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 Wal-Mart Inc announced on Wednesday it is partnering with
computer giant Dell Inc. and software maker eClinicalWorks to launch a bundled electronic
health records package for doctors, including installation and maintenance.
The system will be offered through Sam's Club, Wal-Mart's
wholesale branch, which has “a long history of...
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WellPoint Inc. agreed to pay $10 million to
settle an investigation by New York Attorney General Andrew Cumo into
questionable insurance reimbursements in the state.
WellPoint is the parent company to Anthem
Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Wisconsin
and one of the largest health insurers in the state.
In the past 6 months,...
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Venezuelan troops seized a cement plant owned by Mexico's Cemex SAB after a deal to nationalize the firm failed.
Troops occupied the Maracaibo Cemex plant in the western state of Zulia Monday night but plan to take control of all four Cemex plants in Venezuela Tuesday.
"At midnight, we are going to take operational control of...
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 According to the New York Times, the House of Representatives approved legislation on Wednesday that would give the Food and Drug Administration the authority to regulate tobacco industry.Taking into account the record of warnings about smoking risk and the fact that smoking causes one in five deaths in the U.S., John D. Dingell,...
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 On Thursday, the "Scientific Assessment of the Effects of Global Change on the United States" report was released by the Bush administration. Four years of research were needed to put all the information together; however, it was thanks to a court order that the report eventually came out. One of the conclusions of the report...
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hospitals are not prepared to deal with a big event, such as a disaster or a
terrorist attack, according to findings released Monday from a House oversight
committee. The survey included seven major cities and the hospitals were
inspected on Tuesday, March 25 at 4:30 p.m., local time.
The 34 hospitals surveyed in New York...
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 On Wednesday president Bush gave the year 2025 as deadline for halting the growth of greenhouse-gas emissions. According to Mr.Bush, new technologies are "the key" for resolving the soon-to-be delicate issue of climate change. One of the more specific aspects the president went into was this: power plant emissions should peak...
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South Korea and the
six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have agreed to reach a free
trade agreement (FTA) by the end of next year, officials said
Wednesday. 'This week's meeting will be focused on laying the
foundation for an early completion of the free trade talks,' South
Korean deputy Trade Minister and chief negotiator...
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 As internet access is getting more and more popular, the
diversity of things that can be done online is on a continuously ascending
path. Sony BMG, in an attempt to adapt to the current evolutionary trend, is allegedly
close to signing a contract with MySpace Music that would allow the first to
offer users everywhere online music...
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 Madonna’s brother, Christopher Ciccone, is writing
a memoir about his sister. He has signed a deal with publishers Simon and
Scuster and will be working with Wendy Leigh, who wrote biographies of Liza
Minnelli, Grace Kelly and a provocative book about Arnold Schwarzenegger.
“Living with My Sister Madonna” will tell
the story of a...
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 The resume of the Olsen twins will be augmented with
something new.
Apart from their acting career and their fashion business,
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are making their debut in writing, announcing that
they will soon become authors of a book called “Influence.”
The book will bear the signature of the Olsen twins and will
be...
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 In the longest ever Olympic torch trip, aimed to reflect China’s economic and political power, the flame arrived in San Francisco, its only stop in North America, on Tuesday morning and was treated like a head of state.The torch was accommodated in a hotel downtown as it waits to begin its march through San Francisco. The route of the...
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 Olympic three-time gold medalist Marion Jones on Friday was sentenced
to spend six months in jail for lying about using steroids and a
check-fraud scam, media reports said.
Jones, the first woman to claim five medals in an Olympics, could
have faced up to 10 years in jail for the offences, and even under a
plea deal faced up to 37...
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Motorsport's ruling body announced a raft of new measures Friday to help cut the cost of competing in Formula One.
The FIA reached the deal with F1 teams during crisis talks with F1 teams in Monaco Wednesday in the wake of Honda's shock withdrawal from the sport last Friday.
Under the deal, engine life with be doubled with each...
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Motorsport's ruling body announced a raft of new measures Friday to help cut the cost of competing in Formula One.
The FIA reached the deal with F1 teams during crisis talks with F1 teams in Monaco Wednesday in the wake of Honda's shock withdrawal from the sport last Friday.
Under the deal, engine life will be doubled with each...
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 Formula One driver Fernando Alonso confirmed on his website Monday that
he has agreed a move to his former team Renault where he made his F1
debut in 2001 and became the sport's youngest world champion when
winning the first of his two titles in 2005.
"This is the team where I grew up as a driver in F1. Now it is time
for us...
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Sydney - Australian copper and gold producer OZ Minerals Ltd on Monday recommended to shareholders a cash offer from China Minmetals Non-ferrous Metals Company Ltd that values the debt-laden company at 2.6 billion Australian dollars (1.6 billion US dollars).
The takeover bid follows Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto Ltd's...
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Around half of the Australian government's 21-billion-Australian-dollar (14.7-billion-US-dollar) surplus will be spent in trying to ward off a recession, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Tuesday.
To breathe life back into consumer spending habits, around a quarter of the country's adults will receive an early financial Christmas...
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Senior scientists on Tuesday lambasted Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's top climate-change adviser for recommending only a 10-per-cent cut in Australia's greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.
In an interim report delivered last week, economist Ross Garnaut said even his 10-per-cent cut should be conditional on a global deal committing all...
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 Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Japanese Prime
Minister Yasuo Fukuda agreed on Thursday not to let the whale-hunt issue to
intervene in their partnership. During their several-hour talk the two decided
that the dispute over Japan's
annual whale hunts should not come between their plans to strengthen their
security and...
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Australia on Thursday offered to send a ship to secure the freedom of
two anti-whaling activists held by Japanese whalers in Antarctica.
Australian Benjamin Potts, 28, and Briton Giles Lane, 35, have been
detained since they forced their way aboard a Japanese harpoon vessel
on Tuesday.
A stalemate has developed with the Japanese...
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Serial confidence trickster and international playboy Peter Foster was jailed by a Brisbane court Friday on money laundering charges linked to a property deal in the South Pacific.
Foster, 45, will spend at least four years in jail after pleading guilty to fraudulently obtaining a bank loan of 234,000 US dollars from the tiny Pacific...
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Roger Federer and Rafael
Nadal comfortably mowed down quarter-final opposition in dominating
style on Wednesday as the pair of powerhouse players edged closer to
their third potential final at the Wimbledon Championships.
Federer, aiming for a sixth straight title at the All England Club
after holding off Nadal for the last two...
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 Andy Roddick expects a wave of support from boisterous American fans as
he opens the US-Russia Davis Cup final on Friday against surprise
starter Dmitry Tursunov.
Roddick will get the chance to put the hosts into the lead after
the draw made Thursday and the American expects a sellout crowd to
immediately become a factor in the...
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 At least 3 percent of Washington, D.C., residents are HIV-positive or have AIDS, and every mode of transmission is on the rise, according to a new report by D.C. health officials.Scheduled to be released Monday, the report notes that HIV continues to be the leading cause of death when it comes to infectious diseases, and there is no cure...
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 Co-founder of search engine leader Google, Sergey Brin, announced his intention to fund a new study on Parkinson’s disease in an attempt to better understand the disease’s roots.The study was announced Thursday and will be conducted by 23andMe, a company co-founded and co-managed by Mr. Brin’s wife, Anne Wojcicki. The company offers a...
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 A test made by Procter & Gamble by using Intrinsa testosterone patches in women announced on Wednesday that a high dose of the male hormone can give a little but meaningful improvement in the sexual lives of post-menopausal women. Before the study began, the women stated that they had had 2-1/2 satisfying sexual acts during one...
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 A study carried out by Spanish
and Portuguese researchers found that patients suffering from fibromyalgia experience
a great deal of pain relief when they exercise regularly in a heated pool.
The study conducted by Narcis
Gusi, of the University of Extremadura in Caceres,
Spain and Pablo Tomas-Carus
of the University of...
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 A new study reports the fact that
older adults nowadays are less likely to suffer from memory loss and dementia
due to the fact that they are better educated, wealthier and benefit from a
better health care for cardiovascular disease.
The study, which was published
online Wednesday, in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia,...
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 Despite a recent breakthrough showing the controversial
embryos may no longer be needed a top scientist using stem cells from human
embryos to cure disease and repair injuries will proceed with his work.
That blockbuster breakthrough was announced last week by
researchers in Wisconsin and Japan, who have discovered how to...
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 According to an article published in the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences, researchers have recently decoded the Malassezia
globosa genome. This may fight not only dandruff, but also related new born infections.
It is characterized by white, oily-looking flakes of dead skin in the hair and
on the shoulders and an itchy...
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 The Chicago Bulls’ general manager, John Paxson, has denied the fact that Kobe Bryant would be joining his team in the near future, saying that the two teams were not even close to signing a deal.Rumors about the fact that the Los Angeles Laker’s superstar might head towards Chicago had occurred all throughout this week, but Paxson has...
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 The WBO Heavyweight Champion remains unchanged, after the
Saturday confrontation between Sultan Ibragimov and Evander "The Real
Deal" Holyfield, evidently the former being the one to win.
Ibragimov was declared unanimously champion after 12 rounds,
with an eloquent 22-0-1. Holyfield’s approach was more aggressive in the...
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 According to Genentech Inc., the company has resolved a
dispute with doctors over the use of its cancer drug Avastin, a much less
costly alternative to the biotech company's Lucentis for macular degeneration.
Avastin works similarly to Lucentis, which was approved last
year to treat wet, age-related macular degeneration and quickly...
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 The Kentucky Heath Department is suing Purdue Pharma, Oxycontin provider
since 1996. Oxycontin is also known as “hillbilly heroin” is an extremely
addictive drug that has been blamed for thousands of drug overdose deaths in Kentucky
alone.
Kentucky pressing charges
against the manufacturer of Oxycontin, for misleading doctors,...
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 Condoleezza Rice has agreed to a book deal with Crown
Publishers starting with a memoir of her eight years under former U.S.
President George W. Bush, first as national security adviser and then as
secretary of state. Although often criticized as unduly loyal to the president
and some of his policies, including the Iraq War, she is...
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Kathmandu - Nepalese politicians have decided to remove thousands of former Maoist combatants from camps and attempt to reintegrate them into society after they were disqualified from the combatant rehabilitation process by the United Nations, official reports said Friday.
The decision came during a meeting Thursday of the Army...
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Brussels - The row over the use of foreign workers in Britain which erupted on Friday could be the "first in a flood" of cases across Europe if the European Union's labour laws are not improved, a top union leader warned Wednesday.
"If there's suspicion that people are working cheaply, then there will be more and more...
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Mountain gorillas living in a Congolese national park controlled by rebels battling the government are doing well despite the conflict, the director of the park said Tuesday after rangers gained access for the first time in 15 months.
Rangers have not been able to access the gorillas in the Virunga National Park, eastern Democratic...
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Serbia, its stability already under much pressure, faces ad hoc financing as the deadline for the 2009 budget expired Tuesday amid endless obstruction by the opposition.
Parliament had until midnight on December 15 to adopt the budget for the coming year, but could not wade through filibustering by the ultra-nationalist...
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Industrialized countries are continuing to emit more greenhouse gasses despite goals set by the Kyoto agreement to curb carbon pollution, a UN body said Monday.
