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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — who may be the most super delegate of all as chair of the Democratic national convention in Denver — gave an interview with Bloomberg TV’s Al Hunt in which she laid down the law for super delegates:
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London’s Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a “think tank at the heart of Britain’s defense and security establishment,” has just issued the government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown a report card for its handling of national-security affairs, and the grade it received is shameful. RUSI, founded in 1831 to study naval and military science and […]
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“What are you doing in my house?” screamed the furious Iraqi woman as she walked in on a group of American and Iraqi soldiers who were crashing around her living room after kicking down her front door.“Get out, get out,” she shouted in broken English, shaking her fists in rage at the troops who had […]
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Further apologies for the resounding silence in this blog over the past few weeks. I’ve been on holiday, and will be away from Asia until early December - when a ferociously intense and productive period of blogging will resume, the like of which you have never seen before.
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Launching a new space strategy today, the Government announced a review of Margaret Thatcher’s 1986 decision not to spend taxpayers’ money on manned space missions. An expert working group has already given their backing to the idea, despite the huge cost.
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Por años Colombia se auto engañó ante el narcotráfico. Los funcionarios con demasiada facilidad aseguraban que no era su problema, que los colombianos no eran los consumidores de cocaína y heroína. Pero a finales de los 90, acusaciones de que Colombia se estaba convirtiendo en un narco estado llevaron al Presidente Andrés Pastrana a desarrollar […]
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Is the United States out of the intervention business for a while? With two difficult wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and a divided public, the conventional answer is that it will be a long time before any American president, Democrat or Republican, again dispatches troops into conflict overseas.
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Loving tender and holding tight are about more than Elvis for Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi . Beneath the spontaneity and flamboyance that his countrymen sum up as Koizumi Theater lies heartfelt compassion.
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LONDON, Feb. 14 — A Georgian billionaire found dead in his home this week probably died of natural causes, though extensive toxicology testing is still underway, British authorities said Thursday.
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SEOUL, Feb. 13 — To appreciate the fury that has gripped South Korea since Sunday, imagine this:
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Dec. 30 — An Afghan detainee and alleged member of the Taliban died in custody Sunday after an illness at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, officials said.
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CARACAS, Venezuela, Feb. 4 — Millions of protesters fanned out across Colombia on Monday, expressing fury over guerrilla atrocities in a long civil conflict and demanding the liberation of hundreds of hostages held in clandestine jungle camps.
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PHOENIX — The protesters gather every morning before dawn, monitoring the entrance to a fenced compound called the Macehualli Work Center. They are trying to shut the place down. They wave placards and take photos of anyone driving in to pick up the day laborers who congregate there. They want nothing less than to save […]
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NAIROBI, Feb. 14 — Negotiators for President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga issued conflicting statements Thursday about whether progress had been made toward a political settlement of a post-election crisis in this once stable East African nation.
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 13 — The Iraqi parliament on Wednesday passed three key measures that for months had been the subject of bickering that threatened to undermine the country’s political process.
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 14 — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will travel to Iraq next month in the first such visit by a leader of the Islamic Republic, Iraqi officials said Thursday, adding that Iran had postponed a fourth round of talks with the United States to discuss Iraq’s security.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah threatened Israel with “open war” on Thursday and accused the Jewish state of killing a top commander who was among the United States’ most wanted men.
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DEKALB, Illinois (Reuters) - A man opened fire in a crowded lecture hall at Northern Illinois University on Thursday, killing four people and wounding a number of others before killing himself, media reports and authorities said.
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PRESIDENT BUSH INTERVIEW
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Video and transcript of the US president’s interview with BBC World News America
Bush defends US on Darfur
Bush tackles critics on terror
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The fiery speech by Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, delivered via video to throngs of thousands at Mughniyeh’s funeral, signaled the Iranian-backed Shiite group was ending a yearslong policy of battling Israel only on Israeli or Lebanese territory, raising the specter of attacks in Western or other countries.
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