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Washington - The Federal Reserve took two new steps to unfreeze credit for homebuyers, consumers and small businesses Tuesday, committing up to 800 billion dollars in government-backed debt and loans.
The central bank will purchase as much as 600 billion dollars in debt issued or backed by government-chartered housing finance...
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The United States has rejected an Israeli request for military equipment and support that would improve Israel's ability to attack Iranian nuclear sites, an Israeli newspaper reported Wednesday.
The US viewed the request as a sign that Israel is in the advanced stages of preparations to attack Iran, Ha'aretz said, quoting "senior...
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The Salt Lake Tribune reports
that the burglarized tapes which contain around 1.5 million health care billing
data, Social Security numbers and medical procedure codes were retrieved on
Tuesday.
Investigators in the case said
Wednesday they received a call which led detectives to University of Utah
billing records that were...
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The U.S.
is currently investigating how its immigration service deported a Syrian-born
Canadian to Syria
where he was allegedly tortured, BBC News reports.
Maher Arar was deported as a terrorism suspect from a New
York airport in 2002 and then he was tortured while in Syria.
Canada compensated Arar
after exonerating him and...
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 President Bush was made an honorary member
of Rolling Thunder, the Vietnam War POW-MIA group that is holding its 21st
annual gathering. Every year’s ritual of Rolling Thunder’s members starts from
the Pentagon parking lot, going past Arlington
National Cemetery,
across Memorial Bridge and around the Lincoln Memorial,
and finally...
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 Veterans are not surprised to find that George W. Bush and
John McCain oppose Senator Jim Webb’s new G.I. Bill. G.I. Bill S22. The
Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act, authored by Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va,
will increase founding for educational aid received by veterans, but it will
revise the allocation methods. The bill would...
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 Thousands of Katrina victims, who received money to
reconstruct their houses may be in the situation of giving it back. The
Associated Press reports that the private contractor under investigation for
the compensation it received to run the Road Home Grant program for Katrina
victims says that some people got a great amount of money...
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 Kulbir and Amritpal Duhaliwal, the brothers who were
attacked by the Siberian tiger escaped from the San Francisco Zoo on Christmas
Day last year, have filed claims against the city for alleged negligence and emotional
harm and deformation. According to USA Today, San Francisco has 45 days to respond to the
claim.
The two were...
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 The University of California (UC) appointed University of Texas Chancellor Mark G.Yudof as the next
president on Thursday, after the Board of Regents voted him unanimously.
Yudof will become the first president in two decades from
outside California
to lead the UC, a system with more than 220,000 students and nearly...
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 President George W Bush on Friday rejected a law that would make it
easier for victims of Saddam Hussein's former regime to sue Iraq for
compensation, holding up a massive, overdue spending bill for the US
military.
Bush's veto announcement followed Iraqi government objections that
the provisions, buried in a 2008 defence budget...
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Arsenal and England winger Theo Walcott will be out for around three months after he underwent surgery on his injured shoulder on Thursday.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger confirmed the 19-year-old had undertaken the surgery, after dislocating his right shoulder in training with England on Tuesday night.
Wenger has been critical of...
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France international Franck Ribery is entitled to compensation of 340,000 euros (481,000 dollars) from his former agent, a Swiss court ruled Wednesday.
The Swiss Federal Tribunal upheld a ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) that Ribery was entitled to fees already paid to his former agent, a spokeswoman for the court...
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 The New York Jets let unhappy left their guard Pete Kendall go to Washington Redskins for a 4th-round pick in the 2008 NFL Draft.After passing a physical test, Kendall signed a new two-year deal with Washington - ending a long-running argument with Jets top brass over a pay rise.“We reached agreement in principle to trade Pete Kendall to...
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Taiwan on Tuesday demanded that Japan make a formal apology and pay compensation to women who were forced to serve as prostitutes for the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.
The Taiwan parliament passed a resolution demanding Japan apologize for forcibly recruiting the women, who were euphemistically called comfort women,...
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Taiwan and China, taking another step towards peaceful co-existence, on Tuesday signed four pacts on expanding trade ties across the Taiwan Strait.
The inking of the pact heralds the direct cross-strait links that have been banned by the island since the two arch rivals split at the end of a civil war in 1949.
The pacts were signed...
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The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Friday dismissed its national team coach Geoff Lawson.