The UN Climate Change Secretariat said planet-warming gases released by 40 industrial states that signed up the Kyoto framework increased an average 2.3 per cent between...
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Tiny Malta obtained a symbolic victory Thursday as European Union leaders acknowledged that the burden of asylum- seekers entering the bloc should be shared out among member states.
At a summit in Brussels, EU heads of state and government formally approved a European Pact on Immigration and Asylum.
The pact seeks to improve the...
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Sweden and Denmark on Monday joined the growing group of European countries that have raised state guarantees for bank deposits amid the ongoing financial turmoil.
In Finland, the cabinet committee on economic policy met Monday to discuss the events, saying Helsinki hoped the moves "will prove efficient in resolving the existing...
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French bank BNP Paribas will pay 14.5 billion euros (19.7 billion dollars) to take over the majority of the troubled insurance and banking giant Fortis in Belgium and Luxembourg, BNP Paribas said on Monday.
The deal, which involves 9 billion euros' worth of shares and 5.5 billion euros in cash, includes the purchase of 75 per cent of...
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Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party has opposed calling in ex-South African president Thabo Mbeki to salvage a power-sharing deal with prime minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
Zanu-PF's chief negotiator Patrick Chinamasa rejected calls from the MDC for Mbeki to step in to end the...
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Serbia and the Italian carmaker Fiat on Monday signed a joint-venture deal expected to bring almost 1 billion euros (1.3 billion dollars) in investment and revive the moribund Serbian car industry.
"This is a big day for Serbia," President Boris Tadic said after the contract was signed.
Fiat would pour 700 million euros...
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Zimbabwe's prime minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday made a surprise visit to banks in the capital Harare that were the scene of long queues resulting from cash shortages.
Some of those queuing temporarily forgot about the miseries as they cheered the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader. Others said they had been in...
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Eighteen clinics were Monday being set aside in Hong Kong to treat children who may have been infected by tainted milk imported from China.
Seven special assessment centres will also open from Tuesday morning to do detailed examination on suspected cases with priority given to high-risk infants, Health Secretary York Chow...
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Britain's Lloyds TSB Bank is taking over ailing mortgage lender HBOS in what is seen as the biggest shake-up in the banking sector in the wake of the current international market turmoil.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling said Thursday the merger was "absolutely necessary to ensure stability in the financial...
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North Korea said Tuesday it had stopped disabling its nuclear facilities in protest of the United States' failure to remove the country from its terrorist blacklist.
The foreign ministry in Pyongyang accused Washington of not having kept its side of a deal struck to end North Korea's nuclear weapons programme.
In response,...
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Police in Zimbabwe detained two members of parliament from Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) on Monday after they turned up at parliament to take part in a swearing-in ceremony, the MDC said.
George Sibotshiwe, spokesman for MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai, said Shua Mudiwa, MP for Mutare West, and Eliah Jembere,...
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The United States anticipates some changes in the text it has submitted for the consideration of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) for a waiver allowing trade in fissile materials with India, an Indian television channel reported Friday.
"There may be changes in the text. But we will not allow any changes that will impede the...
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon plans to visit Myanmar in December to discuss the country's political stalemate, his special envoy to Myanmar Ibrahim Gambari disclosed Wednesday.
"Ban Ki-moon plans to come to Myanmar in the last week of December but this time the trip will be focused on politics," said Nyan Win, the...
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Polish and US officials planned to sign a deal Wednesday to station US missile interceptors in Poland, fuelling conflict with Russia in a region once dominated by Moscow.
Poland agreed last week to host part of the US missile shield in return for military aid, including a battery of Patriot air defence missiles in Poland, capping more...
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 Hurricane Dolly formed in the Caribbean is heading toward the U.S.-Mexico border and may strengthen into a Category 2 storm before reaching the coast around midday, forecasters predicted. According to the National Hurricane Center’s Web site, early this morning the hurricane’s center was an estimated 55 miles (90 kilometers)...
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Hezbollah handed back to Israel the bodies of
two Israeli soldiers Wednesday, two years and four days after snatching
them in a July 12, 2006 cross-border raid that sparked one month of
deadly and destructive fighting. Under a deal brokered by a
United Nations-appointed German mediator that closes the final chapter
of that 33-day...
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A court in The Hague is due to rule on
Thursday whether or not it is authorized to hear a case about the role
of the United Nations during the fall of the Muslim enclave Srebrenica
in 1995. After Bosnian Serbs reconquered the Muslim enclave,
they deported and murdered at least 8,000 people. Dutch UN peacekeepers
who were supposed...
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Thai Foreign Minister Noppodon Pattama
announced his resignation Thursday after being accused of violating the
constitution for signing a communique last month with Cambodia to back
the listing of an ancient Hindu temple as a World Heritage Site. 'To show responsibility and spirit I resign,' Noppodon told a press conference. ...
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Communist allies of India's United Progressive
Alliance Wednesday formally withdrew their support to the ruling
coalition over a civilian nuclear deal with the US and demanded a trust
vote in the Indian parliament. Leaders of the four left
parties that have provided the Congress-party led UPA with its
parliamentary majority since...
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Reality TV guru Mark Burnett has been slapped
with a 70-million-dollar lawsuit by a former partner who claims the
producer reneged on a deal to pay him 10 per cent of the profits from
shows like Survivor and The Apprentice.
Conrad Riggs, a former Disney executive, claimed in the lawsuit that
he played a key role in helping Burnett...
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 Israel and Syria stated on Wednesday they had launched indirect talks to reach a comprehensive peace
agreement. The talks are mediated by Turkish officials in Istanbul. This is the first time in eight
years when the two countries are willing to reach a common denominator.
"It will be a very long process. The direct...
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the 136th day of 2008 with 230 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter. The evening stars are Mars, Mercury and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include author L. Frank Baum ("The Wizard of Oz") in 1856; French chemist Pierre Curie in 1859; author...
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 U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown is due to meet the three U.S. presidential candidates Thursday before
holding talks with President George W. Bush in Washington. As British newspapers pointed
comparisons between the premier’s three-day visit in the U.S. and the chronicled trip of Pope
Benedict XVI, a British official said that the...
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 After in London police battled to keep pro-Tibet
demonstrators away from the Olympic flame and more that 20 men had been
arrested, and in Paris the final leg of the 27-kilometre tour from the capital
had to be cancelled because of the protests, Chinese authorities are also
expecting to see protests during the Tibetan stage of the...
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 No fewer than 60 leaders from NATO states, partners and
aspirant members together with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and U.N.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will gather for a three-day meeting in the
Romanian capital Bucharest.
The summit is starting Wednesday and might decide whether it would mark a
decline or a turning point in the...
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 In a new five-minute audio message broadcasted by the Arabic television channel al-Jazeera late
Wednesday, Osama bin Laden warned Europeans they will deal with a “severe
reckoning” due to siding with the United States in Afghanistan and for publishing
cartoons of the prophet Muhammad in magazines and newspapers, which is
considered...
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 According to recent news reports, Russia and India signed a
deal to jointly build a multipurpose transport plane Monday as President
Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wrapped up a visit that
highlighted deepening military and economic ties between the two nations.
It was unclear, however, whether the two sides were...
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 In an attempt to minimize further casualties caused by serious differences over the fight against Iraq-based Kurdish guerrillas, President Bush and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey sought Monday to resolve these issues. The two state officials agreed on the need to share intelligence to end their deadly raids.However there...
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 According to a statement released on Thursday by the world’s
web search leader, Google, it was unlikely U.S. antitrust authorities would
seek to impose conditions on its $3.1 billion acquisition of advertising
company Double-Click.
David Drummond, Google's chief legal officer, told reporters
he did not expect the Federal Trade...
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 A survey that was published on Wednesday by the Office of Communications (Ofcom) showed that the United Kingdom offers the lowest prices for telephone, broadband and television in Europe and also that the country is the leader in the take-up of digital television out of the 12 countries that were included in the survey.The survey...
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 Royal Bank of Canada's RBC Centura Bank has announced it agreed to buy Alabama National BanCorporation, together with its First American Bank subsidiary, for $1.6 billion. RBC offered shareholders a substantial 51% premium over the closing price Wednesday of $53.12, or 80$ per share. RBC Centura is the name of Royal Bank of Canada's...
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Washington - President Barack Obama convened a summit of US politicians, economists and industry groups to discuss health care reform on Thursday, vowing to tackle a critical issue that has confounded many past administrations.
Spiralling health care costs in the United States have threatened "the very foundation of our...
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 U.S. and Canadian researchers said on Monday that the expensive advertising of the prescription drugs don’t increase the sales and don’t encourage it either. Companies spent $3 billion in 2005 on this kind of ads in the United States. Still, the drugs didn’t appear to result in more prescriptions.Excepting the United States and New...
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The Joint Commission, a health care
accreditation agency, is ordering hospitals to come to a plan to deal with rude
language, intimidating and hostile behaviour by health-care workers that could
threaten a facility’s good standing if not addressed.
According to WebMD, the Joint Commission’s
new standards, which go to effect on...
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 Almost seven years after the September 11 terrorist attacks, U.S. emergency rooms are allegedly not prepared to deal with a dire situation like a suicidal bomb, as a report from the House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee brings out.
The survey included seven major cities (New York, Los Angeles, Washington,...
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 A three-day simulation is being held in Indonesia, the country with the world's highest human death toll from bird flu. The purpose of this drill is to test people’s ability to deal with a pandemic triggered by the virus and to inform them on how they should handle things if their poultry gets infested.
The event is taking...
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 A recent study
showed that antibiotics should be prescribed with much more attention,
especially when it comes about people suffering from dementia diseases, such as
Alzheimer’s disease.
For example,
Alzheimer’s disease is considered by many doctors and by the Alzheimer’s
Association to be a fatal brain disease, that is a...
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 Even if Paraguay’s
people panicked and started to act violently because of the recent yellow fever
outbreak, the country’s Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare is
currently trying to deal with the problem. Paraguay is also being helped by
neighbor countries and by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The Ministry...
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 A new study proved that people spend more on themselves when
they are feeling sad.
The study, presented Saturday at a meeting of the Society
for Social and Personality Psychology, states that sadness makes people focus
more on themselves, and induces them the feeling that they and their belongings
are not valuable enough....
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 A recent court ruling in federal appeals court gave the
green light to San Francisco in their push to require health care for residents
and uninsured workers.
Employers who have people that do not have health care that
work for them would be required to provide options for coverage according to
the new proposed San Francisco...
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 The worst options contain more than double a child's
recommended daily salt intake in a single meal, say Consensus Action on Salt
and Health.
Cash researchers surveyed 346 food and drink items and 264
advertised meal combinations at Pizza Hut, KFC, McDonald's and Burger King. The
saltiest kid's meal deal was a Pizza Hut chicken...
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 A new study published in the August 23rd issue of the New England Journal of Medicine has found, upon surveying some 3,000 Americans aged 57 to 85, that older people still have sex in surprisingly significant numbers. Sex with a partner in the last year was reported by 73 percent of those aged 57 to 64, 53 percent of those aged 64 to 75...
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 A recent article from the
German-language newspaper “Financial Times Deutschland” has left us all
wondering what the next surprise Apple is preparing for us will be. “Financial
Times Deutschland” has started to speculate when Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs has met
Volkswagen’s CEO Martin Winterkorn few days ago. Although nobody quite...
