TIMELINE-Guinea-Bissau has history of coups, uprisings - Reuters Africa
Nov 23 (Reuters) - Guinea-Bissau's President Joao Bernardo "Nino" Vieira survived an attack by renegade soldiers on his home early on Sunday, one week after parliamentary elections were held in the poor, volatile West African state. Foreign donors ...
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Brazil summons ambassador from Ecuador in loan spat - Reuters
SAO PAULO, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Brazil has summoned its ambassador in Ecuador to Brasilia to discuss responses to the Andean country's decision to suspend payments on a loan from Brazil's national development bank, the foreign ministry said on Friday ...
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Propane spill routs thousands in SLC - Salt Lake Tribune
Emergency crews late Friday night siphoned liquid propane from a tanker-trailer punctured earlier in the day during a truck crash that spewed a potentially explosive plume of gas into an area of the east Salt Lake Valley. About 3,000 residents near ...
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Sex-crimes prosecutor accused of raping colleague - Pantagraph
MARTINEZ, Calif. -- A sex-crimes prosecutor in California has pleaded not guilty to tying up and raping a colleague while threatening her with an ice pick and a handgun. Fifty-one-year-old Michael Gressett faces 12 felony charges and adamantly denies ...
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The axe is back! Cal punts Stanford for the win - San Francisco Examiner
Revenge is a dish best served...period. Today the Bears were able to get their revenge for the 20-13 defeat they endured last year on Stanford's home field. Today, the game was in doubt for about 35 minutes, but Cal wouldn't be denied an opportunity ...
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South Korea stands firm as tension rises with North - Reuters UK
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea made clear on Sunday it will not back down in mounting tensions with North Korea, which has threatened to shut their heavily armed border next week over what it sees as Seoul's antagonistic approach to relations. North ...
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Shebab Threatens Somali Pirates - Eflux Media
The pirates who hold a Saudi super-tanker have been urged to free the ship or face armed action by Somali Islamist fighters on Sunday. Sheikh Ahmed, a spokesman for the Shebab group in the coastal region of Harardhere, told AFP: "If the pirates want ...
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Dalai Lama rules out retirement and reaffirms middle way - Washington Post
DHARAMSALA, India (Reuters) - The Dalai Lama ruled out retirement Sunday and reaffirmed the support of Tibetan exiles for his "Middle Way" approach to China. The Tibetan spiritual leader said new policy options on China could be considered in the ...
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Tina Sherman Nude Photos: McDonald's Sued In Arkansas Over Naked ... - Post Chronicle
Tina Sherman nude photos have been leaked onto the Internet. Who is Tina Sherman? She is the wife of Phillip Sherman, an Arkansas man who has filed suit against McDonald's over naked pictures of his wife If you have naked photos of your wife on your ...
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One dead after shots fired in Wash. mall - MSNBC
TUKWILA, Wash. - Shots erupted in a packed Seattle-area shopping mall Saturday after an apparent argument between a gunman and two other young men, killing one of the men, creating panic among shoppers and sending police on a store-to-store search ...
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