"His contract has been terminated with immediate effect and he is being given three months' salary as compensation," a PCB spokesman, Raza Rashid, said.
The former Australian pace bowler, Lawson, was appointed Pakistan coach in July...
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The family of a woman who died after a power company disconnected her oxygen machine intends to sue for compensation, according to reports Tuesday.
Folole Muliaga, 44, had been receiving oxygen support at her home in Mangere, a suburb in New Zealand's largest city of Auckland, when her power was cut in May 2007.
Meridian Energy...
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The New Zealand Parliament on Thursday passed a law designed to combat global warming that was expected to raise the cost of just about everything and nobody knows by how much.
The law establishing a trading scheme that puts a price on emissions of greenhouse gases is bitterly opposed by most of New Zealand's business sectors,...
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China failed to win any medals in the human rights department during the Beijing Olympics, a rights watchdog said Monday.
The Chinese government "blatantly and successfully" used the Games to realize its political goals, Hong Kong-based Human Rights in China (HRIC) said.
"Yet the carefully orchestrated facade could...
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Hundreds of homeless residents from East Java province demanded compensation for their properties destroyed by a massive mudflow caused by an industrial accident.
More than 14,000 homes, 33 schools, 65 mosques and an orphanage have been buried since May 2006 when a "mud volcano" began oozing to the surface following an...
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At least 145 pilgrims, mostly women and children, most of them women and children, died in a stampede at a temple in northern state of Himachal Pradesh, northern India, the authorities said.Between 20,000 and 25,000 worshippers were at the temple at the time the stampede happened. An iron railing along a steep staircase leading to the...
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Australia laid out plans Friday for a national
scheme for carbon-emissions trading it hopes will help slow climate
change without crashing the national economy or handing a competitive
advantage to other countries. The scheme is outlined in a
report delivered to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd by top economist Ross
Garnaut. It would...
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 North Korea's uranium-enrichment programme is among the issues
hindering the meeting of a year-end deadline for Pyongyang to declare
its nuclear programme, South Korean Foreign Minister Song Min Soon said
Thursday.
The deadline could pass unfulfilled as problems have cropped up not
only with North Korea laying out its nuclear...
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 The death toll from a roadside mine attack on a civilian bus was raised
to 16 Thursday as the government warned that rebels may carry out more
attacks on civilian targets.
The warning came as at least 16 more rebels were killed in sporadic fighting in the north and eastern provinces.
The passenger bus heading from the north...
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According to local police reports, 14 children from a New
Delhi sweatshop at the centre of a scandal involving
US clothing giant Gap have been rescued yesterday.
Despite reports over the weekend that a Gap supplier had
sub-contracted work to the illegal sweatshop in the Shahpur Jat area of Delhi,
Indian police did not raid...
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A David-and-Goliath takeover offer for the German factories of General Motors sent the share price of the bidding company, SolarWorld, crashing 16 per cent lower Wednesday.
SolarWorld, which assembles and installs electricity generating systems that rely on wind or the sun, offered 1 billion euros (1.25 billion dollars) for the Opel...
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It might have been considered a delicacy in some parts of the world, but a Vienna woman lost her appetite when she discovered a dead frog in frozen spinach she was cooking, Austrian daily Oesterreich reported Tuesday.
"Any green vegetable sickens me now," the 32-year-old woman told the newspaper after having found the brown...
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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague ruled on Tuesday it has jurisdiction to hear a claim by Croatia that Serbia committed genocide against its population in the 1991-95 war.
The ICJ said the decision was final, binding and without appeal and had been made by 10 votes to seven.
Croatia filed the case against the...
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German luxury carmaker BMW said Tuesday that it was lowering its profits forecast for 2009, following disappointing third-quarter results.
Profits plunged 62.9 per cent to 298 million euros (375 million dollars) compared to the same quarter of 2007, the company said in a statement released in Munich.
Turnover was down 8.6 per cent...
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Libyan President Moamer Gaddafi is welcome to visit Italy where he would be received as a friend, Italian foreign minister Franco Frattini said Thursday, according to news reports.
"If the leader of the Libyan revolution desires to visit Italy we will greet him with friendship, as one would with a friend," Frattini was...
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Austrian skier Matthias Lanzinger will sue the ruling body FIS for compensation over a crash at a World Cup race in Norway in which he lost his lower leg.
