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Velo News - Mon Dec 7, 12:02 am ET
Katerina Nash (Luna) overcame a rolled tire and Jeremy Powers (Cannondale-Cyclocrossworld.com) used a trick he learned from Todd Wells (Specialized) to win the final round of the 2009 U.S. Gran Prix of Cyclocross. Ryan Trebon (Kona-FSA) finished fifth in the Stanley Portland Cup in Oregon to take his fourth USGP series win since 2004. Nash closed out her series with a comfortable lead over a ...
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EARTHtimes.org - Thu Dec 3, 12:17 pm ET
Brussels - Georgia should improve its ties with its neighbours to boost its own security, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told Georgia's foreign minister on Thursday. Georgia fought a brief but bitter war with its neighbour Russia in Aug...
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Jacksonville Daily Record - Mon Dec 7, 12:15 pm ET
Have you ever wondered what life was like in Jacksonville half a century ago? It may have been a different era of history, culture and politics but there are often parallels between the kind of stories that made headlines then and today.
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Fernandina Beach News-Leader - Mon Dec 7, 10:51 am ET
lobbies for senior citizen benefits at the national, statewide and local level and is a social group with service to others in mind. It meets 9:30 a.m. to noon the second Monday at the Nassau County Council on Aging, 1367 South 18th St, just south of the hospital parking lot.
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EARTHtimes.org - Fri Dec 4, 5:46 am ET
Brussels - NATO and its allies have pledged to send at least 37,000 extra combat troops to Afghanistan next year, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said after talks in Brussels on Friday. Western commanders have called for up to 40,000 ext...
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EARTHtimes.org - Fri Dec 4, 4:16 am ET
Berlin - Unknown assailants attacked buildings and vehicles belonging to police, the customs office and federal investigators in Berlin and Hamburg overnight, officials said Friday. In Hamburg, up to ten masked men threw stones through police station...
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Dec 4, 1:22 pm ET
NATO's chief insisted Friday that the military alliance is not the best place to discuss Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's plan for a new European security pact.
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Winston-Salem Journal - Mon Dec 7, 12:00 am ET
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Pioneer Press - Sun Dec 6, 1:05 am ET
PERM, Russia — President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday demanded that Russia tighten its notoriously lax fire codes after the deadliest blaze since the Soviet era killed at least 107 people celebrating in a nightclub with a decorative ceiling and single exit. About 130 people were injured, dozens critically, when onstage fireworks set the ceiling of the Lame Horse nightclub ablaze soon after ...
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NPR - Sat Dec 5, 3:48 pm ET
A Russian scientist this week said Russia has fallen behind the U.S. in an arms race: the race to arm sea mammals, that is. It turns out, the U.S. military does employ teams of dolphins and sea lions to patrol for weapons and intruders.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 2, 1:15 pm ET
Georgia's rebel South Ossetia region freed two detained Georgian teenagers but jailed two others Wednesday after Tbilisi handed over a group of South Ossetian prisoners following European mediation.
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EARTHtimes.org - Thu Dec 3, 2:47 pm ET
Brussels - Georgia should improve its ties with its neighbours to boost its own security, while Russia should withdraw its support for the breakaway Georgian territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, NATO foreign ministers said Thursday. Georgia fou...
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 3, 2:06 pm ET
NATO and Russia agreed Thursday to strengthen cooperation, on the eve of the highest-level meeting between them since Moscow sent troops into Georgia last year, diplomats said.
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PRWeb via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 7, 2:05 am ET
McMillan Group International has been awarded multiple contracts to deliver tactical rifles to the U.S. Department of the Army, TACOM (Rock Island Arsenal) and foreign government agencies.
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EARTHtimes.org - Thu Dec 3, 3:46 pm ET
Amman - The Jordanian government on Thursday protested what it called unilateral Israeli works at the outside wall of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in East Jerusalem, which the Jewish state seized from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East war. A memor...