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Barack Obama officially accepted the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday night, with a moving 50-minute address that was met with thunderous applause by an audience of 84,000 supporters and millions more at home.
The Senator's big night was somet
World | August 29, 2008, Friday // 00:00
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The French President Nikolas Sarkozy, in his authority of an official representative of the European Union (EU), has had Wednesday a phone conversation with his Russian colleague Dmitry Medvedev and with the Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, as anno
World | August 28, 2008, Thursday // 00:00
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Wednesday night would be remembered in US history as the night when the Democratic National Convention made Senator Barack Obama the first African-American ever nominated by a major party as the party's presidential candidate.
The nomination was official
World | August 28, 2008, Thursday // 00:00
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Hours after landing at an airfield in southern Libya, all passengers, but not the crew, of the hijacked Sudanese airplane have been allowed by the hijackers to leave the plane, according to a Libyan official.
World | August 27, 2008, Wednesday // 00:00
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The personal bank account information of over 1 million bank clients, including account numbers and signatures has been discovered on the hard drive of a computer sold on eBay.
According to the British "Daily Mail," a former employee of Graphic Data, a c
World | August 27, 2008, Wednesday // 00:00
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Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has demanded the annulment of his court trail before the Hague Tribunal due to procedural violations and lack of respect for his rights.
This is not the first time when Karadzic is arguing against the legal sou
World | August 27, 2008, Wednesday // 00:00
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The 10 or more people who hijacked Tuesday a Sudanese passenger plane with more than 100 people on board have claimed to belong to a Darfur rebel group, Libyan officials said Wednesday.
According to the accounts of the plane's pilot, the hijackers have s
World | August 27, 2008, Wednesday // 00:00
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The US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice stated Tuesday Russia's decision to recognize the independence of the breakaway Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia was "regrettable".
World | August 26, 2008, Tuesday // 00:00
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Russia's Permanent Representative at NATO Dmitry Rogozin said Tuesday afternoon at a press conference that the country was not trying to annex Georgia's separatist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, ITAR-TASS reported.
According to Rogozin, the decis
World | August 26, 2008, Tuesday // 00:00
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Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev announced in the early afternoon on Tuesday that he had signed the decrees with which the Russian Federation formally recognized the independence of Georgia's separatist regions South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
World | August 26, 2008, Tuesday // 00:00
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26 people have been admitted to the hospital with light injuries after am emergency landing of a Boeing-737 plane in Limoges (Southwest France).
The plane of the Irish budget airline Ryanair has been on flight from Bristol (UK) to Barcelona (Spain), but
World | August 26, 2008, Tuesday // 00:00
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The US Democratic Convention, which will officially nominate Barack Obama as the Democratic Party presidential candidate opened in Denver Monday night.
World | August 26, 2008, Tuesday // 00:00
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The upper chamber of Russia's Parliament, the Federation Council, voted unanimously Monday with 130 votes in favor to adopt a declaration calling on the President Dmitry Medvedev to recognize the independence of the breakaway Georgian regions Abkhazia and
World | August 25, 2008, Monday // 00:00
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A fire that broke after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 had caused the collapse of a third skyscraper, located about 150 meters north of the Twin Towers (WTC 1 and 2).
The details about the fall of the 47-story World
World | August 23, 2008, Saturday // 00:00
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Georgia's Parliament gave their support to the proposal of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to continue the martial law in the country until September 8, 2008.
The proposal has been approved at an emergency meeting of the Parliament, as reported by
World | August 23, 2008, Saturday // 00:00
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US Democratic presidential hopeful, Senator Barack Obama has chosen his vice presidential running mate early Saturday - Delaware Senator Joe Biden.
The decision is seen by experts as a good move, which will balance the democratic ticket with an experienc
World | August 23, 2008, Saturday // 00:00
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The former US Ambassador to Bulgaria John Beyrle, who is already in charge of the American Embassy in Moscow, said Russia was justified in responding to the Georgian attacks on the Russian peacekeepers in South Ossetia.
World | August 22, 2008, Friday // 00:00
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With the US Presidential election getting close and closer, Republican Senator John McCain has cut Democrat Senator Barack Obama's national lead in half, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
World | August 21, 2008, Thursday // 00:00
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Norway has been notified that Russia had decided to freeze temporary any military collaboration with NATO and the countries that are members of the Alliance, according to the Norwegian Defense Ministry.
The information is based on a phone conversation be
World | August 21, 2008, Thursday // 00:00
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At least 16 individuals have been injured Thursday due to an explosion in the western Turkish province Izmir.
The Turkish private TV channel NTV reports that the explosion has happened on a bus transporting policemen.
World | August 21, 2008, Thursday // 00:00
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According to the list of passengers who have been aboard the airplane that crashed Wednesday at the Madrid airport, it looks possible that a Bulgarian has been among the people who were heading to the Canary Islands.
The list, published on the site of th
World | August 21, 2008, Thursday // 00:00
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