Thailand's powerful military council on Wednesday declared that New Year's Eve bomb attacks in Bangkok were staged by politicians, and renegade army officers loyal to exiled Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who want to topple the government.Rio de Janeiro's new government and Brazil's top secur...
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Iraq hanged two aides to Saddam Hussein, Barzan al-Tikriti and Awad al-Bander, before dawn today, but government efforts to avoid a repeat of uproar over the ousted leader's rowdy execution, were thwarted, when his half-brother's head was severed by the hangman's noose.U.S. troops, in a possible ...
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Saddam Hussein is executed for war crimes. Saddam Hussein struggled briefly, after American military guards handed him over to Iraqi executioners. But as his final moments approached, he grew calm. He clutched a Quran as he was led to the gallows, and in one final moment of defiance, refused to h...
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A damaged container ship, grounded off the English coast and listing badly, began to lose some of its cargo in heavy winds, and coast guards said Sunday they were on alert because the vessel could break up.Police have identified the man they believe poisoned Alexander Litvinenko. The suspected ki...
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Chad troops chase rebels in Sudan. Troops from Chad entered Sudan's Darfur region in pursuit of Chadian rebels on Friday, as the U.N. and humanitarian aid groups prepared to pull some workers out of a key border town, fearing an imminent battle.The world's first cloned cat just became a mother. (...
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A fire erupted in a wedding tent in eastern Pakistan, triggering a stampede and the collapse of a wall that killed 27 women and children, police said Sunday. The bride was among the dead.Japan's conservative government chipped away at two pillars of the country's postwar pacifism, requiring schoo...
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Spacewalkers Rewiring Space Station.Execution of a Florida inmate takes 34 minutes.South Africa to ban hunting of animals. The hunting of lions and other big cats, bred in captivity purely to die at the barrel of a gun, will be outlawed under legislation that comes into force next year, the South...
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New Orleans faces a spike in killings. Nine people have been slain in New Orleans, in the first eight days of the new year, deepening the sense of despair over the slow pace of the city's recovery, and leaving police and civic leaders grasping for ways to stop the bloodshed.U.S. targeted al Qaeda...
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A storm blamed for at least 41 deaths in six states spread into the Northeast on Monday, coating trees, power lines and roads with a shell of ice up to a half-inch thick and knocking out power to more than half a million homes and businesses.Pakistan's soldiers backed by attack helicopters destro...
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He, did you know that I'm looking for a date? I'm bored stiff, and very lonely. Hope I can find someone before I turn into an old spinster.A fire broke out in a women's ward of a Moscow drug treatment hospital early Saturday. The fire killed 45 women who were trapped by barred windows and a locke...
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Three is company actress Suzanne Somers' home was one of four destroyed by a wind-driven wildfire that swept through Malibu, the exclusive seaside neighborhood of multimillion-dollar homes, a spokesman confirmed Tuesday.An Orlando woman was charged with turning on an oven and putting her baby in ...
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The Pentagon, and to a lesser extent the CIA, have been using a little-known power, to look at the banking, and credit records of hundreds of Americans, and others suspected of terrorism, or espionage, within the United States.Air force helicopters on Saturday started evacuating dozens of sick an...
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