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When Venezuela’s Mining Minister Rodolfo Sanz walked into a televised Cabinet meeting this week, President Hugo ChÁvez impishly asked, “So how’s the uranium for Iran going? For the atomic bomb.” ChÁvez was joking, but few were laughing outside...
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The global recession isn’t just making jobs scarce and tightening spending — it’s also turning more people into thieves. According to an annual survey...
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Venezuela and Colombia differences won’t reach extreme situations and both neighbors will end up finding a way out through dialogue, says Nelson Jobim, the...
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As Somalis struggle to survive the chaos that has overtaken their country, a network of companies that distribute money from the nation’s large diaspora has quietly...
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Latin America has become the battleground for competing Middle East powers, whose leaders are criss-crossing the continent seeking support from an increasingly...
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There seems, as with many problems in Iraq, no good answer for Camp Ashraf, as tensions here rise and American soldiers get closer to leaving: what to do with the few...
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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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Mexican authorities have dismissed almost a quarter of all traffic police in the city of Monterrey for failing corruption and competence tests.
It is the latest move...
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Thailand may have a reputation for indulging visitors in their various vices, but smoking is no longer one of them. On Tuesday, more than 600 fired-up protesters...
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A landslide on a mountainside in northern Tanzania triggered by four days of heavy rain has killed at least 20 people, a senior local official said on...
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No one knows if one-year old Yunus will ever see his mother again. Like six million other Indonesians, she traveled far from home to find employment. She was hired by a...
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When US President Barack Obama visits China this weekend, he will encounter a rival that sees the financial crisis as more of an opportunity than a threat. America, on...
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Nigerian star Stephen Worgu, who plays in Sudan, has been convicted of drinking alcohol and has been sentenced to be flogged.
Worgu plays for the Sudanese giants Al...
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First came the Brezhnev Market. Then the Bush Market.
Now Afghans are beginning to call their notorious bazaar full of chow and supplies bought or stolen from the vast...
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Kidnapping people on their way to lodge complaints with China’s central government has evolved into a lucrative cottage industry that police refuse to acknowledge...
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An ugly race row has left South Africa’s national power company leaderless and is threatening to turn the lights out in the country only nine months before it is...
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Gordon Brown’s poor spelling and awkward telephone manner may have won him sympathy this week, as the British public begins to feel sorry for a prime minister...
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The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington said Wednesday that it will be unable to continue the social service programs it runs for the District if the city doesn’t...
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Police say Mike Tyson has been detained on suspicion of battery after an alleged altercation with a photographer at Los Angeles International Airport.
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Life is slowly getting back to normal at the women’s campus of Islamabad’s International Islamic University.
The young women who study here chatter on the...
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Stability was rediscovered once again in AlTafayleh neighborhood in Eastern Amman after riots reportedly caused injuries among anti-riots police forces and cases of...
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Iran has shut down three daily newspapers critical of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president, according to reports by state-run news agencies.
While no reason was given,...
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An Iranian man and a woman made the allegations in separate interviews with CNN. Both said they fled to Turkey from Iran after claiming to have been threatened by...
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President Obama’s accusations that Iran’s nuclear program runs afoul of international agreements are “baseless,” the Islamic republic’s...
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Backed by other world powers, President Barack Obama declared Friday that Iran is speeding down a path to confrontation and demanded that Tehran quickly “come...
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Venezuela will begin exporting 20,000 gallons of gasoline to Iran next month as the nations strengthen bilateral cooperation, Iranian state media reported.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for the prosecution of Iran’s top opposition leaders Friday, backing hard-liners pushing for escalation of the postelection...
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Women’s rights activists say they aren’t fooled by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s nomination of the first female Cabinet ministers since the...
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The man Iran’s president has named to be defense minister is wanted in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires, and his nomination drew an outcry...
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The shadowy Revolutionary Guard already oversees a 130,000-strong parallel army and run large swatches of Iran’s economy, from dentist clinics to the...
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On the morning of the inauguration of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to his second term, the regime knew it had the upper hand. Baharestan Square, next to the Majlis, the Iranian...
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sworn in Wednesday for a second term in office as president of Iran, appealing for national unity and denouncing foreign interference in his...
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Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, endorsed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for a second term in office today according to the Iranian press. He is...
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Most reasonable people believe that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s reelection was a fraud, and that the leaders of Iran have lost any right they had left to...
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Unrepentant after assaults by its own security henchmen claimed the lives of at least 10 more demonstrators on Saturday, the authorities in Iran yesterday blamed...
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The “age of empires has ended” and the “international capitalist order is retreating,” declared a beaming Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday,...
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The tenth Presidential Election of Iran, held on 12 June 2009, has brought doubts and authenticity of the way election was conducted.
The happening in Tehran, the...
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Two weeks from today, Iran’s presidential election will determine whether Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Holocaust-denying, Israel-hating, America-bashing incumbent,...
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Politicians have long been for distributing gifts to constituents to win votes. I am sure that back in the old Roman Empire - when it was still a democracy, of course -...
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