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Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, Tunisia, Abdullah II of Jordan, Europe, Japan
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3 with ties to Red Wings die in Russian jet crash
TUNOSHNA, Russia (AP) — A private Russian jet carrying a top ice hockey team slammed into a riverbank moments after takeoff Wednesday, killing at least 43 people in one of the worst plane crashes ever involving a sports team.
Both Russia and the...Tags: Detroit Red Wings, Uzbekistan, Russia, Unrest, Conflicts and War, National Hockey League
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News of the Weird: Russians No Longer Consider Beer a 'Soft Drink'
![When she gets to Africa, she has "to worship him," said Elizabeth Osei, part-time first lady of the Akwamu people of eastern Ghana, speaking of her husband Isaac, who is the Akwamu chief. "When I get back, he has to worship me" (because Elizabeth is the president of the couple's New York City taxi company, where they work 12-hour days when they're not Ghanian royalty). Isaac's reign, according to an August <em>New York Times</em> report, covers several months a year and requires divine-like wisdom in adjudicating his people's disputes. Another New Yorker with a prestigious double life is Mohamed Mohamed, a state transportation bureaucrat, who recently returned to his cubicle in Buffalo, N.Y., after nine months as prime minister of Somalia. The <em>Buffalo News</em> reported that the Somali native, though shocked by the level of the country's dysfunction, at least got to stand up to "terrorists, pirates and warlords" and "address dignitaries from the United Nations."](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-09/64885989-20111659.jpg "When she gets to Africa, she has "to worship him,\" said Elizabeth Osei, part-time first lady of the Akwamu people of eastern Ghana, speaking of her husband Isaac, who is the Akwamu chief. \"When I get back, he has to worship me\" (because Elizabeth is the president of the couple's New York City taxi company, where they work 12-hour days when they're not Ghanian royalty). Isaac's reign, according to an August <em>New York Times</em> report, covers several months a year and requires divine-like wisdom in adjudicating his people's disputes. Another New Yorker with a prestigious double life is Mohamed Mohamed, a state transportation bureaucrat, who recently returned to his cubicle in Buffalo, N.Y., after nine months as prime minister of Somalia. The <em>Buffalo News</em> reported that the Somali native, though shocked by the level of the country's dysfunction, at least got to stand up to \"terrorists, pirates and warlords\" and \"address dignitaries from the United Nations.\"")
When she gets to Africa, she has "to worship him," said Elizabeth Osei, part-time first lady of the Akwamu people of eastern Ghana, speaking of her husband Isaac, who is the Akwamu chief. "When I get back, he has to worship me" (because Elizabeth is the...Tags: New York City, Somalia, United Nations, Africa, The New York Times
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Bodies of 40 Children Trapped in Playroom of Sunken River Boat
ReutersSYUKEYEVO, Russia -- Rescuers say there is little hope of finding any more people alive after an overloaded tourist boat sank in the Volga River, killing 128 people in Russia's worst river accident in three decades. Rescuers say the bodies of 40 children...Tags: Crimes, Weather Reports, Criminals, Disasters and Accidents, Multi-Sport Events
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GOP hopefuls challenge Obama on Iran
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential hopefuls are focusing on Iran as a weak spot in President Barack Obama's foreign policy record, and they're reviving many of the arguments that neoconservative proponents of armed intervention against Tehran...Tags: Saddam Hussein, Barack Obama, Defense Equipment, United Nations, Russia
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Russia: Address concerns or we'll target missile shield
CNNRussia may deploy missiles that it says could destroy NATO’s planned missile defense system in Europe – and withdraw from an arms control treaty with the United States – if Russia’s concerns about the shield aren’t addressed,...Tags: Treaties, U.S. Department of State, Barack Obama, Entertainment, Russia
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Authorities: 44 Dead After Russian Jet Crashes
ReutersMOSCOW -- At least 44 people were killed when a passenger plane broke up and caught fire on coming into land in heavy fog in north-western Russia, an Emergency Ministry spokeswoman said on Tuesday. The Tupolev-134 plane, carrying 43 passengers and nine...Tags: News Agency, Vladimir Putin, Lech Kaczynski, Moscow (Russia), Russia
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Russia promises to lift ban on EU vegetables
NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Russia (AP) — Russia promised Friday to lift its blanket ban on European vegetables once the EU provides documented proof of their safety, and voiced hope that it could join the World Trade Organization this year after nearly 20...Tags: Human Rights, Civil Rights, Justice and Rights, Moscow (Russia), Russia
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Russia's historic Bolshoi Theatre finally reopens
Culture MonsterAfter six years of a painstaking $700-million-plus restoration that was plagued by managerial, financial and artistic scandals, the historic Russian State Academic Bolshoi Theater reopened Friday grandiose gala concert attended by politicians and...
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