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NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called on his followers on Sunday to stop battling government forces after a week of fighting in southern Iraq and Baghdad threatened to spiral out of control.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Supporters of Barack Obama backed away on Sunday from calls for Hillary Clinton to drop out of the presidential race as Democrats faced a long summer of bitter fighting to win the party’s White House nomination.
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Election observers in Zimbabwe have expressed concerns over “delays” in announcing official presidential poll results, amid fears of rigging.
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Al-Sadr, however, also demanded that the Iraqi government stop “illegal and haphazard raids” and release security detainees who haven’t been charged, two issues cited by his movement as reasons for fighting the government.
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Plans for Al Gore to take the Democratic presidential nomination as the saviour of a bitterly divided party are being actively discussed by senior figures and aides to the former vice president.
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‘Just because you have a past doesn’t mean you can’t have a future’, is a line of David Trimble’s about ex-terrorists that seemed to fit Madame Carla Bruni-Sarkozy as perfectly as her Dior outfits. What a past she’s had. And how quickly she’s found a future.
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NEW YORK (March 30) - Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born journalist whose
harrowing tale of enslavement and eventual escape from that
country’s murderous Khmer Rouge revolutionaries in 1979 became the
subject of the award-winning film “The Killing Fields,” died
Sunday, colleague Sydney Schanberg said.
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Zimbabwe’s security forces, which have thrown their backing firmly behind Mugabe, said before the election they would not allow a victory declaration before counting was complete.
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BEIJING - Chinese security forces sealed off parts of Lhasa on Saturday and Tibet’s government-in-exile said it was investigating reports of fresh protests, weeks after the city was shaken by an anti-government riot.
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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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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism
What’s an Arab League kaffeeklatsch without good ol’ Uncle Moammar to stir things up? Sure, half of the League’s members boycotted because host Syria has been accused of meddling in Lebanon — and that would definitely be nothing new — but Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi still managed to liven […]
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Court: Abu-Jamal Deserves New HearingAssociated Press, today
PHILADELPHIA - Former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal cannot be executed for murdering a Philadelphia police officer unless a new penalty hearing is held, a federal appeals court said Thursday.
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Sky.Com News is on-air and online from 7.30pm tonight.
The most-clicked stories on Sky News Online:
Iraqi PM: Violence Will Not Stop Us
Fears Of Zimbabwe Election Rigging
Balcony Plunge Mum: ‘Justice Not Done’
Kate And Gerry McCann Film Documentary
Growing Anger As T5 Descends Into Chaos
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Zimbabwe’s main opposition party is claiming victory in the country’s elections, based on early unofficial results. Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change is trying to unseat President Robert Mugabe, who has ruled the country for 28 years.
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The iconic Time Lord will shortly be back on BBC One to make Saturday’s telly more bearable, or at least it will for those around to catch it in its ridiculously early new timeslot of 6.20pm. Here’s a rundown of what to look forward to in the fourth season, encompassing the friends, the foes and […]
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How can we accept that a foreign power comes to topple an Arab leader while we stand watching?
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi poured contempt on fellow Arab leaders at a summit Saturday, and warned that they might be overthrown like former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
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March 29, 2008 — A pregnant Oregon man who sports a beard with his baby bump insists he is “perfectly capable” of giving birth despite years of hormone treatments to make him a male.
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Pinch-hitting for Obama at the CA Dems Convention is…
…San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris. She’s scheduled to speak Sunday and she’d better bring her A-game. She’s on before Bill Clinton.
So she’s speaking on behalf of arguably one of the most compelling speechifiers in recent years and BEFORE a popular former president to a crowd […]
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No, no, no, no, no. It wasn’t supposed to be like this - the run-up to the opening of the Olympic games that China will host for the first time ever, the world’s biggest sporting event that is due to open - cough, cough, choke - in the polluted Chinese capital in early August.
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