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 An Arab sheikh sued Michael Jackson after he had claimed that the pop star owes him $7 million. But Jackson’s attorney said on Tuesday that the singer might be in a serious illness condition that doesn’t permit him to go to London and testify in the suit. Still, Jackson plans to offer the testimony via video link from the United...
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 Former model Christie Brinkley started her divorce petition against her husband, Peter Cook, at the beginning of 2008’s summer. The two haven’t ended their dispute until now, as two children have remained behind their battle. Peter Cook cheated on Brinkley with a teen age girl while he was visiting porn sites on the internet. The former...
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 Vanessa Hudgens, 19, is an American singer and actress who made her debut in 2003 when she appeared in “Thirteen” and “Thunderbirds.” She became famous in 2006 when she appeared in “High School Musical” on the Disney Channel and released her first music album entitled “V.” In July this year she got her second album, “Identified.”At the...
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 Singer Britney Spears and dancer and rap singer Kevin Federline have finally agreed their child custody settlement. Under the terms of the deal approved by Superior Court Commissioner Scott Gordon, the pop singer will pay $20,000 (10,000 pounds) a month in child support to ex-husband Kevin Federline for the care of their two children....
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 Courtney Love, Kurt Cobain’s widow, has
been sued by a business management and accounting firm for allegedly failing to
pay commissions for a partial sale of her share of Nirvana’s publishing rights
for $19.5 million.
According to the suit filled in Los Angeles
Superior Court by the management firm London & Co., Love sold a...
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 A Broadway producer whose wife trashed him in a YouTube video has been granted a divorce from her. Actress Tricia Walsh-Smith, who became more famous after posting on the video sharing website monologues about her marriage, must leave within a month the Park Avenue apartment belonging to mogul Philip Smith, a judge decided on Monday. The...
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 A brand new Britney Spears showed up at Jim Carrey and Jenny
McCarthy’s Generation Rescue Event this weekend. Her first public appearance
after a long period of time was really glowing and the event unveiled a Britney
perhaps looking better than ever.
The association is committed to researching autism, in the
attempt of disclosing...
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The Associated Press informs that architect Renzo Piano stated on Thursday that he sustained strategy by officials of The New York Times to modify the frontage of the newspaper’s tower, which he had previously designed, with the aim of preventing people from scaling the veil of ceramic rods that envelops the tower. In the past five...
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Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook started their divorce trial
on Thursday, July 3, because of the affair Cook had had with Diana Bianchi, 18,
some two years ago and his other so-called affairs on porn web sites. After
several days of public arguing, the two try to settle down their custody
dispute.
The couple and their lawyers,...
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Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons’ wife, Kimora
Lee Simmons, is demanding $480,000 in child support each year for their two
daughters.
After nine years of marriage Russell
Simmons and Kimora Lee divorced this year. Kimora Lee, 33, filled for divorce
earlier this year, citing irreconcilable differences, and asked for primary
custody...
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 Pop star Madonna is seeking legal advice to end her
seven-year marriage to film director Guy Ritchie, the Times of London informs.The 49-year-old singer has reportedly sought advice from
divorce lawyer Fiona Shackleton, the same lawyer that represented Paul
McCartney when he divorced from Heather Mills, helping him to keep his...
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 Reese Witherspoon’s marriage to Ryan Phillippe is officially over. The couple finalized their divorce this week with court documents filed in Los Angeles. According to court documents, “(The court finds) the parties have settled all their remaining issues in these proceedings.”The couple, who separated back in 2006 and went through a...
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 French cosmetics firm Lancome had sued actress Uma Thurman over the use of her name and face in advertising campaigns. The “Kill Bill” star claimed the company used her name on Canadian billboards and Asian Web sites after the contract expired and that she is entitled to $1 million as a result.“Celebrities will now be careful about doing...
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 A Los Angeles
judge extended a restraining order against Britney Spears’ former manager Sam
Lufti until July 31, under an agreement between lawyers for both sides, BBC
News reports. The restraining order was originally put in place in February.
According to Britney Spears’ attorney, Vivian Thoreen,
extending the order was “in...
