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Castro cryptic on Russian bomber report
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HAVANA—Ailing Fidel Castro said Wednesday that Cuba's president was right to adopt a "dignified silence" over a Moscow newspaper report that Russia may station nuclear bombers on the island, and said Cuba doesn't owe any explanation to Washington about the story. In a brief, cryptic essay posted on a government Web site...
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The German Chancellor Angela Merkel has praised Barack Obama's political and physical strength...
The Democratic candidate for US President embarks today on the second half of a foreign tour...
BUT WILL THEY RESPECT HIM IN THE MORNING? Wed Jul 23, 6:24 PM ET Back before the Republican...
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                NEW DELHI: A day after the Prime Minister displayed an itch to get personal with his rivals LK Advani and Prakash Karat — the BJP leader by name and the other indirectly — the CPM hit back...
photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick
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Jul 24, 2008 10:01 AM The African Union said it was incapable of stabilising the situation in Somalia and urged the United Nations take over peacekeeping operations in the lawless Horn of Africa country. "Despite all sacrifices of its leaders and...
photo: AP / Mohamed Sheikh Nor
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WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain, appealing to Jewish voters while rival Barack Obama visits the Middle East, said on Wednesday Israel faced the greatest threat in its history because of Iran. U.S....
photo: AP/Stephen Chernin
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TOKYO - A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 struck off the northern Japanese coast early yesterday, injuring at least 43 people, causing blackouts and landslides, officials said. The Meteorological Agency said there was no danger...
photo: AP/Koji Sasahara
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Barack Obama, the presumptive US Democratic presidential candidate, toured the Middle East this week, apparently to raise his profile on international affairs and silence his critics. The visit followed a...
photo: Jamal Penjweny
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New Delhi: His was the stentorian voice that effectively projected the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) view in parliament - and outside - for four decades. Yesterday, just two days before Somnath Chatterjee's 79th birthday, that link snapped...
photo: AP / Gurinder Osan, File
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