Forget the Karl Rove playbook. For the past few weeks, Sen. John McCain’s team seems to have been working from the equally brutal Don Rickles manual of presidential politics.
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China’s main airline suspended several flights from Japan Friday after receiving a bomb threat purportedly aimed at disrupting the opening of the Beijing Olympics, Japanese transport officials said.
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A passenger train accident in the Czech Republic on Friday may have caused some deaths and many injuries, according to media reports quoting emergency and railway officials.
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Eyes are on Beijing, China, for the Summer Games, with an estimated 4 billion people expected to tune in to watch the world’s top athletes seek the ultimate recognition: an Olympic gold medal.
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Seven years after winning the 2008 Summer Olympics, China was ready Friday to kick off what will likely be the biggest and most scrutinized Games in history.
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Russian television Friday showed a convoy of Russian tanks and said they were heading into the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia as escalating tensions over the region threatened to boil into full blown conflict.
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China opened the 29th Olympic Games on Friday with stunning fireworks as the Asian nation kicked off the biggest and most scrutinized Games in history.
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A bus crash in northern Texas killed at least 13 people early Friday, a police spokesman said.
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