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It was New Year's Eve 1999. While Russians were preparing for the dawn of a new millennium, their president was preparing a surprise announcement. "I have contemplated...
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The Guardian
An indigenous Yanomami leader and shaman from Brazil shares his views on wealth, the environment and politics ...

President Barack Obama talks about health care reform as he announces his nominee for Surgeon General, Dr. Regina Benjamin, not pictured, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, July 13, 2009
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The new sanctions authorized by executive order from Obama will affect three North Korean entities, including a government intelligence agency and a North Korean arms dealer. The United States imposed fresh sanctions on North Korea on Friday in its...
photo: AP / Charles Dharapak
Specialist Philip Finale, right, directs trading at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Monday, April 19, 2010
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NEW YORK: US stocks lost ground on Friday, reversing an initial climb, as investors found few reasons to buy in the new year after data came in below forecasts. In a sign of tepid economic conditions, construction spending unexpectedly fell in...
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Part of Rue Minet al Hosn, where Rafik Hariri was assassinated on February 14, 2005.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday extended for three years the mandate of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, which was set...
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Mario Cuomo speaking at a rally, June 20, 1991
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Three-time former New York governor Mario Cuomo, who turned down several invitations to run for the US presidency, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan at the age of 82. His death came on the day his eldest son, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo,...
photo: Public Domain / SGT TRACY SANTEE, USAF
2014 Shanghai stampede
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SHANGHAI — Like hundreds of thousands of other revelers, 24-year-old Pan Haiqin decided to ring in the new year on Shanghai’s famed riverfront as the skyscrapers flashed and sparkled. But as the crowd grew and then turned into an...
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Uli Hoeness
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Former Bayern Munich football chief Uli Hoeness has been granted day release, seven months after he was sentenced to three-and-a-half years for tax evasion. He is allowed to leave prison during the day but must return in the evening,...
photo: Creative Commons / Alexander Korchik (Александр Корчик)
Atocha railway station, Madrid Spain's railway system, the Red Nacional de Ferrocarriles Españoles (Renfe) operates the vast majority of Spain's railways. In Madrid, the main rail terminals are Atocha in the south and Chamartín in the north.
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MADRID (AP) — Police have evacuated people from Madrid's Atocha train station and halted trains in and out of the busy city-center station following a bomb threat that police says was a...
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