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As Egypt gears for pop diva Beyonce Knowles’ first performance in North Africa, Islamic conservatives are branding her show an “insolent sex party” that threatens the Muslim nation’s “social peace and stability.”
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Somali pirates on Wednesday seized a cargo ship in the Indian Ocean with 22 crew members on board, the European Union Naval Force said.
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When the newly elected New York City Council convenes in January, for the first time in its history white council members will be in the minority, as whites are in the...
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A dispute over drug trafficking territory in Rio de Janeiro has intensified lately, leaving in its wake unprecedented acts of violence, such as the downing of a police...
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Mahad Abdullahi Hassan had never heard of Nepal before the day he landed there. When the 28-year-old Somali boarded a flight from Dubai to Kathmandu on May 23, 2007, he...
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As violence rises in Afghanistan, the power balance between insurgent groups has shifted, with a weakened al-Qaeda relying increasingly on the emboldened Taliban for...
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Pornography isn’t confined to the sexual exploitation of young adults and children. Celebrity porn in this country is now almost as vicious (”Vote out the...
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Behind-the-scenes U.S. pressure has finally forced Iraq’s leaders to accept a political compromise, with Sunday’s vote in the Iraqi parliament to adopt an...
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Silvio Berlusconi took a step closer to having his corruption charges consigned to the dustbin yesterday when a key coalition ally backed a new limit on the time the...
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Uganda’s former army chief James Kazini has been killed at his girlfriend’s flat in the capital, Kampala.
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Seven FARC rebels and four government soldiers were killed in separate engagements in southwestern and eastern Colombia, the military said.
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Gunmen burst into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and opened fire in a violence-plagued Mexican border state, killing one person and wounding four others, authorities...
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Whenever the crisis in Zimbabwe looks to be in danger of collapsing the fragile unity government, the principals call on SADC - who invite them all to a...
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Hagadera Refugee Camp, Kenya–For months, 18-year-old Ahmed Abdullahi had dodged the mortar shells that whizz daily through Mogadishu, the war-ravaged capital of...
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Brazil and the U.S. urged Colombia and Venezuela on Tuesday to talk out their differences after Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez ordered his military to prepare for a...
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It’s been an almost endless summer in Lebanon, with beach weather and relative political harmony continuing well into November. The only thing marring what could...
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According to ABC News, the investigation of last week’s Fort Hood shootings has also begun to focus on Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical imam currently living in Yemen...
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“Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. And what one person receives without working for, another person must...
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According to a study released by the Harvard Medical School, 2,266 veterans under the age of 65 died last year as a result of not having health insurance. Researchers...
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In Japan, being thin isn’t just the price you pay for fashion or social acceptance. It’s the law.
So before the fat police could throw her in pudgy purgatory, Miki...
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I am still wondering at a degree of livability hypocrisy demonstrates even in modern civilized anti-Hitler Germany, an engine of Free Europe for progress and human...
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Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood was swift in its rejection of reports that its leader resigned after a row with conservatives, but the crisis exposed a profound rift...
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Reporting from Cairo - Whether it’s seen as a clever little gadget to help a woman keep a secret or a devilish deception that threatens Islam, the Artificial...
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It is official: Conservatives hate Obama so much and are so eager for his failure that they root against their own country solely on these grounds.
Now, I was against...
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Greece’s Socialist leader George Papandreou trounced the governing conservatives in a landslide election victory after a campaign focused on dramatically...
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Twenty Saudi youths have been given 30 lashes each following disturbances on the country’s national day, local reports say.
The Saudi press reported that gangs...
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There is no name, just the smiling, matronly face of Angela Merkel. With a confident stateswoman-like air she looks down benevolently from giant posters plastered...
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Writing in his weekly newspaper column, Gamal al-Banna said recently that God had created humans as fallible and therefore destined to sin. So even a scantily clad...
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It is a shame. I am a classical liberal who would normal fit right in the Republican party, but many people like me who are fiscally conservative are turned off by a...
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Conservatives scored victories in some of Europe’s largest economies Sunday as voters punished left-leaning parties in European parliament elections in France,...
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I do not listen to Rush Limbaugh. But sometimes what he says on his conservative talk radio show gets to me.
Those who listen to Rush Limbaugh are more often than not...
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The fog is starting to lift folks! Confusion is beating a retreat!
For example, I doubt if George Bush knew what a “Blackberry” looked like, let alone how...
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Deep-seated political differences aren’t simply moral and intellectual: They’re also biological.In reflex tests of 46 political partisans, psychologists...
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Conservatives have been trying to frighten investors about the prospects of a Barack Obama presidency. Larry Kudlow wrote, “Wall Street, beware,” while The...
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On May 16, 2008, left-wing blogger Larry Johnson broke a story that “I now have it from [two three] four sources (three who are close to senior Republicans) that...
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t is now clear that the victory of the Left in Italy’s 2006 general election was no more than a brief pause in the remorseless shift to the Right that has...
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