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When it comes to the elections, at least there’s something else to talk about, other than Bristol Palin’s baby, baby’s father and baby’s gift basket from Jamie Lynn Spears. The new headlines regarding Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin are still not about politics, but they do have a rather legal aspect to them: the unapproved use of a song to make things less tensed for the Republicans. Ann and Nancy Wilson, also known as the singing duo Heart, found themselves caught in something they say doesn’t reflect their political beliefs. Their ‘70s classic "Barracuda" was used, without their...
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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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Moscow - A reporter critical of Islam was shot and mortally wounded in Russia's restive Dagestan province, the Interfax new agency reported Wednesday.
An unknown person or persons fired at least two bullets into Abdullah Alishaev, a local television journalist, as he was driving through the Dagestan provincial capital Malachkala Tuesday evening.
The bullets struck him in the head and shoulder. Doctors at the city hospital treated the injuries, but Alishaev died from his wounds.
Alishaev, sometimes going by the name Telman Alishaev, was a well- known media personality in...
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St Paul, Minnesota - Republicans celebrating their national convention have hammered Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama for his "celebrity" tour of Europe this summer - while Europe's conservatives were in attendance to proclaim their admiration for Republican Party candidate John McCain.
Republican speakers at this week's presidential nominating pageant have delighted in ridiculing Europe as a pro-Obama home of stifling welfare states.
Obama visited the Middle East and Europe in July, meeting with the leaders of Britain, France and Germany and holding a rousing...
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London - The crash landing of a British Airways Boeing 777 in London in January was probably caused by ice blocking its fuel system, a report by Britain's Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said Thursday.
Investigators believe that a restriction in the fuel flow caused the plane's engines to lose power less than a minute before touchdown at London's Heathrow airport on January 17.
But they said they are still "uncertain" as to how the ice could have formed.
The AAIB called on airlines to introduce measures to cut the risk of ice causing fuel blockages.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez expressed his wish to change the country’s constitution in a way...
Rescuers managed to drill a third hole into the coal mine in Utah, United States and lowered...
Peru
was hit late Wednesday by a magnitude-7.9 earthquake and dozens of aftershocks.
According to...
Talks between Iraqi and Jordanian representatives ended on Wednesday with the establishment of a...
Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf met on Wednesday with US Assistant Secretary of State for...
Following a round of voting among Likud members, Israel’s former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
India’s energetic sector will receive uranium from Australia in order to cope with increasing...
Three German police officers deployed in Afghanistan were killed Wednesday by a roadside bomb near...
Japanese remembered on Wednesday those fallen during World War II in a ceremony attended by Premier...
Coordinated attacks killed 220 Iraqis and injured at least 400 in a northwestern town late Tuesday,...
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