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Friday, February 29th, 2008
LONGYEARBYEN, Norway (AP) — Norway opened a frozen "doomsday" vault Tuesday deep within an Arctic mountain where millions of seeds will be stored to safeguard against wars or natural disasters wiping out food crops around the globe.
Biblical references repeatedly cropped up as guests at the opening ceremony carried the first ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Prince Harry is to be withdrawn from Afghanistan after news of his secret deployment leaked out. The 23-year-old royal, who has spent the last 10 weeks serving in Helmand Province, is to be flown back to the UK amid concerns for his safety.
The move follows the collapse of a news ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
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The European Commission has fined US computer giant Microsoft for defying sanctions imposed on it for anti-competitive behaviour. Microsoft must now pay a record 899m euros ($1.4bn; £680.9m) after it failed to comply with a 2004 ruling that it abused its position.
The ruling said that Microsoft was guilty of not ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) — Turkey gave the United States and Iraqi authorities advance notice of its incursion across the border into Iraq in pursuit of separatist Kurdish rebels, White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said Friday.
"We were notified and we urged the Turkish government to limit their operations to precise targeting of ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
By Mike O'Sullivan
Los Angeles
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VOA - U.S officials say a missile launched from a Navy ship in the Pacific successfully hit a U.S. spy satellite more than 200 kilometers above the Earth. Mike O'Sullivan reports from Los Angeles that President Bush ordered the shoot-down ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama won the Democrats Abroad global primary in results announced Thursday, giving him 11 straight victories in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The Illinois senator won the primary in which Democrats living in more than 30 countries voted by Internet, mail and in person. The ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
By JANE PERLEZ and CARLOTTA GALL, NYTimes
Published: February 20, 2008
LAHORE, Pakistan — Pakistan appeared to be heading for a transition to an elected civilian government Tuesday after President Pervez Musharraf told visiting United States senators that he accepted the resounding defeat of his party in elections, and would work with ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
By JEFFREY KOFMAN, abc news
After almost half a century in power, Cuba's Fidel Castro is stepping down.
He made the announcement overnight on the online edition of the Cuban Communist Daily paper Granma.
"I will neither aspire to nor accept the positions of president of the state council and commander in chief."
That ...
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
ABC - As he weighs a possible endorsement in the Democratic race, former Sen. John Edwards is as split as the party he once hoped to lead — and is seriously considering supporting Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, despite the sharp criticism he leveled at her on the campaign trail, according ...
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
IHT - The movie director Steven Spielberg has said he is withdrawing as an artistic adviser to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing after almost a year of trying unsuccessfully to prod President Hu Jintao to do more to try to end Sudan's attacks in the Darfur region.
Spielberg's decision, and ...
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