(Xinhuanet) -- Britney Spears is dating 25-year-old male model and actor Issac Cohen who is a look-a-like of her estranged husband Kevin Federline, according to U.S. media reports. Britney was spotted in Cohen's company several times, including her cruise around Marina del Ray, California this past weekend, on a private powerboat. The couple were also seen enjoying each other's company at the W Hotel's Whiskey Blue bar, in Los Angeles, on Sunday night.
Cohen appeared to have adopted Federline's rapper-gangster image, sporting fashionable stubble and wearing low-slung jeans and a bandana.
Cohen appeared to have adopted Federline's rapper-gangster image, sporting fashionable stubble and wearing low-slung jeans and a bandana. Cohen's agent at LA Models, Brandi Lord, has confirmed the romance to American publication People saying the couple's relationship began "recently...within the last month. He's got a great heart and a good family, and he was raised well. He's a gentleman."
According to Cohen's MySpace account, he calls himself Eyezik, he is from California and went to Taft high school and dropped out of California State University after his first year. Just last month, Britney was seen hanging out and more, with her record producer, Jonathan "JR" Rottem, but it looks like it didn't last.
Spears married Federline after a six-month courtship in 2004. In January that year, she married childhood friend Jason Alexander in Las Vegas, and annulled that marriage after 55 hours. Spears and Federline officially got divorced in November 2006.
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Moose, I doubt they will have kids. He's 25. I don't think he has any interest in raising some other losers children. I think he just wanted to tear up a MILF for a while. Since he's Jewish, his guilt will get the best of him and he'll move on.
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I have to admit, I used to find Britney hot though most of her music sucked (her videos were interesting though), but now I just look and all I see is some washed-up trailer trash whore.
She's not as good looking as some washed up trailer trash whores I've seen.
She's not as good looking as some non washed up trailer trash whores I've seen.
She's nowehere near as good looking as some porn stars I've seen and Lord knows they're whores.
All I see when I look at Britney nowadays is trash. Unfortunately, trash with money. Hell, we get better looking stuff off any internet porn site these days.
In a bid to stop the violence that has left Bangladesh in turmoil, the country's president has named a new interim leader. Former central bank governor Fakhruddin Ahmed is now responsible for holding elections. Iajuddin Ahmed, who remains president, stepped down as interim leader on Thursday and postponed a planned vote for January 22. His resignation follows nearly three months of violent protests in the South Asian nation over claims the poll was being rigged. At least 45 people were killed during the clashes.
The state of emergency declared on Thursday will remain in place, as will tight controls on the media and restrictions on freedom of movement, assembly and speech. But a night-time curfew has been lifted. The impoverished country still faces uncertainty over when the elections will be held.
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Muslims should be given different treatment on the National Health Service to take account of the requirements of their faith, a doctor said on Friday. Britains 1.6 million Muslims are twice as likely to report poor health and disability but the NHS keeps no details on patients by religious affinity, according to Edinburgh University primary care professor Aziz Sheikh.
Writing in the British Medical Journal, he said the NHS should record patients religion as well as their ethnic grouping. It is absurd that we do not, for example, know the perinatal mortality or smoking prevalence among Muslims, he said. Male infant circumcision should be available throughout the NHS, he added. Although some NHS trusts do offer circumcision, most parents are forced into the poorly regulated private sector, he said.
The NHS should be more accommodating to the religious needs of Muslims. Many Muslims would prefer to see a same-sex doctor for reasons of modesty, but this was often not possible, despite the increasing number of female doctors in the NHS. More information about drug ingredients should also be available to allow Muslim patients to avoid porcine and alcohol-derived drugs.
But Aneez Esmail, professor of primary care at Manchester University, said it was not practical for the NHS to meet everyones demands for special services. Going down the path of providing special services for defined groups risks stigmatising and stereotyping, he wrote in the journal in response to Sheikhs proposals. The way forward is not a crude categorisation of people into even more tightly defined groups.
