Prayers Replace Parties to Mark 2004's End
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Prayers replaced parties to mark New Year's in much of Asia, and in Europe black cloth draped the Champs Elysees, as sorrow over the death and destruction from this week's quake and tsunamis overshadowed celebration.
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The leaders want their faith to be enshrined as the national religion, governing marriage, divorce and family inheritance.
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LEEDS CASTLE, England  - A high-stakes effort to revive a Catholic-Protestant government for Northern Ireland has ended in failure, British Prime Minister Tony Blair conceded Saturday. Negotiators have ``not yet achieved a comprehensive agreement,'' Blair said, speaking at the end of a three-day diplomatic push to revive the Good Friday peace accord of 1998
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SYDNEY - Normally exuberant New Year celebrations were tempered by thoughts for victims of south Asiaâs tsunami as several major cities cancelled parties and Australia led a global minute of silence.
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Flags across Europe will be lowered to half-staff, stock exchanges will stop trading, and workers, shoppers and businesses across the continent will join a silent tribute Wednesday to victims of the south Asian tsunami.
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The 2004 U.S. elections ended on  Saturday with Republicans and Democrats swapping one U.S. House  of Representatives seat each in runoff elections in Louisiana.
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A Midlands congregation said goodbye to its church yesterday at a farewell service to mark its closure.
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Worshippers fill Westminster Cathedral as Anglican and Catholic church leaders pray together for tsunami victims.
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By The Dallas Morning News  Dec. 12--Twelve years ago, the Republican Party took over control of the House of Representatives by promising in its Contract with America to "restore accountability to Congress. To end its cycle of scandal and disgrace.
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LEEDS CASTLE, England Sept. 18, 2004 - A high-stakes effort to revive a Catholic-Protestant government for Northern Ireland has ended in failure, but hope remains of an eventual breakthrough, the prime ministers of Britain and Ireland said Saturday.
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Tired of being seen by religious voters as too secular or even hostile toward religion, the Democrat party and its presidential candidates have launched an all-out effort to win their votes.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium  - Flags across Europe will be lowered to half-mast, stock exchanges will stop trading, and workers, shoppers and businesses across the continent will join a silent tribute Wednesday to victims of the south Asian tsunami.
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After all the official Inauguration Day parties wound down, members of a young Republican crowd headed to a basement bar in Georgetown.
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As the faithful marked Christmas Day, political and religious leaders called for peace and reconciliation amid flickers of hope in places long plagued by conflict.
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank  - Pilgrims and a new  Palestinian leadership celebrated Christmas in the town of  Jesus's birth with prayers for peace on Saturday, lifted by  fresh hope following Yasser Arafat's death.
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A series of special prayer services are being held across the UK on Sunday for the Asia earthquake victims.
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The government said yesterday it wants to unify the calls to prayer that blare separately from thousands of mosque loudspeakers in the capital, but the idea was criticized by many as un-Islamic.