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Bloomberg - Tue Dec 8, 1:41 am ET
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. risks losing Sri Lanka as an ally unless it changes its relationship after Western criticism of human rights abuses prompted the country to seek closer ties with China, Myanmar and Iran, a Senate committee said.
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Gasparilla Gazette - Tue Dec 8, 5:12 pm ET
Boca Grande is not necessarily protected by its relative isolation from the python invasion in Southwest Florida. Burmese pythons are a nonnative species to Florida but have spread throughout the Everglades region with populations estimated in the thousands.
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Cornell News Service - Tue Dec 8, 3:47 pm ET
Jared Genser '95 was standing in the back of the VIP room in London's Heathrow airport when James Mawdsley -- a British citizen who had spent more than a year imprisoned in Burma for distributing pro-democracy leaflets -- was reunited with his family in 2000.
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Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - Tue Dec 8, 6:31 pm ET
Former Peace Corps volunteer Paul Thompson is still out to change the world.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sun Dec 6, 3:07 am ET
Myanmar has charged 128 foreign fishermen with violating immigration laws after they were arrested last month for illegal fishing, an official said Sunday.
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Denver Post - Tue Dec 8, 3:29 am ET
The offices of Ecumenical Refugee and Immigration Services reside on the fourth floor of an office building at 16th Avenue and Downing Street. The building is shared by an accountant, an insurance agent and a guy with a sound studio, among others.
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EARTHtimes.org - 2 hours 7 minutes ago
Washington - US President Barack Obama will have to put on his best balancing act when he arrives Thursday in Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, a week after ordering a major escalation of the fight in Afghanistan. Receiving one of the world's mos...
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The Mass Media - Tue Dec 8, 6:44 pm ET
The war in Iraq was not about spreading democracy, as it was about bringing down a dictatorship build on war crimes and fear. President George W. Bush said on the deck of the Abraham Lincoln Navy flight deck that the images of the falling statues represented a new era of peace and liberty would make Iraq safer and help fight the war on Iraq, It was security that was important.
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IGN PS3 - Tue Dec 8, 11:52 am ET
DC Universe Online (PS3) Design an animation for the game, fame to follow shortly.
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EARTHtimes.org - Tue Dec 8, 4:47 am ET
Vientiane - The prime ministers of Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam are scheduled to attend the opening ceremony of the 25th Southeast Asian Games hosted by Laos this week, state media reported Tuesday. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, Myanma...
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EARTHtimes.org - Tue Dec 8, 1:47 am ET
Vientiane - The prime ministers of Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam are scheduled to attend the opening ceremony of the 25th Southeast Asian Games being hosted by Laos this month, state media reported Tuesday. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen,...
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Detroit Free Press - Mon Dec 7, 11:33 pm ET
Believers and skeptics of General Motors Co.'s and Chrysler Group's government-backed rescues can agree: Both companies are better off today than a year ago.
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IRIN - Tue Dec 8, 12:45 pm ET
COPENHAGEN, 8 December 2009 (IRIN) - In the past 18 years 11,000 extreme events have claimed the lives of 600,000 people and cost US$1.7 trillion across the globe, said the Climate Risk Index 2010, released in Copenhagen at the UN climate change conference.
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Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Tue Dec 8, 11:54 am ET
PHOENIX----Arizona Pain Specialists, a local pain management clinic, will be hosting a Christmas party for refugee children at the Arizona Medical Clinic in Phoenix on Sunday, December 13, 2009, from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
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The Journal Times - Tue Dec 8, 10:12 am ET
CALEDONIA — St. Hagop Armenian Church, 4100 Newman Road, willhold a Holiday Food Fair from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 12.There is no admission fee.