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Karzai 'stripped of outright win'
A panel probing fraud claims in the Afghan election has found Hamid Karzai did not gain enough valid votes for an outright win, the BBC understands.
Preliminary results from August's first round had placed Mr Karzai comfortably over the 50% plus one vote threshold needed to avoid a runoff.
But one poll monitoring group estimates that almost one million of Mr Karzai's votes have now been deemed…
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Majority of Nobel jury 'objected to Obama prize'
(AFP) – 1 hour ago
OSLO — Three of the five members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee had objections to the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to US President Barack Obama, the Norwegian tabloid Verdens Gang (VG) reported Thursday.
"VG has spoken to a number of sources who confirmed the impression that a majority of the Nobel committee, at first, had not decided to give the peace prize to Barack Obama," the newspaper…
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Commander Prefers 40,000 for Afghanistan, but His Report Gives Obama 3 Options
WASHINGTON -- The request for troops sent to President Barack Obama by the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan includes three different options, with the largest alternative including a request for more than 60,000 troops, according to a U.S. official familiar with the document.
Although the top option is more than the 40,000 soldiers previously understood to be the…
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NH Street Gangs Run Wild
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Edward Burke, Elizer Rivera, and the Keene District Court are at it again. This time Local Activist Kurt Hoffman was carried out on a stretcher after…
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Guantánamo guard held at Heathrow
Outspoken critic of US policy was due to address prisoner support group
Ben Quinn
The Observer, Sunday 30 August 2009
A former Guantánamo guard who had flown to the UK to address a support group for inmates of the camp is to be deported back to the US this morning after being denied entry on arrival at Heathrow airport yesterday.
Terry Holdbrooks, who has been an outspoken critic of the US government over the…
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ATLANTA, Georgia, Aug 25 (IPS) -
A case brought by election integrity advocates in Georgia claiming that unverifiable electronic voting, or E-voting, is unconstitutional could spell trouble for the controversial practice, as it heads to the Georgia Supreme Court for a ruling.
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JERUSALEM -- A planeload of Israeli rabbis and Jewish mystics held an airborne prayer meeting in the belief that it could help check the spread of swine flu in Israel, an Israeli newspaper reported Tuesday.
The Yediot Ahronot daily said a plane with 50 people on board circled over Israel on Monday, with the passengers chanting prayers and sounding the ritual ram's horn.
The newspaper report carried a photo showing…
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Following MSNBC's Olbermann, and Mathews Now Maher is presentinging the Fake Left Script on the Town hall Uproar.
Bill Maher covers the town hall uproar during the monologue, as well as interviewing two Republican Reps, and during his closing statements. He implies if you disagree with current and future government policies you must be a right wing wacko, you are uneducated and a…
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Volume 79, Number 8 |
July 29 - August 4, 2009
West and East Village, Chelsea, Soho, Noho, Little Italy, Chinatown and Lower East Side, Since 1933
By Will Glovinsky
Supporters of a ballot initiative that would create a second, independent 9/11 investigative commission are awaiting the City Clerk’s…
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In a lame attempt to save his hide and stay out of prison for allegedly threatening to kill federal judges, the racist talk show host Hal Turner has admitted in court that he is an FBI informant,…
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The agency that licenses medicines in Britain has received 150 reports of suspected adverse reactions to the Tamiflu treatment for swine flu.
The figure was released yesterday as GPs said some patients were choosing not to take the drug because of concern about the possible side effects.
The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said the 150 reports received within the UK up until 23 July mention 241 separate side effects, most of which were mild and…
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Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, 58, of Brooklyn, N.Y, is taken into the back of the federal courthouse in Newark on corruption charges. He is charged with trafficking in illegal… Continue
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(Reuters) - Ohio Governor Ted Strickland and state lawmakers reached an agreement on Friday to help fill a $3.2 billion gap in the state's budget by allowing racetracks to…
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Cheney Is Linked to Concealment of C.I.A. Project
By SCOTT SHANE
nytimes.com: July 11, 2009
The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney, the agency’s director, Leon E. Panetta, has told the Senate and House intelligence committees, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said Saturday.…
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Spy row has broken out at the G8 summit after Italian aides were accused of spying on secret meetings between other countries' leaders
An extraordinary row has broken out at the G8 summit after Italian aides were accused of spying on secret meetings between other countries' leaders.
A team has been listening in through headphones on private sessions between various heads of state.
Diplomatic…
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