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NAKURU, Kenya — A week after Kenya’s warring political leaders signed a power-sharing agreement, Marian Wambui arrived at a camp for displaced people here, her house having been burned to the ground just two days earlier.
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Sen. John McCain will step off a plane in Iraq this weekend to see firsthand the effects of the troop increase that he has championed and that his presidential ambitions are tied to, at the outset of a week-long series of private meetings with Middle Eastern and European leaders that will be as much an […]
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MUWAQQAR, Jordan — A U.S.-funded program to train and equip Palestinian security forces is mired in delays, a shortage of resources, and differences between Israelis and the Americans over what military capabilities those forces should have once deployed in the territories.
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian election results on Saturday showed conservatives on course to keep their grip on parliament, but some were expected to join reformists in flaying President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s handling of the economy.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China gave Tibetan independence protesters an ultimatum to surrender on Saturday after riots in Lhasa which killed at least 10 people in the worst unrest in the region for two decades.
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Albania has about 100,000 tons of excess ammunition stored in former army depots across the country, according to Defense Minister Fatmir Mediu.
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The Dalai Lama’s exiled Tibetan government in India said it had confirmed Chinese authorities killed at least 30 Tibetan protesters but added the toll could be as high as 100. There was no confirmation of the death toll from Chinese officials and the numbers could not be independently verified.
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Psychological and medical experts last night indicated that a M3 protester, who has chained herself to a tunnel close to the works, may be able to bear her month-long protest and could stay there for a long time.
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WASHINGTON (March 14) - Authorities have captured a high-level al-Qaida figure who helped Osama bin Laden escape from Afghanistan in 2001, the Pentagon announced Friday.
Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman declined to say when or where Mohammad Rahim was captured — or by whom — announcing only that he was handed over by the CIA to […]
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At the same time the dollar tumbled and gold prices hit a fresh record high.
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WASHINGTON - The United States, at loggerheads with Tehran over its nuclear programme, cast strong doubt on the fairness of Iran’s parliamentary elections on Friday and said any outcome of the poll would be “cooked.”
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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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The Janjaweed are the Arab militia groups, believed to be backed by the Sudanese government, that are driving the genocide in Sudan’s Western region, Darfur.
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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism
Today, Iranians went to the polls in parliamentary elections, but don’t be quick to call them free or fair: After the mullahs were done slashing candidates off the roster, only perhaps 90 of the 290 seats up for grabs had a liberal candidate allowed on the ballot. Ayatollah Ali […]
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Early last week I posted a withering commentary saying that Republican Jim Oberweis has proven to be such a bad candidate in four tries for major office that he should just quit now.
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Sky.Com News is on-air and online from 7.30pm tonight.
The most-clicked stories on Sky News Online:
Back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin admits deception
Second man remanded over murder of Scarlett Keeling
Teenager who filmed man being killed faces sentence
A woman spent two years sitting on a toilet seat
Woman at centre of US prostitution scandal is identified
Widow of top policeman Michael […]
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Ms Spears was twice held at the centre under a state law allowing patients to be detained against their will for up to 72 hours evaluation if they are deemed a danger to themselves or others.
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Eels frontman Mark “E” Everett has invited President Bush and the First Lady to the band’s Washington DC concert on March 29, reports Billboard.
Everett extended the invitation in response to the Bush camp attacking their Daisies of the Galaxy LP after it was handed out at the Democratic National Convention.
Everett wrote in his invitation: […]
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It was certainly not a match made in heaven at first. He was an American soldier newly arrived in Baghdad at the start of the US-led invasion. She was a young Iraqi doctor.
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