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A prosaic survivor, he was not a romantic, but the one who carried the load



WASHINGTON - To understand American politics — and what we are losing with the passing of Ted Kennedy — you need to know Ireland.

For 150 years, Irish-Americans have been lubricant in the machinery of public life. Their jovial, boastful, shrewd, and calculating (but ult...

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Faith schools across Britain are holding their breath and waiting to see if they will need to change their admissions procedures after Europe's largest Jewish school was last week given the right to appeal a court decision saying its entry policy was racist.

In June, the British High Court of Appeals exposed a rift within Britain's Jewish community when it ruled that the admissions...

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HEADS of State and Government of the African Union recently adopted a new set of policy guidelines to ensure that landless people, women, youth, displaced people and other vulnerable groups have equitable access to land._

_In a joint declaration adopted at their 13th Ordinary Session last month, the African leaders said that they resolved to "ensure that land laws provide for e...

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A giant herd of cattle has fled from northern Kenya into the Borena zone in Ethiopia to escape a drought, according UN agriculture chiefs.

They say it is one of the largest movements of cattle in 10 years.

Kenya's cabinet is meeting later to discuss the drought, which has seen farmers abandoning their villages in search of water in recent months.

Gov...

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LOS ANGELES - Michael Jackson, the "King of Pop" who reigned over the music world like no other, died Thursday as he prepared for a comeback bid to vanquish nightmare years of sexual scandal and financial calamity. He was 50.

Jackson died at UCLA Medical Center after being stricken at his rented home in Holmby Hills. Paramedics tried to resuscitate him at his home for near...

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A strong earthquake has struck Tokyo and central Japan, halting train services, closing motorways and causing a nuclear power station to shut down.

At least 43 people were injured by the magnitude 6.4 quake, many of them by falling objects, officials said. No deaths have been reported.

Separately, there was another powerful earthquake off India's Andaman Islands in ...

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Sun May 17, 1:07 pm ET

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – The Tamil Tigers admitted defeat Sunday in their fierce quarter-century war for a separate homeland as government forces raced to clear the last pockets of rebel resistance from the war zone in the north.

Far from the battlefield, thousands of Sri Lankans danced in the streets of Colombo, celebrating the stunning collapse o...

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MADRID – The top EU health official urged Europeans on Monday to postpone nonessential travel to parts of the United States and Mexico because of the swine flu virus, and Spanish health officials confirmed the first case outside North America.

Russia, Hong Kong and Taiwan said they would quarantine visitors showing symptoms of the virus amid a surging global concern about a possible...

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Italy has held the first funerals for victims of the powerful earthquake which struck the country's central Abruzzo region.

Officials say 260 people are now known to have died in Monday's quake and about 28,000 are homeless.

As aftershocks continue to rattle the region, hopes are fading of pulling any more people alive from the rubble.

A mass funeral...

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