The Austrian Press Agency APA reported on Monday that Lanzinger's lawyer, Manfred Ainedter, has sent an according letter to FIS president Gian-Franco Kasper.
The compensation...
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Croatia's government has agreed to pay 78 million euros (101 million dollars) in damages to firms from Italy and Austria for claims arising from a cancelled highway project and a bank privatization, a local media report said Thursday.
The Croatian news portal business.hr, quoting a government source, said the settlements involve 44.3...
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A member of Norway's ruling Labour Party said Thursday she would not seek re-election to parliament next year after disclosures that she routinely placed calls to clairvoyants and fortune tellers at taxpayer expense.
Saera Khan, elected to the legislature in 2005, said in a statement late Wednesday she "regretted" that she...
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Lithuania will refuse to close its Soviet-era Ignalina nuclear power plant as planned unless the European Union provides adequate compensation, Lithuanian Economy Minister Vytas Navickas said on Thursday.
"Unless the energy security problems Lithuania would face after closing the Ignalina plant in 2009 are solved, we will not...
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Britain Friday increased the upper limit of guarantees offered to savers on deposits to 50,000 pounds (90,000 dollars), the Financial Services Authority (FSA) said.
The increase from 35,000 pounds is due to come into force next Tuesday as part of a wider package of stabilization measures worked out after the near-collapse of the...
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The Dutch government cannot be held responsible for the failure of Dutch United Nations troops to protect the victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre committed by Bosnian Serb forces, a court ruled in The Hague Wednesday.
The Mothers of Srebrenica, relatives of the 8,000 men and boys killed while the enclave was under the formal...
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In further bad news for Britain's economy, the Office for National Statistics reported Wednesday that the number of people gaining unemployment compensation in July rose by 20,100 to 864,700, the highest level in 15 years.
It was the sixth straight month that unemployment benefit numbers rose.
By another measure, that of the...
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 The Polish parliament on Saturday gave new Prime Minister Donald Tusk its vote of confidence.
Some 238 legislators voted in favour of the coalition of Tusk's
liberal-conservative People's Platform (PO) and the moderate Polish
Peasants' Party (PSL), while 204 legislators of Jaroslaw Kaczynski's
Law and Justice party (PiS) and the...
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 A court in Switzerland has finally given a verdict in the
case of four men involved in a plane
collision in 2002, where a Russian plane carrying over 3 dozen children along
with their families collided with a cargo plane belonging to the Swiss Airlines.
According to the facts, Swiss air-traffic control employees
misguided the...
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The European Court of Human Rights ordered Russia to pay the families of civilian Chechens killed by its military in 2000. Under the order, the eleven families must receive $196,000 from Russia as compensation for their losses."The astonishing ineffectiveness of the prosecuting authorities in this case can only be qualified as...
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 Serbia’s Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica sustained Tuesday the idea of maintaining Kosovo a Serbian province even if the process will slow down the adherence to the European Union.Speaking in front of the parliament, Kostunica said the Kosovo issue represents a priority for the new cabinet that has to be formed by Wednesday. "EU...
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A Cambodian court Tuesday found four former Khmer Rouge guerillas guilty of the 1996 kidnapping and murder of a British deminer and his Cambodian translator and sentenced them to 10 to 20 years in prison.
Judge Iv Kim Sri of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court acquitted a fifth man because of a lack of evidence.
Briton...
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Two years after the biggest hazardous waste scandal on the African continent, the International Human Rights League plans to institute legal proceedings.
Those responsible for the incident had still not been identified, the organization said in Paris on Thursday.
In August 2006, Dutch oil company Trafigura off-loaded around 500...
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 Although federal health officials have not cut tomatoes off
the salmonella outbreak cause list, an eruption that has affected more than
1,270 people nationwide, tomato growers are demanding taxpayers to pay them
compensations them for their losses.
Rep. Tim Mahoney, a Democrat from Florida,
a major tomato producer in the...
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The Olympic dream of banned
sprint champion Justin Gatlin ended on Thursday when an appeals court
in Atlanta dismissed his plea for an injunction to compete at the
United States trials for the Beijing Games.
The Circuit Court of Appeals said that Gatlin did not show the applicable standard for such an injunction.
Gatlin said he...
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Three Iraqis and a Jordanian filed a lawsuit against United States military contractors, accusing
them of torture while they were detained at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad
in 2003 and 2004.
The men were
released without any charge and have brought individual lawsuits in four
different United States
courts: Seattle,...
