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America’s auto Mecca Detroit is championing higher gas taxes. For years, the Big Three strongly lobbied against any effort to raise national or state gas taxes, but now they are doing the reserve. Why? Because they invested in hybrid cars and small...
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While the majority of Zimbabweans the world over watching events play out in a criminal court in Harare, where MDC politician Roy Bennett is answering to charges that...
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Nicolas Sarkozy was last night accused of living in ‘total fantasy’ after claiming he was among the first people to tear down the Berlin Wall.
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Two of Russia’s most prominent human rights organizations say their work has been thrown into jeopardy by municipal efforts to evict them from their offices.
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The growing number of police killings of suspected criminals in Rio de Janeiro’s war on drugs is linked to bonuses now paid to “brave” police...
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Drugs tests are to be offered to all Italian MPs and senators from tomorrow in a bid to prove their parliament is not an ‘opium smoking den’.
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Reporting from Culiacan, Mexico - In the story making the rounds here in Mexico’s drug capital, the setting is a beauty parlor. A woman with wealth obtained...
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It is not only spies, spooks and Bohemians who look back on life before the fall of the Wall with nostalgia. For 40 years Berlin was the front line between East and...
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The border between Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo is being redrawn — by a river!
Technocrats from the two countries are quietly working to head off a...
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The gay sex scene alone would be enough to ban “This Area Is Under Quarantine” in many countries.
Filmed in a Bangkok hotel room, the scene offers lots of...
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Iran accused three detained Americans of spying Monday, signaling Tehran intends to put them on trial. It drew a sharp U.S. response that the charges are baseless...
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Yesterday, the first female mayor of Baltimore, Sheila Dixon, went on trial accused of stealing gift cards meant for the poor and using them to fund lavish shopping...
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Yemen’s President, Ali Abdullah Saleh, flew into the Gulf of Aden on Nov. 7 to celebrate the first exports of liquefied natural gas from a sprawling $4.5 billion...
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Looking around East Africa, indeed Africa, you can see the diplomatic space has become quite black.
A few weeks ago, Nairobi was turned upside down with the MTV Africa...
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China has executed nine men, including eight from the Muslim Uighur minority, for crimes committed during July riots that killed 200 people in far western Xinjiang...
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The two Koreas briefly exchanged naval fire Tuesday along their disputed western sea border, with a North Korean ship suffering heavy damage before retreating, South...
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The city of romance got a lesson in love’s hard knocks Sunday, as thousands flocked to the French capital’s first divorce fair.
In France, nearly one out...
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In a SPIEGEL interview, the national security adviser to the White House, General James Jones, has expressed strong skepticism regarding the request of General Stanley...
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A landslide triggered by torrential seasonal rains swept through a hilly region in southern India, killing at least 39 people, an official said Tuesday.
The landslide...
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Some dude outside my supermarket just asked me to sign a petition to legalize marijuana. Apparently he was so high that he forgot he’s in California, where pot is...
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Injecting itself aggressively into the health-care debate, the Roman Catholic Church in America has emerged as a major political force with the potential to upend a key...
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