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You're damn right they ought to be treated differently. They ought to be treated in the street and never allowed into any hospital where they continually ignore sanitary edicts and endanger all patients with infection. They ought to be serviced by veternarians as appropos the dogs they are.
Spanish police arrested on Friday former Argentine President Isabel Peron, who is wanted in her home country for an investigation into killings of dissidents before the 1976-1983 military dictatorship, police sources said.
Peron, the widow of Argentina's former President Juan Domingo Peron and whose full name is Maria Estela Martinez de Peron, was arrested at her home in Villanueva de la Canada, a town in the province of Madrid, the sources said. Her arrest came a day after an Argentine judge issued an international arrest warrant for Peron. Federal Judge Raul Acosta wants to question her in a case involving the 1976 disappearance of a man whom rights groups claim was last seen being taken into custody by state security officials.
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Thousands of coca farmers allied with Bolivian President Evo Morales vowed on Friday to keep up their protest against a conservative provincial governor, a day after two people were killed and dozens wounded in street battles. More than 20,000 people, many brandishing sticks, massed in a plaza in downtown Cochabamba, to demand the resignation of Gov. Manfred Reyes Villa, a political opponent of Morales who has led a regional autonomy drive. "We are not going to leave this city until Manfred Reyes Villa steps down," protest leader Omar Fernandez told the throng. "If Bolivia's elites want more people to die, then more people will die. But we want a united Bolivia, not one divided like this country's oligarchy wants," he said.
The protest leader said thousands of peasants were en route to this lowland city, where anti-Reyes Villa protests first flared on Monday. Wielding guns, sticks, and machetes, demonstrators seeking the governor's ouster battled with his supporters in pitched street battles on Thursday. Over 100 people were wounded during the violence that broke out when Reyes Villa's sympathizers confronted the protesters.
In a speech on Friday, after returning from Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's inauguration, Morales blamed the violence on local governors who he says support "separatism in Bolivia." Morales said he ordered the police and armed forces to pacify Cochabamba, a regional seat of government 275 miles (440 km) east of La Paz.
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No mention that this is the wealthiest province in the country, and is abused as a cash cow by the central government, which is why it is considering secession.
China will have 30 million more men of marriageable age than women by 2020, making it difficult for them to find wives, according to a national report, published by the BBC News on Friday. The gender imbalance could lead to social instability, the report by Chinas State Population and Family Planning Commission warned.
Did it actually require a 3-digit IQ to see this coming?
China's got a birth control program in place.
Boy babies are preferred to girl babies.
Girl babies are aborted in significant numbers.
Girl babies are in short supply.
Nor are the consequences really hard to figure:
China has a surplus of males. I've already seen stories about Chinese raids into Mongolia in search of brides.
Warfare burns off a country's surplus males.
Victorious warfare burns off both a country's surplus males and enemy males, and makes enemy females available to the winning side.
Therefore Chinese aggressive war becomes more likely.
Complicating factors:
A large number of Chinese males are sole surviving sons - when they die the family dies out.
Families will be reluctant to see themselves extinguished.
The cannon fodder themselves become more reluctant to see themselves burned.
Coincidentally, the Indians have the very same problem, though the Paks are giving them the opportunity to burn off a few of their surplus males.
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Don't forget....the Chinese are rather famous for putting their girl babies up for foreign adoption, too.
I doubt that any of these Western raised girls are later going to be interested in marrying a Chinese raised man when they get older (maybe if he's Westernized, as in, speaks her new native language and is willing to live overseas with her for the duration of their marriage....otherwise, I don't see it happening). The number of girls and their future children forever lost to the Chinese this way, over time, has got to be substantial.
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I would think the number of adopted girl babies would be on the order of thousands, possibly as much as tens of thousands... not significant in a billion-something population, or even compared to the 30 million missing females. Although it certainly will add the Chinese male humiliation when those girls choose Western round-eye men instead of pure and traditionally reared Han stock.
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Is that a Roe Effect I hear wailing mournfully in the distance off the coast of California?
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No wimmin? What's a Chinaman to do? I think I'm turning Japanese I think I'm turning Japanese I really think so.
