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British Debate Liveblog and Open Thread
We'll be watching and live-blogging the first-ever televised British Prime Ministerial election debate. Feel free to weigh in below. -- Things are moving at a very brisk clip. Nick Clegg keeps his opening statement short and largely content-free....
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Thu, Apr 15 2010 12:33 PM
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Everybody loves Kevin Rudd
Barack Obama's emerging reputation is as a president who doesn't put much stock in personal relationships with other world leaders, but he apparently told an Australian interviewer that he felt a particular bond with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd...
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Thu, Apr 15 2010 12:12 PM
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Second great garbage patch found
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch or Plastic Vortex, a Texas-sized gyre of plastic formed by Ocean currents, has been known and well-document for over a decade. But what about all the plastic in the Atlantic Researchers are warning of a new blight on the...
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Thu, Apr 15 2010 11:41 AM
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Environment
Kurmanbek has left the building
In the wake of a rally that turned violent this morning, deposed Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev has left the country : Gunfire had been heard earlier as Mr Bakiyev spoke in the southern city of Osh; an opposition rally was going on nearby. Mr Bakiyev...
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Thu, Apr 15 2010 11:05 AM
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Central Asia
Israel's iPad ban
Israel is justifiably proud of its cutting-edge high-tech sector, so Israelis were a bit surprised this week when the government began confiscating iPads from travelers attempting to bring them into the country. No advance notice of the policy was given...
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Thu, Apr 15 2010 9:23 AM
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Morning Brief: Bombings target Burmese New Year celebrations
Bombings target Burmese New Year celebrations Top news: The bombs ripped through New Year's celebrations in Burma's largest city, Yangon today. Estimated casualties run as high as 20 dead and 70 wounded. The bombings occurred around 3 p.m. local...
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Thu, Apr 15 2010 6:02 AM
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The dumbest country in the Middle East
So what are we to make of the allegation that Syria is moving, or has moved, Scud missiles, or parts of Scud missiles, into Hezbollah country in Lebanon -- even as the Obama administration tries to send a U.S ambassador back to Damascus for the first...
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Wed, Apr 14 2010 4:37 PM
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Does the Nuclear Security Summit logo reveal Obama's Islamist plot?
In what may be the dumbest blogosphere meme since people on the Internet were saying that the U.S. missile defense logo looks like an Islamic crescent , some people the Internet are now saying that the Nuclear Security Summit logo looks like an Islamic...
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Wed, Apr 14 2010 4:05 PM
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The Icelandic banking crisis as performance art
Oh Icelanders, is there anything you can't make avant-garde? The Times' Robert Mackey explains : Fresh from presenting two plays inspired by the epic collapse of the country’s banks, actors at the Reykjavik City Theatre are in the middle of an...
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Wed, Apr 14 2010 1:22 PM
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No one may talk about the king and the king's not talking
Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya touched the third rail of Thai politics in a speech in Washington on Monday: “I think we have to talk about the institution of the monarchy, how it would have to reform itself to the modern globalised world,” Kasit Piromya...
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Wed, Apr 14 2010 11:46 AM
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Argentine courts to give Spain a taste of its own medicine
Spanish investigative judge Baltasar Garzon has made a name for himself by prosecuting human rights abusers around the world -- including former Chilean leader Augusto Pinochet -- using universal jurisdiction to get around national amnesties. But Garzon...
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Wed, Apr 14 2010 10:41 AM
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Morning Brief: Hundreds killed by earthquake in western China
Hundreds killed by earthquake in western China Top news: At least 400 people have been killed and thousands injured in a series of earthquakes in the remote Western Chinese province on Qinqhai. Many people are still buried and with heavy rescue equipment...
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Wed, Apr 14 2010 5:49 AM
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Lebanon's soccer wars
Just when you think Lebanon couldn't get any stranger, the country manages to outdo itself. In commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the beginning of the country's 15-year civil war, Lebanon's leaders divided up into two teams based on...
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Tue, Apr 13 2010 3:20 PM
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South Korea experiments with video game curfew
Data rockets across South Korea's broadband network at an average clip of 14.58 megabits per second. This makes the country's network the fastest of any in the world. (In comparison, the average American broadband connection chugs along at a sluggish...
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Tue, Apr 13 2010 2:41 PM
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This just in: "We are working every day and making progress"
The State Department's press operation works in mysterious ways. For instance, this short transcript just arrived in my email in box, under the grandiose headline "Remarks with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu Before Their Meeting"...
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Tue, Apr 13 2010 2:17 PM
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