Word: momentous
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...government, kidnapping has been a tactic North Korea has used for decades. Relations between Japan and North Korea are inflamed precisely because of revelations that for years the North kidnapped Japanese and then used them to train North Korean spies in Japanese language, culture and history. At a moment when Washington is pledging to get tough, Pyongyang "will absolutely view the two young journalists as bargaining chips," a South Korean diplomatic source says...
...Street from Tony Blair, and any handover of power from one unelected Prime Minister to another would ratchet up pressure from political opponents and the public for an early election. When it came to the crunch, MPs - many of whom fear losing their seats - opted to put off the moment of truth. In retrospect, that was not surprising; turkeys rarely vote for an early Christmas...
When William Lewis, Telegraph editor-in-chief, first looked at the material Wicks brought him, he felt "physically sick," he says. "I knew at that moment we had no option but to publish because the readers needed to know what I had just been shown." Initial coverage focused on Labour. "In the early days we took a lot of heat from senior people in the Labour government about why we were starting with them," says Lewis...
...seeking refuge. For a while the address of the Australian embassy became a trending, or most popular, topic on Twitter as users sought to help by re-Tweeting the information. Other sites aggregated photos taken by camera phone or small video cams. (Read "The Iran Election: Twitter's Big Moment...
...park, keeping an eye on the children she minds, she talks about running in fields near her home town in West Bengal, playing hide and seek with her sister, and collecting raw mangoes and eating them with salt. And suddenly, from a children's nanny, Asha returns for a moment to what she is - a child...