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Well, as far as Chinese men and love/romantic stuff, they're cold fish. Total jerks, and they almost always play around after they get married.
As far as the female shortage, it's only the lowerclass that will feel it. The solution? Either mass emigration of males, or mass importation of females, from somewhere. Although you'd have to be pretty darn hard up indeed to want an inconsiderate, uncouth man who only eats his mother's overly-spiced food.
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You left out the underlying cultural bigotry which still considers all foreigners and their cultures to be inferior. China still believes it is the Heavenly Kingdom and all others are 'monkeys'. Monkeys with interesting technologies and gadgets, but monkeys none the less. Now doing a Sabine Women raid is old as history. The 'inferiority' status is thus mitigated by the use of force because the 'wife' is just looted property. There are probably hundreds of thousands of legitimate single women in the region [Philippines, Indonesia, et al] who could be wedded as equals, but that would socially disgrace the groom for willingly taking an foreign inferior.
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Blondie, the adoption of Chinese baby girls by foreigners runs about 3 to 5 thousand per year to the U.S., and a couple thousand more to Europe (the former is decreasing, the latter increasing). China in fact just tightened rules modestly to slow the adoptions. This is a drop in the bucket.
As a side-note, the Chinese run one of the more ethical adoption programs in the developing world, orders of magnitude better than, say, Romania, Ukraine or Russia. Bribery is forbidden, and the Chinese educated their own adoption case workers on the subject by taking a few of the more notorious bribe-takers out back and shooting them. I know a number of people who've adopted children from China, and there is near-uniform praise for their system.
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I want to echo comments made by Mr. White above.
I'm related (by marriage) to an infertile couple who were able to adopt two Chinese female babies (ages 1 and 3 IIRC). The adoption was arranged by a Catholic Chairty in China (whose name escapes me). Although it was somewhat costly, these babies were a godsend to the couple. I was privileged to observe this family at Christmas (the girls are now 6 and 8). A more heartwarming picture postcard you can't imagine. Ten years ago these baby girls would not have been permitted to be born. The Chicom Gov't is relaxing it's insistance that baby girls be aborted. Why? Because of the influx of foreign money into local economies through the adoption process. Cynical? Maybe. But it's better than forcing women to abort which has been prior Chicom Gov't policy.
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Tangential comment - Americans seem to be the only 'nationality' which adopts children in large numbers regardless of color, race, or creed. Underlying cultural and racial practices of other countries and people preclude the incorporation of others not of their 'blood' into their families. While local nationalist try to play upon the propaganda of Americans 'stealing' children, it isn't hard to hit back and point out Americans couldn't/wouldn't be adopting them if the locals did it themselves. They don't, so Americans do.
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p2k: Americans seem to be the only 'nationality' which adopts children in large numbers regardless of color, race, or creed.
I think it could be better worded: Americans seem to be the only 'nationality' which adopts children in large numbers. Chinese are technically restricted to one child, but can adopt as many as they want. Nonetheless, note that there's a surplus of babies waiting to be adopted. Another complication is that you can have as many biological children as you want as long as you pay the fines which are pretty steep (but might be discounted, given the scope for bribery), at a one-time payment of 100,000 yuan ($12,500) per child*. Then there are the complications involved in getting your kid registered for public school - that is possibly additional money for any biological children after the first one.
* 100,000 yuan is 10 times the lowest annual salary in the coastal boomtowns.
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I was under the impression that they adopted out more baby girls than that, Steve. I stand corrected on my previous assumption.
But you still have to wonder about the mentality of a people when they can see this problem going on, have been told it's going to get worse, and yet continue to either abort or adopt out their daughters.
(On a personal note, I hope the Chinese don't slam the door shut until me & the Tsar make a decision regarding adopting a little girl or trying for another biological child in about a year. We promised the Tsarevich at least a year of our undivided attention first. ;) )
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SB: But you still have to wonder about the mentality of a people when they can see this problem going on, have been told it's going to get worse, and yet continue to either abort or adopt out their daughters.
