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BAGHDAD, April 3 — When Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki launched an offensive in Basra last week, he consulted only his inner circle of advisers. There were no debates in parliament or among his political allies. Senior American officials were notified only a few days before the operation began.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe, April 4 — Riot police increased their presence throughout the Zimbabwean capital and around the State House on Friday, as President Robert Mugabe’s fractured inner circle convened an emergency meeting to debate whether he should step down or participate in a second round of voting against opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
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HARARE (Reuters) - A Zimbabwean court will on Saturday hear an application by the country’s main opposition party to force election officials to release results from the March 29 presidential election, a party official said on Friday.
“It will be heard at 10 tomorrow morning (4 a.m. EDT Saturday),” said Nelson Chamisa, spokesman for the Morgan […]
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MEMPHIS (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain and Democrat Hillary Clinton tried to shore up support among black voters on Friday in the city where civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was slain 40 years ago.
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Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF party has given its backing to President Robert Mugabe’s participation in a possible run-off vote.
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“We agreed to have a rerun at a date to be set by” the electoral commission, Mutasa said at a news conference after a five-hour party politburo meeting, the first since official results showed ZANU-PF had lost control of parliament in weekend elections.
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Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s increasingly destructive nomination fight intensified yesterday amid allegations that the former First Lady was privately telling senior Democrats that her rival is unelectable.
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In American sport, gambling has for nearly a century been the longest shadow. It would no more be granted official sponsor status, as it is with four Premiership clubs here, than a drug dealer would be allowed a franchise alongside the sellers of hot-dogs and cold beer.
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CANBERRA, Australia (April 4) - Australia’s prime minister came under fire at home Friday over a playful salute he gave President Bush at a NATO summit, which critics said seemed to suggest Australian subservience to Washington.
Australian television repeatedly broadcast videos of the gesture Thursday on the sidelines of the Bucharest summit and speculated about what […]
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Day 2 at Aintree and the WAGs are leading the field on Ladies’ DayColeen McLoughlin brightened up the second day of the Grand National meeting with a colourful - and pretty short - floral number, while Sheree Murphy kept it formal in black and the local socialites put on their finery with varying degrees of […]
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WASHINGTON - An ambitious vision to take people to the moon and Mars may fall apart before it even gets off the ground because of uncertain planning and inadequate funding, several experts said yesterday.
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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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Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe, is one of Africa’s most notorious leaders. His land reform project, which effectively evicted thousands of white farmers from their lands only to leave black Zimbabweans without the proper tools and knowledge to farm them, has lead the country into massive food shortages, drought, and economic collapse.
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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism
The cement industry is the latest state takeover for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez — and it’s happening right away. From Reuters:
“The announcement shows Chavez returning to his combative 2007 style of aggressive nationalisations after focusing this year on practical issues following his defeat in a December referendum that would […]
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The following exchange between atheist activist Rob Sherman of Buffalo Grove and Ill. Rep. Monique Davis (D-Chicago) took place Wednesday afternoon in the General Assembly as Sherman testified before the House State Government Administration Committee.
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Last night Martin Stanford spoke to Anthony Lappe, live from New York, who told us about the stories moving across the web. See whether we are drinking too much water, and more, in the video below.
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The Politburo meeting comes as the offices of the main opposition party, the MDC, were ransacked in Harare, forcing officials into hiding.
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Kasabian and Franz Ferdinand will headline this year’s Hydro Connect Festival.
Other acts confirmed for the summer bash include Sigur Ros, Manic Street Preachers, Duffy, Elbow, Mercury Rev, The Coral, Spiritualized and The Gossip.
The eco-friendly festival takes place in the 18th Century Inveraray Castle, Loch Fyne, Scotland on August 29-31.
It is organised by the same […]
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An outspoken Chinese dissident was jailed for three-and-a-half years on Thursday over his remarks about Tibet and other sensitive topics.
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“Police were called to remove a passenger from a British Airways flight this afternoon,” a spokesman for the British airport authority told Reuters.
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