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Bondholders spark U.S. legal drama over Argentine debt
Collection agencies profit by buying up old debt, chasing borrowers for payment and, when all else fails, using the courts to recover as much as they can. It's a business model polished and perfected over decades of litigation. But what if the...
Tags: Collective Contract, Litigation and Regulation, Economy, Business and Finance, U.S. Department of Justice, Judges
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Theater Review: 'Heart of Darkness' illuminates Joseph Conrad's words
Actors' Gang stalwart Brian T. Finney invites us to once again venture deep into the interior of the African Congo in his adaptation of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness," now at the Ivy Substation. This stripped-down Actors' Gang production zooms in...
Tags: Celebrities, Henrik Ibsen
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Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda denies war crimes in court
Standing before the International Criminal Court on Tuesday for the first time, Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda denied he was guilty of a long list of wartime crimes. Ntaganda faces charges of forcing children to fight as soldiers and indirectly...
Tags: Human Rights Watch, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, International Law, Crime, Law and Justice
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All a-Twitter over 'The Taste'
A perspicacious Twitter follower named Jim Lawrence summed it up in a single sentence: “This is the 21st century: the only things in my timeline right now are Chavez and @Nigella_Lawson” So just how Twitter-ific is the star of “The...
Tags: Twitter, Inc., Anthony Bourdain
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Ben Affleck testifies in Congress about war-torn Congo
He’s best known as an actor and a filmmaker, but Ben Affleck has a special interest in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and on Wednesday the “Argo” director testified before the House Armed Services Committee about what Affleck termed...
Tags: Buck McKeon, Africa, U.S. House Committee on Armed Services, U.S. Congress, Ben Affleck
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Ending the cycle of abuse in Congo
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — On Nov. 19, armed men from a rebel group called the M23 were looking for a prominent civil society leader in a village outside Goma, a provincial capital in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. He'd been...
Tags: Human Rights Watch, Murder, Armed Forces, Civil Rights, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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U.S. diplomats evacuate Central African Republic as rebels advance
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — U.S. diplomats evacuated from the capital of the Central African Republic on Friday, the State Department reported, after a coalition of rebel groups swept across the country in recent days, seizing towns and diamond...
Tags: Francois Bozize, Francois Hollande, Chad, U.S. Military, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Must Reads: Benghazi attacks, Congo clashes and a Honduras tycoon
From a Honduras tycoon to the Benghazi attacks, here are five stories you shouldn't miss from this past week in global news: Panel faults security failures in Benghazi attacks In Honduras, a controversial tycoon responds to critics In Israel, Labor...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation, Benghazi, Honduras
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Ben Affleck on running for Senate: He didn't say 'no'
This post has been corrected, as detailed below.He didn't say "no." Ben Affleck didn't say much, but he didn't say "no" when pressed by Bob Schieffer to chat about the possibility that he might run for a Senate seat in Massachusetts should Sen. John Kerry be tapped as secretary of State. "I’m...Tags: Malaria, Ben Affleck, Bob Schieffer, John Kerry, Kristen Stewart
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Pictures in the News | November 30, 2012
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The Week in Pictures | November 26 – December 2, 2012
FrameworkEach week we bring you the very best in visual journalism. Fighting continues in Syria, where rebel fighters celebrate atop the remains of a Syrian government fighter jet that was shot down at Daret Ezza, on the border between the provinces of Idlib and... -
French missions abroad on alert after cartoons mock Muslims
World NowFrench embassies and schools abroad were on alert after a magazine published cartoons mocking Muslims and the prophet Muhammad in the wake of protests around the globe over a controversial anti-Islam film....
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