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In Egypt, It's Beginning To Look Like 2011 All Over Again
CAIRO, Egypt — Tens of thousands of Egyptians poured into Cairo’s Tahrir Square Friday in the latest protests against newly-elected Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi.At one of the largest...
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Gaza Beauty Company Releases Perfume Named After Hamas Rockets
"Victory" has never smelled so sweet -- or at least that's what they would have you believe at the shop selling Gaza's newest fragrance named M75 after a long-range Hamas rocket.It's a bold move by the...
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The Worst Chinese Stimulus Projects Of 2012
While economists began the year feeling bearish about China’s slowing growth, they have perked up about the nation’s prospects since the government confirmed it would continue with stimulus policies it...
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World Leaders React To The Sandy Hook Massacre
World leaders expressed shock and horror after a gunman massacred 20 small children and six staff Friday in the US state of Connecticut, one of the worst school shootings in history.UN chief Ban...
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Tourists Flee, Residents Prepare As 'Monster' Cyclone Bears Down On Fiji
Fijian authorities scrambled to evacuate tourists and residents in low-lying areas Sunday as a monster cyclone threatened the Pacific nation with "catastrophic damage" after causing devastation in...
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US High Courts Are Still Baffled By The Word 'Terrorism'
Valuable revelations are often found in unlikely places. Such is the case with a fascinating ruling released last week by the New York Court of Appeals, that state's highest court, in the criminal case...
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French President: Nobody Is Actually Taking Silvio Berlusconi Seriously
Francois Hollande, the French president, has dismissed speculation that Silvio Berlusconi might stand for a fourth term as the Italian premier.Mr Hollande said "I don't think there is a very serious...
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China Has Figured Out What's Wrong With Europe
Lately, it seems like the whole world is finding fault with the French.Ratings agency Moody has downgraded France and the International Monetary Fund, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and...
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This Buddhist Monk Is The World's Happiest Man
As he grins serenely and his burgundy robes billow in the fresh Himalayan wind, it is not difficult to see why scientists declared Matthieu Ricard the happiest man they had ever tested.The monk,...
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Britain's Government Is On The Brink Of Collapse
Sometimes prediction is easy. As 2011 bled into 2012, there was panic everywhere about the euro: It was doomed and it was going to take the global economy with it.It was easy for a calm, rational...
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Sheldon Adelson May Have Lost On His Political Investments In The U.S. But...
2012 the new face of unlimited political ‘speech’ in US Politics following the Citizens Unitedruling, he’s even further along in influencing Israeli politics. My friend The Professor presents a fuller...
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Germans Are 'Exporting' Their Elderly And Their Sick Because Of Rising Costs
Growing numbers of elderly and sick Germans are being sent overseas for long-term care in retirement and rehabilitation centres because of rising costs and falling standards in Germany.The move, which...
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The Number Of Syrian Refugees Is About To Explode
The United Nations on Wednesday predicted the number of Syrian refugees in neighboring countries will double to 1.1 million by June next year if the country's war is not ended.There are now more than...
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Incredible Photos Of Life In North Korea
North Korea is a place of deep contradictions.It confirms our worst fears with its nuclear belligerence, only to reveal its romantic folkloric past.It confirms a taste for criminal delights – then...
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A US Journalist In Syria Has Been Missing For Six Weeks
BOSTON, Mass. — Unidentified gunmen kidnapped a US journalist on Thanksgiving Day. More than a month later, he remains missing.American James Foley, 39, was last seen on Nov. 22 in Idlib Province....
View ArticleRussian Children Pay For Wounded National Pride
American families adopted 962 Russian children in 2011, and the figure for 2012, once it is finalized, will likely be similar. In 2013, however, that number may very well drop to zero.Last week,...
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A Spanish Gang Stole A Tonne Of Hashish On New Years Eve
As midnight approached, marking the entry of the new year, across the country Spaniards prepared to celebrate in the traditional fashion – by swallowing 12 grapes to the chimes of a clock.But in the...
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North Korea's New Master Plan Includes Key Advice From The Germans
Known under the official misnomer Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), North Korea is an inscrutable, unpredictable, armed-to-the-teeth thorn in just about everyone’s side, a pariah ready to...
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Iran Admits That Oil Sanctions Are Having A Brutal Effect
Iran's oil exports have been slashed 40 percent in the past nine months because of tough Western sanctions, Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi was quoted as saying on Monday, in a reversal of his previous...
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A Russian Tax Fraud Worth $230 Million May Just Be The Tip Of The Iceberg
MOSCOW, Russia — Sergei Magnitsky’s brutal death in a Moscow prison in 2009 has come to symbolize the confluence of corruption, repression and human rights abuse that’s flowered under President...
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