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Lothar Schmid, Chess Referee, Dies at 85
Bamberg :: Germany | 30 days ago
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Lothar Schmid, Chess Referee of the Match of the Century,' Dies at 85 Published: May 20, 2013 Lothar Schmid, a German chess grandmaster who was the referee for three of the most contentious World Chess Championship matches ever played, including the
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Israel central bank chief to step down in June
Jerusalem :: Israel | 5 months ago
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Israel's central bank governor, Stanley Fischer, has submitted his resignation. The Bank of Israel said Tuesday that Fischer told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he would step down on June 30. It gave no reason for his departure, which comes
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Murdoch offer for Whitlam footage
Baghdad :: Iraq | 10 months ago
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Murdoch agreed to pay a small-time movie producer $125,000 if he delivered incriminating footage of former prime minister Gough Whitlam accepting a briefcase full of cash from Iraqis to pay Labor debts, according to a new Whitlam biography. The News
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Smaller risk of getting shot in Australia
Brisbane :: Australia | 11 months ago
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Australia is far safer than the US, where the likelihood of being shot is 15 times greater, former deputy prime minister Tim Fischer says. Mr Fischer says Australia made a sharp turn away from the gun culture in 1996 following the Port Arthur
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German Greens and The Iranian Connection
Tehrān :: Iran | over 1 year ago
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Earlier this month, the Chair of German Parliament's Human Rights Committee paid a fruitless trip to Iran. According to Iranian state media Thomas Koenigs, a German Green MP was even harshly criticized by Tehran for West's double standard policies on
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Awarding Medal of Honour for saving lives instead of killing the enemy 'feminises' the accolade, claims Christian commentator
Baghdad :: Iraq | over 2 years ago
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Army Sergeant Salvatore Giunta's received America's highest military honour from President Barack Obama on Tuesday. Sgt Giunta is said to have exposed himself to withering enemy fire' as he helped a wounded colleague to safety and rescued another who
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On the same track as Mary, from Albury to the Vatican
Melbourne :: Australia | over 2 years ago
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Story continues below ''My interest starts from the broad-gauge platform at Albury about two decades or more ago I've always had a thing for Mary MacKillop because I realised she had passed through there in 1881 ,'' he says with palpable passion. ''
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MacKillop relic unveiled in Rome
Rome :: Italy | over 2 years ago
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It has been carved into a cross with a sculpture using an antique piece of glass set into its centre containing the relic of Blessed Mary. The reliquary will be presented to Pope Benedict XVI next month during the October 17 canonisation ceremony at
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Icelandic court to reopen inheritance case of former lover of chess legend Bobby Fischer
Münster :: Germany | almost 3 years ago
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The inheritance case for late chess genius Bobby Fischer has been reopened to allow new evidence to be brought An Icelandic judge has reset the case to October 6 to allow Marilyn Young to engage the services of another lawyer after their legal
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Farmers fear wild dogs will attack people
Sydney :: Australia | almost 3 years ago
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In the past farmers had to contend mostly with purebred dingoes, now they say they are facing a new, much more dangerous threat from interbred domestic dogs. They say these dogs are much bigger, more plentiful and more aggressive than dingoes. One
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