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After the House of Representatives’ historic passing of a health care reform bill, the U.S. Senate now is under pressure by the White House and fellow liberals to pass its own bill (that will then be amalgamated with the House bill in Conference...
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Although Zimbabwe’s internal political situation has improved marginally, the millions of Zimbabweans who have fled the country’s economic collapse continue to...
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Ugandan government allegedly turned a blind eye as Rwandan Hutu rebels drafted fighters from refugee camps in the country, a new UN report says.
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From the busy and bucolic scene in this Punjab province village, it is hard to tell that Pakistan is in the throes of a national sugar crisis. Fields of tall green cane...
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Dressed in a pink cotton tracksuit, Corporal Innocent Rakundo looks an unlikely member of the FDLR, one of Africa’s most feared rebel armies. He fiddles with a pen as...
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Thousands of soldiers have been deployed across Honduras to oversee a controversial election which will cement the overthrow of President Manuel Zelaya.
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The Brazilian minister of Foreign Affairs, Celso Amorim, reaffirmed on Thursday divergences with the United States regarding the political crisis in Honduras before the...
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Thousands of Britons who have sold properties in Spain stand to win millions of pounds in compensation after the European Court of Justice ruled that they had been...
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I believe that yesterday I was pretty successful in proving that Jordanians DO have some degree of humor (despite the grumpy faces they are best known for :) ). And...
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Britain and Canada protested yesterday over a proposed law that would result in gays in Uganda being imprisoned for life or even executed.
Gordon Brown followed...
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Rescuers have recovered the body of the last victim a gas explosion in a southwestern China coal mine, bringing the death toll to 10, state-run media reported on...
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Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s party-guy private life has dominated Italy’s public discourse for more than six months. But his alleged dalliances with...
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Tales of conflict emerging from this remote, arid region of Kenya have disturbing echoes of the lethal building blocks that turned Darfur into a killing ground in...
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Police say a mob in Guatemala burned to death two men and a woman suspected of killing a local bus driver.
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I think one has to qualify as an idiot before becoming a leader of a communist country......the Castro brothers in Cuba and Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, are 3 of many...
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An express train carrying hundreds of passengers from Moscow to St. Petersburg derailed, killing at least 39 people and injuring scores of others, emergency officials...
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A ferry packed with people going home for an Islamic festival capsized as they disembarked at a terminal in southern Bangladesh, leaving at least 15 dead and scores...
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In a blow to Iran, the board of the U.N. nuclear agency on Friday overwhelmingly backed a demand from the U.S., Russia, China and three other powers that Tehran...
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After President Obama raised tariffs on Chinese tires - in a pander to the unions - after not long ago warning against protectionism, a senior White House trade...
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One of the most widely known Middle Eastern films (in the West) in recent years is the Arabic-language Israeli drama “The Syrian Bride”. The film chronicles...
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Fundamentalist Islamic authorities in Sudan inflicted the physical punishment of 50 lashes on a teenage Christian girl for dressing ‘indecently’ in public. The...
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A health care debate is going on in Japan, similar to one in the US. The Japanese lawmakers have made obese people illegal and have set a maximum waistline size for...
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While the government’s health care initiative moves from the House to the Senate, the heated debate about this legislation continues across the country both at...
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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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The healthcare reform proposals before Congress threaten the existence of the two-party system, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) alleged Monday morning.
Hatch asserted that...
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Kidney donors may be stuck with shocking medical bills because having one kidney could constitute a pre-existing condition resulting in a denial of health care...
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Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) predicted on Sunday that health care reform would pass, while a fellow Republican senator was more skeptical.
Appearing on CBS’...
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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....
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Freshman Florida Congressman Alan Grayson aspires to be the new famed Louisiana Governor Huey Long. And like his late idol, he is also big and stupid and seeks to...
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The Senate Finance Committee voted 14-9 Tuesday to pass America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009. The committee’s approval marks a critical turning point for...
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Regardless of politics, everyone ought to watch tonight’s Countdown With Keith Olberman. “We The People” need to get a lot angrier about a system a...
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Few presidents set themselves up for failure like Obama. The Hope and Change candidate stroked unhealthy levels of fanfare to historic levels. Thus he came in to office...
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It used to be that the main advantage of being a president is that nobody can tell you to shut up. Well, that has been discarded. We now have to add this caveat – not...
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An incident took place two days ago when the US President Obama addressed Congress that needs to be discussed seriously in India for its many ramifications.
The...
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President Obama related a moving letter that the late Senator Ted Kennedy wrote to him regarding the importance that health care reform has to the morality of our...
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Fellow Americans,
When you elected me president, you put in my hand your security and wellbeing. As your president, I swore to uphold that. At this time in our health...
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After a summer of healthcare battles and sliding approval ratings for President Obama, the White House is facing a troubling new trend: The voters losing faith in the...
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A many opponents of Obama’s health care reform proposal claim that ObameCare would lead to rationing of health care, especially for the elderly. Opponents cling...
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Dear President Obama,
I write you at this juncture in your presidency when everything is at stake. You’re at an urgent tipping point that has the potential to...
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Already two of the thirteen original colonies, Virginia and New Jersey may have wanted to be extra-special in holding their gubernatorial elections in off-years. While...
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