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 It’s suing time for Rob Lowe! The “Brothers and Sisters”
star seems to be having problems with his employees. On Monday, the actor filed
three separate lawsuits against two of his former nannies and his former chef. The
court papers were filed in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. The three
were accused of breach of contract, defamation...
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 Rapper Clifford Harris, known as T.I. pleaded guilty to
three charges of illegal weapons possession at a hearing in Atlanta on Thursday. The 27-year-old star was
arrested in October last year by agents of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives who found three machine guns and two silencers in the
rapper’s...
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 The famous Neverland Ranch owned by Michael Jackson remains
in his property, at least for the moment.
The ranch that used to be a paradise for children was in
jeopardy, as a public auction was scheduled to take place the next week due to
the fact that Michael Jackson went into default on the $24.5 million he owes on
the property....
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 Lindsay Lohan can breathe relieved as she got rid of a legal
nuisance. The starlet succeeded in settling a lawsuit stemming from a traffic
collision that took place two and a half years ago.
Los Angeles-based Raymundo Ortega filed a lawsuit against
the “Mean Girls” actress in June accusing her of negligence. The busboy...
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 For Kirstie Alley, Jenny Craig hasn’t represented just the
company whose spokesmodel she was or the diet program that helped her
lose 75 pounds. For Alley, Jenny Craig is inspiration.
Or at least this is what appears to be, after it was
reported that she is stepping down from being spokesperson for the company the
last week. The...
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 After five days of seeing each other in court trying to
strike an agreement to finalize their bitter high-profile divorce, Paul
McCartney and Heather Mills settled.
McCartney is poorer by $108 million, and obviously, Mills is
richer by the same amount of money. “Poorer” when referred to the Beatles
co-founder sounds more of a...
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 The McCartney – Mills divorce saga hasn’t come to an end,
even though it was scheduled to be over on Friday. Court 34 at London’s High Court has
also been booked for Monday, in the search of agreement from the parties.
Paul McCartney and his estranged wife, former model Heather
Mills are facing each other in a bitter divorce that...
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 The death of rapper Pimp C, who was found dead in December
in his hotel room, was accidental, as the Los
Angeles coroner office announced.
Captain Ed Winter of the Los Angeles County coroner's
office revealed on Monday that Promethazine/Codeine syrup and
sleep apnea were the main factors that generated the rapper’s death....
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 She’s been for years the “Long Island Lolita” of New York. Yes, it’s Amy
Fisher and her flabbergasting life.
At 16 she was involved with Joey Buttafuoco, who was a
38-year old auto body shop owner and a married man. And probably this latter
feature of his engendered Fisher to take a gun and head straight to his home
and face his...
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 Britney Spears can breath half-easily after having had
dismissed her hit-and-run charge by Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner
Susan Speer. The judge has taken this decision after learning that the pop
artist has reached agreement with the accuser.
All the trouble started on August 6 when Spears, while
backing her car up, hit...
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paparazzi show their claws again in a threateningly-similar chase to the one in
1997 that lead to the death of Princess Diana in a car accident. It seems that
they can never get enough and they hound for more, no matter if they jeopardize
the lives of their preys.
The Friday small hours brought recently made-up Prince
William...
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 Basketball star Shaquille O’Neal has filed for divorce from his wife of five years, claiming their marriage has been “irretrievably broken.”
Shaquille O’Neal, 35, married Shaunie Nelson in 2002. They have four children together, and one more each from previous relationships. The family of six lives on the...
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 Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston met in court last Friday to
settle for their 14-year-old daughter’s, Bobbi Kris, custody.
Since the two divorced last year, Whitney won soul custody
of her daughter and has refused to let Bobby see her since June.
"I have not seen or spoken to my daughter since early
June," Bobby said...
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 The way things were going, a jail sentence was bound to happen sooner or later. Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Melissa Jackson on Wednesday morning sentenced the 27-year-old rapper to prison for violating the terms of her probation agreement. According to her lawyer, Foxy, who is three months pregnant, will spend at least two weeks,...
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 You probably won’t be hearing about Britney Spears and Kevin Federiline as a couple too soon, unless they decide to get back together, which is very unlikely. Britney Spears officially became a single mother of two after divorce from Kevin Federline finalized the other day. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Scott Gordon signed off...
