At his family farm on Maryland’s Eastern Shore , Lee Richardson raises thousands of chickens from fuzzy hatchlings to the juicy broilers stacked at grocery stores far and wide. Like a lot of farmwork, this seems simple, but it’s not. Read full article > >

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A suicide bomber kills at least 10 people, a number of them children, at a checkpoint in the eastern Afghan province of Khost, officials say.

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Deadly blast at Afghan checkpoint

If you have plans next week to pick up lunch on K Street, thrift your way through Eastern Market or meet friends for happy hour, a couple of words of advice: Look out. You just might find yourself starring in the Kennedy Center festival “ Look Both Ways: Street Arts Across America .” Read full article > >

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‘Look Both Ways: Kennedy Center Street Arts Festival’

Marian Gaborik scored the winning goal in the third overtime as the Rangers took a two-games-to-one lead in the Eastern Conference semifinal series against the Capitals.

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Colombia’s armed forces kill at least 32 Farc guerrillas in the eastern Meta region, in the latest setback for the rebel group.

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Colombia attack kills Farc rebels

In six games over the past 10 days, the Washington Capitals managed to capture important wins , but they also suffered doubt-casting defeats . They have kept up in the hunt for the Eastern Conference playoffs, but approaching the NHL’s trade deadline, the outlook for the rest of the season — and the future of the franchise — is murky. Read full article > >

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Wikipedia will black out its Web site on Wednesday to protest SOPA, a version of anti-piracy legislation that’s being considered by Congress. Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales made the announcement on Twitter on Monday, saying the site would shut down English versions of the crowd-sourced online encyclopedia at midnight Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday until midnight on Wednesday. Read full article > >

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Ukraine transfers former PM Yulia Tymoshenko from Kiev to a jail in the eastern city of Kharkiv.

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This article, written by Hesham A. Hassaballa, appeared on the Washington Post on December 21,2011 She was alone, as she was wont to do, worshiping in the eastern section of the temple. Suddenly, she was startled by a strange presence: a man with whom she was not familiar. “I seek refuge from thee with the Most Gracious,” she said, “(Approach me not) if you are conscious of Him!” He sought to calm her by saying, “I am but a messenger of your Lord, (who says,) `I shall bestow upon thee the gift of a son endowed with purity.’”

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KOLKATA, India — A tainted batch of bootleg liquor killed 102 people and sent dozens more to the hospital in villages outside the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, officials said. Day laborers and other poor workers began falling ill late Tuesday after drinking the brew that was laced with the toxic methanol around the village of Sangrampur, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Kolkata, according to district magistrate Narayan Swarup Nigam. Read full article > >

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At least 89 people are killed as a fire breaks out in a multi-storey hospital in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta, trapping patients in rooms.

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The latest U.S.-Pakistan crisis continued Tuesday to threaten the Obama administration’s strategy for gradually ending the war in Afghanistan, as the Islamabad government said it would boycott an upcoming international conference in Germany on Afghanistan’s future. The Pakistani cabinet, after a meeting in the eastern city of Lahore, said in a statement that it supports “stability and peace in Afghanistan and the importance of an Afghan-led, Afghan-owned process of reconciliation and expressed the hope that the international community will reaffirm its support for peace and development in Afghanistan at the forthcoming Bonn Conference.” Read full article > >

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MIAMI — Forecasters say Hurricane Kenneth has strengthened even more into a Category 4 storm in the eastern Pacific, although there is no current threat to land. It is the strongest late-season hurricane in that area on record. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Tuesday that Kenneth has maximum sustained winds near 145 mph (230 kph). The storm was centered about 750 miles (1,210 kilometers) south-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California, Mexico, but was moving away from the coast. Read full article > >

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Four militants are killed as their attack on a US base in the eastern Afghan region of Panjshir is repulsed.

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SIRTE, Libya — Libyan provisional government forces backed by NATO warplanes raced through the eastern outskirts of Sirte on Monday, closing in on Moammar Gaddafi loyalists holed up in one of the last bastions of the deposed leader . Thick, black smoke billowed into the air as Transitional National Council fighters battled loyalist troops at a roundabout about one mile from the center of Gaddafi’s home town. Read full article > >

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