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• McCain woos Catholic, Latino voters on Mexican visit

  - 2008-07-03

  MEXICO CITY AFP — Republican presidential hopeful John McCain on Thursday visited the Basilica of Guadelupe, this country's most revered icon, a stop likely aimed at Roman Catholics and Mexican-Americans voters in the United States. A spokesman traveling with said the trip was meant to demonstrate the high regard...

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• US schoolgirls 'make pact to have babies'

  - 2008-06-20

  WASHINGTON AFP — A group of US schoolgirls in the Massachusetts fishing town of Gloucester made a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together, a report has said. Time magazine reported Thursday that 17 girls at Gloucester High School are expecting babies "more than four times the...

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• Alleged pregnancy pact makes waves in US seaside town

  - 2008-06-20

  GLOUCESTER, Massachusetts AFP — Locals in this small seaside town on the Atlantic coast are used to drawing attention to themselves by the size of their fishing catch or the rugged beauty of Goodharbor Beach. But this week, Gloucester, one of the oldest towns in the United States, was...

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• Clooney: 'I'm the Hillary of the Oscars'

  - 2008-02-21

  LOS ANGELES AFP — Hollywood icon George Clooney has written off his chances of winning the best actor prize at Sunday's Academy Awards, branding himself the "Hillary Clinton of the Oscars." The 46-year-old heart-throb, who is nominated for his performance in the legal drama "Michael Clayton", told Time magazine...

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• US probes security firm shooting in Iraq

  - 2007-09-17

  WASHINGTON AFP — US officials are investigating a shootout in Baghdad involving the US security firm Blackwater in which eight people were killed, the State Department said Monday. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice telephoned Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to discuss the incident and the investigation, spokesman Tom Casey...

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• Time magazine vows to fight defamation win by Indonesia's Suharto

  - 2007-09-10

  JAKARTA AFP — A lawyer for Time magazine in Indonesia vowed Tuesday to fight a Supreme Court decision awarding former dictator Suharto 106 million dollars in a defamation suit he filed against the publication in 1999. The ruling, announced Monday, overturns two lower court decisions and also orders the...

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• Acclaimed US opera singer Beverly Sills dies

  - 2007-07-02

  WASHINGTON AFP — Beverly Sills, one of the United States' most acclaimed opera singers, died Monday due to lung cancer, US media reported. She was 78. The New York born daughter of Ukrainian and Romanian Jewish immigrants rose to worldwide fame in the 1950s-70s with to her soprano voice...

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• Borat's in, Bush is out: Time magazine

  - 2007-05-03

  NEW YORK AFP — US President George W. Bush has been dropped from Time magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people for the first time, in a further sign of his flagging political fortunes. While Osama bin Laden, Pope Benedict XVI and even Borat creator Sacha Baron...

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• Letters from Anne Frank's father surface

  - 2007-01-25

  WASHINGTON AFP — Desperate letters written by the father of Anne Frank, the teenager whose diary of hiding from Nazis documented the horror of Jews during World War II, have surfaced in the United States and will be released next month. Otto Frank wrote the letters in 1941 in...

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• Big names in US journalism launch Politico web site

  - 2007-01-22

  WASHINGTON AFP — Several big names in US journalism are part of a new Internet-focused news organization being launched that will focus exclusively on politics as the 2008 elections approach. The new venture formed by Allbritton Communications has a newspaper, The Politico, and a website, Politico.com, that have become the...

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