Category: ‘World’
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
the independent: A secret deal being negotiated in Baghdad would perpetuate the American military occupation of Iraq indefinitely, regardless of the outcome of the US presidential election in November.
The terms of the impending deal, details of which have been leaked to The Independent, are likely to have an explosive political ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) a magnitude 7.92 earthquake has struck eastern Sichuan Province in China. The USGS first reported the quake to be a magnitude 7.8 which hit at 6:28:00 UTC. Officials say that at least 10,000 may have been killed and local reports indicate over ...
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
the independent: China's rise in the early 21st century is the headiest tale of development the world has ever seen. A drive through Beijing or Shanghai or Shenzhen or Guangdong gives you all the evidence that you could ever want of the 66 per cent expansion of the Chinese economy ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
May 8 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil was little changed near a record $123.93 a barrel in New York after a government report showed that U.S. worker productivity accelerated, signaling stronger economic growth and increased energy demand.
Oil almost doubled in the past year and may rise further if the economy improves ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
newsweek.com: If there's a war between the United States and Iran, it may well start on the water. After all, it's happened before. Twenty years ago American ships were under fire in the Persian Gulf, and mines laid by the mullahs' men nearly sank a U.S. guided missile cruiser. In ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
United States presidential candidate Hillary Clinton warned Iran against an attack on Israel. "I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran," the former First Lady said.
Clinton was speaking in an interview on ABC's Good Morning America television program.
"In the next 10 years, during ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
the independent: What used to be called the Olympics are likely this summer to become the Paramilitary Games. China is planning to deploy more than 94,000 security personnel at the Beijing celebration in August, which means that uniformed and plain-clothes operatives will outnumber the 10,500 athletes by nearly nine ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
yahoo news: SYDNEY (AFP) - Twenty-six major cities around the world are expected to turn off the lights on major landmarks, plunging millions of people into darkness to raise awareness about global warming, organisers said.
'Earth Hour' founder Andy Ridley said 371 cities, towns or local governments from Australia ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
The government of China has claimed that the Dalia Lama is cooperating with Islamic extremists as part of a plot to bring the country into crises before the Olympic Games, which are due to be half in Beijing this Summer. The official newspaper of the government of China claimed that ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
yahoo news: BAGHDAD - The overall U.S. death toll in Iraq rose to 4,000 after four soldiers were killed in a roadside bombing in Baghdad, a grim milestone that is likely to fuel calls for the withdrawal of American forces as the war enters its sixth year.
The American deaths ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
The Colombian government says it has recovered documents from the computers of slain FARC rebels that show financial ties between the leftist guerrilas and Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez.
Speaking at a press conference Monday, Colombia's national police chief Gen. Oscar Naranjo said the evidence suggests Chávez had recently given $300 million ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
yahoo news: CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela and Ecuador ordered troops to their borders with Colombia, sharply raising tensions after Colombia killed a top rebel leader on Ecuadorean soil.
President Hugo Chavez on Sunday promised Venezuela would respond militarily if Colombia violates its border, where he ordered tanks as well as ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
laTimes.com: MEXICO CITY -- Four campaign seasons have come and gone since presidential hopeful H. Ross Perot warned that NAFTA would create a "giant sucking sound" of jobs going to Mexico, and the trade pact is still generating plenty of noise. Calls to renegotiate the 14-year-old deal are rising ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
msnbc: MOGADISHU, Somalia - Pentagon officials said Monday the United States launched an air strike in Somalia to go after a terrorist suspect.
In the strike early Monday, Somali police said three missiles hit a Somali town held by Islamic extremists, destroying a home and seriously injuring eight people.
A Pentagon ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
newsWeek.com: Back in the Middle Ages, the Inquisition was a byword for fear and terror in Europe. Its tribunals, set up by the Vatican to ensure that "heretics" did not undermine the authority of the increasingly powerful Roman Catholic Church, burned and tortured witches, blasphemers and members of other ...
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