It's a jobs problem. The economy is doing well today. But whatever they say in public, they have no idea if it will continue - all growth streaks eventually slow down, and sometimes go in reverse. (The Chinese economy is much better-run than India's, but that's because India's economy is badly-run, not because China's economy is well-run). The worst thing that can happen for the regime is a major recession after a couple of boom decades. The Party doesn't want to have to deal with major unemployment issues unless it absolutely has to. This, not the gender imbalance, is what the government is ultimately worried about. China has always had gender imbalances, but it's been major disasters that have sparked revolts, not gender imbalances.
Take it from me - the average Chinese knows next to nothing about Western history, and isn't particularly interested in comparative history.* For lessons in acquiring and keeping power, they look, not to Western sources, but to the copious and detailed histories of Chinese administrations through the ages. The interesting thing is that Mao's textbook seems to have been the ancient (from 6 centuries ago) novel The Water Margin.
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Fred: # Victorious warfare burns off both a country's surplus males and enemy males, and makes enemy females available to the winning side.
# Therefore Chinese aggressive war becomes more likely.
I think this is a crock. The guys who keep on putting out the stats about male surpluses causing wars are probably wrong. Apart from economics, the social sciences aren't really sciences as such - just look at what has happened to Fraud's attempt to explain human behavior by resort to Greek mythology and sexual urges - thoroughly debunked.
The Chinese problem has never been male surpluses as such - it's always been overpopulation following an extended period of peace and prosperity. (In antiquity, prosperity meant never going hungry). Male surpluses have been a fact of life throughout Chinese history - due to female infanticide. This came about not because of population control policies (which were non-existent in imperial China), but because economically-speaking, a daughter was a waste of family resources. You'd get to feed her until she was of marriageable age, and then she'd be married off, where she would help support the in-laws, but not her birth parents. A son, on the other hand, was a one-man retirement plan for his parents. By getting married, he would gain for the family an extra pair of hands to work in the fields, et al.
The Chinese tradition today is still that only the sons inherit the parents' property. The daughters get no part of it. Contrary to what Fred says, the son's first duty isn't to continue the family line - it's to provide for his parents in their old age. Continuing the family line is important, but it comes after caring for one's parents.
MOSCOW (AP) - Russia has reportedly agreed to slash the duty on oil exports to Belarus by 70 percent and Belarus will share with Moscow a substantial amount of profits from the refined oil products it sells to Europe.
Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov was quoted Friday by Russian news agencies as making the announcement after some 10 hours of tense talks in Moscow with his Belarusian counterpart, Sergei Sidorsky. "In fact, we will for example earn $53 from every metric ton (of oil) exported to Belarus," Fradkov was quoted as saying by Interfax. That is down from a duty of $180 per ton.
A Kremlin spokesman said he had no information on the talks; a top official with Russian state-controlled pipeline operator OAO Transneft also declined to comment.
The announcement capped a week of discussions and brinkmanship by Russia and Belarus, and came two days after Belarus' government canceled a $45-per-ton transit tax on Russian oil - a tax that had prompted Moscow to cut off oil shipments to Belarus and disrupt supplies to Europe.
It also appeared to be a victory, at least monetarily, for Russia, which will reap revenues from both the duty on oil exported to Belarus as well as from some of the billions that Belarus has made from refining cheap Russian oil and selling value-added products to European markets. Fradkov said the latest agreements would bring over $1 billion into the Russian budget, Interfax reported.
The disruption in oil supplies, which affected Germany, Poland and a host of other countries, again rattled many European capital and cast new doubts on Russia's dependability as an energy supplier.
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In 25 years of interviews with his hometown paper that could only be released upon his death, former President Ford once called Jimmy Carter a "disaster" who ranked alongside Warren Harding, ... Harding is the most underrated president of all time. He wasn't great, but was far better than many rated more highly.
... and said Ronald Reagan received far too much credit for ending the Cold War. "It makes me very irritated when Reagan's people pound their chests and say that because we had this big military buildup, the Kremlin collapsed," Ford told The Grand Rapids Press. It was just a coincidence. Sure.
