Roland Burris, surrounded by reporters, looks for his car as he leaves Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday. (AP Photo) WASHINGTON -- Roland Burris said he is consulting with attorneys to determine his next move after he was prevented from taking Barack Obama's Senate seat Tuesday, but he maintained ...
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Cairo - Hamas will not accept a ceasefire with Israel unless all aggression against the Gaza Strip is halted, a Hamas spokesman said Tuesday. The Lebanon-based Hamas spokesman Osama Hamdan told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that the Hamas delegation in Cairo focused on achieving a halt of all ...
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KIBBUTZ KFAR AZZA, Israel -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy and European officials arrived in the Mideast on Monday as part of a stepped-up effort to end Israel's attack on the Gaza Strip, but the shuttle diplomacy bore little immediate fruit. Israeli Army mobile artillery redeploy during sunset ...
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As a bitter cold snap settles in on the European continent, Moscow's price dispute with Kyiv has begun to inflict collateral damage. Russian gas is no longer flowing to Bulgaria, Croatia, Turkey, Greece, or Macedonia. In Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Romania it has slowed to a ...
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Philip W. Schiller at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. (Credit: John G. Mabanglo/EPA) I’m reporting from the keynote speech by Philip W. Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, at Macworld Expo in San Francisco. We’ll keep updating this post for the duration ...
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US president-elect Barack Obama has chosen former White House chief of staff Leon Panetta to head the Central Intelligence Agency, a Democratic Party official told AFP. In turning to a political heavyweight with no direct background in intelligence, Obama appeared to be opting for someone who would ...
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WICOMICO CHURCH, Va. — Having missed his bus, a 6-year-old Virginia boy tried to drive to school in his family’s sedan — and crashed. State police say the boy suffered only minor injuries and eventually arrived at school after being evaluated at a local hospital. Police did not immediately ...
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