Does the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico mean that the U.S. should not drill there?
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Viewpoint: Religious freedom is not tolerance
Submitted by Newsbyte on Mon, 09/06/2010 - 20:59.Here's an essay question, students: Religious freedom and religious tolerance are not the same thing, or are they? Discuss. read more »
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Netherlands releases Yemen flight suspects
Submitted by Newsbyte on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 13:59.Neither of the two men, reportedly US residents, was on any watch lists. read more »
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Israel to open peace talks with security, water demands
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 05/02/2010 - 20:08.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends to open the indirect talks with the Palestinian Authority this week with a discussion of the security arrangements in the West Bank and of water resources. read more »
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China Lodges Protest of Dalai Lama's White House Meeting With US Ambassador
Submitted by Newsbyte on Fri, 02/19/2010 - 12:33.Officials in Beijing have summoned the U.S. ambassador to China to protest President Barack Obama's meeting Thursday with the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet. read more »
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Mussolini iPhone application is withdrawn
Submitted by Newsbyte on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 22:39.An iPhone application that allows users to download speeches by the former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini has been withdrawn.
Its developer says he is removing it after legal threats. read more »
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Obama vows 'much tougher' stance on US-China trade
Submitted by Newsbyte on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 01:40.President Barack Obama says he will be much tougher with China to make sure it opens its markets to trade with the US. read more »
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French citizenship denied to man with veiled wife
Submitted by Newsbyte on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 01:32.French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said the Moroccan man, who had married a French woman, failed to respect the “values of the [French] republic” by forcing his wife to wear a burqa. read more »
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Same-sex marriage set for big day in federal court
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 01/10/2010 - 22:01.LOS ANGELES -- After a run of setbacks at the state level, gay rights advocates will take the campaign for same-sex marriage into a federal courtroom on Monday, starting down a treacherous avenue that read more »
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Danish cartoonist defiant despite threats
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sat, 01/02/2010 - 17:10.Copenhagen: Kurt Westergaard has remained defiant in the face of repeated death threats following his controversial drawing of the prophet Mohammed, AFP reports. read more »
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Rwanda: Govt Blames Sudan for Darfur Attacks
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 12/06/2009 - 23:27.Kigali — Rwanda has accused the Khartoum government of being behind the ambush in which three RDF peacekeepers were killed and two injured at Saraf Umra in Darfur on Friday. read more »
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Wilson Taps "You Lie" Fundraising for Fellow Republicans
Submitted by Newsbyte on Fri, 09/25/2009 - 18:37.South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson has raised more than $1 million for his own campaign treasury since his "You lie" shout during President Obama's address to Congress two weeks ago. read more »
White House distances itself from race controversy
Submitted by Newsbyte on Thu, 09/17/2009 - 20:25.The US president does not want to be diverted by the race controversy, writes LARA MARLOWE in Washington read more »
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Obama's speech to kids causes uproar in schools
Submitted by newscaster on Fri, 09/04/2009 - 16:25.When President Barack Obama gives a televised address to students in schools across the country on Tuesday, some metro Detroit school districts won't be broadcasting it. read more »
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Army used profiles to reject reporters (Afghanistan)
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 08/30/2009 - 11:59.WASHINGTON — The secret profiles commissioned by the Pentagon to rate the work of journalists reporting from Afghanistan were used by military officials to deny disfavored reporters access to Americ read more »
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Don't make a circus of Sotomayor hearing
Submitted by Newsbyte on Wed, 05/27/2009 - 22:49.Just when political junkies were contemplating a long, dry summer, along comes a U.S. Supreme Court vacancy and the prospect of confirmation hearings. read more »
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Women break Assembly barrier (Kuwait Elections)
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 05/17/2009 - 21:58.KUWAIT: Four Kuwaiti women wrote their names in the history books yesterday by becoming the first females to win seats in the National Assembly almost 47 years after its inception and exactly four yea read more »
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Latest H1N1 developments from officials
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Buthelezi takes Dalai Lama issue to court
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 03/29/2009 - 15:39.IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi has brought an urgent court application to order the government to issue a visa to the Dalai Lama "in the nearest future" to enable him to participate in a postponed pe read more »
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NewsHour Extra Video: Possible U.S.-Taliban Talks Stir Controversy
Submitted by Newsbyte on Thu, 03/12/2009 - 09:57.World Seems Immune to Violence Against Women, Says Church Group
Submitted by dontlook on Sun, 03/08/2009 - 09:11.The world is guilty of ignoring the high rate of violence against women and the increased risk of abuse the economic crisis has put them in, said leaders of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches in read more »
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Anthropologist's war death reverberates
Submitted by Newsbyte on Fri, 02/13/2009 - 20:40.In a hostile corner of southern Afghanistan, an American platoon fanned out around a market, forming a protective circle around a petite woman with a notebook. read more »
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INAUGURATION: Inaugural moments seemed pedestrian at the time
Submitted by newscaster on Sat, 01/17/2009 - 07:26.WASHINGTON - Inaugurations that loom large in history are seen differently at the time. read more »
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Mashaal calls IDF operation in Gaza 'another holocaust'
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sat, 01/10/2009 - 19:11.The IDF operation in Gaza has killed the last chance for settlement and negotiations with Israel, Damascus-based Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal told Al-Jazeera on Saturday. read more »
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Europe sends two missions to promote a cease-fire
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 23:07.LONDON: Europe, seeking to fill a diplomatic vacuum in the Middle East left by the departing Bush administration, is sending two missions to try to broker a cease-fire in Gaza and offering more humani read more »
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Richardson withdraws from commerce post
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 22:12.SANTA FE (KRQE) - Gov. read more »
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