greenpeace environmental organization's
protest ship Esperanza left Auckland in a bid to stop four Japanese
boats...
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As Chicago braced for a throng of 1 million people at a public park in anticipation of Democrat Barack Obama's victory Tuesday, Republicans Monday were wishing them bad weather and a cliff-hanger election.
"I hope the million or so people who are planning to gather in Chicago have a long, cold night," quipped Mitt Romney,...
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The US presidential election campaign was put on ice Thursday out of respect for the seventh anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks.
The nominees participated in some of the formal commemoration activities at the sites where 19 hijackers crashed passenger planes into the symbols of US financial and military might on that September...
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The troubles of Bolivia's President Evo Morales triggered a spiral of diplomatic tension between Washington and the leftist governments in La Paz and Caracas.
The United States and Bolivia already announced the pull-out of their respective ambassadors.
Thursday evening, Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez, entered the fray, turning...
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Barack Obama stormed into the backstretch of his historic race for the White House on Thursday, painting a sweeping vision of his confidence in America's promise and reinforcing it with details of how he would restore America's image overseas and the economy at home.
Obama, 47, the first African-American major-party presidential...
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Denver police arrested 31 protesters outside the Democratic presidential nominating convention on Tuesday, including 13 anti-abortion demonstrators.
Eighteen people including out-of-state residents were arrested by the Denver police, bringing to 135 the total number of arrests since Saturday, before the convention opened, police said...
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Anyone who expected Hillary Clinton to bow gracefully from the scene or be a sore loser may want to think twice after the heartfelt endorsement she delivered for her onetime rival Barack Obama for US president.
The former first lady, 60, made a grand, triumphant entry into the Pepsi Center convention hall Tuesday evening, creating a...
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Waving blue and white signs, 4,400 Democratic delegates roared approval at a parade of the party's stars on Monday, including the ailing Senator Edward Kennedy, former president Jimmy Carter and Michelle Obama.
Whether it was the kind of energy that will propel presumptive candidate Barack Obama, 47, into the White House in November...
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Michelle Obama stole the limelight and apparent affection of Democratic delegates Monday night, describing husband Barack Obama as a persistent suitor in their courting days who would carry the same kind of determination into the White House.
The couple provided a rare and at times humourous glimpse into their private lives in one of...
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Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama and his Republican rival John McCain are head to head in the run for the White House, a new poll said Monday.
According to CNN both candidates can count on 47 per cent voter support, the news channel said a few hours before the Democrats kick off their presidential convention in...
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China defended its human rights record Thursday after US President George W Bush gave a speech criticizing its lack of political and religious freedom.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang said his government "puts people first" and was committed to promoting "basic rights and freedom" for the nation's 1.3...
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Jose Ernesto Medellin, 33, raped and killed two Texas Girls in 1993. He had spent his life in jail since then, expecting to be executed. On Tuesday night Medellin was injected with the lethal injection, in spite of any objection. His last words were: "I'm sorry my actions caused you pain. I hope this brings you the closure that you...
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Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee
Barack Obama on Sunday urged the party's credentials committee to give
a full vote to the defrocked state delegations from Florida and
Michigan - a move that could heal the lingering, deep divisions with
narrowly defeated rival Hillary Clinton. In a letter to the
panel released by his...
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 New York City has 416,000 more people living below the poverty line that the federal government admits. According to Mayor Bloomberg’s statement, almost one of four New Yorkers aged 65 or older have serious financial problems, being poor. Linda Gibbs, deputy mayor, said that the Bloomberg administration created a new poverty measurement...
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A report carried out by the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration points to the alarming fact
that half of all US
coral reefs are in poor health and that responsibility belongs to human beings.
Today will take place the 11th
International Coral Reef Symposium, which will be hosted at The Broward...
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 San Francisco
is preparing for the 38th annual gay pride parade, when big crowds
are expected to celebrate their recently approved right to marry. As gay
marriage became legal earlier this month, Friday was the city’s busiest day for
weddings.
The San Francisco
county clerk said he had 259 marriage license appointments and 284...
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Metro officials say they no longer expect major
delays on the Orange line during Tuesday's morning commute following Monday's
train derailment in Arlington,
according to the Associated Press. The trains in the direction of Vienna will run slower,
but the service is largely back no normal.
One car of a six-car train derailed on...
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The Hilton San Diego Bayfront hotel, which was scheduled to
open in December, suffered serious damages after an explosion hit it this
Monday. The hotel was under construction and 14 of the 400 workers who were
there when the explosion occurred were injured, five of them critically. Maurice
Luque, the San Diego Fire-Rescue...
