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Incoming fire today on Sen. Barack Obama, thanks to his former foreign policy adviser Samantha Power calling Sen. Hillary Clinton a “monster” who will “stoop to anything.” Power is quickly sacked, as the British say. The bigger problem is her comments to the BBC on Iraq. This is NAFTA times nine.
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Colombia-Ecuador dust-up: Pride, hot tempers, annoying rebels - but not yet war
Instant-replay and what’s-it-all-mean scenes from the current crisis that is unfolding in South America:
The Economist notes that, this week, it really did seem as though a chunk of South America was on the verge of all-out war. “It began [last weekend] when Colombian […]
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Five years of war have taken their toll on the Iraqi city of Mosul, where people live in fear, many without jobs, electricity or a reliable supply of water.Engineer Ashwak al-Jaaf lost her husband and the eldest of her six children when unknown assailants killed them following the invasion, writing over their bodies that the […]
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Richard Lloyd ParryTokyo
Japan’s nationalist right-wing is under assault after Yasuo Fukuda, a moderate within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party emerged as a challenger to the conservative favourite, Taro Aso, for the job of prime minister.
Mr Fukuda (pictured left, in his earlier job as a ninja), who favours greater engagement with Japan’s Asian neighbours and opposes […]
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One eagerly awaited highlight of today’s Queen’s speech is the outfit to be worn by Jack Straw, the new Minister of Justice who will take on the ceremonial role once performed by the Lord Chancellor.
Suspicion has lingered that Mr Straw is vain since his sudden appearance three years ago without the thick-lensed glasses he used […]
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Mientras tropas ecuatorianas se posicionaban en la frontera con Colombia esta semana y horas después de que el Presidente de Ecuador Rafael Correa rompiera relaciones con ese paÃs, una guerra diplomática de palabras entre los paÃses vecinos empezó aquà en la Organización de Estados Americanos.
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Could the United States be better off with a Democrat in the White House in 2009? Here are a couple of reasons the answer might be yes, even if you’re not a Democrat.
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Republicans are acting like Democrats this year in three important ways:
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It was a contemporary Arabian Nights setting, complete with Saudi princes and the air of a fairy tale. Hosting his first major bash as Saudi ambassador at his sprawling residence in McLean, Prince Turki al-Faisal honored his visiting brother, Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal . After an hour-long meet-and-greet reception near the entrance to […]
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Tomorrow night, a European spacecraft is scheduled to blast off from French Guiana on its maiden voyage to the international space station, giving NASA and the world a new way to reach the orbiting laboratory.
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After two buyers claiming to be Colombian guerrillas approached him last November, Bout tried to double-check their identities using photographs of known leaders of the group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, court documents say.
“Our man has been made persona non-G- for the world,” an associate wrote to one of the purported militants […]
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SEATTLE — A federal grand jury in Seattle is investigating allegations by a Washington state woman who said she was raped, assaulted and threatened by magician David Copperfield at his private island in the Bahamas in July, at least three federal law enforcement officials have confirmed.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, March 6 — A trove of correspondence recovered during a raid on a guerrilla camp is providing a rare window into how Colombia’s largest rebel group has drawn closer to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in an effort to acquire money, arms and the political recognition the organization craves.
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CLEVELAND, March 5 — Sen. Barack Obama had a simple answer for those who doubted he could expand his support beyond upper-income voters and African Americans: The more people saw of him, the better they would like him.
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ELMENTEITA, Kenya — After reaching a power-sharing deal last week, Kenya’s rival political leaders are now confronting one of the most explosive issues underlying the post-election crisis, and one that every Kenyan government since independence has managed to avoid: land reform.
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BAGHDAD, March 6 — Two bombs blew up in quick succession along a commercial street in central Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 39 people in the deadliest attack in the capital in more than a month.
The explosions were timed to coincide with the rush of early evening shoppers along al-Attar street in the commercial […]
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BOGOTA, Colombia, March 6 — A trove of correspondence recovered during a raid on a guerrilla camp is providing a rare window into how Colombia’s largest rebel group has drawn closer to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in an effort to acquire money, arms and the political recognition the organization craves.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Egypt held inconclusive talks on Thursday with leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, part of a U.S.-backed push for a truce between the groups and Israel to halt a surge in violence.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A Palestinian gunman opened fire in a Jewish religious school in Jerusalem on Thursday, killing at least eight people and wounding about 10 in the most lethal attack in Israel in two years, emergency services said.
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The Mercaz Harav seminary is a well-known centre for Jewish studies and most students are aged between 18 and 30. It is said to be associated with the leadership of the Jewish settler movement in the West Bank.
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