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 After several weeks of intense
negotiations it seems that Apple Inc. and three top European companies have
reached the final agreements: iPhone has been reported to hit three of Europe’s largest markets to its fans’ delight.
So the first lucky European
markets that are to welcome Apple’s iPhone will be the United Kingdom,...
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 After a trademark dispute between
Apple Inc. and the Beatles’ company, Apple Corps. Ltd., the American Apple has
just announced that John Lennon’s music will finally go digital! The American
company has announced that sixteen of the late singer and songwriter’s songs
will be heading for Apple’s iTunes online store, so that the old or...
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 Two executives from NBC told the Associated Press that Lipstick Jungle and My Own Worst Enemy will be kicked off the channel. Christian Slater and Brooke Shields have just passed on the failure list of actors as their most recent projects will be stopped from airing. The shows are the youngest NBC’s projects and apparently, they both...
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 DreamWorks Chairman Stacey Snider announced on Monday that General Electric Co’s Universal Studios have made a plan to release films by Dream Works SKG during a new partnership with Reliance ADA Group of India. The Universal Studios will receive 8% of the distribution fee on a rate of six films per year. The contract was made to last 7...
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 “Finding Amanda” is an easy, unpretentious comedy, the
directorial debut of Peter Tolan, a flexible and adaptable comedy writer.
Writer-director Peter Tolan gained a
great deal from the casting of Matthew Broderick in the main role of Taylor
Peters, a television author addicted to gambling, drugs and alcohol....
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 The Smurfs, those small sky blue creatures
who live in Smurf Village somewhere in the woods, are to make a
comeback with the characters set for a Hollywood
film. They will celebrate their 50th anniversary with a Hollywood movie deal
announced on Tuesday by Columbia
pictures.
The new film will introduce the funny
characters to a...
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 Unlike most producers and directors who make a big deal out
of the theatre premiere of their movies, “Cloverfield’s” producer, JJ Abrams,
advises everyone to skip the movie-theatres when they want to watch the monster
film. The filmmaker apparently, thinks that the best place to see “Cloverfield”
is actually at home. Could it be...
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 Foxy Brown was released from a New York City prison on Friday after serving eight months of a yearlong sentence for assaulting a manicurist at a Manhattan nail salon. She allegedly refused to pay a $20 bill. Brown, 29, whose real name is Inga Marchand, spent eight months at Rose M. Singer facility at the New York prison although she was...
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 This week-end theatres welcomed a fantasy movie that will
charm both children and parents with the great adventures that it depicts.
“Nim’s Island,” as its
title highlights focuses on the story of a young girl living on a secluded
island. Nim, played by “Little Miss Sunshine” star, Abigail Breslin, lost her
mother at sea and is...
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 As the final season of the “The Wire” has reached an end,
HBO has ordered up 13 episodes of a new drama series, “The No. 1 Ladies’
Detective Agency,” which is based on the popular crime-book series by Alexander
McCall Smith. The drama will star R&B singer Jill Scott, who will play the
role of Precious Ramotswe, the owner of...
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 Movie fans that loved “Transformers” will be pleased to
discover that Hasbro and Universal Pictures stroke a six-year deal to initiate
at least another four feature movies based on Hasbro’s famous game and toy brands.
The range of offers among which they have the possibility to
choose from will be between Monopoly, Ouija, Clue,...
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 The Directors Guild of America announced Wednesday that the deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, reached last month, was endorsed by its members. The new contract goes into effect July 1."The vote reflects the strong support and enthusiasm our members have for our new contract," DGA president...
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 No Country for Old Men, Joel and
Ethan Coen’s drama, received the Hollywood
producers’ top prize on Saturday; this award is another proof that Coen
brothers’ movie is a front-runner in the race to the Oscars.
Only a few days ago, the movie’s
directors, Joel and Ethan Coen, were also named the year’s Best Directors by
the DGA...
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 Horror movies have evolved from monsters and zombies to the
monsters that people become when their own psychosis interfere in the process
of their own salvation.
Director Frank Darabont, known for his previous adaptations
from Stephen King’s novels and “The Shawshank Redemption” and “The Green Mile”
tackled anther King’s novella,...
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 The eight-minute “webisodes” of “Quarterlife” that
had the internet premiere on November 11 will become hourly NBC episodes
starting from next year.
NBC Universal announced the deal on Friday, promising to air
the series that were launched on the social networking site MySpace early in
2008, denying that the company’s decision...
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 Although there have been doubts over this matter, Vanessa Hudgens
closed the deal for Disney’s High-School Musical 3. The young actress
engendered a media scandal comparable to those generated by Britney Spears’
failing to keep her feet close to each other after having forgotten about her
underwear, when her nude photos leaked on the...
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 After the last week’s premiere of
‘Michael Clayton’, this week reserves a drug-traffic story that combines the
threats the illegal bonds imply with the complications of a blood family being
on opposite sides – trafficker and NYPD detectives.
James Gray’s “We Own The Night”
recalls the struggles that the New York policemen fought...
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 Former cast member of "Saturday Night Live," actress Janeane Garofalo will become a regular on Fox’s "24" starting in January when the upcoming season of the show kicks off, TV Guide reported. The outspoken liberal is set to co-star on the conservative-leaning real-time drama, whose co-creator/executive producer Joel...
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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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 Professional athletes' use of performance- enhancing drugs has led
hundreds of thousands of teenagers in the United States to turn to
steroids that can cause "serious harm" to their development, the head
of an investigation into baseball's own troubled past said Tuesday.
Former senator George Mitchell said the impact...
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 A press release announced on Thursday that Joe Torre has left The New York Yankees in order to be the new manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, agreeing to a three-year deal believed to be worth about $13 million. He will be the 26th manager in the Dodger’s 50 years history and the eight since they moved to Los Angeles from Brooklyn.He...
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 Dave Dombroski tackled The Tigers’ future battles with the
Indians, Red Sox and Yankees already and made a smart move, even though there
are mixed opinions concerning the price of this step.
Edgar Renteria is the off-season deal that keeps fans busy
talking about it. The 32-year old had
only 124 occasions to prove his skills due...
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 Carlos Zambrano and the Cubs, who spent his entire 10-season professional career with Chicago, reached an agreement and signed a five-year deal, a contract that also includes a sixth season option.The financial details of the agreement were not disclosed. During spring training he signed a one-year, $12.4 million deal and could have...
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 The St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday acquired right-hander Joel Pineiro, optioned to the minors last week by the Boston Red Sox, and cash for a minor league player to be named.The 6'1" tall and 200 pounds made his ML debut on August 8, 2000 and although he has had early success, his career has been plagued with control problems and...
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 The Atlanta Braves have allegedly acquired first baseman Mark Teixeira from the Texas Rangers. The deal involved other players such as pitcher Ron Mahay, who also joined the Braves, and with rookie catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia, minor league infielder Elvis Andrus and a pair of minor league pitchers heading Texas’ way. In 2001, Teixeira...
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 The AMC’s series, “Breaking Bad,” which premiered in January 2008, is ready to be launched for its second season. Many viewers are waiting to see the adventures of a high school chemistry teacher, played by Bryan Cranston. In a world full of problems that may be compared with those of the Old Testament’s Job - Walt White, a high school...
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 George Bush had a kind of documentary about his life at the end of his presidency, but Obama will have it at the beginning of his time as President of the United States. After Oliver Stone produced W, now Eduard Norton wants to produce a documentary about Obama’s life. The documentary will be released by HBO.Edward Norton’s Class 5 Films...
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 The Fox News Channel welcomed back Bill O’Reilly for a four-year deal which worth $10 million a year. It isn’t much regarding the successful image that O’Reilly gave to the network. The deals made for Fox News this year cost a lot of money. Shepard Smith, the channel’s main news anchor, made a deal with the network, for $8 million a...
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 Anne Pressly, 26, is a popular KATV anchorwoman who also played a small role in “W,” the new movie about George Bush’s life. On Monday, she was declared to be in a critical condition after he had been beaten in her own house. Pressly was found inside her bedroom at about 4:30 a.m., according to Cassandra Davis, Little Rock police...
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 Colin Callender, HBO Films President, announced on Tuesday that he intends to leave the big company after 20 years of making HBO one of the most important film networks. Callender added that he wants to start on with a new entertainment company. At HBO, he was the executive responsible for the channel’s ambitions, sophisticated and the...
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 Macrovision Solutions Corp. is a developer of content-protection software. The company has recently sold TV Guide magazine to OpenGate Capital, a firm from Los Angeles which is based on private equity. The deal between the two companies will end in December and represents an important part of Macrovision Corp. acquiring Gemstar-TV Guide...
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 Tom Bergeron, of “Dancing With the Stars,”
Ryan Seacrest, of “American Idol,” Howie Mandel of “Deal or No Deal,” Heidi
Klum of “Project Runway,” and Jeff Probst of “Survivor” have been named co-hosts
for the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards, which will take place September 21 at the
Nokia Theatre and will be broadcast on ABC, ABC and The...
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Although “The Cleaner” might apparently suggest the story of
a person whose job is to scrub dirty floors, the new A&E drama series
starting Tuesday evening at 10 portrays William Banks, played by Benjamin
Bratt, as God’s so-called missionary.
At first the plot may seem a bit far-fetched. However, the
series is based on the...
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 “The Simpsons” voice casts reached a new deal with 20th
Century Fox TV and Homer’s voice, Dan Castellaneta has been named consulting
producer, Reuters reports. It appears that the voice actors are reportedly
getting a salary increase to approximately $400,000 per episode for the next
four years.
Castellaneta and most of the...
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 Lindsay Lohan made her first appearance on set for a new
project on Saturday, insiders confirmed the rumors. Sources said she arrived on
the set 45 minutes earlier and she was in good shape.
Lohan’s possible deal for an extended guest shot for the
ABC’s dramedy, “Ugly Betty,” was first rumored last fall. It looks like Lohan
will...
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 Jimmy Fallon appears to be closer to the role of successor for
“Late Night” host Conan O’Brien’s chair on NBC in 2009, sources said. Published
reports showed on Thursday that Fallon has signed, or soon will sign, a deal
with NBC.
O'Brien, whose show airs at 12:35 a.m., is moving into the
11:35 p.m. slot next year after...
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 Odds seem more favorable that “90210” fans see Jennie Garth
reprise her role as Kelly Taylor, now that she renounced her role in the CBS
sitcom “My Best Friend’s Girl.”
Garth suddenly abandoned the CBS pilot comedy, after the
table read on Monday. The decision was commented as a mutual decision taken by
the actress and the...
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 “American Idol” is still victorious when it comes to
ratings. According to national estimates from Nielsen, Idol scored first
Wednesday being the highest-watched show at the crucial 9 o’clock hour. The show had 27.13 million
viewers and a 10.3 rating/26 in 18-49, surpassing NBC’s “Deal or No Deal” and
also CBS’ “Big Brother” which...
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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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 We might get lucky when it comes to our humoristic part that
needs to be accomplished, as the Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart and Stephen
Colbert promise to come back despite the ongoing writers’ strike.
January 7 is the big day the news satirists would return to the
Viacom-owned channel, following the example of NBC hosts Jay Leno...