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 It appears that firefighters are investigating a blaze that
managed to destroy the presidential campaign office of Senator Hillary Clinton
in Terre Haute,
according to the Associated Press. No one was reported injured due to the fire,
which broke out just after 12:30 a.m. Friday. The cause is currently...
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 British pop star Sir Elton John managed to raise $2.5
million for Senator’s Hillary Clinton’s U.S.
presidential campaign, with a benefit concert at New York’s
radio City Music Hall.
While introducing him, Hillary Clinton mentioned that the
singer previously played at the White House at a state dinner, when her
husband, Bill...
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 The US Supreme Court ruled that President George W. Bush
exceeded his authority when he directed Texas
to reconsider a dual-murder case against a Mexican man on death row.
In June 1993, Jose Ernesto Medellin was arrested for the
killings of 16-year-old Elizabeth Pena and 14-year-old Jennifer Ertman. Medellin was not...
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 Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama finally agreed on something. Both Democratic presidential candidates rejected the proposition launched by the Florida Democrats to rerun the state’s primary election by mail.The Florida Democrats made public the idea that would get them out of the failed presidential contest. Clinton won Florida primary...
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 A major change may be under way as numerous prominent leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention criticized on Monday the denomination’s timid position regarding the human responsibility for global warming.At least 46 important members of the denomination, including three of its last four presidents, said that Baptists have the moral...
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 Arizona Senator John McCain picked up key momentum Saturday in his bid
to become the Republican presidential nominee, but there was still no
clear frontrunner in the crowded centre-right pack.
McCain picked up 33 per cent of the vote in the first state in the
socially conservative South to weigh in on the presidential...
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 Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Mitt Romney won the Nevada
caucuses on Saturday in the latest contest to represent each party
ahead this year's US presidential elections.
With 97 per cent of caucus sites reporting, Clinton led the
Democratic vote with 51 per cent over chief rival and fellow senator
Barack Obama, who had 45...
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 With no clear leader yet to emerge in the bid for their party's
nominations, US presidential contenders face key tests in South
Carolina and Nevada later Saturday as they scramble for their party's
presidential nomination.
Most of the focus will be on the centre-right Republicans in South
Carolina, the first southern state in the...
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 Favourite son Mitt Romney revived his bid for the Republican candidacy
for president Tuesday night, claiming victory in Michigan's primary
vote over his chief rival Senator John McCain.
Romney had 39 per cent of the centre-right Republican vote,
followed by 30 per cent for McCain, the Vietnam War veteran and one-
time prisoner of...
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 Polls opened in the Midwestern US state of Michigan Tuesday for the
latest presidential primary which will see only Republican candidates
battling for their party's nomination owing to a Democrat boycott of
the state.
Republican candidate and Michigan native Mitt Romney is seeking to
jump-start his bid for the party's nomination...
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 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, seeking to salvage his
bid for his party's nomination, stressed his local roots and business
credentials as he campaigned across Michigan ahead of the state's
Tuesday primary.
Romney, a wealthy businessman and former Massachusetts governor,
sank millions of dollars into the first...
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 Local authorities report over 88,000 homes and businesses in
Oklahoma in darkness more than a week after an ice storm swept the county and produced
heavy power surges.
Utility crews estimated that crews would have power restored
by late Wednesday or Thursday. Meanwhile, overnight temperatures in the state
in the past week have...
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 As the world prepares for more bad news on global warming, and over 2,000 scientists prepare to attend the Copenhagen gathering where they will present their findings, another event taking place in New York warns about global warming nonsense.While news of global warming have gotten worse every year, and countries all over the world are...
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 Delegates at a UN world climate conference in Bali on Saturday secured
an agreement on an outline for reaching a pact to fight global warming
after the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.
The "roadmap" deal was reached following a dramatic final session
of the marathon talks which saw the US delegation drop its objections
to...
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 The United States has urged Japan to “refrain” from its plans to hunt and kill hundreds of whales in the next few months, including the rare specie of humpback whales under the reason that it is for science’s sake."We call on Japan to refrain from conducting this year's hunt, especially with respect to humpback and fin whales,"...
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The Hague - Belgium has instituted proceedings against Senegal at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) demanding that the country extradites former president of Chad Hissene Habre to be tried in Belgium, the ICJ confirmed on Friday.
In its application filed to the Hague-based court on Thursday, Belgium maintains that Senegal,...
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Governments should not abandon women and children who need their help most, even as tax revenues shrink because of the global financial crisis, the UN children's fund warned Tuesday.
Key East Asian and Pacific leaders met in Singapore to discuss how best to protect children by maintaining or scaling up social spending despite...
