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British and U.S. jets have been patrolling the skies over the second city since Tuesday as Iraqi forces launched a major offensive against Shia militias.
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The drummer for 80s glam band Poison - the opening act at Easter’s Rock2Wellington heavy metal concert - has been arrested on a rape charge at Los Angeles Airport after getting off a flight from New Zealand.
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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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Ségolène Royal is the socialist candidate for President of France.
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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism
Despite warnings that violence would soon follow — in the country where filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in 2004 for his short film that decried the treatment of women in Islam (”Submission”) — far-right, anti-immigration Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders released his anti-Quran film “Fitna” on the Internet tonight.
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Unlike Chicago Police Department officers, members of the Illinois State Police have to meet fitness standards. Officers must meet these standards each year in four areas. The standards are different for male officers and female officers and they decrease with age. The strength requirement rises with body weight.
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Sky.Com News is on-air and online from 7.30pm tonight.
The most-clicked stories on Sky News Online:
Carla Bruni In Plea Over Dying Mums
Gunman Blamed Nurse For Mother’s Death
Mean Man Morgan Blitzes US Apprentice
Arrest Over ‘Appalling’ YouTube Film
Italy Orders Recall Of Mozzarella
Hopes Of Millions Riding On BT Court Case
T5 Shambles ‘Not BA’s Finest Hour’
The stories moving up the […]
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Personally speaking, the dearest thing to my heart is my country, but what fills my heart now with sorrow is that I can see my beloved country is being torn apart and there is nothing that anyone can do to stop it.
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Teen drama Gossip Girl suffered a weak UK debut last night with just 293,000 viewers for ITV2.
An initial audience of 520,000 tuned in for the start of the episode at 10pm but quarter of an hour later it was down to just 244,000. Across the hour the show averaged 1.92% of […]
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The Mexican government has sent more than 2,500 soldiers and federal police to crack down on soaring violence in a border state across from Texas and New Mexico.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his model wife, Carla Bruni, have been the toast of Britain during a two-day diplomatic romp across the channel.
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The GOP’s assumed presidential nominee Sen. John McCain stopped by San Francisco Wednesday night to pick up a boatload of cash at a closed-press fundraiser at the Ritz-Carlton. Hey, Mac — you said that California was in play – how about sticking around next time to chat with folks who didn’t pay $2,300 to hear […]
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France’s president, the conservative politician Nicolas Sarkozy, and his latest wife, the Italian-born, former fashion model and sometime pop singer Carla Bruni, arrived in London yesterday for a 36-hour state visit to the United Kingdom, the first such junket for a French head of state in more than a decade.
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Sorry for the long silence. I have been on temporary leave from The Times for a few weeks, working on a project of my own. I thought that I’d be able to keep posting here too, but it hasn’t worked out so well. But Asia Exile is sleeping, not dead, and shall return in mid-August, […]
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Muchos inmigrantes ilegales permanecen animados con su futuro Sentada en la sala de espera de una clÃnica a las afueras de Washington este mes, Angélica Vivar estaba ansiosa por compartir su optimismo. No importa que esté sufriendo de gastritis, que haya perdido recientemente uno de sus trabajos porque su empleador quebró, que a veces no […]
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For the past few months I’ve been hearing from a bevy of China experts about how subtle and brilliant Beijing’s diplomacy has become in recent years. Sophisticated and confident, Chinese diplomats have been running rings around the United States, winning friends and influencing people throughout East Asia and the world. So I can only […]
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U.S. foreign policy resembles cartoonist Saul Steinberg’s celebrated cover for the New Yorker where the world begins and almost immediately ends on Ninth Avenue, New Jersey looms in the near background, and Asia hovers as a microscopic dot on a distant horizon.
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A representative for Iraq’s regional Kurdish government said Thursday in Washington that the prosecution of an Iraqi-born Kurd with Austrian citizenship had been mishandled and that his sentence was disproportionate to the wrong he committed.
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President Bush announced yesterday that he will make an unexpected trip to Russia after a NATO summit next week to meet with President Vladimir Putin in hopes of repairing relations that have grown strained over missile defense, Kosovo independence and NATO expansion.
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TOKYO, March 27 — North Korea expelled a team of South Korean officials from its territory Thursday, a response to the South’s increasingly tough criticism of its neighbor’s record on human rights and nuclear proliferation.
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