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 MTV, the renowned lifestyle and music channel, decided to sign a deal with reality show A Shot at Love With Tila Tequila’s contestant Domenico Nesci to star in a new reality TV series called That's Amore, which is expected to have a huge success in the United states.The show, which will test the legend of Italian romance, will put Nesci...
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 It looks like 9 p.m. enlarges its offers, besides Fox News’ Hannity
& Colmes and CNN’s Larry King, as MSNBC has plans to replace
its currently low-rated Live with Dan Abrams with a new show that would
bring Rosie O'Donnell back to TV, as the New York Times reported.
After her sudden leave from The View on ABC six months...
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 Joost announced a new partnership with VH1 which is expected to lead to an upcoming arrangement to premiere the entire season of VH1's new scripted comedy series, I Hate My 30s, exclusively on Joost on July 16 (10 days ahead of the series' cable broadcast premiere)."This is exactly the kind of partnership we would like to have with...
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 While in London on Thursday, Michael Jackson announced he will perform his first set of shows in over 10 years. The King of Pop held a massive press conference in London in front of more than 300 journalists, who had been marshaled to capture the event, (he was an hour and a half late; no word on the excuse) in which he confirmed the...
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 “American Idol” runner-up David Archuleta signed a record
deal and he is expected to release an album later this year, Reuters reports.
Archuleta signed with 19 recordings/Jive and it appears that
his fans can expect an album from the 17-year-old pop singer this fall or
winter, after he ends with the American Idols Live tour....
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 It’s hard to say that during her 25-year career in music
Madonna didn’t prove to be innovative and talented. However, some say that her
latest album is the best one of her career. After being inducted into the US
Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame in March, the artist has come up with an album which
is everything that her previous one...
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 Starbucks Corp. realized that it would be better for them to
return to the initial business with coffee stores. After only one year, the
company announced Thursday that it took a major step back from its
entertainment business by handing over day-to-day management of its music label
to Concord Music Group. Furthermore, Starbucks will...
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 A $150 million deal is about to be closed this week between
rapper Jay-Z and concert promoter Live Nation Inc., New York Times reported Wednesday on
its Web site. This means that the company will finance the 38-year-old rapper's own entertainment venture, as well as recordings and tours over the next
decade.
The arrangement...
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 1980s hit-band R.E.M. will release its 14th
studio album this week, “Accelerate,” hoping that would be the beginning of its
revitalization. It appears that “Accelerate” is the band’s best effort in more
than a decade, as R.E.M. has not made a beginning-to-end album since in 1992
with “Automatic for the People.”
From their...
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 The doctors claim that the Grammy-winning King of Tejano music
Emilio Navaira will deal with a very long recovery and an uncertain future even
if he does survive to the head injury he suffered in a bus accident.
On Sunday, 45-year-old Navaira was driving his tour bus,
which crashed into an interchange barrier, throwing him...
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 Even though his success is unquestionable in every single
domain, dancing, singing, acting, but most of all women, Justin Timberlake
seems to have an issue with the latter. His problem, however, is not actually a
real one, the singer only being one of the executive-producers of the new NBC
show “My Problem With Women”
In order...
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 Qtrax, the P2P music networking
web site, was launched this weekend, but the world’s major music labels still
shrug their shoulders, denying being involved in this project. In fact, some
big music labels are even claiming that they have never supported the service,
which promises anyone the ability to access and download free legal...
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 When a member leaves a band, most fans question the strength
of the band to fill the void remained. But when singer-songwriter Jason Isbell
left Drive-By Truckers, the doubt augmented more.
Isbell’s stamina outstripped the other fellows of DBT. He
was younger and talent certainly was a feature of his. Their break-up was
amiable;...
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 Record label EMI may be left without one of its most selling
artists, Robbie Williams. The artist’s manager, Tim Clark revealed that
Williams is considering that possibility, once he has completed his final
studio album.
The deal that bonded Williams and EMI was completed in 2002,
prescribing the release of four albums under the...
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The most promising artist to release a debut album is Adele
Adkins, as Brit Awards Critics’ Choice prize demonstrates it.
The award is designed to recognize the talent of a young
artist and to encourage and launch his or her artistic career. Adele’s
remarkable soul voice made the jury believe that she was to become the new...
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 Rihanna skipped three UK gigs of her European tour. The
R&B star called off the three concerts due to medical advice.
The gig the 19-year old singer had scheduled at Birmingham's NEC Arena was
postponed as the artist’s doctor forced her not to perform. The medical causes
haven’t been disclosed.
But fans from...
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 A 24-year relationship doesn’t last if one needs something
else, especially if one of the parties is a record label and the other is an
extremely popular star, like Madonna. Concert promoter Live Nation is the lucky
new winner of a $120 million contract signed with the ever self-recreating
Madonna.
The star’s switch is as...
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 The youngest winner ever on "American Idol," Jordin Sparks, inked the contract offered for winning the show with 19 Recordings/Jive Records in Orlando, Fla.According to Billboard.com, the 17-year-old singer’s first single, "Tattoo," will be released on August 27 while Sparks' first album is set for a November release,...
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 A Prince concert in Minneapolis was shut down by the authorities almost an hour after the mandatory closing time, 3 a.m. The highly anticipated return of Prince, after twenty years, at the First Avenue nightclub did not impress the law enforcement officials."I think it's very arrogant of him to think he can hold us here like...
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Bangkok - The establishment of a human rights body for the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) this year will be of little worth if it has no mandate to conduct independent fact-finding missions in the region, a leading civil rights group warned Thursday.
"The body should be able to conduct country visits where...
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Tokyo - The Japanese finance minister announced on Tuesday that he will resign to take responsibility for an embarrassing public appearance last week when he seemed to be intoxicated.
Shoichi Nakagawa, with his necktie askew, slurred at a press conference in Rome and often closed his eyes after the Group of Seven financial...
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Dhaka - Bangladesh will begin providing special legal and physiological support for poor women and children who are victims of abuse and social injustice, officials said Tuesday.
Home Minister Sahara Khatun inaugurated a new centre in Dhaka where women and children victims of trafficking, acid attacks, rape, sexual harassments...
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Dhaka - Bangladesh's cabinet on Thursday approved a deal to allow the transit of goods through its territory by India, using water, road and rail routes, an official said.
"The government has decided to renew the previously signed deal styled Bangladesh-India Trade Agreement," Abul Kalam Azad, the press secretary to...
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New Delhi - French nuclear group Areva Wednesday signed an agreement to build atomic power plants in India, the first commercial contract that ends the South Asian country's three-decade nuclear isolation.
Areva will build up to six new-generation European Pressurized Reactors of 1,650 megawatts each at Jaitapur in the western...
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday blamed Arab leaders for not showing sufficient support for the Palestinians over the conflict on the Gaza Strip.
"The Arab League should face its responsibility" Ahmadinejad told reporters in a press conference in Tehran.
"If they (Arab leaders) have differences,...
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Three members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), including Swiss and Italian nationals, were abducted by unidentified gunmen in the southern Philippines on Thursday.
The kidnap victims were identified as Swiss Andreas Notter, 38, who is the head of the ICRC office in Zamboanga City, 875 kilometres south of Manila,...
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Prodded by Egypt, Israel and Hamas appear to be stumbling toward a ceasefire to bring an end to the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip, which on Thursday entered its 20th day.
But the task is not as simple as it sounds. The Hamas leadership is divided between the political leaders in the Gaza Strip, the military leadership in the...
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South Korean President Lee Myung Bak and Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso vowed Monday to increase their efforts to stop North Korea's nuclear weapons programme, in close cooperation with the administration of incoming US president Barack Obama.
The two leaders, meeting in the South Korean capital Seoul, also pledged to work...
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Governments should not abandon women and children who need their help most, even as tax revenues shrink because of the global financial crisis, the UN children's fund warned Tuesday.
Key East Asian and Pacific leaders met in Singapore to discuss how best to protect children by maintaining or scaling up social spending despite...
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The threat of a baggage handlers' strike at one of the world's busiest airports was lifted Tuesday when Hong Kong ground workers accepted a bonus pay deal.
Thousands of passengers were hit when 1,000 ground workers staged a three-hour strike on December 27 in protest over the axing of their traditional end-of-year bonuses because of...
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India has signed a 2.1-billion-dollar contract with United States aerospace major Boeing for eight maritime aircraft, news reports said Monday.
The aircraft are expected to strengthen the Indian Navy's intelligence-gathering capacities.
It is India's largest defence purchase from the US and comes a little over a month after a...
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Thailand's fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra can now lay his hands on just 500 million dollars - about a tenth of his estimated previous wealth, the Nation newspaper said Friday.
The founder of Thailand's biggest telecoms conglomerate was thought to be worth around 5 billion dollars before he was ousted in a...
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Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on Tuesday appointed three members to the government's peace negotiating team with Muslim separatist rebels.
Arroyo named the head of the panel on December 1 in a first step towards resuming stalled peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
Presidential peace adviser...
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Tehran said Monday that no final agreement had yet been reached with Russia for delivery of a new air defence system to Iran.
The parliament's security commission on Sunday claimed that the deal had already been finalized with Moscow.
"The Foreign Ministry has not yet received anything final in this regard, therefore I can...
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India said Monday the international community had not exerted enough pressure on Pakistan to dismantle terrorist networks on its soil which posed the "greatest danger" to global security.
Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee told an audience of 130 Indian envoys who gathered in New Delhi that India had sought the...
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Pakistan has reached agreement with China to buy modern Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) planes for extended surveillance of its airspace, a media report said on Thursday.
Under the 278-million-dollar deal, the unmanned surveillance aircraft will be delivered to Pakistan during the next four years on a deferred payment...
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Jordanians appeared split over the possibility that the election of Barack Obama as new US president will lead to a "change" in the US Middle East policy, according to an opinion poll published Tuesday.
The survey conducted by the Centre of Strategic Studies (CSS) at the University of Jordan showed that only 43 per cent of...
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North Korea's urgent need to trigger economic growth and an Egyptian telecommunications firm's desire to establish a new outpost were key factors in opening restricted mobile telecom service in the secretive communist nation, analysts said Tuesday.
The Cairo-based Orascom Telecom Holding SAE signed a 25-year contract with the North...
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Five weeks before the end of his time in office, US President George W Bush arrived in Iraq on Sunday on an unannounced visit and met with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. It was likely to be his last to the country as president.
Bush was greeted in Baghdad by the head of the US-led coalition in...
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A Shenzhen Airlines plane from China landed in Taipei early Monday as the two former civil war enemies opened direct transport and postal links.
The plane, which left Shenzhen at 7:20 am (2320 GMT) carrying 112 people, arrived at Sungshan Airport in an hour and 30 minutes and kicked off historic daily charter flights across the...
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An estimated accumulated Arab surplus of 1 trillion petrodollars gained prominence over the past three months as one of the key factors to reckon with in handling the global financial upheaval that erupted in the United States in September and spread to the rest of the world economy later on.
Analysts in the Middle East also raised...
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On May 28, a currency analyst at Morgan Stanley released a report that hit Vietnam's financial community like a smack in the face.
With Vietnam's inflation and trade deficit soaring, the analyst wrote, its currency was under threat. Twelve-month futures on the Vietnam dong had "gapped" to 23,000 to the dollar, a 50 per cent...
