Prosecutors have opted not to hold a second trial for the brother of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, citing his lesser role in the alleged conspiracy.
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Japan is inviting pro-whaling nations to a meeting aimed at building support for lifting a decades-old ban on commercial whale hunts, the country’s fisheries agency says.
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Debutants Tottenham will face holders Inter Milan in the group stages of the Champions League.
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Two men have been arrested at a three-hectare opium poppy field in Chilliwack, B.C., the largest operation of its kind found in Canada, according to the RCMP.
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A new law requiring oil companies to disclose all payments made to governments has sparked a sharp debate, with Big Oil saying it will put it at a big competitive disadvantage.
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Angelina Jolie is to make her debut as a director and screenwriter in a film set against the 1992-1995 Bosnian war.
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The UN reviews security measures for its aid workers in Pakistan, after the US says the Taliban is threatening to attack foreign staff.
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LOS ANGELES, Calif., Aug. 26 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Konrad Ventana today announced, through his agent, the release of two new e-books now available through Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. These new releases represent the first books of a series known to the literary cognoscenti as the Post-Lux Trilogy: “Book 1, A Desperado’s Daily Bread” (ISBN: 9780595622177); “Book 2, The Unbearable Sadness of Zilch” (ISBN: 9781440158254); “Book 3, Questing for Uberjoy” (est. 2011).
The reclusive author of this postmodern, post-perspicuous literature is a prominent scientist, professor, inventor, and visionary whose pioneering work in molecular biotechnology served to usher targeted genetic medicine across the threshold of history-his intellectual accomplishments are, in a word, profound. The first editions of this series of books received both Editor’s Choice and Rising Star designations from the publishers.
Konrad Ventana (literally, “Bold Counsel through a Window”) embraces the time-honored ideals of social responsibility (where poets, [...]
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Jason Leung, a Canadian citizen who was badly hurt and lost family members in the deadly Manila bus hostage-taking, has returned to Hong Kong aboard a chartered air ambulance.
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As Chile labors carefully to rescue 33 trapped miners, the nation is subtly working to buoy their hopes and psychological equilibrium by not telling them straight out just how long it could take to free them from the bottom of a dark and craggy shaft.
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