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As Mauricio Fernandez Garza took the stage to be sworn in for the second time as the mayor of one of Latin America’s most wealthiest communities a broad smile crept upon his face.
Not only was he thrilled to be taking the Presidential reigns of...
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Also human life is short, kaleidoscope of history-in-making is so speedy changing that last seventy years accomplished events lasting centuries previously: changing...
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At least 8 people were killed and more than 17 others injured in Heavy fighting between Somali government forces and insurgents in south and northern Somali capital...
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The gay community in Uganda has turned to social media — blogs, twitter, mailing lists and Facebook — in a bid to garner support for its opposition to the...
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China’s premier on Sunday pledged $10 billion in concessional loans to African nations over the next three years and said Beijing would cancel the government...
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Muslim militants beheaded a school principal on a remote southern island in the Philippines after holding him for ransom for three weeks, a marine general said on...
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Along with the perennial calls for “land for farmers” and “factories for workers,” Communists who marched in Moscow on the Saturday anniversary of the 1917...
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Sema Ergezen teaches biology to Turkish students interested in teaching science themselves, and she has long struggled with her students’ ignorance of, and...
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Saudi Arabia said Monday it had captured 250 Yemeni rebels and regained control of a strategic mountain that straddles the border between the two countries after a...
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Twenty years to the day since the Berlin Wall was first breached, the city will today play host to a celebration of the momentous changes brought about by the fall of a...
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Rupert Murdoch says he will remove stories from Google’s search index as a way to encourage people to pay for content online.
In an interview with Sky News...
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Confronted by growing evidence that sex between men is a significant driver of new HIV infections, the Kenyan government has shed a long-time refusal to acknowledge the...
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Rebels in northern Yemen have said they shot down a Yemeni fighter jet that was attacking their strongholds on Sunday.
The government in Sanaa has denied the claim,...
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In his first year at San Marcos University, Hermenegildo Espejo barely spoke, and certainly not in class.
His Spanish was rudimentary, his accent an embarrassment....
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President Hugo Chavez on Sunday ordered Venezuela’s military to prepare for a possible armed conflict with Colombia, saying his country’s soldiers should be...
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Pakistan, and Peshawar, Pakistan — A suicide bomber attacked a livestock market in the suburbs of the violence-racked northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on...
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Mikhail Gorbachev supports a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The former president of the Soviet Union spoke to CNN’s John King Sunday on State Of The Union...
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Iraq’s parliament ended weeks of debate Sunday and passed a long-delayed law paving the way for the planned January election to go forward, sidestepping a crisis...
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A Brazilian university has expelled a woman who was heckled by hundreds of fellow students for wearing a short, pink dress to class – publicly accusing her Sunday of...
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Mud and boulders loosened by heavy rains swept down a volcano and partly buried a small town Sunday, swallowing up homes as flooding and landslides across El Salvador...
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Prosecutor Michael Loucks remembers clearly when lawyers for Pfizer Inc., the world’s largest drug company, looked across the table and promised it wouldn’t break...
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The swap deal with Maoists will go down in the history as a huge blunder. In Kashmir the swap deal negotiated with militants for the release of the kin of a senior...
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A Chinese ship with 146 people aboard was hijacked Monday in the Indian Ocean, the European Union Naval Force said.
The bulk carrier De Xin Hai was hijacked around...
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By the third day of negotiating with his son’s kidnappers, Rasul Amoore had sold his car, withdrawn his bank savings and borrowed money from his siblings and friends...
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Somalia’s junior minister for defence who was briefly held in Uganda has been released, Uganda’s army spokesman says.
Sheikh Yusuf Mohamed Siad, a former...
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At knifepoint, Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her girlhood bedroom, she said, then led to a secluded mountain campsite, where a self-proclaimed prophet made her his...
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he kidnappers holding an Iraqi auto mechanic’s 11-year-old son gave him just two days to come up with $100,000 in ransom. When he could not, they were just as...
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WHEN Arsen Butayev was seized on a street in broad daylight last month and held captive with four other men, including his younger brother, he must have known a...
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This is more a human story than news of the dramatic escape of British Hostage Stephen Farrel from Taliban in Afghanistan. Stephen Farrel of New Yorker and his Afgan...
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“There was what appeared to be feces on the table and on the floor,” assistant Hamilton County prosecutor David Prem said.
Prem was prosecuting Orr, 66,...
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A man from the West African nation Togo has admitted his role in the smuggling of dozens of girls and women who were forced to work at hair braiding salons in New...
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Europe’s top human rights watchdog launched a probe Monday into Serb allegations that ethnic Albanian guerrillas kidnapped Serb civilians during Kosovo’s...
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Many students of secondary school on Monday besieged the Police Area Command, Nsukka, following killing of one secondary school student, Master Ebuka Omeje, by men of...
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Afghanistan’s kidnap economy has not quite reached the heights of Iraq’s at its worst point, but it is certainly a growth industry and shows the same ugly nexus...
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Nations distinguish themselves by gestures large and small. In the coming weeks, Brazil will define itself to the United States and to the wider international community...
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Russian crime gangs on the Costa del Sol are injecting kidnap victims with what they claim is an experimental KGB virus to terrify them into paying ransoms.
In the...
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Somalian pirates: Sea terrorist.
“US military chiefs are bolstering their forces around the Horn of Africa to help tackle Somali pirates holding a US captain...
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Mexico is infamous for being one of the most dangerous countries for journalists and since 2000 already 20 have been killed and 8 kidnapped. These are the statistics of...
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Canadian Julie Mulligan is seen following her release by kidnappers, in Kaduna, Nigeria Thursday, April 30, 2009. Mulligan, who was taken hostage April 16 in the northern city of Kaduna, where she had been attending an international conference, was freed.