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New Zealand and Fiji are poised for a clash over sanctions imposed on the South Pacific island state's military government that could see both countries expel diplomats, according to news reports on Monday.
Fiji strongman Voreqe (Frank) Bainimarama, who seized power in a bloodless coup two years ago, demanded that New Zealand ease...
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The weekend summit of China, Japan and South Korea was hailed by Seoul Monday as good news for the country's economy.
South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak said the summit was likely to bring economic benefits to the country and help it to access more foreign exchange.
The three countries signed a currency swap agreement, Lee...
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The Muslim militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) has denied British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's accusation that the outfit was responsible for the Mumbai terrorist attacks, a news report said Monday.
The Pakistan-based LeT also said that Ajmal Kasab, the lone attacker captured alive, was not a member of the organization, the...
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US President George W Bush arrived in Afghanistan early Monday on a surprise farewell visit, committing the United States to establishing a stable democracy there as violence is on the rise and he prepares to leave office in five weeks.
Bush met Afghan President Hamid Karzai and US troops on his visit, the details of which were...
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US President George W Bush on Monday praised the post-Taliban progress made by the international community in Afghanistan but said allied forces there had "difficult days ahead" in their fight against terrorism.
He also committed the United States to establishing a stable democracy there as violence is on the rise and he...
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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that Pakistan was the "epicentre of terrorism" and the world needed to deal with it sternly, during a parliamentary debate Thursday on the Mumbai terrorist attacks which took place last month.
"We have to galvanize the international community into dealing sternly and effectively...
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In an apparent bid to end calls for international intervention against his regime, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe claimed Thursday that the cholera epidemic that has killed nearly 800 people since August was over.
"Britain wants military intervention because of cholera," the 84-year-old autocrat told a gathering of party...
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Zimbabwe's opposition leader and prime minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai on Wednesday rebuffed pressure caused by his country's escalating cholera crisis to agree to join a unity government with President Robert Mugabe.
Movement for Democratic Change leader Tsvangirai and Mugabe are both under pressure to resolve their differences...
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Zimbabwe's opposition leader and prime minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai on Wednesday rebuffed pressure caused by his country's escalating cholera crisis to agree to join a unity government with President Robert Mugabe.
Movement for Democratic Change leader Tsvangirai and Mugabe are both under pressure to begin working together to...
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China on Tuesday issued a draft agreement on a mechanism to verify North Korea's nuclear disarmament, as top nuclear negotiators from six countries entered into a second day of talks.
The delegates from the United States, China, Russia, Japan, North and South Korea were to review the draft and deliver their positions to China, South...
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Envoys from North Korea and five other nations began a new round of talks Monday in Beijing to persuade North Korea to quit its nuclear weapons programme, Chinese officials said.
The chief negotiators of the United States, China, Japan, Russia, North and South Korea met for a first round of talks at Beijing's state guest house, a...
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Envoys from North Korea and five other nations began a new round of talks Monday in Beijing to persuade North Korea to quit its nuclear weapons programme - but amid little optimism.
The talks, which had been on hold for five months, were expected to develop into difficult negotiations, various delegation sources said.
The chief...
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Two truck bombs ripped through the Iraqi city of Falluja Thursday, killing at least 15 people and injuring 147, including women and children, local media reported.
The first bomb exploded near al-Tawhid police station, which is near a school. Police imposed a curfew on the city after the blasts, the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency...
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China and the United States vowed Thursday to cooperate in dealing with the global financial crisis, as the US pressured China to reform its currency and China urged the US to stabilize its economy.
At the fifth Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED), China reacted to pressure by US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to let its yuan rise...
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Independent firms have been commissioned to assess the value of Carnegie Investment Bank AB recently taken over by the Swedish state, officials said Friday.
Bo Lundgren, head of the Swedish National Debt Office that took over the bank last week, said the two entities that make up Carnegie were to be sold separately but said it was...
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German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier called Thursday for a stronger presence by India in international policy circles, adding that the challenges of the 21st century cannot be faced "without a strong partner such as India."
He said during a three-day visit to India that it was now time to expand beyond the...
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The US will withdraw its troops from Iraq if the security pact between the two governments is not signed, Iraqi media quoted a senior United States official as saying Wednesday.
"The United States will withdraw its forces from Iraq and refuse to approve an extension of the UN Security Council mandate if the treaty is not...
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More than 5,000 Iraqis demonstrated in the Iraqi city of Hillah on Wednesday to support the security agreement between the United States and Iraq that would require US troops to withdraw from the country.
The deal sets the legal basis for the future presence of US troops in Iraq after a United Nations Security Council mandate expires...
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Iraq has told Iran that its security pact with the United States would not threaten Iran's national sovereignty, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said on Tuesday.
"The security agreement has no articles that threaten the security of neighbouring countries," Zebari said in a statement following his meeting with his...
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Thailand's fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra has decided not to appeal an abuse-of-power conviction that carries a two-year jail sentence and has turned him in to a divorced, wandering exile, his lawyer confirmed Tuesday.
On October 21, the Supreme Court for Political Office Holders found Thaksin guilty of abusing his...
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One of the few positive stories coming out of war- torn Iraq in recent years has been the success of their national football teams.
Since 2003, when the country sent an under-23 team to the Asian Cup and managed to qualify for the quarter-finals, Iraqi teams have been grabbing their fair share of international headlines.
In 2004,...
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Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was caught off guard on Tuesday when her press secretary prayed for a possible extension of her term beyond 2010 as lawmakers debated on an impeachment complaint against her.
Arroyo and her cabinet often start their meetings with a prayer, which is led by different officials.
But the...
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Thailand's fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra is in Dubai, from where he will address his supporters on December 10, a colleague of his said Monday.
The host of the Truth Today talk show, Jaturporn Promphan, who is also a member of parliament in what is considered Thaksin's proxy political party, said the former premier will...
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Thailand's fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra is in Dubai, from where he will address his supporters on December 10, a colleague of his said Monday.
The host of the Truth Today talk show, Jaturporn Promphan, who is also a member of parliament in what is considered Thaksin's proxy political party, said the former premier will...
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Israeli caretaker Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met in Jerusalem Monday, with a collapsing Gaza truce high on their agenda.
The two leaders have been meeting regularly since they revived Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations for the first time in seven years at an international summit in...
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Iraq's parliament convened Monday for a first reading of the final draft of the country's security pact with the United States, a day after the Iraqi cabinet approved the deal.
The 275-member house would review the pact over the coming days and vote on the deal by November 24, deputy speaker Khalid al-Attiyah said in a press...
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The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Serge Brammertz, arrived in Belgrade Monday to press Serbian officials for the arrest of Ratko Mladic, the most wanted war crimes suspect.
But Belgrade, despite its ties with the European Union hinging on the arrest of fugitive war criminals,...
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San Francisco - Troubled internet pioneer Yahoo swung to a quarterly loss Tuesday because of severance pay and write downs on its European properties.
Despite recording a 303-million-dollar loss in the fourth quarter, the company's results beat expectations as its revenues and operating profit held up well in the dire economic...
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Dow Chemical Co, the largest US chemical maker, said Tuesday it plans to seek more than 2.5 billion dollars in damages from Kuwait for cancelling a joint venture just days before its launch.
A 17.4-billion-dollar deal between Kuwait's state-run Petrochemical Industries Co (PIC) and Dow fell through on December 28. The joint venture...
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A Canadian woman who gave birth to twins on a freezing street in Windsor, Ontario amidst snow and rain was in good condition and the newborns were expected to survive, it was reported Thursday.
Police officers on a routine patrol first thought they were at a crime scene when they saw a woman covered in blood screaming for help and...
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A culture of bribery and impunity flourished at German corporate giant Siemens AG over the past decade despite repeated warnings from outside and inside the firm, according to US court documents.
The details were released Monday as Siemens pleaded guilty in US District Court in Washington to a massive global corruption scandal...
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The crisis in world financial markets has its roots in declining home values in the US real-estate market which began in late 2006 and led to a wave of foreclosures and defaults on home loans.
The loans, many to borrowers with poor credit, were bundled into assets that began to weigh heavily on banks' balance sheets around the...
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Troubled US web portal firm Yahoo! is in negotiations to buy Time Warner Inc.'s AOL business, the financial news agency Bloomberg reported on Thursday.
Yahoo!, which earlier in the week rejected a 47.5-billion-dollar takeover bid by Microsoft in a move that saw the resignation of CEO Jerry Yang, is according to Bloomberg bidding for...
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Jerry Yang, who helped kick start the internet revolution in 1995 as co-founder of web portal Yahoo, is stepping down as the company's chief executive.
The announcement by the ailing internet giant came after months of falling revenue, fierce proxy battles and a series of botched negotiations that scuttled what now seems to have been...
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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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 When Michelle Obama went to visit her future home, the White House, she received the most important touring guide, the former first lady Laura Bush. She gave Michelle Obama some advice about how to deal with her two daughters and how to survive living in the most important building of the United States.Of course, the present president of...
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US cable channel HBO has bought the rights to a documentary about president-elect Barack Obama, produced by Oscar- nominated actor Edward Norton, the Hollywood Reporter said Friday.
A crew for Norton's Class 5 Films has been following the African- American politician since early 2006 - even before he announced his intention to run...
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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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Brooklyn District Attorney’s office announced on Friday a new and weird case. The New York investigators have a new problem to deal with: it seems that a man was attacked and beaten by several police officers. After that, they sodomized the man in a Brooklyn subway station last week. The case was made public this week and has raised a...
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New York state's attorney general has threatened legal action against financially troubled insurer AIG unless it takes steps to "review, rescind and recover all past unreasonable expenditures."
The move comes as US authorities are starting to investigate the behaviour of multiple financial companies in the wake of the...
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Merrill Lynch reported its fifth straight quarter of losses Thursday as it registered a 5.2-billion-dollar loss for the third quarter of 2008.
Merrill Lynch, which is facing a takeover by the Bank of America, attributed its losses to continued writedowns on bad loans.
The losses reported Thursday compare with third-quarter 2007...
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The US financial crisis has gone global, putting the world on the brink of a recession that can only be resolved through international cooperation, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said Thursday.
In a press conference at IMF headquarters in Washington, Strauss- Kahn warned that a lack of confidence...
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Banking rivals Citigroup and Wells Fargo have postponed for a day legal action over their tug-of-war for Wachovia, the United States' fourth-largest bank, it was disclosed Tuesday.
Citigroup on Monday filed a lawsuit against rival Wells Fargo & Co and Wachovia for 60 billion dollars in punitive and compensatory damages after a...
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A possible compromise in the takeover battle for ailing Wachovia bank was in the making, with the two takeover rivals, Citigroup Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co. considering a deal to divide up the the bank, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
The newspaper said the two banks, with officials of the Federal Reserve and the US...
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In a surprise development, Wells Fargo bank and the fourth-largest US bank Wachovia Corp. announced Friday that Wells Fargo had entered the bidding with an offer for a complete merger with Wachovia.
The announcement said Wells Fargo had presented Wachovia with a signed and board-approved offer to buy Wachovia as an intact company in a...
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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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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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The United States on Friday unveiled part of a massive, comprehensive federal plan to help resolve the ongoing US financial crisis and prevent a rush of new bank failures in the coming weeks.