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For the first time South Korea's Supreme Court ruled Friday that Chinese nationals have the right to apply for asylum in South Korea.
South Korea's Supreme Court ruled against the Ministry of Justice appeal and ordered that asylum be granted to a three-member Chinese family who fear persecution at home, Yonhap news agency reported...
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Animal rights activists and a renowned conservationist on Thursday slammed the sale by South Africa of 51 tonnes of ivory, calling four recent auctions of tusks to Asian buyers "irresponsible" and a "disservice to conservation."
The ivory trade has been banned since 1989. However, the 171 members of the UN-backed...
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Thailand on Tuesday said the country would defend itself from any Cambodian "use of force," while expressing "surprise" at Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's ultimatum to remove its troops from a disputed border area or face a "large-scale conflict."
"If Cambodia does resort to the use of force in...
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Starting with today, May 21, India and Pakistan are parties
to a convention, according to which they are granting consular access to
prisoners in each other’s jail.
However, nobody recorded any
progress between the two countries regarding the wanted region of Kashmir. India
and Pakistan
have been fighting for this Muslim majority...
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 Hundreds of pro-democracy protestors gathered in central Hong Kong
Saturday in response to the news that Beijing had rejected calls for
full democracy by 2012.
The group of around 800 marched to the convention centre where
mainland officials were to brief community representatives on the
decision by China National People's...
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 The Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Sunday rejected
a call by the US Senate to suspend Myanmar following a violent
crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
ASEAN Secretary General Ong Keng Yong said the US Senate resolution
was not doable from the perspective of the 10-member regional bloc.
"Our approach is...
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 The 2007 Los Angeles Auto Show has opened its gates beginning on Friday and for the next nine days, until November 25. Before the show was opened to the wide public, there were two days for the press preview, where the reporters, photographers and bloggers were indulged with the latest models, new green-minded concepts and hybrids.The...
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 Starting with Thursday, the 13th
of September, and till Sunday, the 16th of September, the worldwide
famous Wired Magazine’s annual Wired NextFest exhibition will be showcasing the
new brilliant ideas and technologies, as well as their creators, that will someday
change our world in a positive way, hopefully. Through this...
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 The mouse has always been a
simple device, but Microsoft has thought to change that and has announced its
ultimate mouse that was specially created for video game players! Microsoft has
revealed its new product with the occasion of the Games Convention from Leipzig, Germany.
The Microsoft Side Winder Mouse is, obviously, more than a...
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 A report released in U.S. by researchers led by Linda Bartoshuk of the University Of Florida College Of Dentistry has shown that ear infections in children are strongly related to the risk of obesity. After the researchers studied some reports they have stated the link between obesity and ear infections.The relationship between these two...
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 Although the recent study has
involved only men, older white men more exactly, the discovery appears to be
quite surprising. The so-called “good” cholesterol’s level have appeared to be
higher in the men that are coping better with stress, than in the others who
are socially isolated and more hostile to everything.
The study that...
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 Controversial TV show host Rosie O’Donnell has announced through her website that she wants to take over from retiring Bob Barker as the host of popular TV show 'The Price is Right' on CBS."She knows the show," Bob Barker said backstage at Friday’s Emmy Awards. "There’s no doubt in my mind she could do the show. Now,...
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 The seventh and final instalment in J.K. Rowling's best-selling series "Harry Potter" is set to previous sales records, according to its British publisher, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" will be published on July 21 and amazon.co.uk has taken more than 1.4m pre-orders.The record...
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 J.K. Rowling is reportedly coming to the United States in October for the "J.K. Rowling Book Tour," which will include four events in Los Angeles, New Orleans and New York City (two events), of which three will only be open to schoolchildren. The New York's Carnegie Hall event will be open to fans of all ages. Rowling is set to...
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 Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston may reconcile … later.The former fiancé of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s daughter explained in an interview that he and Bristol Palin could get back together but that they would stay friends at least for now.The 19-year-old fresh father told ABC’s “Good Morning America” during a segment scheduled to air on...
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Actor Ron Silver, who received a Tony Award for his role as a Hollywood producer in David Mamet’s play “Speed-the-Plow” and saw a political U-turn from steadfast Democrat to Republican activist following the September 11 attacks, died on Sunday. He was 62.“Ron Silver died peacefully in his sleep with his family around him early Sunday...
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 Miss Venezuela, Dayana Mendoza, was crowned Miss Universe 2008 in Nha Trang, Vietnam. Since the end of the Vietnam War, this was the major USA-based broadcast from the southeastern Asia country. Also, this is the first time that the Miss Universe competition was held in 1080i HD.The winner’s prize package included cash, travelling around...
