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MPs return to work Tuesday preaching peace and goodwill as an antidote to both economic uncertainty and public cynicism.
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He informed that the President`s decree joined into force
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This morning, Observer columnist Simon Doonan unveiled the holiday windows at Barneys—where he toils as Creative Director by day—to the press. "This year, I noticed that everyone was talking about the counterculture," he said, explaining his "Have a Hippie Holiday" theme via books by Sheila Weller (Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon—And the Journey of a Generation) and Tom Brokaw (Boom!: Talking About the Sixties: What Happened, How It Shaped Today, Lessons for Tomorrow) and coffee-table tome Spaced-Out: Radical Environments of the Psychedelic Sixties. Also: "I read somewhere that it's the 50th Anniversary of the peace sign!" readmore
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NDP Leader Jack Layton says he hopes the new session of Parliament strikes a more conciliatory tone.
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The ceremony at which Queen Elizabeth formally opens Parliament was overshadowed by an angry dispute over a counterterrorism raid on an opposition member's office.
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The ceremony at which Queen Elizabeth formally opens Parliament was overshadowed by an angry dispute over a counterterrorism raid on an opposition member’s office.
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The United States and India signed an accord Friday that will allow U.S. businesses to sell nuclear fuel, technology and reactors to the South Asian country for the first time since 1974.
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As the banking crisis has gone from bad to worse, savers have understandably become rather obsessed with the protection that the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) offers. When the credit crunch kicked off, the scheme was inadequate, guaranteeing 100 per cent of only the first £2,000, and 90 per cent of the next £33,000. That was soon increased to 100 per cent of the first £35,000, then this week, to the first £50,000.
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OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday, but this year the news was as much about who didn't get the award....
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded its 2008 peace prize Friday to Martti Ahtisaari, the former Finnish president who has played a key role in resolving conflicts around the world.
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European leaders on Friday confirmed that Russians had met a deadline to withdraw troops from buffer zones outside South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
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PARIS, Oct. 10 -- Martti Ahtisaari, the former Finnish president who has been a tireless mediator in conflicts around the world for more than three decades, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday and expressed hope that the prize will help him raise funds for further peacemaking in hot spots to...
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Verkhovna Rada Speaker Arseniy Yatsenuik has adjourned the plenary session as political forces failed to compromise."Everything is clear anyway, blocking is being continued, he said adding that he will notify of the parliament's further work. The parliamentary rostrum and presidium
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He said that many presidential advisors and politicians who would like to live in Ukraine without the parliament are confident that as soon as a presidential decree on the parliament's dissolution is published, the Verkhovna Rada will be unable to
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The Federal Government said yesterday, that it was worried by the threat to the peace and stability of the country following the increase in activities of several armed groups including militants in the Niger Delta, cultists in higher institutions and
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Toyota Motor Corp. said Friday it has opened a new research and development center in Michigan to engage in product planning and engineering design operations. The Japanese automaker's second R&D center in the United States also includes its first overseas
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It took Ellen Arnstein the better part of two years to win the trust of the people of Camargo, a farming town of 5,000 in southeastern Bolivia....
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India's PM launches Kashmir's first train service amid heavy security and after protests that left two people dead.
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Martti Ahtisaari has quietly worked to resolve conflicts in Iraq, Northern Ireland, Kosovo and Namibia. 'He never gives up,' the head of the Nobel Prize committee says. Calling him an "outstanding international mediator," the Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2008 to former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari for his efforts to resolve international conflicts across the globe, from Northern Ireland and Namibia to Kosovo, Indonesia and Iraq.
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Thomas King’s foray into electoral politics is, in an American context, about as predictable as Garrison Keillor abandoning Lake Wobegon for a shot at Congress.
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WHEN Dr. Emmanuel Ewetan Uduaghan became the Governor of Delta State, last year, he was accepted with a "let's us watch and see attitude" by some Ijaw militants, who thought that an Itsekiri man would continue to oppress and not
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The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, who has spent 30 years helping end conflicts in troublespots ranging from Kosovo to Namibia and Indonesia. The Norwegian Nobel Committee hailed Ahtisaari, 71, "for his important
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama has opened a 6-point lead over Republican rival John McCain in the U.S. presidential race, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Sunday.
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An artwork depicting a person falling to their death in front of a train will not be displayed at London's St Pancras Station.
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Viewpoint: Professional troubleshooter Martti Ahtisaari may not seem an inspired Nobel choice, but who'd want the job of brokering agreements between those who'd prefer to have blown one another way
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The Finn Martti Ahtisaari has made a career of forging peace through the hard slog of conventional diplomacy
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Canadiens D Roman Hamrlik opened the scoring in Saturday's 6-1 rout of the Maple Leafs. He blasted home a wrist shot past Vesa Toskala 11 minutes into the first period. He took two shots and finished at plus-2.
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Predators D Shea Weber opened the scoring Saturday during a 3-1 win against the Stars. Weber scored on a wrister from in front of the net 46 seconds into the game as Nashville outshot Dallas 15-6 in the first period. He finished at plus-1 in 28:46 of ice time.
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CNN, The Financial Times and other media companies are setting up shop in Abu Dhabi, an island city that is the capital of the United Arab Emirates.
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Oil services company Caledus has opened an office and manufacturing base in Dubai to tap into demand for products to assist with increasingly complex drilling projects in the Middle East.
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CNN, The Financial Times and other media companies are setting up shop in the island city that is the capital of the United Arab Emirates.
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Since the financial crisis hit Russia hard, things have begun to change.
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