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Iran Claims an Oscar Win, Warily
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[New York Times (blog)] - By ROBERT MACKEY and J. DAVID GOODMAN A report on Iran's state-financed satellite news channel, Press TV, showed an Iranian filmmaker accepting an Academy Award on Sunday night, but did not allow his speech to be heard. When Asghar Farhadi, an Iranian
Dutch Official Is Pressed to Respond to Santorum's 'Scandalous Accusations'
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[New York Times (blog)] - By ROBERT MACKEY Updated | 12:04 pm A member of the Dutch Parliament expressed outrage on Thursday that the country's government has so far declined to directly contradict the Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum's false claim that forced
Huge, Russian-Made Shells Deployed to Crush Syrian Resistance, Rights Group Says
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[New York Times (blog)] - By ROBERT MACKEY Video posted on YouTube last week appears to show that the Syrian military has deployed a Russian-made weapons system to fire huge, 240mm high explosive mortars at parts of the city of Homs that slipped from government control last
Dutch Puzzled by Santorum's False Claim of Forced Euthanasia
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[New York Times (blog)] - By ROBERT MACKEY The Dutch Embassy in Washington declined to comment on Wednesday on recent remarks by Rick Santorum, the Republican presidential candidate, in which he claimed, falsely, that forced euthanasia accounts for 5 percent of all deaths in
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