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A father in eastern India gave away his teenage daughter to a fellow gambler after he lost a card game, with police launching a hunt to retrieve the girl.
Ismail Sheikh, from a village in West Bengal, used his 18-year-old daughter as a stake after he..
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A day after the Lisbon Treaty won final approval, Belgium’s prime minister emerged as the favorite on Wednesday to take the European Union’s first presidential...
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Europe’s elite celebrated the imminent arrival of its first president last night as the last lingering resistance to the Lisbon treaty fell away with the stroke of a...
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The Spanish daily newspaper El Pais carried a harsh critique of Tony Blair’s candidature written by Emilio Menéndez del Valle, a former diplomat and socialist...
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With Turkey’s prospects for joining the European Union growing more elusive and the country reaching out to predominantly Muslim countries with a vigor not seen in...
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Tony Blair’s prospects of leading a new-look European Union took a double hit on Tuesday as a serious rival became the first to declare his intentions and Italy...
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When France held the Rotating presidency of the EU last year a three day summit was held in the Grand Palace of Paris for Mediterranean Union.
A special made to order...
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As Lisbon Treaty seems to come into force also the enlargement process in the Western Balkans got new boost. On 14 October 2009 the Commission adopted its annual...
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The Reform Act of 1832 swept away dozens of Britain’s “rotten boroughs”, where comfortable sinecures were left in the hands of a tiny number of voters. The 2009...
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Tony Blair’s chances of becoming the first EU “president” nose-dived yesterday when President Nicolas Sarkozy distanced himself from the former prime...
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The Irish question — the 21st century version of it, not the one that so vexed Victorian statesmen — has been settled. Ireland’s Oct. 2 referendum vote in...
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Only 16 months after rejecting it the first time, voters in Ireland have overwhelmingly approved a wide-ranging treaty to overhaul how the European Union is run and to...
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In Bosnia and Herzegovina, scene of Europe’s bloodiest recent war and an alternately wild, entrancing and deeply divided place, the need for a sharper, more focused...
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In Bosnia and Herzegovina - scene of Europe’s bloodiest recent war, and an alternately wild, entrancing, and deeply divided place - the need for sharper, more...
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France and Germany are planning a new treaty of friendship and an array of other joint schemes that could push Britain to the sidelines in Europe, according to sources...
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France has been singled out for criticism for derailing the process of Turkey’s accession to the EU and damaging its internal reforms in a report for the European...
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The Irish government faces a tough battle to get the EU’s Lisbon Treaty ratified in a referendum next month, the country’s foreign minister says.
Micheal...
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Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi has given new meaning to the Teflon politician. The term originated with American President Ronald Reagan whom remained popular despite...
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The boats used to arrive on Spain’s Canary Islands almost daily, rickety vessels crammed with Africans hoping for a better life in Europe, and willing to risk a...
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The French government used to be Israel’s more generous weapon patron, and it was French assistance that helped Israel become a nuclear power.
But the 1967 war...
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Organised crime has moved into the recycling industry - a development that has become clear over the past few months after a series of raids to enforce the EU’s...
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The Associated Press reported Thursday that the beach at the Gran Caribe Real Hotel in Cancun had been closed by Mexican environmental enforcement officials after...
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AUSTIN-American Indian tribes in El Paso and East Texas want a “get out of jail free card” to reopen casinos closed by a Texas attorney general’s...
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Robert Gabriel Mugabe has been top of the tree in Zimbabwe for 29 years. And in that time he has toyed with people’s lives, failed to deliver upon his own promises,...
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There is a common quote going on these days in the prostitution market and that is WE WANT THEM YOUNG...It is a fact that more and more young girls, some are even 11...
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MADRID; and milan, Italy - Miriana spends her nights sleeping in a park, and her days hunched on a stoop outside a Madrid shop, begging for money. The young woman...
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Days of work exceeding 16 hours a day. Workers and machines together indoors without ventilation. Workers who live inside the plants stacked without being able to leave...
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“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to...
made popular Jul 18 2008
The article below released by the AP clearly shows that the Democrats use of economic terror tactics works to a great extent and much more than anticipated.
In the...
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The vast majority of Australians I have talked to about Japanese whaling agree with me that it is unnecessary and barbaric. Japanese “scientific” whaling...
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Almost after a halt of two months, the municipal authorities will resume sealing operations against illegal establishments in the capital. About 55,000 such shops will...
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One of the most debated topics in many countries is the provision of legal rights to gay and lesbian couples. With America legalizing gay and lesbian marriages a...
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