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Nov 4 2009
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in a rare address to both houses of Congress, has called on the US to join European efforts on global warming. She also said Iran must not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon and reiterated Germany’s commitment to...
Oct 26 2009
Rescue operations are under way across Afghanistan, after three helicopters crashed in a series of pre-dawn sorties, leaving at least four US troops dead and two others seriously injured. Two helicopters collided in mid-air, in the South of the...
Oct 22 2009
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in New York’s State Supreme Court, was brought on behalf of former investors and seeks unspecified punitive damages and compensation. Beyond that, it offers a look at what the plaintiffs’ attorneys say was once...
Oct 21 2009
Democratic staff for the House oversight committee informed their GOP counterparts today that the majority has changed the locks on the committee’s hearing room. While Republicans previously enjoyed their own key to the room, they will now have to...
Oct 19 2009
Around two dozen comics from the country are on display at the Frankfurt Book Fair, with writers, publishers and agents hopeful of a gradual easing of censorship in one of the world’s last Communist states. “You can publish everything except sex,...
Oct 15 2009
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman met with his Austrian counterpart in Vienna and said that embracing the Goldstone Report amounts to granting diplomatic immunity to terror. The Austrian foreign minister noted that a debate on the report should only...
Oct 14 2009
If Hillary Clinton was hoping to win Russian support for efforts to use a threat of sanctions to pressure Iran to come clean about its nuclear ambitions, her first trip to Moscow as secretary of state got off to a rocky start Tuesday. Russia’s...
Oct 12 2009
Throughout the Cuban countryside are hand-painted murals featuring the famous faces of the revolution, Che and Fidel, of course, but also René, Antonio, Fernando, Gerardo and Ramón — known here as “Los Cinco,” the Cuban Five, no last...
Oct 2 2009
At knifepoint, Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her girlhood bedroom, she said, then led to a secluded mountain campsite, where a self-proclaimed prophet made her his 14-year-old polygamous “wife” in a quickie ceremony. “After that...
Oct 1 2009
The Supreme Court’s decision Wednesday to hear a 2nd Amendment challenge to Chicago’s handgun ban could open the door to similar lawsuits in cities and states across the nation. At issue is whether the right to keep and bear arms is a...