The best president of his lifetime, Ford said, was a more moderate Republican: Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Harry Truman "would get very high marks" for his handling of foreign crises, Ford said. He also praised Richard Nixon as a foreign policy master, despite the Watergate scandal that drove him from office.
Ford considered John F. Kennedy overrated so do I and Bill Clinton average I don't. He admired George H.W. Bush's handling of the Persian Gulf War and had mixed opinions of Carter, who defeated Ford in 1976.
In 1981, Ford said: "I think Jimmy Carter would be very close to Warren G. Harding. I feel very strongly that Jimmy Carter was a disaster, particularly domestically and economically. I have said more than once that he was certainly the poorest president in my lifetime."
But two years later, he praised Carter's performance on the Panama Canal treaty, China and the Middle East. And in 1998, he said Carter "will be looked on as a better president than some comments we hear today." That's only because we had Clinton to compare him to.
"He was a very decent, fine individual," Ford told the paper. "There were no major mistakes. There just weren't a lot of exciting results."
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Allowing one of your embassies to be overrun and the personnel held hostage does count as a major mistake. Trashing the economy like Carter did was also a major mistake (anyone besides me remember money market accounts paying 14%?).
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i don't hold himresponsible for the embassy being over run. I do hold him responsible for his total paralysis after it was taken. He showed zero leadership during the crisis, allowed a poorly planned and executed rescue attempt to take place and fail, and grovelled in front of the world, and failed.
On a lighter note, his bumbling the rescue, Desert One, led to the forming of our current Special Operations units and paved the way for some of our select units that are carrying the weight of this war.
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I also remember double-digit inflation rates, high interest, high taxes, and the poorest job market in 50 years. Carter was a disaster in dozens of ways. Jerry Ford wasn't Truman, but he was NEVER as bad as peanut-brain.
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McLEAN, Va. (AP) -- A federal judge on Friday dismissed a libel lawsuit filed against The New York Times by a former Army scientist once identified as a person of interest in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton in Alexandria dismissed the case a week after lawyers for the Times argued that Steven Hatfill should be considered a public figure under libel law, which makes it much more difficult for a public figure to win a judgment than a private citizen. The judge did not explain his ruling in the order issued Friday.
Hatfill's lawyers had argued that even if Hatfill qualified as a public figure, they could still prevail at trial because they had uncovered serious flaws in the reporting of columnist Nicholas Kristof.
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because Stephen Hatfill was such a widely known person before the FBI and the NYT collaborated to make him the face of American anthrax attacks? Bullshit. He should appeal this ninny's ruling
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On January 8th, there was a minor collision between an American nuclear sub (the USS Newport News) and 1,100 foot long, 300,000 ton tanker (the Mogamigawa) in the Persian Gulf. There was some damage to the ship, in the form of a 108 foot long tear in the rear hull. The tear was four inches wide, and letting water in.
The U.S. Navy has not said what damage there was to the bow of the sub, but a similar Los Angeles class boat survived plowing, head on, into an underwater sea mount at high speed two years ago. These subs are very sturdy.
A preliminary investigation indicates that the tanker was passing safely over the 360 foot long Newport News, but was going at such "high speed" (probably about 35 kilometers an hour), that a sucking effect was created, that pulled the 6,300 ton sub up until its bow banged against the bottom of the passing tanker.
The Newport News was moving south, through the Straits of Hormuz, as was the Japanese ship. The tanker carried a crew of 24, the sub has 127 sailors on board. U.S. nuclear subs operate in the Persian Gulf to keep an eye on the Iranian navy. Sounds like a scene from the movie "Up Periscope".
China and Russia have cast a double veto in the UN Security Council, to stop a US draft resolution calling for an end to human rights abuses in Burma. The two countries' ambassadors said the resolution was outside the remit of the Security Council as Burma posed no threat to international security.
South Africa, a new non-permanent member, also opposed the document. Qatar, Indonesia and the Republic of Congo abstained while the nine other members voted for.