The US Treasury announced a 50-billion-dollar guarantee programme for the money-market mutual fund industry, the first in a series of moves that...
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The embattled investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings filed for bankruptcy Monday, hours after financial services firm Merrill Lynch & Co agreed to be sold to Bank of America Corp amid a broadening US credit crisis.
Negotiations throughout the weekend failed to produce a buyer for the venerable Lehman Brothers after the US...
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 Evacuees for Hurricane Gustav came home to New Orleans even if the electricity wasn’t available yet. Mayor C. Ray Nagin ordered an immediate lifting of barriers blocking the residents’ entry on Wednesday morning. Nagin said that he didn’t agree for the residents to return yet if the city is still out of power.The citizens who managed to...
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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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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama
called on the United States to end its dependence on oil from the
Middle East and Venezuela within 10 years as part of a broad speech
laying out his energy plans on Monday. Obama, who celebrated
his 47th birthday Monday, said he would direct the 'full resources' of
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Northrop Grumman and EADS remained confident
they will win the contract to build the next generation of US Air Force
refuelling tankers despite a Pentagon decision Wednesday to reopen the
competition.
Northrop and EADS had won the 35-billion-dollar contract in March to
build 179 aerial refuellers over rival Boeing, but the Pentagon...
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US media
reported on Wednesday that Florida had finalized a 1.75-billion-dollar deal to purchase the largest US sugar manufacturer, in order to expand one of
America’s greatest
ecosystems, the Everglades.
Extending over 1.5 million acres, the Everglades is the
third-largest national park in the lower 48 U.S.
states,...
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A woman from Illinois
pleaded guilty Monday to killing her pregnant friend, her unborn child and the
victim’s other three children. 26-year-old Tiffany Hall pleaded guilty to four
charges of murder and one of intentional homicide in the death of the fetus, which
she cut from the mother's womb.
The plea deal allowed her to...
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UConn basketball coach Jim Calhoun revealed Friday that he
had a cancerous growth removed from the right side of his neck May 6, just four
days before his 66th birthday. Three dozen lymph nodes around the area were
also extirpated and tested for cancer, and Calhoun’s entire body was scanned.
The result of the scan was...
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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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 Although the sea lions are federally protected by the Marine
Mammal Protection Act., several of them were found shot dead in river traps.
The traps had been put there to capture sea lions, which eat
endangered salmon. Their bodies were discovered by the wildlife officials Sunday
at noon.
“In each of the two traps were three...
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 A magnitude-5.2 earthquake shook southern Illinois early Friday, the U.S. Geological
Survey (USGG) said. It appears there were no immediate reports of major
damage after the quake, which struck at 4:36 a.m. The Associated Press mentioned
that a porch collapsed in Mount Carmel,
Illinois, briefly trapping a woman
in her home. She was...
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 Two out of the three colleges which were closed yesterday
due to some threatening graffiti found in the campuses’ bathrooms have returned to
their normal class schedules. However, St.
Xavier University
thought that the threats are extremely serious and decided to keep the college
closed for a longer period. The message "Be...
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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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 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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 Thousand of pages of Hillary Clinton’s schedules for her
eight years in the White House will be released after months of delaying making
them public, the Associated Press reports.
The National Archives announced on Tuesday that 11,046 pages
of the first lady’s schedule would be available for public due to...
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 The U.S.
capital’s tough gun control law was debated yesterday by lawyers who analyzed
the meaning of the “right to bear arms”, which is guaranteed by the Second
Amendment to the US Constitution. A majority of justices from the Supreme Court
seem to accept an interpretation of the Second Amendment that defends the...
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 The Democrat David Paterson was sworn in yesterday after
Eliot Spitzer stepped down over the allegations that he had links with a
prostitution ring.
According to Paterson’s
spokesman Armen Meyer, his first day as a governor will be spent “meeting with
senior staff, lawmakers and others, focused on the budget and state...
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 Vice-President Dick Cheney made an unannounced visit to Baghdad this morning. This is his first trip to Iraq since the deployment of additional U.S. forces last summer.
The surprise visit is just the first stop on a tour of the Middle East and beyond, as Cheney has scheduled landings in Oman, Saudi Arabia, Israel, the West Bank and...
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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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 United States President, George W. Bush, vetoed on Saturday the bill that would have banned the CIA to use “harsh interrogation techniques”, including waterboarding. Bush talked about the bill in his weekly radio address held on Saturday. The U.S. President explained that the Central Intelligence Agency needs interrogation methods such...
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 A man made flood will be set up in the Grand Canyon by federal agencies. Such controlled floods had been released before in 1996 and 2004 and their main purpose is to refresh the canyon’s ecosystem. The flood release will begin Wednesday morning as a three-day torrent of water will be released from Glen Canyon Dam on the Arizona-Utah...
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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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 Veteran weather forecaster Bill Read was appointed Friday as the director of the National Hurricane Center, media informed.Read had previously served as deputy director of the Miami-based center. He has to deal with several problems that rattled the hurricane center and led to the removal of his predecessor last July.Read "has what...
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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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 California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger took an austere approach to
the California budget Thursday, presenting a 141-billion-dollar plan
that calls for 10-per- cent state spending cuts in the richest state in
the US.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said he must cut aid to
poor children and the elderly, shutter state...
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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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 California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger reached a deal to extend
health insurance to most of the 7 million Californians who are not
covered.
The 14.7-billion-dollar compromise deal passed the state Assembly
Monday night on a vote of 46-31, with all Schwarzenegger's Republican
Party colleagues voting against it. The deal will be...
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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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At least six major central banks pumped billions of dollars of extra credit into financial markets Thursday amid fears that this week's crisis was drying up liquidity.
The European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt said its dollar funding operations would more than double from the existing 50 billion dollars to 110 billion...
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US stocks were poised for a massive sell-off Monday after embattled investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings filed for bankruptcy - one of many financial firms in turmoil amid a significant broadening of the US credit crisis.
News of the venerable Lehman Brothers' failure came hours after financial services firm Merrill Lynch & Co...
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Germany could be on the brink of a major shakeout in its fragmented banking industry with investors betting Monday on an announcement this week of an 8-billion-euro (12 billion-dollar) merger between two of the nation's leading banks.
Indeed, shares in Allianz SE jumped more than 1.0 per cent in early trading Monday on speculation...
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Dutch-Belgian bank Fortis is to hold a series of "informative meetings" for customers concerned about the bank's financial health.
The first meeting, for Dutch customers, is to take place in Amsterdam on Monday evening, followed by similar meetings in Brussels on August 20 and 21.
A spokeswoman for Fortis Netherlands told...
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India's inflation rate rose
to 11.89 per cent as its industrial growth fell sharply, official data
showed Friday, raising fresh concerns for the government that is
already in a bind over a nuclear deal with US. The annualized
inflation rate, which has been linked to India's wholesale price index,
moved up by 0.26 per cent from...
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 President George W Bush on Friday proposed some 140 billion dollars in
emergency tax relief to boost the flagging US economy and avoid a
recession, warning that the nation faces the "risk of a downturn."
Outlining his vision of an economic stimulus package, he urged
steps to spark consumer spending - the engine of the US...
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 President George W Bush and the head of the Federal Reserve on Thursday
backed government action to give the sagging US economy a boost to help
ward off a recession.
Bush, facing calls for action by the Democratic-led Congress, came
out in favour of legislation to stimulate the economy after returning
from a Middle East...
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 According to officials’ declarations on Tuesday, the European Union started conducting a series of unannounced raids amid suspicions that the European pharmaceutical companies might be trying to protect their market shares at the expense of introducing better drugs.The amount of new drug components launched in the last ten years has...
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Homebuilders and financial companies led US stocks higher Thursday after President George W Bush announced a plan aimed at reversing a tide of defaults on subprime home mortgages.
Countrywide Financial Corp, the largest US mortgage lender, surged 19 per cent for the day's biggest gain in the benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 Index....
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 The Asian stocks were mixed on Monday, as the Japanese Nikkei 225 Stock Average fell 51.7 points, or 0.33 percent, closing at 15,628.97, while the broader Topix index of all first-section issues was up 0.28 points, that is 0.02 percent, up at 1,532.16. The stronger yen has tempered positive news regarding the United States subprime...
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 China pledged to remove several subsidies by the beginning of 2008, as a result of the controversy regarding its trade issues, which are considered to make its exports unjustly cheap as it restricts the imports.Pressured by the United States, China affirmed that it would eliminate some tax breaks and other subsidies that were aimed to...
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 The Taiwanese government has
announced it is to sign a pact over the brand new WiMax technology and product
development with the large companies involved in this move. The Taiwanese
government has said that the memorandum of understanding will be signed next
week; Multinational companies such as Intel Corp., Nortel Networks Ltd., NEC...
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 The Nations economy popped out this quarter and grew at the
strongest pace on a year exceeding all forecasts made last quarter and giving
President George W. Bush something to brag about.
"I want the American people to take a good look at this
economy of ours," said Bush from the White House. "It's an economy
that...
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 Amid heavy Democratic opposition in the Congress, the United States and South Korea on Saturday signed in Washington the largest free trade deal since the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1992. The deal was signed hours before president George Bush's special fast-tracking powers were set to expire, on Saturday.The representatives...
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 The Italian oil and gas company Eni SpA and Russia’s giant OAO Gazprom reached an agreement regarding the construction of a gas pipeline that will cross the Black Sea from Russia to the European Union, Eni officials announced.According to Eni, this enterprise would fill in the gap caused by EU’s incapacity to meet the demands of...
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 After the recent interoperability frenzy started by Microsoft, which engulfed the likes of Novell, Xandros or Linspire, many have asked how much is going to take the Redmond giant to convince the remaining important Linux vendors, Canonical and Red Hat, to join its boat.However, according to Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and...
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Roberto Abbondanzieri is set to leave Spanish football club Getafe and return to Boca Juniors in his native Argentina, according to reports in the Spanish media on Thursday.
Getafe have yet to make the deal official, but sports daily Marca said that the they have agreed to accept 300,000 euros (396.40 million dollars) from Boca for...
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Ivory Coast defender Arthur Boka has renewed his contract at VfB Stuttgart until 2012, the German Bundesliga club said on Thursday.
Boka, 25, came to Stuttgart in 2006 from French side Racing Strasbourg and has played 51 Bundesliga for the 2007 champions. His original deal ran until 2010. Stuttgart made the announcement at a winter...
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 David Beckham finally started for the LA Galaxy and after the long and frustrating wait he did it in style. The superstar midfielder scored the first goal after curling home a trademark free-kick in the 28th minute and assisted Landon Donovan in scoring the second to give Galaxy a much needed 2-0 win over DC United. With the captaincy...
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 The transfer of Freddy Adu to Benfica Lisbon is still the centre of attention. After he passed the medical and particiapated at the team’s sporting camp, the club’s officials announced the media that the transfer it’s a done deal. However, the financial details of Adu’s contract weren’t disclosed.According to the lastest official...
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 American soccer star player Freddy Adu agreed in principle to play for the Portuguese club Benfica, pending the results of a medical test.The Portuguese Premiere League Soccer club, who must have been impressed by Adu after his latest performance at the U-20 World Cup Held in Canada, will reportedly pay about two million dollars to the ...