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 American B-list actress Angelina Jolie is accused of hypocrisy regarding her unique way of restricting media questions during interviews to promote her new film about press freedom, A Mighty Heart, directed by Michael Winterbottom.Roger Friedman, a Fox.com journalist who covered the New York premiere of the film, reported that all...
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 Houston filed for a legal separation in September 2006 and then divorce the following month after 14 years of marriage.According to court documents, she, 43, and Brown, 38, had a prenuptial agreement preventing them from amassing community property and paying spousal support, which left only the matter of custody of the couple's...
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Australian banks Tuesday pulled the rug from under debt-laden local leveraged buy-out specialist Allco Finance Group.
Receivers were appointed for Allco and its shares placed in a trading halt after talks with the 12 banks failed to reach agreement on a repayment schedule for debts of 667 million Australian dollars (446 million US...
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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd praised the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Tuesday while pushing his vision of an Asian Pacific Community by 2020.
In a whirlwind visit to Singapore, Rudd laid a wreath at Kranji war cemetery before dawn, met with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong and...
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 Even if the Opera web browser has made inroads into Wii, Nintendo DS and approximately 40 million cell phones, it’s not quite the perfect match for the iPhone. Apple said that Opera’s engineers developed a version of Opera Mini that can run on an iPhone, but the company can’t allow it because it competes with Apple’s own Safari browser....
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 The world leader in visual computing technologies, Nvidia, announced that it had reached a definitive agreement in order to acquire the graphics vendor Ageia Technologies Inc., but did not disclose any financial terms.Ageia, which invented the GPU, is one of the leaders in gaming physics technology, as it makes software and hardware that...
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 Recently, two versions of
RealNetwork’s RealPlayer media player were labeled as badware by StopBadware.org,
an organization that aims to discover and oppose to abusive software tools.
StopBadware.org described the two media players as badware after it noticed
that one of them was inadequately disclosing advertising behaviors, while...
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 The hype around Microsoft’s recent claims that Linux and, generally speaking, the open source community have infringed Redmond-crafted IP (intellectual property) is not going to calm down for a long time.It’s actually what was bound to happen: when Microsoft signed that pesky interoperability agreement last November with Novell, it...
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The world's 20 top economies reached a deal Saturday to better regulate global financial markets and take steps to halt a global economic slide.
Negotiators agreed on a final declaration Saturday morning during the first-ever summit of the Group of 20 (G20) nations in Washington, Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa has learned.
Leaders...
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Google has reached a 125-million-dollar settlement of a class action lawsuit by the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, which will drastically expand the availability of digitized books over the internet, the groups announced Tuesday.
The deal sets aside 45 million dollars for payment to authors and publishers...
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Behind the scenes after a US presidential election debate, so-called spin doctors wrestle to impose their own side's interpretations of what the country just heard.
Campaign specialists evaluate and parse every event, comment and speech. Their prime goal is to make an impression on the US media, which are covering the longest and...
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The United States urged North Korea on Thursday to reverse its decision to ban international inspectors from its main nuclear complex.
"It's a regrettable step but one that is reversible," US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.
North Korea had earlier told the UN nuclear monitoring body, the International...
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Chief US negotiator Christopher Hill Friday ended last-ditch talks with North Korea to save an imperiled nuclear disarmament deal and returned to South Korea, officials in Seoul said.
Hill had travelled to Pyongyang on Wednesday to persuade North Korea to abide by a nuclear disarmament deal threatened by failure as North Korea...
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The chief US negotiator in North Korean nuclear talks said Tuesday that he was travelling to North Korea this week to achieve an agreement on how to verify that North Korea is keeping its promises made at the talks.
Christopher Hill made the remarks during a stopover in South Korea on a trip designed to save a three-stage agreement...
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In the clearest terms yet, the Senate's top Democrat, Majority Leader Harry Reid, Friday charged that the Republican presidential nominee John McCain had derailed a congressional agreement intended to rescue the country from a devastating financial crisis.
"A few days ago, I called on Senator McCain to let us know where he stands...
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It is a dramatic race against time - while Washington fights a battle over a mammoth rescue plan for the financial sector, the credit crisis is bringing down one US bank after another.
