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Elite police paramilitaries drove armored jeeps down the street outside the U.S. Embassy and fired dozens of tear gas canisters to clear crowds. The protesters fled into side streets where they continued clashing with the police.
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Senator Hillary Clinton, grievously wounded by heavy losses in both Wisconsin and Hawaii on Tuesday, tried again yesterday to smudge the front-runner glow now attached to Barack Obama, her rival for the Democratic nomination, saying it was time to move on from “good words to good works”.
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THEY may have built up a reputation for being too cool to grace the biggest night in British music, but the Arctic Monkeys finally gave in to the glory of the Brits last night.
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BELGRADE, Serbia (Feb. 21) - Serb rioters set fire to an office inside the U.S. Embassy Thursday and police clashed with protesters outside other embassy buildings after a large demonstration against Kosovo’s declaration of independence.
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Arizona senator John McCain was forced to deny a relationship with a Washington lobbyist and “violating public trust” by lobbying for her clients.
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Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of MI6, abandoned the service’s customary vow of silence yesterday to deny outright that the intelligence service assassinated Diana, Princess of Wales.
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This list, though hardly exhaustive, provides an overview of some of Africa’s major contemporary civil conflicts.
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro temporarily hands over power to his brother, Raul, following surgery for intestinal bleeding (August 1, 2006)
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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism
Serge Sarkisian has won enough votes in Tuesday’s presidential contest to avoid a runoff with former president Levon Ter-Petrosian — 52 percent for Sarkisian and 22 percent of Ter-Petrosian with 97.5 percent of the votes counted (and about 69 percent voter turnout), at this writing. But even though the […]
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The raging controversy at Northwestern concerns a few fluffy quotes in a fluffy essay in a fluffy publication. It’s hard to think of journalism that’s less inherently consequential.
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Sky.Com News - the news with the web’s agenda - is on-air and online from 7.30pm. Tonight’s presenter, Helen Fospero, explains what’s coming up:
As the former head of MI6 is called before the Diana Inquest to answer a string of claims by Mohamed al Fayed we’ll be asking if the hearing has just become […]
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“It is a shame that The New York Times has lowered its standards to engage in a hit and run smear campaign,” Mr McCain’s spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker said.
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Leonardo DiCaprio is to produce a live-action version of Japanese anime classic Akira.
The Warner Bros movie will be based on Katsuhiro Ôtomohis’s 1988 acclaimed animated version of his six-volume manga, which was set in a neon-lit post-apocalyptic ‘New Tokyo’ in 2019.
The film centred around a motorbike gang member whose hidden powers are released by […]
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“Perhaps terror. He wouldn’t have shot but for fear.â€
A soldier who had been charged with murder in the shooting death of an unarmed Iraqi was convicted by a military jury Wednesday of aggravated assault.
Spc. Christopher Shore, based in Hawaii, had insisted that his platoon leader ordered him to kill the Iraqi man on June […]
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February 21, 2008 — The former head of MI6 took the stand yesterday and testified that the British intelligence agency had “absolutely” nothing to do with Princess Diana’s death in a Paris car crash.
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Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign said today that the reason it wrote off all those little caucuses after Super Tuesday was because it didn’t have any money.
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The relatively loud silence that greeted yesterday’s announcement by Cuban dictator Fidel Castro that he will step down as his country’s president after nearly half a century in power may have come as something of a surprise to his most outspoken opponents in the U.S. and elsewhere. They might have been expecting more of the […]
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Covering the British handover of Basra was always going to be painful after a sleepless night.Unfortunately I had to wait for my correspondent in the city to file some overnight quotes to me for an on-the-ground piece to run that day. An Internet meltdown at his end meant that this did not happen until 2 […]
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. . . just resting. It will awake, refreshed after its long winter sleep, sometime in the spring.
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22:25: So, winners and losers? Arctic Monkeys, Take That and Foo Fighters scooped two awards each. Amy Winehouse appeared on stage twice without disgracing herself. Macca showed he’s fighting fit despite spending all week in court. And losers? Leona Lewis was nominated four times without winning, and Mika only won one award, despite four nominations. […]