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 After former Thai Premier Thaksin Shinawatra acquired enough shares to take over Manchester City, Sven-Goran Eriksson has been named the club’s manager, the Premier League club said on Friday.The former England squad manager will be officially presented at a news conference later on Friday. The Swede agreed on three-year deal.The...
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 French striker Thierry Henry decided to trade the English grass for the sunny shores of Catalonia and moved to Futbol Club Barcelona for a staggering 32-million-dollars.Henry was in the sight of many top clubs for years, but the renown forward inveterately stayed by his compatriot and mentor Arsene Wenger, putting the shoulder to...
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 MasterCard Inc., the world's second- biggest credit-card company, and FIFA reached an agreement on Thursday. Soccer's ruling body will pay $90 million to settle a dispute over the sponsorships of the next two World Cup tournaments.The notorious credit company will discontinue sponsorship of the 2010 and 2014 tournaments with $87.5...
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 David Beckham helped Real Madrid clinch their first Primera Liga title since 2003, finishing in style what he considered the toughest season in his of his 15-year professional career.Over the last 12 months Beckham lost his starting place in England’s squad and in Real’s as well, had to deal with injuries and was told in January he will...
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London - Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez has dampened speculation that he is about to resign from his job, saying he is hoping to sign a new contract sooner rather than later.
The Spaniard, whose contract runs until the end of next season, was the subject of a flurry of betting activity on Wednesday, causing a number of bookmakers to...
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London - Didier Drogba hit out at former Chelsea manager Luiz Felipe Scolari and pledged his future to the club in newspaper interview on Friday.
The Ivory Coast forward has been much criticised for his poor form this season, and Scolari questioned his commitment shortly before his dismissal last week.
He has also been linked with...
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London - Hull City's hopes of avoiding relegation suffered a blow on Tuesday when the club confirmed that midfielder Jimmy Bullard will have surgery on his knee.
The 30-year-old, who joined the club from Fulham in the January transfer window, has suffered a tear to the cartilage.
"Jimmy Bullard will be having an arthroscopy on...
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London - The Los Angeles Galaxy were considering on Thursday a plea from David Beckham to let him join AC Milan on a permanent basis.
The England midfielder joined the Italian giants on loan last month, and is due to return to the US on March 9.
But the 33 year old's form there has confounded critics who expected him to make the...
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London - Sunderland striker Kenwyne Jones extended his contract at the English Premier League club on Tuesday.
The Trinidad and Tobago forward, 24, who had been linked with a move to Tottenham Hotspur, signed a new four-and-a-half-year deal.
"I'm absolutely delighted that Kenwyne has committed to the club for the long...
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Even the Prime Minster was moved as Portugal on Tuesday celebrated Cristiano Ronaldo's 2008 World Footballer honour.
Monday's announcement by the ruling body FIFA at a gala in Zurich delighted his home nation and England as well as the Manchester United winger Ronaldo is the first Premier League-based player to win the prestigious...
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Joachim Loew should renew his contract as Germany coach beyond the 2010 World Cup, team manager Oliver Bierhoff said.
"I would wish for that. Consistency like in the days of Sepp Herberger and Helmut Schoen would be good for the team, and for the DFB (German football federation) as well," Bierhoff told Wednesday's edition of...
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The future of Olympic football is still up in the air, pending a meeting between IOC President Jacques Rogge and FIFA President Joseph Blatter.
"We still have not discussed the issue with FIFA. We have not scheduled a meeting, but we will schedule one in the future," Rogge said in an interview with Deutsche Presse-Agentur...
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There was a mixed reaction Tuesday to the agreement with football's governing body FIFA with Polish sports officials that ensured Poland could play in two upcoming World Cup qualifiers.
Poland's Sports Minister, Miroslaw Drzewiecki, has tried to present himself as the victor in the stand-off, telling Polskie Radio that "the war...
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Former Brugge trainer Cedomir Janevski will be the new coach of Belgrade football club Red Star, local media reported on Tuesday.
"After several days of intensive negotiations we reached a deal and I signed a contract with the Red Star until the end of the season," Janevski said.
He will replace Red Star's former coach...
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Former Danish international Michael Laudrup is poised to sign a contract as coach with Russian team Spartak Moscow, reports said Tuesday.
Laudrup, 44, was quoted as telling the Politiken newspaper that some "minor" but important issues related to his family remained to be settled before he inks a contract.
According to...
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SV Hamburg are expected to announce the signing of a second Brazilian within two days with the expected transfer of playmaker Thiago Neves to the Bundesliga club, local media reports said Thursday.
It would take Hamburg's spending on new players to close to 27 million euros (40 million dollars) after the club Wednesday sealed the...
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Russia striker Roman Pavlyuchenko is set to sign for English Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported Wednesday.
BBC Sport quoted a spokesman for Spartak Moscow as saying a deal has been agreed between the two clubs "and the transfer may be concluded by...
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Liverpool are on the point of signing midfielder Albert Riera from Espanyol, according to media reports in Spain and England on Tuesday.
According to Madrid sports daily Marca, Liverpool are prepared to pay up to 12 million euros (17.71 million dollars) for the left-sided Riera, who has already tasted Premier League action with...
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Schalke 04 will be looking to follow up last weekend's bright start to the Bundesliga with a victory at Werder Bremen in a meeting between two title aspirants on Saturday.
Meanwhile title holders Bayern Munich face a tough trip to Borussia Dortmund as they seek a first league win for new coach Juergen Klinsmann.
Schalke travel to...
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Ukrainian striker Andriy Shevchenko appears close to rejoining his former team AC Milan after two unconvincing seasons at Chelsea, repubblica.it reported Wednesday.
Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi and his Chelsea counterpart Roman Abramovich are said to have reached an agreement earlier this week to transfer the footballer on a loan...
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Chelsea have made an official approach to Real Madrid to buy Brazilian international Robinho reportedly worth close to 20 million pounds (38 million dollars), it was reported Friday.
In a statement on their website, Chelsea confirmed they have made an offer for Robinho, but did not reveal the size of their bid.
However British...
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 Despite rumors that said otherwise, quarterback Rex Grossman is likely to remain at the Chicago Bears for one more year, since the NFL team announced that it is willing to offer the player a one- year contract.According to The Chicago Tribune on Saturday, a source, whose identity remained withheld, declared that the new deal came only...
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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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 Vick’s last two co-defendants pleaded guilty on Friday and stated that Atlanta Falcon’s quarterback not only financially supported the project but helped execute dogs that didn't perform well.Quanis Phillips of Atlanta and Purnell Peace of Virginia Beach, Va. entered the plea and both agreed to testify against Vick. The controversial...
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 After eleven days of waiting and 16 missed practices, first-round draft pick Brady Quinn agreed to terms with the Cleveland Browns. The club officials and Quinn’s agent, Tom Condon, finally came up with a solution that will satisfy both parts. The five-year contract will earn the newest member of the Browns approximately $20.2 million,...
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 Calvin Johnson, the NFL draft's No. 2 pick, signed a six-year deal with the Detroit Lions, after nearly a week of holdout. The Lion officials haven’t disclosed any financial details, but according to NFL's Web site (www.nfl.com), Johnson had agreed to a $55 million deal that could increase to $64 million with incentives.If those figures...
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 Quarterback Tim Couch agreed on a two-year deal yesterday with the Jacksonville Jaguars, a contract that gives him a chance to refresh his career as a backup to Byron Leftwich.The two-year agreement will earn the top overall pick by Cleveland in 1999 a minimum of $595,000 if he makes the team. “Right now, I’m just trying to be a guy,...
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 The Cleveland Browns agreed to terms with offensive lineman Joe Thomas and defensive back Eric Wright making sure that the two will have them in their squad when they open training camp Friday. Thomas, the No. 3 overall pick, signed for six years whit the possibility of being shortened to five years. Financial terms weren’t instantly...
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 Assistant head coach ,Bill Lynch, will take over as Indiana’s head coach for the next season as Terry Hoeppner continues his medical leave. The 59-year-old has undergone brain surgery twice in the last 18 months."Most importantly, I wish Terry well with his ongoing health issues," said IU Director of Athletics Rick Greenspan....
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 The beloved Jerry Seinfeld is heading back to TV for ... a reality show?The comedian is set to team up with NBC again after an 11-year break to create and produce a reality series that finds humor in marital woes of other people.The working title for the show is "The Marriage Ref" and will invite athletes, celebs and comedians...
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 Rihanna gathered a
circle of friends on Friday to celebrate her 21st birthday. Chris Brown, was
not on the guest list, but he had the nerve or the decency to call her to wish
her a happy birthday, according to an insider. The source also said that he
seems to be absolutely trying to get back into her good graces. He is...
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 Penelope Cruz won the best supporting actress Academy Award
on Sunday for her fiery, funny role of a woman in a three-way relationship with
her ex-husband and an American woman in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona, saying
it was a sign of changing times in American film for foreign actors.
The achievement made Cruz the first...
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Paramount Pictures announced it dropped a planned film
financing deal that was supposed to raise about $450 million through a
disbanded entertainment venture of Deutsche Bank, the studio said Monday.
Under the terms of the deal, which would have helped
bankroll Paramount’s movies over the next two years, Deutsche Bank would...
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 The Spanish-language Univision Music Group reached Thursday
a deal with Universal Music Group. As a result Universal wants to buy Univision
with its recording and publishing operations. According to The Washington Post,
$100 million will be paid for the Spanish-language music group.
Univision Music, which is part of Univision...
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 George Clooney was appointed U. N. messenger of peace on Thursday, by U. N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. He has been involved in a campaign about Sudan’s Darfur for years. He has recently returned from a two-week trip to Africa.
Like many other celebrities, Clooney has been using his fame to draw attention upon international...
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 You could say that 49-year-old
pop diva Madonna is like wine: the older she gets the better she is. Besides
being an excellent singer and song writer, Madonna is also a money maker.
According to Forbes.com, she tops the “Cash Queens of Music” list as the
richest female singer for the recorded period June 2006 – June 2007, with...
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 Unless the United Kingdom would take all the measures needed and would assure Russia of the fact that the 120 paintings that should be exhibited for London's Royal Academy of Arts next month will not be seized, the blockbuster art exhibition will be cancelled, Russia's federal agency for culture announced on Wednesday. The paintings...
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 A $925 million transaction brings Oxygen Media under the
possession of NBC Universal, a subsidiary of General Electric Co. It is a move
to attract the mostly-feminine public of the cable television network. The deal
is expected to be closed at the end of November and is worth $875 million
excluding the financial assets.
Oxygen...
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By D. DONOVAN KINSOLVINGUPI Features Writer Today is Friday, June 15, 2007
TODAY'S ASTROLOGICAL TIMETABLE
Positions of the planets and luminaries today at noon GMT (8 a.m. EDT):
Sun............... 25th degree Gemini
Moon.............. 29th degree Gemini
Mercury........... 12th degree Cancer, stationary...
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By D. DONOVAN KINSOLVINGUPI Features Writer Today is Sunday, June 10, 2007
TODAY'S ASTROLOGICAL TIMETABLE
Positions of the planets and luminaries today at noon GMT (8 a.m. EDT):
Sun............... 20th degree Gemini
Moon.............. 16th degree Aries
Mercury........... 11th degree Cancer
Venus............. ...
