Grass "still standing" after attacks over SS past
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Nobel prize winning German novelist   Guenter Grass said on Monday he was still on his feet despite   weeks of sharp criticism for his half century of silence about   his time in Hitler's Waffen-SS.
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The socialist leaders of six central European nations signed a declaration on Friday, Sept. 14, condemning US plans to base its missile defense shield on European soil. In what will be a massive blow to the United States' plans to base its missile defense shield in Central Europe, left-wing leaders from the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia plus Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer and Germany's Social Democratic Party chief Kurt Beck condemned the plan
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YOU'D be forgiven for mistaking today's picture for a country scene but in reality it was taken at Egypt Farm in Tollcross back in 1949.  The farm is said to have been given its name by a soldier who served in Egypt and named his farm after it when he returned to Scotland.
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The city's decision to deny a permit to protesters for a rally on Central Park's Great Lawn on the weekend before the Republican National Convention is about preserving the lawn, not suppressing speech, lawyers for the city said in federal court Friday.
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in the deadliest attack in Gaza for nearly four months, as Israel strikes back after a double suicide bombing. field used at night as a training base for militants, locals said.
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The Nobel Foundation rejects calls to strip Guenter Grass of his prize after revelations about his SS past.
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Dhaka -- Bangladesh has not ruled out foreign involvement in a grenade attack on an opposition rally last week that killed 19 people and wounded more than 150.
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By Gail Smith-Arrants, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 22--Resurrection of a wetlands Land near 2 schools will be restored to its former life-rich state Gail Smith-Arrants   It's a tranquil but neglected spot, a slice of old farm bottomland.
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By Richard Dymond, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Feb. 3--LAKEWOOD RANCH -- Some Lakewood Ranch residents are uncomfortable "ratting out" their neighbors who are overwatering their lawns.
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DRESDEN, Germany  - Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder warned Germans not to forget their Nazi past Sunday as far-right supporters rallied in Dresden on Sunday to protest a devastating Allied bombing in Second World War that killed an estimated 35,000 residents 60 years ago.
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By Betsy Z. Russell, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Jan. 31--Grass seed farmers on the Rathdrum Prairie set their fields ablaze every summer, sending plumes of thick smoke into the skies. And the state of Idaho defends the controversial practice.
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BERLIN, Sep 11 (IPS/IFEJ) - When the East German nuclear power plant Rheinsberg  was shut down almost 20 years ago, environmentalists expected  that fauna and flora in nearby Stechlin lake would survive  without further damage.
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Punitive damage award is tossed, but a whiff still lingers.
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By Leigh Ann Tipton, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Feb. 3--GRAHAM -- Operations at a defense contractor's Muhlenberg County plant are up and running again following a fire last week that destroyed one building on site.
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THE Nuremberg Trials suggested that the German people and media were to blame for not standing up to the Nazi Party. Will history make the same argument against the British and the UK media for not standing up to Tony Blair and New Labour?   Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction.
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As attacks continue, some officials call for poll delay
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Clean-up continues with waters still rising in some areas.