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The Supreme Court in Dublin
struck down a 'risk equalization' scheme Wednesday by which the former
Irish state health insurer, VHI, was compensated by private rivals for
having more elderly customers, national broadcaster RTE reported. The court said the scheme was based on 'a wrong interpretation of the law,' RTE reported.
The...
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Live chicken sales resumed
in markets across Hong Kong Wednesday after a 21-day ban on poultry
imports and sales following a bird flu outbreak. However,
many chicken stalls remained closed because of tough new restrictions
which prohibit the keeping of live poultry in markets overnight to
lower the risk of a new bird flu outbreak....
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The Justice Department informed Friday that they have
reached a $4.6 million settlement with former U.S. Army scientist Steven
Hatfill, who was the prime suspect in the deadly anthrax letters of 2001.
The mailings were common hand-addressed letters, but they
contained tiny quantities of deadly anthrax powder. The first letter...
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 Federal health officials confirmed their belief in the
safety of childhood vaccines, in reaction to questions raised by a government
settlement with the parents of a 9-year-old girl, who developed autism symptoms
after receiving childhood shots.
The government agreed to pay the Poling family from the
National Vaccine Injury...
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 Eli Lilly, the drug maker, is charged of having concealed
the dangers the dangerous side effects of Zyprexa to protect sales of the
popular schizophrenia medicine.
If they put a warning on this product, their sales would
fall," Scott Allen, an attorney for Alaska said Wednesday, in the state’s
lawsuit against the drug...
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 French cosmetics firm Lancome sues Uma Thurman over the use of her name and face in advertising campaigns. The actress claims the company used her name on Canadian billboards and Asian Web sites after the contract expired and she demands for $1 million for compensation. Lancome said it did not violate the contract with her and asked for...
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 Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Reva Goetz ordered the
26-year-old troubled pop star Britney Spears to pay her father, James Spears,
a weekly compensation of $2,500 and to authorize him a car. According to The
Associated Press, Goetz ordered the weekly payments in documents released by the
court Thursday, but actually signed...
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 Another strange legal battle has
just started. A woman sued Best Buy for the huge amount of $54 million over the
weird claim that the popular retailer lost her notebook and then tried to cover
up this fact. The woman’s name is Raelyn Campbell, she is 37 years old and lives
in Washington, D.C.
Campbell realizes that the money she...
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 A government report revealed on Wednesday that the US productivity, the amount of output per hour of work, registered a 1.8 percent decrease during 2007, reflecting a weakening economy.Despite the 6 percent productivity increase in the third quarter of 2007, the declining increase still exceeded analysts’ expectations of 0.5...
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Konami Corp., the Japanese creator of the “Dance
Dance Revolution” music video game claims that Rock Band developer Harmonix and
its US
publisher assistants Viacom and MTV violated its music video game in making “Rock
Band.”
So Konami sued Viacom Inc.’s Harmonix
studio, demanding cash compensation and an order that would block...
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 Britney Spears has been sued by Las Vegas resident
Nancy Rosu, a fashion consultant, after Britney allegedly stopped paying
for the clothes bought and delivered by Rosu, reported USA Today.
According to TMZ, the case was
filed on Jan. 18, on the roll of Clark Country District Court for compensation
exceeding $50,000. Nancy...
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 Pope Benedict XVI is expected to express his apologies to
the victims of sexual abuse inflicted by Roman Catholic clergy when he visits Australia for
World Youth Day next week, the church's senior cleric in the country announced
on Monday.
Cardinal George Pell declared that the pope had communicated
his disgrace and remorse over...
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 The new Australian Prime Minister Kevin Ruud will
present the first formal apology to “the stolen generations” for the policies led
in the past by the state of Australia,
according to which Aboriginal children were taken from their families.
The apology will be made on Feb. 13 and
represents the first topic on the agenda in the...
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 A court ruling Friday cleared the way for an Indian doctor held briefly
on terrorism charges to return to his job in an Australian hospital.
In a further boost for Mohamed Haneef, Immigration Minister Chris
Evans said the Indian doctor was free to return to Australia under his
original visa.
Lawyers for Mohamed Haneef were...
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 The Writers Guild of America, representing approximately 10,500 film and television writers, agreed on Monday to “an interim agreement” with the producers of the Grammy Awards due next month, Reuters reported.
