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GENEVA, Feb. 10 — As many as 12,000 refugees from the Darfur region of Sudan fled across the border into Chad over the weekend after a series of Sudanese military airstrikes, the U.N. refugee agency said Sunday. Read more
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 11 — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Monday that it “probably does make sense” to pause troop withdrawals from Iraq late this summer after the last of the forces sent in as part of an offensive surge have gone home. Read more
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TEHRAN — After Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini‘s followers toppled a U.S.-backed autocracy in Iran, he brought to power a coterie of politically engaged clerics who sought to create the world’s first Islamic republic. Nearly 30 years later, a new generation of politicians is sweeping aside those clerics, many of whom had become proponents of better relations [...]
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Negotiators for President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga held talks on Monday in a mood of national optimism that a political solution to Kenya’s worst crisis since independence may be near. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon on Monday sought murder and conspiracy charges against the alleged planner of the September 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and five others and will ask they be executed if convicted. Read more
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GUANTANAMO DETENTION CAMP KEY STORIES US charges six suspects over 9/11 Rice makes closure appeal Former inmates return to UK France convicts five ex-inmates ‘Fingernail slash’ at camp US judge blocks Tunisian’s move KEY SUSPECTS’ HEARINGS Key inmates offered lawyers KS Mohammed’s ’31 plots’ Profile: Al-Qaeda ‘kingpin’ The 14 key detainees ANALYSIS Court showdown Guantanamo’s [...]
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Some market participants “have come out clean such as a few US hedge funds that have written off the value of all junior notes issued by its structured vehicles,” the report said. Read more
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Also Friday, an opposition lawmaker on the negotiating team that the two sides had agreed to a power-sharing government. Annan called that “premature,” but said significant progress had been made. Read more
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Landslide victories over the weekend have given Barack Obama an opportunity to break the deadlock with Hillary Clinton as the two Democratic presidential candidates hurtle into the “Potomac primary” tomorrow. Read more
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Europe risks opening a “Pandora’s box” if it recognises Kosovo’s independence despite Serbian objections, a senior Russian government minister said yesterday . Read more
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Zurich police said the robbery took place Sunday. Also among the works stolen were oil paintings by Paul Cezanne and Edgar Degas. Police called the heist a “spectacular art robbery,” but did not identify the museum, saying only that it is in the city’s eighth district. The prosperous and peaceful outer district on the eastern [...]
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Mrs Clinton has been in a deadlocked race for the Democrat presidential candidate nomination with Obama until he notched up to easy victories in Washington state, Nebraska, Louisiana, the US Virgin Islands and Maine. Read more
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Dili – East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta was stable after he was shot in the stomach during an attack on his Dili home by rebel soldiers, Foreign Minister Zacarias da Costa said on Monday. Read more
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This year, the situation in Iraq, was month after month even more bleak, with much of the international media and even some within the Bush administration coming to the consensus that if Iraq is not already gripped by a Sunni-Shia civil war, one is all but inevitable. Read more
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In an exodus an Al Jazeera reporter on YouTube likens to a “jail break,” tens of thousands of Gazans poured through a gap in the border fence separating Gaza from Egypt. Last night masked men used land mines to destroy part of the wall at Rafah, and today Palestinians from Gaza went on “a giant [...]
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Nearly 50 years after Marjorie Warvelle Bear started writing her book, 38 years after she finished it, 26 years after she died and 14 years after I wrote a column about her languishing manuscript, “A Mile Square of Chicago” is now in print. Read more
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Martin Stanford, Sky.Com News Presenter :: Sky.Com News is on-air and online at 7.30pm tonight. Click here for links to the stories and videos featured. Tonight on the only show on British TV that measures what’s hot and what’s not online… the web chat about the record breaking 95 million pound Euro lottery draw – [...]
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The Clinton campaign have moved fast to replace her, naming longtime aide Maggie Williams to the top job. Read more
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At last! The youth drama that makes The OC look like Ballamory is back. Before Skins treats us to ten more weeks of teenage excess, there’s just time to get re-acquainted with the show’s virile young cast. Sit down, make yourself comfortable and prepare to swoon over cocky Tony (Nick Hoult), geeky Sid (Mike Bailey), [...]