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 Last November, Microsoft and Novell stunned the open source world with an interoperability partnership that was supposed to ensure peaceful compatibility of Windows apps on SUSE and viceversa.No matter how strict or exigent the open sourcers started to become with other major Linux vendors after this unnatural union, despite the recent...
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Los Angeles - At some point during the 58th NBA All-Star Game on Sunday, Kobe Bryant will have one of his current Los Angeles Lakers teammates alongside him in Spanish star Pau Gasol.
He will also have one of his former Lakers teammates alongside him in Shaquille O'Neal.
Bryant and O'Neal, the argumentative duo which led the Lakers...
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 One night after a disappointing loss in Houston, the Golden
State Warriors managed to snap New Orleans Hornets’ nine-game winning streak.
Wednesday night Stephen Jackson poured in 26 points and led
the Warriors to a sweet 116-103 victory at the New Orleans Arena.
Baron Davis made five three-pointers in seven tries and
added 23...
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 The 52-year-old assistant coach Jim Boylan was named the Chicago Bulls’ new interim head coach for the rest of the current season, after former Scott Skiles was fired on Monday."After sitting down with Jim yesterday and discussing our team, I feel comfortable giving him the interim head coaching position," said Bulls vice...
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 Adonal Foyle became a free agent on Monday after reaching a buyout agreement for an undisclosed sum with the Golden State Warriors. Foyle, a 10-year veteran center and the team’s longest-tenured player, signed a six-year deal worth nearly $42 million in July 2004 and played for the Warriors his entire career, but since Don Nelson’s...
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 The Miami Heat signed All-star forward Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway to a one-year, non-guaranteed, veteran-minimum contract Thursday. The 36-year-old veteran, who last played an NBA game in November 2005, took the opportunity of reuniting with his former Orlando Magic teammate back in the mid-1990s – Shaquille O’Neal. It’s a risky...
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 After more than a moth of trade talks, Kevin Garnett is finally leaving the Minnesota Timberwolves for the Boston Celtics. The trade involves other player such as forward Al Jefferson, guard Sebastian Telfair, swingman Gerald Green and center Theo Ratliff, all heading to the Timberwolves, according to an official, who spoke on the...
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 Talks between the Boston Celtics and the Minnesota Timberwolves over a possible deal involving all-star forward Kevin Garnett may be heating up again.The two NBA teams were reportedly close to a deal a month ago that would have sent Al Jefferson and veteran Theo Ratliff to Minnesota and with Garnett joining the Celtics. The resuming of...
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 All-Star player Steve Francis has agreed on a two-year deal that will see him return to the Houston Rockets, his agent Jeff Fried said Thursday.Francis stared five seasons for the Rockets before being traded to the Orlando Magic in 2004 as part of a multiplayer deal that saw Tracy McGrady going Houston’s way.After he spent two years with...
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 Luis Scola is finally coming to the NBA. Although being drafted by the San Antonio Spurs in the 2002 NBA Draft the Argentinean power forward never played for the Texans as the parts couldn’t reach an agreement. The 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) and 104 kg (230 lb) power forward was introduced as the newest member of the Houston Rockets on...
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 Vince Carter signed a four-year contract with the New Jersey Nets, a deal which will earn the eight-time All-Star a reportedly $66 million, including four years plus a partial guarantee for a fifth year that could make it much as $80 millionThe contract was signed by the parts on July 1 but the club kept it secret until Friday 13....
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 After surprisingly losing veteran Grant Hill to the Phoenix Suns, the Orlando Magic has agreed with All-Star forward Dwight Howard to a contract extension. The former No. 1 overall pick signed a contract that will keep his game in Orlando for at least five more years and will earn the big man (6-foot-11, 265-pounds) approximately $85...
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 Former Piston Grant Hill, who played the last six seasons for the Orlando Magic, reportedly agreed with the Phoenix Suns on a two-year contract.According to his agent, Lon Babby, Hill will earn from the deal known as a bi-annual exception $1.8 million this season and almost $2 million in 2008-09. Hill’s seven-year, $93 million contract...
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 Zach Randolph will still wear a No. 50 jersey over the next season only this time it will be a Knicks jersey after both clubs agreed on Thursday night on a transfer that sent Channing Frye and Steve Francis Portland’s way.The Blazers also sent Dan Dickau and Freddie Jones to New York as part of the deal.Randolph will begin hi journey in...
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 Detroit Pistons top priority for this summer is the resigning of its point guard Chauncey Billups. The 31-year-old has opted out of the final year of his six-year contact with the Pistons, thus becoming a unrestricted free agent.Pistons officials said that this is no surprise for them. Joe Dumars, Pistons’ president of basketball...
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 The Los Angeles Times stated on its Web site that a blockbuster trade is being discussed that would involve two NBA superstars who’s future in quite uncertain, Kobe Bryant and Kevin GarnettMinnesota owner Glen Taylor suggested a trade that includes Lakers forward Lamar Odom and center Andrew Bynum. If this doesn’t please both sides, the...
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 The Detroit Pistons have no intention to fire coach Flip Saunders despite the fact that through the past two seasons the team disappointed.Joe Dumars, Pistons’ president of basketball operations, stated on Monday that the club doesn’t plan major changes for the following season. "Just because we haven't gotten to the finals, it...
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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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 Billy Donovan is officially out of the Orlando Magic deal, but his wavering could be costly for both sides involved. The Magic finally let Donovan out of the $5.5 million annual deal late Wednesday nightafter days ago rumors broke he was having second thoughts."I realized in less than 24 hours after signing a contract with the Magic...
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 After agreeing to a five-year, $27.5 million contract with the Orlando Magic on Thursday, coach Billy Donovan might not be done with the Florida Gators.FoxSports.com, citing two anonymous sources, reported Sunday night that Donovan was having second thoughts about coaching the NBA's Orlando Magic and he approached both sides in order to...
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Nairobi - A United Nations expert on extrajudicial and summary executions on Monday begins a ten-day mission to investigate the killings that followed disputed December 2007 elections in Kenya, the UN said.
Philip Alston, who was invited by the Kenyan government, is to visit some of the hotspots of violence, including the capital...
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Nairobi - Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan on Friday hinted he would send the names of politicians and businessmen accused of orchestrating Kenya's post-election violence to The Hague after failed attempts to set up a local tribunal.
Justice Philip Waki, who headed a probe into the violence, gave Kenya until March 1 to create a...
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Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Thursday said he would forge ahead with forming a unity government even though he did not regard President Robert Mugabe as a "credible partner."
Tsvangirai told journalists in South Africa on Thursday that he planned to return home on Saturday for a meeting with regional...
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The protracted wrangling by Zimbabwe's political leaders is furthering the deterioration of the nation's economy, Zimbabwe's high court head said Monday.
"Our political leaders should put aside their political differences, vendettas if any and put the nation of Zimbabwe first," said judge president Rita Makarau. "As a...
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A South African appeal court on Monday opened the way for a case of corruption to be brought against Jacob Zuma, the controversial but popular leader of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and front-runner in the forthcoming presidential race.
The Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein, the second highest court, upheld an...
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President Robert Mugabe was back in Zimbabwe on Monday following a brief holiday abroad, state-media reported.
The Herald newspaper quoted a presidential spokesman as saying the embattled 84-year-old leader was back from the Far East but "still on leave" and Vice President Joice Mujuru was acting president.
Mugabe drew...
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Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak received Monday a cluster of European Union (EU) envoys, as diplomatic efforts got underway towards forging a ceasefire deal for the Gaza Strip.
The EU group, meeting Mubarak in the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, included French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, EU Foreign Commissioner Benita...
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Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga's party was Monday holding crisis talks after President Mwai Kibaki signed into law a media bill opposed by Odinga.
Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) fears that Kibaki is increasingly going his own way and ignoring the premier, who was appointed this year as part of a power-sharing deal that...
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Ugandan rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army said Monday that a joint attack by Ugdanda, Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan on its bases in the north-east of DR Congo failed.
"The operation has not, and will not achieve its objectives," LRA spokesman David Matsanga told journalists in the Kenyan capital Nairobi....
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Zimbabwe has received agricultural inputs from the South African government worth over 300 million South African rand (about 30 million dollars), Zimbabwean state media reported Monday.
The Herald newspaper quoted Zimbabwe's Agricultural Minister Rugare Gumbo as saying Pretoria had sent, among other items, maize and sorghum seed,...
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Zimbabwe's neighbours in the Southern African Development Community on Wednesday announced a new mechanism for delivering urgent humanitarian aid to the crisis-hit southern African country.
South African President Kgalema Motlanthe, whose country currently chairs SADC, said financial and material aid would be channeled through a new...
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Up to 250 people have died over the past week in tribal clashes in the restive western Sudanese province of Darfur, the peacekeeping mission in Darfur said.
The UN and African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) said that up to 150 people died when the Habbaniya ethnic group came under attack from the Fallata and Salamat groups in...
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A Ugandan government official on Friday confirmed that the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia will pull out should Ethiopia stick to its promise of withdrawing its troops before the end of the year.
"If the Ethiopians pull out ... the AU force will pull out because it will not have adequate numbers," James...
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Zimbabwe on Thursday declared the cholera outbreak that has claimed at least 565 lives a national emergency and appealed for international aid to tackle the crisis.
Health Minister David Parirenyatwa told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa: "We are expecting the international community to chip in with assistance so that the pandemic...
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Two South African Nobel Peace Prize laureates have petitioned President Kgalema Motlanthe to establish a commission of inquiry into a controversial multibillion-dollar arms deal, The Star newspaper reported Wednesday.
In a letter dated December 1 and delivered by hand to Motlanthe's Cape Town office on Tuesday, former president FW de...
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Zimbabwe's health services, once regarded among the best in Africa, are "in a state of collapse" with its main hospitals closed and a cholera epidemic raging, a leading medical body said Wednesday.
The country's four main hospitals, in the capital Harare and the western city of Bulawayo, were "virtually closed,"...
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An Egyptian court on Tuesday issued barred the government from exporting gas to Israel, a security source told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
The higher administrative court's ruling came after a number of Egyptian lawyers made a case against the government for exporting gas to Israel at a price below the international gas...
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An Egyptian court on Tuesday barred the government from exporting gas to Israel, a security source told Deutsche Presse- Agentur dpa.
The higher administrative court's ruling came after a number of Egyptian lawyers made a case against the government for exporting gas to Israel at a price below the international gas price.
Egypt...
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German President Horst Koehler began winding up a six-day visit to Nigeria on Wednesday, travelling to the Muslim north for a colourful reception by the emir of the state of Kano.
Koehler, whose visit was devoted both to German-African affairs and to bilateral ties between Germany and Nigeria, was treated to a durbar, a colourful...
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A crisis summit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to discuss the nearly two-month impasse in Zimbabwe's power-sharing negotiations will be held this weekend in South Africa, the department of foreign affairs confirmed Tuesday.
"It (the summit) will be held Sunday in South Africa," foreign affairs...
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At least 26 people have been killed in a wave of suicide car bomb attacks in Somalia, hospital and government officials said Wednesday.
Five near-simultaneous suicide bomb attacks, including one on an Ethiopian embassy and one on a United Nations compound, rocked the breakaway northern state of Somaliland and the semi-autonomous...
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