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Fact, fiction and foolishness: 2009 ebbs
The Swampby Mark Silva In this tumultuous final year of the first decade of the 21st Century, we've found ourselves sorting through an extraordinary helping of fact, fiction and foolishness. Fact: Unemployment in the United States surpassed 10 percent by the......Tags: CNN (tv network), National Government, Government, Joe Biden, Weather
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Weekend TV Talk Shows: The way forward in Afghanistan is a featured topic
Show TrackerTODAY Good Morning America (N) 7 a.m. KABC The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer Afghanistan: correspondent Michael Ware; Obama's environmental policy: Democratic strategist James Carville, Ben Stein; Rep. Patrick Kennedy abortion controversy: Bishop... -
Flashback: reading like it's 1999
Jacket CopyIn our books pages today, several writers look back at the decade in reading. Of course, their perspective is retrospective, informed by this moment at the end of 2009. So to provide another angle -- what reading was like a...... -
Obama hails 'turning point' but no guarantees
LONDON - Concluding his first international summit, President Barack Obama hailed agreements at the emergency meeting of world powers Thursday as a "turning point in our pursuit of global economic recovery." But he cautioned, "There are no guarantees."...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, London (England), Pakistan, Government, North Korea
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Monthlong India election begins
Voting in the world's most populous democracy kicks off today, featuring hundreds of political parties, aging leaders and a colorful cast of Bollywood and cricket stars offering themselves up for the yea or nay of the masses.
An estimated 714 million...Tags: Entertainment, Slumdog Millionaire (movie), Terrorism, National Government, Voting
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Fallout from terror in Mumbai
The world is justifiably outraged over the bloodletting in Mumbai, and Indians are right to demand a reckoning from their government for its failure to protect innocents as well as justice for murderers allegedly linked to an Islamic extremist group based...Tags: Pakistan, Terrorism, Mumbai (India), Mumbai Terror Attacks, George W. Bush
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Bhutto's killing decried around the world
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWorld leaders expressed outrage Thursday over the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and concern about the stability of the nuclear-armed nation. Leaders of countries that share borders with Pakistan also shared worries about...Tags: Pakistan, Terrorism, United Nations, Government, University of Oxford
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Art begins to flourish in Kashmir
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSRINAGAR, India -- At times it was enough just to stay alive, or to keep from breaking down when friends were dying and soldiers came knocking. Ugliness replaced beauty, and the finer things -- art, music, poetry -- seemed unbearable luxuries, like a rich...Tags: Pakistan, Sculpture, Arts and Culture, Culture, Juvenile Delinquency
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How India beat the odds
++++++++++++++++++++ || || ++++++++++++++++++++ At midnight on Aug. 15, 1947, a new, independent India was born on a subcontinent racked with violence, ripped apart by a bloody partition. It came into being as flames blazed across the land, as corpse-...Tags: Crisis, Pakistan, United Nations, National Government, Government
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Global leaders vow to avert another crisis
The Swampby Mark Silva The leaders of the world's industrial powers have concluded a hasty summit on a global economic crisis with a commitment to strengthen regulation of financial markets, bolster international monetary funds and avert any new trade barriers.......Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Dmitry Medvedev, National Government, Government, International Organizations
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Bush: Guess Hu's coming to dinner
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated If the perimeter is a little tight around the White House tonight, for the pre-summit dinner of world leaders on the eve of an international economic summit in Washington, this list of attendees for the......Tags: Dmitry Medvedev, United Nations, Government, Henry Paulson, John Edwards
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Condi Rice to India to defuse tension?
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will head to India this week with hope of defusing tension between India and Pakistan in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, with Indian officials pointing to culpable......Tags: Trips and Vacations, Armed Conflicts, Terrorism, National Government, Government
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