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Merkel in the Knesset: Emphatically reinforcing German-Israeli ties
As historic moments in modern statesmanship go, yesterday’s was undoubtedly a big, memorable and deeply symbolic one.
Wrapping up a three-day diplomatic visit to Israel, German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivered a speech to the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, becoming the first German head of government ever to do […]
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Watch Deborah Haynes talk to Daniel Finkelstein about the future for Iraq and her life in Baghdad. The line is a little wobbly but bear with us.
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I was away from Tokyo during the Upper House elections, so I speak now from instinct rather than inside information. But I can’t help feeling that, six months from now, yesterday’s cabinet reshuffle will be a forgotten irrelevance, that will do nothing to save Shinzo Abe from his inevitable doom.
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So farewell Arthur C Clarke, the pioneering and prolific writer and futurist who has died at his home in Colombo aged 90. He was the last of Sci Fi’s Big Three after Isaac Asimov and Bob Heinlein.
The Times obituary is here.
In a video message to mark his “90th orbit” last year, Sir Arthur said that […]
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WASHINGTON — Latin America is entering the sixth year of its longest growth period in decades. Foreign investments and cash reserves are at historic highs, and governments are making inroads on reducing poverty and unemployment. The high price of commodities — oil, natural gas, soybeans, copper and sugar — has driven this boom.
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If you read even respectable journals these days, including this one, you would think that no more than six or seven people ever supported going to war in Iraq. A recent piece in The Post’s Style section suggested that the war was an “idea” that President Bush “dusted off” five years after Bill Kristol and […]
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LONDON — Britain has decided to declare stability in southern Iraq and get out of the Shiite power struggles in Basra. In Afghanistan, an urgent need to recruit local police officers whose loyalty to the NATO-backed Kabul government is uncertain tempers ambitions to build an integrated national police force.
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South African Bishop Kevin Dowling knows where his dissenting views come from. He supports access to condoms to prevent the spread of AIDS because of his work in the slums of Rustenburg, home to the richest platinum mines in the world.
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MILAN, March 16 — Alitalia’s board on Sunday unanimously accepted Air France-KLM’s bid valued at $1.1 billion in a move to save the struggling national carrier.
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BEIJING, March 16 — In the West, the name Tibet has long evoked unspoiled Himalayan landscapes, cinnamon-robed monks spinning prayer wheels and a peace-loving Dalai Lama seeking freedom for his repressed Buddhist followers.
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SAN JUAN DE OBISPO, Guatemala, Sept. 9 — Marta Aquino carefully folded four sheets of paper — pink, green, blue and white — then dropped them into long, clear plastic pouches Sunday in this village at the foot of the majestic Water Volcano.
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CARACAS, Venezuela, Jan. 11 — President Hugo Ch¿vez took the side of rebels in neighboring Colombia’s decades-old civil conflict Friday, calling the guerrillas “true armies” and urging the international community to stop considering them terrorists.
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TIJUANA, Mexico
The killers prowled through Loma Bonita in the pre-dawn chill.
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Drug Trade Tyranny on The Border
In Mexico, a Fight Against Drugs and Fear
War Along the Border
In silence, they navigated a labyrinth of wood shacks at the crest of a dirt lane in the blighted Tijuana neighborhood, police say. They were looking for Margarito Saldaña, […]
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If cat owners know anything about their pets, it’s how enigmatic the creatures can be. But scientists have begun to pull back the feline veil, using the latest molecular tools to get a peek at their origins.
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BAGHDAD — Vice President Dick Cheney opened a new U.S. push for political unity in Iraq on an unannounced visit Monday, just ahead of the fifth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures as he meets U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in the Moscow Kremlin, Monday, March 17, 2008. Putin said Monday his nation is ready to agree on some issues dividing Washington and Moscow, disclosing that he had received a letter from President Bush ahead of high-level meetings on a range […]
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(Reuters) - Chinese troops moved in this week to tackle unrest in ethnic Tibetan enclaves in its western provinces after violent protests flared against Chinese rule in the Tibetan capital Lhasa on Friday.
Following is a chronology of some of the main events in modern China-Tibet relations.
Oct 1950: Chinese People’s Liberation Army troops march into Tibet, […]
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WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve slashed U.S. interest rates on Tuesday, boosting Wall Street, which was already higher on stronger-than-expected investment bank earnings.
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Many economists believe the US economy is already in recession
The Federal Reserve has cut US interest rates sharply in an attempt to restore confidence to nervous financial markets and boost the ailing economy.
The central bank lowered rates to 2.25% from 3%, but the cut was smaller than financial markets had expected.
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If violence spirals out of control, he said his “only option is to completely resign” as head of the government-in-exile. A top aide said later the Dalai Lama would not give up his role as spiritual leader for Tibetan Buddhists.
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