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The Islamist fighters who launched an attack on the south of Mali in January had already been destroying patrimony in the north of the country for seven months. Gone in a puff of smoke are unique manuscripts dating from the thirteenth century, witness of priceless scientific knowledge.
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His Cabinet colleagues, largely a bunch of millionaires, have accused the unemployed of being work-shy and a burden on the taxpayers - never mind that businesses are closing in near industrial numbers and that often hundreds, if not thousands, apply for one job.
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About 80 bodies have been found in the city of Aleppo, as the conflict in Syria has reached "unprecedented levels of horror" and is "destroying the country piece by piece," said the special envoy of the UN and the Arab League, Lakhdar Brahimi.
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The United Kingdom has lost its way. Despite the latest scandal in its National Health Service in which a hospital has been named and shamed for horrific and abominable standards of treatment, the media are asking if this might be more generalized. Where have they been? Of course it is...
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Jean-Jacques Annaud is the most celebrated French director in the world, since three decennials. He is well-known for his big-budget movies set in remote locations (Seven years in Tibet, The Quest for Fire). More than ten years ago, he directed Enemy at the Gates, a daring project on legendary siege of Stalingrad, shot in Eastern Germany
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The US Justice Department found those to blame in the global crisis of the late 2000s. According to the American authorities, this is Standard & Poor's. The accused is confused, while the US Justice Department is preparing a lawsuit against the agency. It wants to make Standard & Poor's accountable for publishing inflated ratings of mortgage bonds
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Politicians are slime, pure and simple. They are self-serving, venal, conscienceless reprobates, perverse enough to waste millions of dollars seeking offices where they can make life and death decisions, and arrogant enough to believe those decisions are never wrong. I'll admit, I bought Obama's snake oil when he first ran for president
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The Israeli military intervention at this particular timing fuels a Syrian fire that has recently started to look for firefighters among the growing number of the advocates of dialogue and political solutions both nationally, regionally and internationally. Israeli Prime Minister keeps saying that Israel is preparing for "dramatic changes" in Syria
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The legalization of gay marriage in the UK and France reduces the possibility for British and French families to adopt Russian children. The parliaments of the two countries approved the bills to legalize same-sex marriage with an interval of less than a week. In France, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to protest against the law
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Dell was never innovative. One could say that today truly marks the end of the Personal Computer. In fact, before taking up the role of CEO or even returning to Apple, Jobs himself thought that the Personal Computer; sitting on the desk, was over. There are two significant things to take away from Dell returning to a private company
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It's an asteroid, it's called 2012 DA14, it was only discovered last year, it is going to pass by Earth on Friday of next week (February 15) and it is going to set a record for a close miss of a space object. This monster is approaching at 4.8 miles per second. However, there is good news. It isn't going to hit... so they say.
