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/ 5 November 2009
An Italian judge convicted 23 United States and two Italian secret agents for the CIA’s kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in 2003.
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/ 5 November 2009
President Barack Obama on Wednesday brushed aside a sharp rebuke at the polls on the first anniversary of his historic election.
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/ 4 November 2009
Although United States President Barack Obama has never set foot there, China cast a long shadow in the Pacific region where he grew up.
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/ 4 November 2009
Republicans won two key state elections that dealt a stinging blow to President Barack Obama and his Democrats 12 months after they swept into power.
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/ 4 November 2009
Hillary Clinton was meeting Hosni Mubarak on Wednesday in an attempt to salvage her Middle East tour after upsetting Arabs with praise of Israel.
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/ 2 November 2009
A second attempt to sell a crypt on top of Marilyn Monroe’s final resting place has failed, with not a single bid received for the burial spot.
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/ 31 October 2009
Until this week, the stand-out detail about the director Kenny Ortega was his habit of fining cast and crew a dollar for yawning on his sets.
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/ 30 October 2009
The US issued a record -million fine against BP for failing to correct safety hazards after a 2005 explosion killed 15 at its Texas City refinery.
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/ 30 October 2009
”We’re caught in the middle,” Abdul Rahim tells US Marines as they try to induce his fellow Afghan villagers to turn on Taliban fighters.
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/ 29 October 2009
Hillary Clinton’s Pakistan charm offensive rolled into a wall of suspicion at one of the country’s top universities on Thursday.
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/ 29 October 2009
Carnage in Pakistan and America’s bloodiest month in Afghanistan are sharpening President Barack Obama’s dilemma on troop deployments.
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/ 28 October 2009
How would you react to someone who tried to sell you a car that runs on fresh air?
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/ 27 October 2009
The victim in the Roman Polanski child sex case has renewed calls for the case against the director to be dismissed.
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/ 26 October 2009
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged member nations Monday to reach a compromise ahead of a climate change summit in December.
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/ 25 October 2009
President Barack Obama declared swine flu a ”national emergency” on Saturday, as the United States reels from millions of cases of infection.
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/ 25 October 2009
The mother of a boy who was wrongly believed to have been carried away inside a weather balloon has admitted the incident was a hoax, reports say.
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/ 24 October 2009
The death of three people at an Arizona spiritual retreat has cast a spotlight on the modern-day popularity of an ancient Native American ritual.
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/ 24 October 2009
An informant in the Galleon Group insider trading scandal had a history of sending tips to the firm, according to a court document.
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/ 23 October 2009
Nicolas Sarkozy is finding it much tougher to deal with Washington than he had anticipated and is recalibrating his policies accordingly.
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/ 23 October 2009
United States President Barack Obama’s high-priority Middle East peace drive has run into predictable quicksand.
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/ 23 October 2009
The United States has formally asked Switzerland to extradite film director Roman Polanski, the Swiss Justice Ministry said on Friday.
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/ 23 October 2009
Report on crude oil futures blames global governments for ignoring the supply problem, writes Ashley Seager
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/ 22 October 2009
Richard Goldstone challenged the US on Thursday to justify its charge that findings of a report accusing Israel and Hamas of war crimes were flawed.
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/ 21 October 2009
The US on Tuesday said it ”strongly supports” a West African arms embargo against Guinea.
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/ 20 October 2009
Prosecutors say a scientist who worked on the cutting edge of moon exploration has been caught trying to sell classified secrets.
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/ 20 October 2009
The United States Senate finance committee was set to pass a Bill last week to extend insurance to tens of millions of Americans.
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/ 19 October 2009
Ten individuals of African descent have previously
been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. But none had an opportunity as unique as Barack Obama’s.
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/ 17 October 2009
As pictures of a runaway balloon were beamed live across the United States, suspicion turned to anger at the family’s version of events.
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/ 16 October 2009
An important lesson President Jacob Zuma is learning during the resurgence of service delivery protests is that a charm offensive can go only so far.
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/ 15 October 2009
The International University of the People is designed to offer access to education for the masses, writes Harriet Swain.
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/ 13 October 2009
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met top Russian officials on Tuesday hoping to win Moscow’s support for tougher sanctions against Iran.
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/ 13 October 2009
A key US congressional panel was set to cast judgement on healthcare reform on Tuesday.