The latest victim was the country's once-leading savings bank, Washington Mutual Inc (WaMu). Federal regulators late Thursday shut down the...
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The US Congress was moving closer to an agreement on the 700 billion-dollar financial rescue plan, lawmakers said Thursday, a day after a sombre US President George W Bush laid out the spectre of a "long and painful recession."
Republican presidential nominee John McCain, a senator from Arizona, said in broadcast remarks he...
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice insisted Wednesday that a planned US missile shield in eastern Europe is defensive, just before she was to sign a deal to station part of the system in Poland.
Rice's remarks after meeting Polish President Lech Kaczynski were a renewed attempt to persuade Russia that the system - 10 missile...
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 Detainees awaiting trial at the Cook County Jail, one of the
nation’s largest local penitentiaries, have undergone extremely ineffectual
medical care, maltreatments executed by jail employees and rundown, unsafe
building conditions often left unfixed for months, according to an announcement
released by federal authorities on...
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Barack Obama Wednesday charged that the Bush
administration has failed to confront the threat of nuclear terrorism
and vowed that if elected president, he would lead the effort to corral
errant nuclear materials and stay one step ahead of biological and
cyber threats. Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee for
president, aimed...
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 The Senate gave its final consent on Wednesday regarding a
very significant development in what concerns the government’s surveillance
control, offering President George W. Bush another success in a series of harsh
and effortful conflicts with Democrats over national security matters.
The decision was taken by a vote of 69 to 28...
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 The Great Lakes
are under the threat of global warming and Congress needs to enact a
comprehensive plan to restore the health of the lakes.
Warming over the next century could lower
lakes and expose toxic sediment that has been buried and cause heavy rains that
could lead to more sewer overflows, threatening water quality, a new...
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 Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle has signed the
Great Lakes Water Compact into law Tuesday, a multistate agreement designed to
protect and restrict access to nearly 20 percent of the world's supply of fresh
water. Wisconsin is the fifth state to approve
the interstate compact aimed at protecting the Great Lakes.
He signed the agreement...
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 The United
States and Canada
have reached a new agreement aimed at preventing overfishing of endangered salmon
off the western coast of Canada
and southeast Alaska.
The Pacific Salmon Commission announced
Thursday the agreement could affect chinook salmon, the species which migrate from
Washington to the waters of British
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 A U.S. Marine accused of raping a 14-year-old Japanese girl at a U.S. military base in the island of Okinawa was sentenced by the martial court to four years in prison on Friday, Reuters reports.38-year-old Tyrone Hadnott was arrested by Japanese police on suspicion of rape following the incident in February, when he was released after...
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 New Mexico state police officers claim they arrested the leader of an apocalyptic church on sex charges, the Associated Press reports. According to state police spokesman Peter Olson, Wayne Bent, 66, was picked up without incident Tuesday at the remote former ranch where he and his followers live. Bent is facing three charges of criminal...
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US President George W Bush met with Russian President
Vladimir Putin in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi,
where they have signed a framework agreement. It was the first time when the
two leaders with different opinions and perspectives decided to sit at the same
table and talk.
“We agreed today that the United States and...
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Mark Penn, chief campaign strategist for Hillary Clinton,
met with Colombia's ambassador to the U.S. to discuss a bilateral free-trade agreement, The Wall
Street Journal reported. Sen. Clinton was against the idea of a trade deal with
Colombia. This wasn't a mission related to his campaign role.
He did that in order to accomplish...
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 New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has made official on Wednesday his intention to retire from the state’s top office after his alleged involvement as a client in a high-priced prostitution ring. The lawyer said that he doesn’t want to allow his "private failings to disrupt the public's work.""I am deeply sorry that I did not...
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 Hillary Rodham Clinton continued today to attack Barack Obama, her main rival in the contest for the Democratic Party nomination for the United States presidency.During her speech held at a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Clinton underlined the fact that Obama’s rhetoric is in a high contrast with his actions. The New York senator and...
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 A major change may be under way as numerous prominent leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention criticized on Monday the denomination’s timid position regarding the human responsibility for global warming.At least 46 important members of the denomination, including three of its last four presidents, said that Baptists have the moral...
