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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama released seven years of tax returns on Tuesday, cranking up the pressure on presidential rival Hillary Clinton to make public her recent filings and renewing a battle between the two camps over transparency.
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Clashes have spread to other parts of Iraq, including Baghdad’s Sadr City, where the Mehdi Army fought rival Shia.
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Underscoring the serious stakes at play, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite, remained in the southern city of Basra to command the security operation. Sweeps were launched at dawn to rid the city of militias and criminal gangs that ruled the streets even before the British handed over control to the Iraqis in December.
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THE Democratic Party was rocked by a fresh scandal yesterday when the mayor of Detroit was charged with perjury, obstruction of justice and official misconduct stemming from a sex scandal and whistle-blower lawsuit against the city.
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PORTUGUESE police are hunting a schoolboy whose disappearance has been linked to Madeleine McCann’s.
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Holtom’s daughter Anna Scott, also an artist, remembers the image of her father’s despair, in the paintings of Goya.
“He used the Goya painting of the despairing image of the person who was being shot, in Spain - I don’t know whether the despair was to do with his personal situation or whether it was to […]
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Up to 22 people have died as Moqtada al Sadr’s Medhi Army battled Iraqi security forces for control of Basra today - but British forces stationed outside the city have stayed on their base and not been involved in the fighting so far.
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MELBOURNE - Police will use sonar equipment to search the Glenelg River in Victoria’s far south-west for a South Australian fisherman missing since Sunday.
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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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There is no doubt that the drug trade has helped to create alternative sources of authority that undermine the central government and its efforts to expand its reach beyond Kabul.
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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism
Perhaps it’s because it was Easter, a Christian holiday. Perhaps it was in response to the pope baptizing a Muslim during Easter vigil services. Perhaps it was a delayed response to Thursday’s fifth anniversary of the Iraq war. Or, as many Baghdad attacks go, there was just no good […]
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We wanted his success at the polls to put the politics of bigotry and of grievance in their respective places. We wanted him to show that the majority of Americans have moved beyond fear, mistrust, polarization and resentment and can, at last, in the hopeful words of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., judge people not […]
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Alistair Allan, is a photographer and the founder of DirtyDirtyDancing.com, a website that he set up to post his pictures from nights out on the town.
Here Alistair explains how DirtyDirty Dancing came about. He will be joining us on Sky.Com News tonight from 7.30pm to tell us about the top stories moving across the web.
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Animal welfare groups have mounted a long campaign to stop the hunt, and this year they believe they are close to getting an EU-wide ban on seal products.
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Tom Baker has admitted that he may be persuaded to make an appearance in the revived series of Doctor Who.
The 74-year-old actor, who played the fourth incarnation of the Time Lord between 1974 and 1981, told Kent News: “Perhaps I might make a guest appearance - perhaps. Providing they ask me nicely, of course.”
However, […]
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One policeman was killed and several others injured in riots Monday in western Sichuan province, ChinaÂ’s state media reported.
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March 22, 2008 — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is greeted by the Dalai Lama yesterday at his headquarters in Dharmsala, India, where she called on the world to unite behind the Tibetan cause.
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So the other day, Sen. Hillary Clinton — in talking about how she was a player not just a hater in her First Lady days — described a 1996 trip to Bosnia thusly:
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What China wants, China gets. Taking a very broad, big-picture view of Hegelian historical forces as they unfold, that may be one reading of the results of this past Saturday’s presidential election in Taiwan. Another may simply be that pragmatism won in a very big way. In any case, as the Sydney Morning Herald reports: […]
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With one eye scanning for suitable cover in the event of a rocket attack, the officer ran around a sprawling British military base outside the Iraqi city of Basra as part of a training programme for the upcoming London Marathon. Captain John Gilbody and four colleagues, who are also deployed in southern Iraq, will fly […]