The draft resolution urged Burma's military rulers to end persecution of minorities and opposition groups. It called for the release of all political prisoners, including opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who is currently under house arrest, and for all political groups to operate freely.
"The United States is deeply disappointed by the failure of the council to adopt this resolution," acting US ambassador Alejandro Wolff said.
China followed through on its threat as Fred notes below. And the Russkies have as much interest in keeping the UN out of 'internal affairs' as the Chinese do.
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China announced on Friday it would veto a U.S.-drafted Security Council resolution calling on Myanmar's military junta to end its persecution of minorities and political opposition groups. Calling it an interference in Myanmar's internal affairs, China's U.N. Ambassador Wang Guangya told the council minutes before a vote: "China, therefore cannot but vote against the draft resolution before us." China's against any interference in the internal affairs of even the most inept dictatorships as a matter of principle.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The federal deficit has improved significantly in the first three months of the new budget year, helped by a continued surge in tax revenues. In its monthly budget report, the Treasury Department said Friday that the deficit from October through December totaled $80.4 billion, the smallest imbalance for the first three months of a budget year since The budget year ends Sept. 30.
Tax collections are running 8.2 percent higher than a year ago while government spending is up by just 0.7 percent from a year ago. Last year's spending totals were boosted by significant payments to help the victims of the Gulf Coast hurricanes.
The Treasury said for December, the government actually ran a surplus of $44.5 billion, the largest surplus ever recorded in December and a gain that reflected a big jump in quarterly corporate tax payments. The $80.4 billion deficit for the first three months of the current budget year was down 32.6 percent from the imbalance for the same period a year ago of $119.4 billion.
For the year, analysts are still forecasting that the deficit will worsen from last year's total of $248.2 billion, which had been the lowest in four years. The Congressional Budget Office is forecasting that the deficit for the 2007 budget year will rise to $286 billion, an increase of 15.2 percent from last year, but that figure could be lowered when the CBO releases its revised estimate later this month.
The Bush administration is currently even more pessimistic, predicting a deficit for 2007 of $339.2 billion, but that figure will also be revised when the administration releases its new budget request to Congress on Feb. 5.
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Dhimmidonks will make sure it will not end up in freefall.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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(Xinhuanet) -- Britney Spears is dating 25-year-old male model and actor Issac Cohen who is a look-a-like of her estranged husband Kevin Federline, according to U.S. media reports. Britney was spotted in Cohen's company several times, including her cruise around Marina del Ray, California this past weekend, on a private powerboat. The couple were also seen enjoying each other's company at the W Hotel's Whiskey Blue bar, in Los Angeles, on Sunday night. 
Spanish police arrested on Friday former Argentine President Isabel Peron, who is wanted in her home country for an investigation into killings of dissidents before the 1976-1983 military dictatorship, police sources said.
Thousands of coca farmers allied with Bolivian President Evo Morales vowed on Friday to keep up their protest against a conservative provincial governor, a day after two people were killed and dozens wounded in street battles. More than 20,000 people, many brandishing sticks, massed in a plaza in downtown Cochabamba, to demand the resignation of Gov. Manfred Reyes Villa, a political opponent of Morales who has led a regional autonomy drive. "We are not going to leave this city until Manfred Reyes Villa steps down," protest leader Omar Fernandez told the throng. "If Bolivia's elites want more people to die, then more people will die. But we want a united Bolivia, not one divided like this country's oligarchy wants," he said.
MOSCOW (AP) - Russia has reportedly agreed to slash the duty on oil exports to Belarus by 70 percent and Belarus will share with Moscow a substantial amount of profits from the refined oil products it sells to Europe.
In 25 years of interviews with his hometown paper that could only be released upon his death, former President Ford once called Jimmy Carter a "disaster" who ranked alongside Warren Harding, ...
McLEAN, Va. (AP) -- A federal judge on Friday dismissed a libel lawsuit filed against The New York Times by a former Army scientist once identified as a person of interest in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
