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As Iran stumbles deeper into political crisis, with scores of protestors murdered and likely more deaths coming after Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami declared them “worthy of execution,” the Republicans have diligently gone about exercising their best skills...
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Costa Rica is the greenest and happiest country in the world, according to a new list that ranks nations by combining measures of their ecological footprint with the...
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Parents were banned from attending an inter-school sports day to protect pupils from kidnappers and paedophiles.
The host school said they could not prevent...
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Human Rights Watch said Friday that Zimbabwe’s armed forces have taken over diamond fields in the east and killed more than 200 people, forcing children to search...
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The candidacy of Mario Anguiano, running for governor in a state election here Sunday, says a lot about Mexican politics amid the rise of the drug cartels.
A brother...
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United States Marines moved into villages in Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan on Friday, meeting little resistance as they tried to win over local chiefs on...
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Very few like me have a gut feeling that BJP will come back. It was a painful experience to witness rise and fall of a substitute to family-run congress. Congress which...
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Max Blumental reports on The Daily Beast that Sarah Palin may have quit her job today because she was trying to avert a major, yet-to-be-disclosed corruption scandal....
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The African Union refused to act on an international war crimes warrant for Sudan’s president, at a summit that also yielded a deal on the powers of a new...
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The latest two-yearly study of the Australian Government’s Productivity Commission damningly reveals that indigenous children are six times more likely to suffer...
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Thirty-one teenage boys have died from complications after botched traditional circumcision rites in South Africa’s rural Eastern Cape region, officials said on...
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From Angela Merkel to Barack Obama, few have emerged unscathed from his peculiar brand of music hall humour, adolescent japes and sexist quips.
As Italy prepares to...
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The crown of the famed New York Statue of Liberty will reopen tomorrow for the first time since September 11th, 2001, and what better day than the celebration of...
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American nuns could be said to have their habits in a twist in the face of two investigations by the Vatican into whether they have come to espouse lifestyles and views...
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The Jackson family has decided to hold a memorial for their late son at Los Angeles’ Staple Center. Jackson died last week from what was probably a strong...
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Days before a historic visit of the US President to Russia gambling was narrowed just to four geographical areas of a country, far away from capitals and significant...
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In Penitents Compete (Tovbekarlar Yarisiyor in Turkish), religious leaders will seek to convert at least one of the 10 atheists in each episode to their faith. Those...
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Iran’s nuclear threat was never in doubt during its presidential campaign, but the post-election resistance raised the possibility of some sort of regime change....
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Besides blocking access to food and construction to Palestinians in the Gaza Stripe - and even to a lesser degree in the West Bank - Israel also prevents Palestinians...
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As many as 41 security personnel have been killed after their military helicopter fell down in Feroz Khel area, bordering the Orakzai and Khyber agencies, yesterday...
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For all the complaints from American right-wingers that the European Union is a nation of appeasers whom do not stand up to thuggish regimes, the EU is actually more...
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Globovisión has long been attacked by Venezuelan leftist autocrat Hugo Chavez. The station’s owner, Guillermo Zuloaga, is no fan of Chavez and it is clear in the...
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When Hugo Chávez became president of Venezuela in 1999, I was very optimistic. After all, I had watched this oil-rich nation’s tragic economic collapse first...
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Dreaming of a new life, Ramon Barrera came to El Charcote, a vast farm in northwestern Venezuela, several years after President Hugo Chavez’s populist government had...
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American leftists seem not to notice, but Hugo Chavez’s “21st Century Socialism” is not going as planned. I have written extensively on the horror...
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Expropriation—the confiscation of privately-owned assets by the government—was the dominant political risk of the 1970s, but has since become confined to a small...
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In a post-bubble world that vilifies the private sector and elevates government as humanity’s best hope, two events in Latin America last week deserve...
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Amid repeated threats by President Hugo Chavez to shut down the Globovision television station, government prosecutors Thursday indicted the station’s main owner...
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Earlier this month, on the same day that a law was passed sanctioning the nationalization of companies working in Venezuela that provide services to the oil industry,...
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It seemed so obvious for a few years, back when the Berlin Wall had just fallen, that democratic capitalism would be the only way left for a developing country to...
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They say prison life can be lonely, but not for Raúl Isaías Baduel, Venezuela’s former army chief and once one of President Hugo Chávez’s confidants, who was...
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Hundreds of opponents of President Hugo Chavez marched in support of press freedom in Venezuela on Wednesday, two years after his government refused to renew the...
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President Barack Obama greeting Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Will President Obama’s handshake with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez undermine the former...
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Opponents of Hugo Chavez on Sunday urged President Barack Obama not to warm up to their president without also addressing their concerns about democracy and human...
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The final declaration of the Summit of Americas, which Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and his leftist bloc refused to sign, turned out to have just one signatory.
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Opponents of Hugo Chavez urged President Barack Obama on Sunday not to warm up to the Venezuelan president without raising concerns about democracy and dissidents in...
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Hugo Chavez said Saturday that he is restoring Venezuela’s ambassador in Washington, voicing hopes for a “new era” in U.S. relations after barely...
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Presidents Barack Obama and Hugo Chavez have met for the first time, shaking hands as the Summit of the Americas gets under way in Trinidad and Tobago.
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Every week the news out of Venezuela gets worse. Chavez has never respected democratic institutions, that is why is first gambit into politics was through a failed...
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he would be willing to accept prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay detention center, which U.S. President Barack Obama has said he...
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