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| International Herald Tribune - World News, Analysis, and Global Opinions |
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| West baffled by 2 heads for Russian government |
(Thu, 21 Aug 2008)
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| American officials concede that they do not completely understand the balance of power within the new Russian leadership. |
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| With Russia rising, Poland looks west |
(Thu, 21 Aug 2008)
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| The events in the Caucasus, and threats of a nuclear attack after Poland signed a missile defense agreement with the U.S., have cast a pall of doubt over the country. |
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| Rice signs missile deal with Poland |
(Wed, 20 Aug 2008)
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| The agreement to place an American missile defense base on Polish territory is fiercely opposed by Russia. |
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| Rogge chides Bolt for lack of respect to rivals |
(Thu, 21 Aug 2008)
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| The president of the International Olympics Committee, Jacques Rogge, criticized Usain Bolt for showing a lack of respect to other competitors after his record-breaking gold medal performances in the 100 and 200 meters. |
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| Bolt back for potential third Olympic gold medal |
(Thu, 21 Aug 2008)
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| Usain Bolt's excellent adventure in Beijing takes another step Friday when the Jamaican sprinter leads his 4x100-meter relay team at the Bird's Nest. |
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| Bolt breaks 200-meter world record, gaining 2nd gold medal |
(Thu, 21 Aug 2008)
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| Usain Bolt of Jamaica became the first Olympian since Carl Lewis to sweep the 100- and 200-meter gold medals. Wallace Spearmon, who finished third, was disqualified |
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| Two women sentenced to 're-education' in China |
(Thu, 21 Aug 2008)
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| Two elderly women were sentenced to a year of labor after seeking to demonstrate in an official Olympic protest area. |
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| In Beijing, no making heads or tails of a new building |
(Wed, 20 Aug 2008)
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| A mysterious dragon-shaped building called the Pangu Plaza has Chinese newspapers abuzz with rumors about important guests residing within. |
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| Beijing will use gold medalists in Hong Kong election |
(Wed, 20 Aug 2008)
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| Chinese officials will send most of their country's gold medalists to Hong Kong next week, before legislative elections here on Sept. 7. |
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| Rice travels to Iraq to push for deal on U.S. forces |
(Thu, 21 Aug 2008)
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| Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will meet with Iraqi officials in an effort to finalize an agreement on the presence of American troops in Iraq. |
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| Exiting Iraq, Petraeus says gains are fragile |
(Thu, 21 Aug 2008)
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| For all the signs of fatigue, General David Petraeus is preparing to leave Iraq a remarkably safer place than it was when he arrived. |
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| Iraqi figures back U.S. view on low spending for reconstruction |
(Thu, 21 Aug 2008)
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| Iraq's lagging spending on its own reconstruction has been the subject of widespread criticism as oil prices, the country's main source of revenue, have skyrocketed. |
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| More than 150 die in Madrid plane crash |
(Thu, 21 Aug 2008)
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| An airliner en route to the Canary Islands swerved off the end of a runway during takeoff, officials said. |
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| Rural slice of a big state tests Obama |
(Thu, 21 Aug 2008)
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| Once solidly Democratic, western Pennsylvania has become an uncertain political terrain and a target for John McCain. |
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| Obama and McCain still have much to explain, poll shows |
(Wed, 20 Aug 2008)
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| Barack Obama and John McCain are heading into their conventions neck and neck, with voters focused on the economy, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. |
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| In the U.S., a trained eye solved the anthrax puzzle |
(Thu, 21 Aug 2008)
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| American scientists working secretly used new techniques not even invented in late 2001 to trace anthrax to its source, a flask in the custody of Bruce Ivins. |
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| From leukemia to gold, Dutch swimmer wins 10-kilometer race |
(Thu, 21 Aug 2008)
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| Maarten van der Weijden skirted just inside the final red buoy to grab gold in the men's 10-kilometer open water race Thursday, completing a comeback after recovering from leukemia. |
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| By withholding photos, Omega draws attention to ties with Phelps |
(Thu, 21 Aug 2008)
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| Omega, the official timekeeper of the games, is also one of Michael Phelps's corporate sponsors, an arrangement that appears to be a conflict of interest. |
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| Intel moves to free gadgets of their recharging cords |
(Thu, 21 Aug 2008)
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| Intel has made progress in a technology that could lead to the wireless recharging of gadgets and the end of the power-cord spaghetti behind electronic devices. |
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| Lone Star to buy IKB, the German subprime casualty |
(Thu, 21 Aug 2008)
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| Lone Star Funds, the Dallas-based private equity firm, has agreed to buy IKB Deutsche Industriebank after the German bank collapsed, becoming the country's first casualty of the subprime mortgage crisis. |
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| In place of fatigues, business suits |
(Thu, 21 Aug 2008)
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| Entrepreneurial boot camps at several universities are teaching disabled veterans the skills needed to start and expand small businesses and help them find financing for their ideas. |
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| Merkel and Georgia: The pressure's on her |
(Thu, 21 Aug 2008)
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| East European countries hope Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany will use her influence with President Dmitri Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to pull its troops out of Georgia. |
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| Shots are popular, but fail to cure doubts |
(Thu, 21 Aug 2008)
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| The vaccine that Mishawn Araujo and tens of millions of other girls and young women in the United States and Europe have gotten is a triumph of marketing, critics say. |
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| Les Insoumises, France's rebellious female courtesans |
(Thu, 21 Aug 2008)
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| The 39th annual Rencontres d'Arles, France's most famous photography festival, features Les Insoumises, who unlike common prostitutes refused to submit to police licensing or conventional morals. |
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| Comedy show plays on Danes' fears of Islam and terrorism |
(Thu, 21 Aug 2008)
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| "The Terror Cell" is largely the work of Omar Marzouk, a Muslim who is one of the best-known stand-up comics in Denmark. He chides the Danes for avoiding hard questions about immigration and the country's role in the Middle East. |
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| Cartoons of Muhammad reprinted as Denmark protests plot to murder artist |
(Wed, 13 Feb 2008)
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| The papers said they wanted to show their commitment to freedom of speech after the arrest of three people accused of plotting to kill Kurt Westergaard, one of the artists who drew the cartoons. |
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| Roger Cohen: News good enough to bury |
(Thu, 21 Aug 2008)
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| Africa should be a good-news story, but stereotypes are stubborn. |
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| Thomas L. Friedman: What did we expect? |
(Thu, 21 Aug 2008)
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| Russia would be wise to reconsider Putin's Georgia gambit. |
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| A crisis Russia did not want |
(Thu, 21 Aug 2008)
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| The planners of the war in Georgia clearly wanted to make sure that Russia would be blamed for worsening the situation. |
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| Energy majors awash in money but not oil |
(Thu, 21 Aug 2008)
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| The major Western oil companies are finding it harder than ever to find new prospects even though they are enjoying strong profits and eager to expand. |
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| Winners never quit? Well, yes, they do |
(Thu, 21 Aug 2008)
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| Winners do quit. The trick, of course, is to know when it's right to walk away and when it's not. |
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| Thousands of children work in African gold mines |
(Thu, 21 Aug 2008)
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| Thousands of children work long hours at often dangerous jobs in hundreds of primitive mines scattered through the West African bush. |
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| Sudan: Living on handouts, and exporting food |
(Thu, 21 Aug 2008)
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| Even as it receives a billion pounds of free food from international donors, Sudan is growing and selling vast quantities of its own crops to other countries. |
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| American-style credit ensnares consumers overseas |
(Thu, 21 Aug 2008)
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| In a cultural shift, credit cards have become commonplace in Turkey and other middle-income countries, but so has the curse of debt. |
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