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- Chen pledges to hold the March referendum on relations with China despite pressure from the U.S. and threats from the mainland. |
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- The move is seen a signal of the administration's intent to prosecute those responsible for the apparent killings of hundreds of dissidents. |
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- BAGHDAD — U.S. military authorities are investigating whether ground fire may have struck a C-17 cargo plane and forced the aircraft to make an emergency landing here, an Air Force spokeswoman said Wednesday. |
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- UNITED NATIONS — Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Wednesday that the U.N. would operate from bases in Cyprus and Jordan to help stabilize Iraq because it was still too dangerous to return to the country full time. |
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- BAGHDAD — Iraqi Health Ministry officials have ordered a halt to a count of civilian deaths from the war and have told workers not to release figures already compiled, the head of the ministry's statistics department said Wednesday. |
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- The Governing Council creates the tribunal to try officials of Hussein's regime. Human rights groups fear a return to capital punishment. |
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- In accepting the peace prize, Shirin Ebadi says the 'war on terror' must not trump civil liberties. |
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- About 250 soldiers have quit, leaving in doubt the deployment of the new force. |
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- GENEVA — A billionaire industrialist and fervent nationalist won a seat Wednesday in Switzerland's federal Cabinet — the nation's most powerful elected body — a move likely to lead to a clampdown on immigration and to deepen the Alpine nation's isolation from the rest of Europe. |
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- BEIRUT — Lebanese authorities said they halted a bomb attack Wednesday against the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, arresting two men outside the compound, one of whom was carrying more than 2 pounds of explosives. |
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- RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli troops and armor pushed into the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip early today, killing three Palestinians — a gunman and two civilians — during fierce battles, witnesses and medics said. |
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policia (Dec 11 2003 08:20 GMT) - Los Angeles Police Department:lpida=Guardia Real Provincial:gurapas?... |
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policia (Dec 11 2003 08:20 GMT) - Los Angeles Police Department:lpida=Guardia Real Provincial:gurapas?... |
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- (US) The report prompted a grass-roots protest by Haitian-American communities in New York, Miami, Boston, and around the country, as people learned by e-mail, Haitian radio news stories, and local cable-access programs about the game's portrayal of Haitians, Colombians, and Cubans as gang lea...[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme1(100%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(60%), $gateway(90%), $propaganda_theme4(90%), $propaganda_theme5(70%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (South Africa) IOL : Party drugs kill top film stuntman Party drugs kill top film stuntman The Cape Argus has been told the drugs were 10 "red diamonds", a heroin-laced Ecstasy tablet, and cocaine. Party drugs kill top film stuntman [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(60%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $hallucinogen(60%), $MDMA(60%), $stimulant(100%), $cocaine(100%), $narcotic(100%), $opiate(100%), $heroin(100%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- The social sciences prove it once again! In a sort of Zen way, anyway.... |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - For the past nine months, much of the attention of the IT world has been drawn to the SCO v. IBM case. Having started out as a case about breach of contract, it is now about all three key areas of intellectual property law: copyright law (was code illegally copied from Unix into Linux? |
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- Thoughts on the MPAA rating system. The Motion Picture Association of America ("MPAA") is, by and large, a malignant force in our culture, truly an enemy of freedom. However one thing I think they do right is the rating system. It is popular among indie types to... [Brian Flemming] |
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- A full-featured media-asset manager for your files |
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- CnSpotts, can you describe why you prefer why you like the |
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- I just sent my Secret Santa gift today! I hope |
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- Smoking Kills (Req. Flash. Worth it. Funny) |
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- After trying out sample on Roshan's post on BDotnet, I fell in love with the concept:) Actullally I liked it, when Deepak in TechEd gave |
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- Hersh on the move to Special Ops teams in Iraq -- and the ghost of the Phoenix program"There are people saying all sorts of wild things about Manhunts," he said. "But they aren?t at the policy level. It?s not a no-holds policy, and it shouldn? |
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- Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi slams "terror war" as excuse to "restrict human rights and basic freedoms"... |
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- BigMedia decides who you vote for file: Al Giordano on Kucinich's skewering of Ted Koppel at the NH debate and ABC's decision to stop covering Kucinich as punishmentAnybody want to do a word count comparing how many words Koppel allowed Dean as compared to Kucinich, who he kept cutting off? The coup d'grace probably arrived this morning in Howard Kurtz's Washington Post profile on Koppel, which started as a puff piece but ended on a sour note for ABC's airhead, when Kucinich press secretary... |
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- International Human Rights Day Mauritanian anti-slavery group banned and persecuted by government You can send an email to appropriate authorities here.... |
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- سوال کنيد و جوابتان را از مردم بگيريد |
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- A French panel said Thursday that it favors banning Islamic head scarves and other religious symbols, including Jewish skullcaps, in schools. |
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- Last post by Rachy on 01:06 11/Dec/03 - I dreamed that we all met up, in Newcastle of all places, and stayed in a big apartment. You had to jump through a hole in the ground to get to the shops, and Jon was very nice (I'm not sure which of these last two comments is the more unbelievable. |
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- Last post by Drucius on 01:04 11/Dec/03 - and it's briliant. So there. |
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- Last post by Jon on 00:54 11/Dec/03 - http://www. |
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Test (Dec 11 2003 08:16 GMT) - Last post by '50-year old Hippy at the same gig' on 22:44 10/Dec/03 - Test |
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- Last post by emmazon on 14:43 10/Dec/03 - Hoorah! |
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- es ging nicht mit brecht und auch nicht ohne (sehr schoen wurde das ja blusig dramatisiert im tv vor ner weile - fragen Sie jetzt bloss nicht. wie der film hiess... ;-)). wir sind ja ein grosser lieberhaber der texte von fleisser (besonders empfehlenswert: |
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- Anonymous writes something rather interesting about phone foolish customer service... "I work on the phone. We have a time limit of 27 seconds per customer. We can get fired if we go over that for 3 months in a row. We are constantly listened ... |
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- The Daily Star, Independent, English-language daily of Beirut, Lebanon |
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