Monday 08 September 2008
Hurricane Ike makes Cuban landfall
After causing at least 47 deaths in Haiti, Hurricane Ike reached Cuba's northeast coast on Sunday, where authorities had evacuated close to 800,000 people.
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- WEATHER
- Hurricane Ike makes Cuban landfall
- Monday 08 September 2008
- After causing at least 47 deaths in Haiti, Hurricane Ike reached Cuba's northeast coast on Sunday, where authorities had evacuated close to 800,000 people.
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- USA - VOTE 2008
- Poll puts McCain ahead in White House race
- Monday 08 September 2008
- According to a USA Today/Gallup poll released on Sunday, Republican candidate John McCain leads rival nominee Barack Obama by four percentage points eight weeks before the US presidential elections.
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- USA
- Washington takes over Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac
- Sunday 07 September 2008
- US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson (photo) said the government had taken temporary control of the ailing mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in a bid to help the economy recover from massive losses in the housing market.
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- USA - VOTE 2008
- Sharing the stage with Palin
- Monday 08 September 2008
- Originally set to campaign in Alaska on Saturday night and then begin campaigning on her own, Sarah Palin is now expected to spend more days appearing alongside McCain and gather larger crowds for the presidential hopeful.
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- CANADA - ELECTION
- Canadian PM calls snap election
- Sunday 07 September 2008
- Canada's Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper called an early parliamentary election for October 14, in a bid to break a political deadlock after two and a half years at the head of a minority government.
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- RUSSIA - VENEZUELA
- Russian navy to train in Venezuelan waters
- Sunday 07 September 2008
- In a move likely to be seen as a riposte to the arrival of NATO ships in the Black Sea, Russia is to carry out joint naval manoeuvres with Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea in November, the Venezuelan navy announced.
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- USA - Morocco
- Rice pitches for counter-terror ties on N. Africa tour
- Sunday 07 September 2008
- On a four-nation tour of North Africa, including a historic visit to Libya, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has pushed for closer counter-terrorism cooperation in a region that is no stranger to Islamist attacks.
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- CUBA - USA
- Storm-lashed Cuba asks US to ease embargo
- Sunday 07 September 2008
- Rejecting a US offer to send storm victims aid through relief organizations, Cuba has instead called on Washington to sell it relief supplies, which would entail an amendment to the US trade embargo on Cuba.
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