The 50th annual Grammy Awards ceremony, the most important of the music industry, is to be broadcasted on February...
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 The major late-night talk shows in the United States were set to return
to TV screens Wednesday night, with striking writers picketing their
studios and vowing to continue their work stoppage into a third month.
Jay Leno's top-rated show will run without a professional script,
but ratings rival David Letterman will have the benefit...
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 The government of Colombia on Wednesday agreed to a humanitarian
operation that would see three high profile hostages released by
left-wing rebels - a plan mediated and proposed by the government of
Venezuela.
The government delegated Colombian Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos
Restrepo to be its representative at the handover,...
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 The top executives of Countrywide Financial Corp., the largest mortgage lender in the United States, are set to receive a pretty large paycheck in the troubled company’s merger with Bank of America, according to filings with US regulators.The two execs will receive a combined 19 million dollars in payouts, documents that Bank of America...
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 Nokia announced on Monday that it has won a patent case against the chipmaker Qualcomm, as a United Kingdom High Court ruled in favor of the world’s top mobile phone maker.The judge’s decision said that all the asserted GSM patent claims of Qualcomm in the trial that began in May, 2006, were invalid, which means that Nokia is not due to...
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 According to Boeing officials, the ultra lightweight fiber
carbon-based airliner 787 Dreamliner will have to be postpone its launch for at
least another six months as the company struggles to assemble the aircraft.
The delay comes as an embarrassment as Boeing insisted its
plane will meet the deadline and mirrors delays suffered by...
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 "Sopranos" star James Gandolfini returns to HBO under a different name in another show, "ABCD Camp," where he’ll play Sonny Vaccaro, a legend of the basketball world, the one who signed Michael Jordan to the first million-dollar shoe deal at Nike.The three-time Emmy winner will also serve as executive producer for the...
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 The Edmonton Oilers signed restricted free agent forward Dustin Penner to a five-year contract on Thursday after the Anaheim Ducks opted not to match the offer, making the Manitoba native the first the first restricted free agent to find a new team via offer sheet in the last ten years. The five-year contract will earn the 24-year-old...
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Crises in Somalia and the Middle East need to be resolved to prevent further extremism and terrorist attacks, Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga said Thursday on the 10th anniversary of deadly bomb attacks in East Africa.
Over 200 people died and more than 4,000 were injured in Kenyan capital Nairobi and Tanzanian capital Dar es...
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 The Fatah movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday
accused US President George W Bush of violating United Nations
resolution 194 on the return of Palestinian refugees and the payment to
them of compensation.
According to Azzam al-Ahmad, the chief of the Fatah parliamentary bloc, Bush has offered just to...
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 Turkish fighter planes were reported to have launched a new strike
against Kurdish rebels based in the mountainous border area of northern
Iraq, police sources from the northern Iraqi town of Duhuk said Sunday.
The strikes occurred a day earlier, according to reports.
Meanwhile, eyewitnesses from the northern area claimed that...
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 Israel said Friday that it had sent a message to US Ambassador Richard
Jones in Tel Aviv, reassuring him that it will not build a new Jewish
neighbourhood in a northern area of occupied East Jerusalem.
Israel, meanwhile, denied that it was holding indirect contacts
with the radical Islamic Hamas movement over a truce in Gaza, as...
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The United States have finally decided to scratch out North Korea
from the terrorist countries list.
North Korea
says the United States
has agreed to remove it from a list of countries that support terrorism.
Washington has taken N
Korea off the list after a meeting in Geneva
this weekend between nuclear envoys from both...
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 Embattled Israeli President Moshe Katsav submitted his resignation Friday to the Knesset after being dragged into a long and shameful trial for allegedly sexually harassing former employees.Katsav agreed to plead guilty in exchange for a changing of his initial indictment with a new one that would surely lead to a suspended sentence.He...
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 Israeli President Moshe Katsav decided to sit down at the negotiation table with state prosecutors Thursday and agreed to plead guilty of committing sexual crimes against women employees, a deal that will keep him out of prison.According to Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz, the embattled leader will receive a suspended sentence after...
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 After Billy Donovan agreed to coach Orlando and backed off returning to the Florida Gators, Magic acted quickly and hired Stan Van Gundy as head coach.Florida was eager to re-hire Donovan, who spurned a five-year, $27.5 million contract with Orlando.On Thursday, Donovan apologized to the Magic, his family and Florida. "I feel...
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