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 Talk show host, comedienne, actress and writer. Rosie O’Donnell is ready to publish her second autobiography called “Celebrity Detox.”
The book is due this fall and will chronicle the “interesting year” she has had, Rosie commented this Sunday at BookExpo America the publishing industry's annual national...
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Brussels - The European Union must raise questions of human rights and political freedom with China's premier Wen Jiabao when he visits Brussels on Friday, leading human-rights group Amnesty International said Thursday.
The EU's relationship with China should be "based on mutual respect," but should "include frank...
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Myanmar was the only country that used landmines in the past year, an international coalition reported Friday, adding that Turkey, Greece and Belarus failed to meet their deadlines to destroy stockpiles of the weapon.
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines also said Russia was still considered a violator as it had not reported...
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Finland said Friday the Nordic country was not to sign a pending international ban against cluster weapons.
In early December, an international treaty aimed at banning the weapons was due to be signed in Oslo, Norway.
The decision not to sign the convention was made by the cabinet committee on foreign and security policy and...
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Representatives from over 120 governments are scheduled to meet in Rome next week to decide whether to add two pesticides and an industrial chemical to an international list of potentially hazardous substances, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Wednesday.
Under review are endosulfan, a pesticide used in...
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The European Union on Friday expressed concern over Iran's plans to introduce the death penalty for the apostasy.
Converts to Christianity in the Islamic state were already being detained, the presidency of the 27-member bloc said in Paris.
The followers of minority religious groups such as Christians and Sufi or Sunni Muslims were...
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Men, not women, are to blame that young adults remain bachelors against their will. Women aren't perfect, but men have no idea how to treat women.
Men are all too often rude and selfish - yet that only hides the fact that they are actually very insecure and have no idea what love and sex are really about.
This was the message from...
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President Dmitry Medvedev called Wednesday for Russia to secure its Arctic borders because the region may hold more than a quarter of the world's offshore oil and gas reserves.
"Our first and fundamental task is to turn the Arctic into a resource base for Russia in the 21st century," Medvedev said at a meeting of National...
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The Dutch government cannot be held responsible for the failure of Dutch United Nations troops to protect the victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre committed by Bosnian Serb forces, a court ruled in The Hague Wednesday.
The Mothers of Srebrenica, relatives of the 8,000 men and boys killed while the enclave was under the formal...
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Germany's giant Games Convention opens its doors this week with organizers saying Wednesday they expect a record year for one of the key events on world games industry's calendar.
The number of exhibitors at this year's Games Convention has risen from 503 last year to 547 this year with organizers expecting the number of premieres of...
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Werner Faymann, expected to be chosen as Austrian Social Democratic leader later Friday, said he is focussing on social issues to win voters and alienated party members.
At his party's convention in Linz, Transport Minister Faymann sought to sharpen his social policy profile by announcing tax cuts in 2009 and by seeking support from...
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US presidential candidate Barack Obama Sunday
made his first appearance back on US soil meeting a convention of
minority journalists in Chicago where he emphasized multinational
cooperation for future US foreign policy. After Obama's
return from Europe and the Middle East he faced sharp criticism from
the opposing camp for not...
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 The British government Thursday denounced as "reprehensible" Russia's
actions in the current diplomatic row over cultural activities, and
said the methods used by the Russian authorities were reminiscent of
the Cold War.
But Foreign Secretary David Miliband, while condemning Moscow's
behaviour over the activities of the...
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 The simmering tension between Russia and Britain took a further bizarre
twist Wednesday with the arrest of a senior British Council official in
St Petersburg - who also happens to be son of a prominent British
Labour Party politician.
The government in London gave a furious reaction to the arrest on
charges of drunk driving of...
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 Russia announced putative measures against Britain's cultural offices
on Monday as they came back to work from holiday break, defying Russian
orders to shut down.
The Russian Foreign Ministry called Britain's move a "deliberate
provocation," in spiralling bilateral relations since the 2006
poisoning in London of former...
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 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov slammed Britain Friday for
knowingly "violating international law," as Russia ordered British
Council offices across Russia to close.
Anglo-Russian relations have sunk to Cold War lows after Moscow
refused to extradite an ex-KGB bodyguard suspected of murdering Kremlin
critic...
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Spain has filed May 29th a lawsuit in a U.S. federal court against American treasure-hunting firm Odyssey Marine Exploration in order to find out whether the bounty they discovered two weeks ago was in Spanish waters. If that will turn out to be the case, the Spanish government wants the treasure surrendered."Odyssey Marine...
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