“That the liberty of the press may be abused by miscreant purveyors of scandal does not make any the less necessary the immunity of the press from previous restraints in dealing with official misconduct.” Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes 1931
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Five days of hearings scheduled for next week in the case of the accused plotters of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were postponed after defense lawyers said internal documents went missing on government computers.
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There is very little else that they can do. The National Council of Resistance of Iran is based in Paris but is a creation of US intelligence.
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Dutch house prices fell 8% in July compared with the year earlier period, the sharpest drop since a new way of calculating the change was introduced in 1995, the national statistics office CBS said on Tuesday.
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Hand, foot and mouth disease, which children are especially vulnerable to, also infected more than 381,000 people, the Ministry of Health reported last week.
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China and Japan will start direct trading of their currencies on June 1 in a move that could help strengthen the financial ties between the two largest Asian economies.
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The Habshan-Fujairah pipeline will carry oil from fields in Abu Dhabi on the Gulf to Fujairah on the Gulf of Oman.
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Libya has six million residents, among them 3.4 million potential voters, according to the election commission. So, thus far less than 10 percent registered but there are still 2 weeks to go.
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Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has unveiled one of the initiatives to be adopted by EU leaders at their 1-2 March summit, the launch by June of ‘bonds for growth’ or ‘project bonds’ to boost investment in energy, transport and the digital economy.
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The Obama administration decided not to appoint World Bank President Robert Zoellick to a second five-year term as the bank chief Wednesday announced his June departure.
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