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St Paul, Minnesota/Washington - Until Friday, few had ever heard of Sarah Palin, the Republican governor of Alaska.
But within 48 hours after Republican Senator John McCain named her his vice presidential running mate, the country's intense media spotlight was at work trying to find out who she was.
First, there was the matter of an ongoing investigation in Alaska after she fired her public safety commissioner amidst his refusal to fire her brother-in-law. She claimed the man, who was a state trooper in the midst of a messy divorce from her sister, had threatened her family.
The...
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London - An art gallery in Britain which exhibited a statue of Jesus Christ with an erection was taken to court by a devout Christian Tuesday who said she was offended by the work and argued that the gallery would "not have dared" to portray Mohammed, let alone in that way.
The artwork was part of an exhibition at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, near the north-eastern city of Newcastle, which featured dozens of plaster figures including Mickey Mouse, ET, and Jesus - all with erections.
The items were shown in a presentation a year ago of works by...
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St Paul, Minnesota - Joe Lieberman, a former Democratic presidential candidate and running mate of Al Gore, completed a political transformation by addressing the Republican Party's convention and making an impassioned plea for voters to support its presumptive nominee John McCain.
Lieberman said Tuesday night that it was time to put partisan politics aside, touted McCain's record as an independent and argued the Arizona senator was the presidential candidate best able to bring change to Washington.
"What, after all, is a Democrat like me doing at a Republican convention like...
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St Paul, Minnesota/Washington - US President George W Bush called Republican presidential hopeful John McCain the candidate who "understands the lessons" of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, in an address by satellite to the Republican Party's nominating convention on Tuesday.
Bush, whose low approval ratings have kept him from playing a larger role in the McCain campaign to date, was originally to appear in person Monday at the St Paul, Minnesota convention. He cancelled the visit due to Hurricane Gustav's arrival on the Gulf Coast.
Bush characterized McCain as...
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Mexico City - After being battered by Hurricane Gustav the Caribbean is now being hit by tropical storm Hanna, which left at least 19 dead in Haiti on Tuesday, according to local media.
Hanna, which has been nearly stationary for the past few hours, dumped rain and blasted winds at Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Cuba.
Ten people drowned as the storm flooded Haiti's third-largest city, Gonaives, 152 kilometres north of Port-au-Prince, where water levels reached 3 metres in some areas, reported Mayor Stephen Moise to the Haiti news agency.
President René Preval asked for...
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Violence has flared up again over the past days in strife-torn Iraq, at least 33 people being...
Myanmar and Somalia have been ranked as the most corrupt countries in the world in the 2007...
Fierce clashes between insurgents and coalition forces erupted once again in Afghanistan, at least...
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The party of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto will support a candidate in the upcoming election...
Security troops cracked down on the anti-government protests Wednesday, using batons, tear gas and...
Dozens of construction workers died and many were seriously injured when a section of a bridge in...
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that from his country’s point of view the nuclear...
After the Israeli government declared the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip a “hostile entity,” Israel’s...
Myanmar’s military junta sent troops to the country’s largest city on Tuesday after thousands of...
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