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WASHINGTON.
President Barack Obama’s fiscal 2012 budget aims to cut the massive federal deficit by US$1,1 trillion over 10 years, -
BAGHDAD.Young Iraqis are to hold a Valentine’s Day rally today to call on their leaders to love the war-battered country rather than rob its resources, an organiser told AFP.“We do not want Valentine’s Day to be only one day of love but a celebration for reform, democracy, citizenship and freedom,” said Karnas Ali, a young […]
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Thousands of British women are so desperate for a bigger bottom they are risking their lives by taking pills designed to fatten up chickens.The poultry tablets are packed with hormones that have been linked to breast cancer and liver problems in humans.Originally they were used by farmers to bulk up chickens — but it was […]
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This is believed to be the world’s oldest wedding cake — baked 113 years ago.Incredibly, the delicately decorated Victorian cake, made in 1898, is still in one piece and even has a crack sustained in a World War Two bomb blast.Despite its age, a recent investigation with a syringe discovered the rich fruit cake inside […]
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BLANTYRE.A Rwandan minister has urged some 2 000 refugees in Malawi to come home, saying the country had returned to peace and stability, local media said yesterday.“Please return home. There is peace in Rwanda, there is security in Rwanda,” the country’s refugees minister, General Marcel Gatsinzi, was quoted as saying by Malawi’s Sunday Times.He made […]
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Egypt’s new military regime dismantled ousted Hosni Mubarak’s former regime yesterday, dissolving parliament, suspending the constitution and promising a referendum on political reform.While the civilian cabinet met for the first time since Mubarak’s downfall, the generals made it clear where authority now lies, issuing a proclamation setting a six-month timetable to prepare democratic elections.The latest […]
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LONDON.WEAK banks pushed Britain’s top share index into negative territory on Friday, pressured by renewed concerns over European sovereign debt, while retailers were hit by worries about pain ahead on the high street.The FTSE 100 index was down 16,64 points, or 0,3 percent, at 6 003,37, after it closed down 0,5 percent at 6 020,01 […]
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A New Zealand radio station has been criticised for running a contest giving male listeners the chance to win a wife.
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A UK woman was handcuffed and “treated like a hardened criminal” after she helped herself to food worth £200 that had been thrown away by a Tesco store following a power cut.Dozens of people could not believe their luck after the outlet of the supermarket giant bagged up thousands of pounds of spoiled stock and […]
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ALGIERS.Large numbers of police were deployed in central Algiers yesterday ahead of a pro-democracy march planned by opposition groups in defiance of a government ban.The head of the opposition Rally for Culture and Democracy, Said Sadi, said the authorities had ringed the capital in a bid to prevent people joining today’s march from outside.“Trains have […]
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LONDON.Britain was on a collision course with the European Court of Human Rights yesterday after lawmakers overwhelmingly backed a parliamentary motion to continue denying prisoners the right to vote.The House of Commons voted late on Thursday by 234 to 22 in favour of the motion, in defiance of an ECHR ruling in 2005 which said […]
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JOHANNESBURG.A South African police officer who clashed with the ex-wife of former president Nelson Mandela after stopping her car for speeding pressed criminal charges against her yesterday, his union said.The officer and a colleague stopped Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s car for reckless driving and speeding on December 30, then got into an argument with her, her driver […]
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PARIS.
DNA tests designed to pinpoint development disorders in children can also inadvertently reveal whether a child was -
BERLIN.A German man accused of sexually abusing his stepson, daughter and stepdaughter and fathering eight children with the latter goes on trial next week, a court spokesman said yesterday.The 48-year-old man, named in media reports as Detlef S, stands accused of 350 counts of sexual abuse and serious sexual assault of minors.Between 1987 and 2010, […]
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