February 20, 2010 9:30 a.m. EST
Washington (CNN) -- Alexander Haig, the former military officer, secretary of state and adviser to presidents, died Saturday, a Johns Hopkins Medical Center spokesman said.
Haig, 85, was admitted to the Baltimore, Maryland, hospital on...
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Opening tomorrow at the Alexander Kasser Theatre in Montclair is "Looking for Josephine." The Jazz performance is based on an African-American artist who fled the U.S. for Europe during the decades of Jim...
"Talking to moderate Taliban leaders may be the only way to end the fighting in Afghanistan, ministers suggested last night. International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander believes beating the insurgents...
Elizabeth Alexander read a poem she had composed for Barack Obama and his Inauguration Day today. It's called 'Praise Song For The Day'. 'Praise Song for the Day' - Full Text " Each day we go about our business,...
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India has one of the highest HIV/AIDS patients base and the United States National Intelligence Council predicts that the number of people infected in India could jump to between 20 million and 25 million by 2010. Availability of cheap AIDS drug is a major problem....
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The Beverly Hills fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander was found guilty on Thursday of sexually assaulting seven girls and young women whom he lured with promises of modelling careers. Regarded as an up-and-coming...
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"“There is a false and foolish and evil saying that today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s freedom fighter. Today’s terrorist is today’s and tomorrow’s murderer.” These were the words used by the former Foreign Minister of Australia Alexander Downer while delivering...
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The Kalash people living in the northwestern part of Pakistan, living in three remote valleys of the Hindu Kush mountain range, are called the 'Greeks of Asia'. The highlighted materials are excerpts printed from...
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"Cousin of Vijender Singh, Balwinder Beniwal, lived up to expectations as Indian boxers shone in the rings with three gold and one silver in the third Commonwealth Youth Games on Friday at Pune. It was Nanao Singh Thokchom of Army Sports Institute who opened the account...
"MANILA -- Thousands of troops backed by air and artillery fire have captured 15 strongholds of the Moro rebels in the southern Philippines after five days of intense fighting, officials said Monday. More than 272,000 villagers have also fled their homes due to the ongoing...
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The shocking thing here is that he was charged in 2006 and yet Alexander Keith's continued to use him in their advertising campaigns. That is disgusting. " Beer actor sentenced on child...
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Is this a case of too many cooks spoil the broth?"On 22 August 2008, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, Minister of Foreign Affairs Eka Tkeshelashvili and State Minister for Reintegration Issues Temur Iakobashvili held a meeting with OSCE Chairman-in-Office,...
The Olympic Record for the Men's 100 metres Breaststroke has been broken by Norwegian, Alexander Dale Oen. " Oen's time of 59.41 seconds made him the second fastest swimmer of all time in the...
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" Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili proposed Saturday to declare a cease fire in the breakaway province of South Ossetia. Saakashvili, speaking at a news conference Saturday, also proposed that the warring parties be separated. Georgia's Security...
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"BOSTON - A German man has identified the mysterious man held in the kidnapping of his daughter and a "person of interest" in the disappearance of California couple as his long-lost brother who left home as a teen...
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