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| Cheney says US
must not retreat from Iraq |
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 WASHINGTON,
Saturday (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney
insisted on Friday that America must not turn its back
on Iraq, even as the Bush administration considers a
course change in the war after voters vented anger over
it in this month's elections.
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| Chavez
in light bulb revolution |
 CARACAS,
Saturday (AP) - President Hugo Chavez said that his Cuba-inspired
light bulb giveaway programme, which aims to improve energy
efficiency, will mean big energy savings for his oil-rich
nation. ''They'll say Chavez has gone crazy -- that he's
going around giving out light bulbs,'' Chavez said in
a televised speech. |
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| Bush
in Vietnam as APEC tackles trade, N. Korea |
 HANOI,
Nov 18, 2006 (AFP) - US President George W. Bush today
kept the pressure on North Korea as he held a flurry of
bilateral talks with key world leaders before heading
into an Asia-Pacific summit focused on free trade. Bush,
China's Hu Jintao, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Japanese
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe were to convene here this afternoon
with their Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) counterparts
for a weekend diplomatic pow-wow. |
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| UN assembly presses
Israel to withdraw from Gaza |
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NATIONS, Saturday (Reuters) - The U.N. General Assembly
voted overwhelmingly on Friday to deplore a deadly Israeli
artillery attack in Gaza, six days after the United
States vetoed a similar measure in the Security Council.
The assembly voted 156-7 with six abstentions to approve
a resolution put forward by Arab states that also urged
the Jewish state to immediately withdraw its troops
from Gaza. |
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| New
Bond, different enemies, but the fantasy of 007 never
dies |
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 LOS
ANGELES (AP) - "Christ, I miss the Cold War,"
Judi Dench's spymaster M mutters at the beginning of
"Casino Royale," the 21st James Bond picture
and the most raw, intense film of the franchise. Just
as the superspy was created as a product of his times
and thrived at the height of U.S.-Soviet tensions, so
too is the latest Bond in the series. In his debut in
the iconic role, Daniel Craig functions as a post-9/11
007, the enemies being terrorists from throughout the
world.
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| Rape
of Delhi Ridge in the name of modernisation |
| Delhi
was a place of distances when I settled here after migrating
from Pakistan in mid-1947. A swathe of vacant lands gave
the city its vastness and depth; otherwise it was clusters
of habitation, surrounded by thick wild growth. There
were thick trees and bits of forest. All that has gone
now and a jungle of cement and steel has come up to the
disappointment of citizens who are beginning to be conscious
of their surroundings. |
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| Milton
Friedman, free-market economic prophet, dies at 94 |
| SAN FRANCISCO-
(AP)- Milton Friedman, a Nobel Prize-winning economist
who championed individual freedom, influenced the economic
policies of three U.S. presidents and befriended world
leaders, has died at age 94. Friedman died on Thursday
in San Francisco, said Robert Fanger, a spokesman for
the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation in Indianapolis.
He did not know the cause of death. |
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| Georgia-Russia
row spills into separatist regions |
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TSKHINVALI, Georgia (AP) - Passing
through the armed, garbage-strewn checkpoint, travellers
get a warning from a Georgian guard: Once you cross,
you're on your own. The barrier is a stark image of
Georgia's failure to assert its authority over its breakaway
region of South Ossetia, which has just voted to ratify
the breakup, raising the stakes in a struggle for control
of the multiethnic, multireligious Caucasus that some
fear could come to echo the Balkan wars. |
