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Jordan's King Kicks Out Government After Protests
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsKing Abdullah II of Jordan bowed to his subjects' demands today and sacked his much-hated prime minister and Cabinet. The king has asked Marouf Bakhit -- a conservative former premier with a military background -- to form a new government. Abdullah, a close U.S. ally, has come under intense pressure since demonstrations in Egypt and the toppling of the Tunisian regime last month, which inspired a loose coalition of Islamists, secular opposition groups and retired army officials to take to the streets and call for radical economic and political reforms. Pablo Martinez Monsivais, ...
Video: Vladimir Putin Sings 'Blueberry Hill,' Thrills Benefit Concert Crowd
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyVladimir Putin has a world-renowned appetite for macho adventures ranging from judo fighting to bare-chested camping, but he showcased his softer side on Sunday when he took the stage at a benefit concert for children with cancer in St. Petersburg. In front of a celebrity-studded crowd that included Sharon Stone, Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Kevin Costner, and Mickey Rourke, Putin prefaced his performance by saying, "Like the majority of people I cannot sing nor dance, but still love doing it." He then picked out the melody of the Russian spy movie tune, "From Where the Motherland Begins," ...
Dorito-Shaped UFOs Spotted Over Britain
By Lee Speigel - AOL News
(Nov. 22) -- Flying saucers are one thing, but flying snack chips? England appears to be the latest hot spot for UFOs shaped like triangles or, if you will, Doritos. Several sightings of a chip-shaped object have occurred over the U.K. in the past few years, the Daily Mail reports. The latest report emerged last week when a quality inspector, Munesh Mistry, witnessed a triangular object -- dubbed locally as the "Dudley Dorito" from the British town of Dudley -- in the sky near his Tipton, West Midlands, home. Mistry said he and a friend saw "an amazing fast-moving and silent craft in the ...
Another Day, Another Berlusconi Sex Scandal
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(Nov. 4) -- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi seems to be on target to set a new world record for the most sex scandals ever racked up by a national leader. Just a few days after it was revealed that the aging Lothario had struck up an unusual friendship with a belly-dancing Moroccan teen -- who allegedly saw "bunga bunga" sex parties at his mansion -- another prostitute has now come forward with yet more sleazy tales involving the playboy politician. Marco Vasini, AP Prosecutors in Palermo confirmed to The Associated Press that they had recently interrogated Nadia Macri, a call girl ...
17-Year-Old Model Claims Italian PM Paid Her for Sex
By Theunis Bates - AOL News
(Oct. 28) -- Just five months after Silvio Berlusconi's wife divorced him over his alleged affair with an aspiring teenage model, Italy's prime minister has been accused of getting intimate with yet another young catwalk wannabe. According to reports in the Italian press, a Moroccan model known only as "Ruby" has told police that she had sex with Berlusconi at his villa in Arcore, near Milan, in return for a "cash gift." The 17-year-old, notes Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano, has alleged that she was present at several private parties held by the prime minister last year and this ...
Greek PM Threatens to Call Early National Vote
By Anthee Carassava - AOL NewsATHENS, Greece (Oct. 26) -- After five months of draconian austerity measures, Greece's ruling socialists look set to take a brutal beating in local elections next week. Will the national government survive, though? For months, the question seemed irrelevant. But as social discourse swells in a debt-choked country increasingly wary of belt-tightening reforms, and as the government's popularity plummets to record lows, Prime Minister George Papandreou has now lashed back, threatening voters to take them on an early trip to the ballot box if his party suffers a heavy defeat in the Nov. 7 local ...
Obama Offers Condolences Over UK Aid Worker's Death
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LONDON (Oct. 12) -- President Barack Obama has offered his condolences to British Prime Minister David Cameron over the death of a British hostage in Afghanistan, who may have been killed by a grenade thrown by U.S. special operations forces during a failed rescue mission. During a telephone call to No. 10 Downing Street Monday night, the president promised Cameron that he "would get to the bottom of what happened," according to a White House press release. The statement added that both leaders "agreed that the rescue operation was necessary given the grave danger to [aid worker Linda ...
Did Winston Churchill Hide a UFO Report?
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON (Aug. 5) -- The British people had no shortage of foreign foes in the early 1940s. So it's perhaps understandable that wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill may have decided not to trouble the nation with news that -- as well as battling German Nazis, Italian fascists and Japanese militarists -- they might also have to take on another alien menace: little green men. According to allegations contained in a trove of newly published secret government documents, Churchill became concerned over the morale-sapping influence of extraterrestrial invaders in the latter years of World War II, ...
Brits Stunned By Tony Blair's US Peace Prize
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON (July 1) -- The announcement that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is set to receive the prestigious Liberty Medal for his "relentless" work in conflict resolution has been greeted with gasps of surprise in his homeland. Many Brits regard Blair -- who stepped down as prime minister in 2007 -- as a deeply flawed figure, believing he exaggerated the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction in order to win support for the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. A Daily Mail survey in January found that 80 percent of people thought he lied in the run-up to the war, and 70 ...
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