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 Democrat Hillary
Clinton was very offensive against rival Barack Obama in the Cleveland debate that took place on Tuesday,
Feb.26, but she did not succeed in changing the race.
Clinton
was determined and combative all throughout the debate, referring to herself as
a “fighter”. She showed aggression in looks and gestures, but...
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 A man living in Canada claims to be the love child of the former
U. S.
president John F. Kennedy, and is asking the Kennedy family to permit a DNA
test that would confirm his origin.
Jack Worthington presented his
passport and driver’s license that indicate that his date of birth is November
22, 1961. This implies the fact...
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 Nicholas Burns, the third ranking US diplomat who spearheaded the US
push to enact UN sanctions on Iran and a nuclear cooperation agreement
with India, announced Friday that he was resigning from his post.
Burns has served as undersecretary for political affairs since
March of 2005, overseeing US foreign policy in each region of...
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 Libyan Foreign Minister Abdel-Rahman Shalqam met with US Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday in the highest level visit by a
Libyan official to Washington in decades.
Shalqam's meeting with Rice at the State Department was aimed at
deepening ties between the two once-estranged countries, a development
that came about...
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 The US government criticized the outcome of the conference on climate
change on Bali in a statement issued by the White House on Saturday.
The agreement reached in Bali was "a critical first step" for a
successor to the Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gas emissions
after 2012, but the United States had "serious...
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 The United States on Monday rejected a proposal to include 25- to
40-per cent reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 in a UN
draft agreement at a climate change conference.
To agree to greenhouse gas reductions would require "a lot of
analysis," said Harlan Watson, head of the US delegation at the Bali
talks,...
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 President George W Bush urged US businesses to invest in Northern
Ireland during a historic visit to the White House by the leaders of
the self-governing British territory.
Bush hosted First Minister Ian Paisley and his deputy, Martin
McGuinness, the once bitter rivals who now share power in Northern
Ireland's government as part...
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 US President George W Bush was set to kick off the first Middle East
peace conference in seven years Tuesday by cautioning that it marked
only the beginning of efforts to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
and that difficult challenges lie ahead.
The parley is aimed at relaunching peace talks between the sides,
and an Israeli...
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 Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda headed to the United States
Thursday for his first summit talks with US President George W Bush.
The two leaders were expected to focus their discussions on Japan's
refueling of allied warships in the Indian Ocean and the North Korean
abductions issue.
Fukuda, who succeeded former premier...
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 Chinese espionage in the United States is the largest threat to US
military technology, a congressionally mandated panel said in a report
released Thursday.
Industrial espionage by the Chinese government is an added source
of new technologies that has allowed its defence sector to produce new
generations of weapons that can pose a...
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 According to the German Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, in
an article citing the German train drivers' union, the GdL, the union said it
may halt commuter, long-distance and freight trains in a wave of fresh strikes
this week, if Deutsche Bahn AG does not make a new offer today.
Regional heads of GdL even called for open-ended...
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 According to an US Navy official, two US
women sailors were shot dead and a third sailor wounded in their barracks in
the Gulf kingdom of Bahrain
on Monday but the US Navy said it did not appear to be a terrorist act.
The shooting, which occurred at around 5 am (0200 GMT) in the US
base east of the capital Manama, is
being...
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 Global climate is a more and more pressing matter as
Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon clearly stated at a climate change summit on Monday.
150 representatives and 80 heads of state gathered at the
meeting to find a way to solve the global worming problem were Ki-Moon urged
them to act quickly to save future generations from the...
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 Through the voice of its Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff the United States urged the European Union to share its data regarding the people traveling to the US."We are all safer if we operate in a world in which intelligent use of information allows for more focused efforts in determining who is a threat,"...
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Pentagon’s plan to build a missile shield in Europe was overturned by a panel of the Congress which decided to cut the funding for the defence system for the moment. The House Armed Services Committee voted to cut in half the 310-million-dollar budget requested by the Pentagon, thus stalling the start of the work in the Czech Republic or...
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| Spain's opposition Thursday expressed concern over the possibility of the oil and gas company Repsol YPF coming partly under Russian control.
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