Overview: Africa's Civil Wars
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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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Israel-Lebanon Conflict
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Israel responded by launching a major offensive in Lebanon. However, many questioned whether Israel’s response was proportionate.
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Syria, N. Korea Allegedly Teamed Up on Nukes
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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism
Are North Korea and Syria buddies in nuclear technology? The White House says yes:
“The White House says North Korea assisted Syria’s secret nuclear program and that the reactor bombed by Israel last September was not intended for peaceful purposes.
After seven months of silence, the administration said that after the […]
How much would you pay to be allowed to be a walking billboard?
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This week’s silly news story — the speculation and fuss about the three young men wearing Abercrombie & Fitch gear who were seated prominently in the risers behind Barack Obama Tuesday night as Obama delivered his concession speech — causes me to wonder:
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Take A Look Behind The Scenes Of The Sky News Gallery
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Another key moment in the life of Sky.com News tonight!
Our founding producer, John Jelley has been assigned a key new role with News Corp and so is leaving the Sky News HQ building in west London for a while.
Apart from rather a grainy shot on the gallery cam, John has largely been kept […]
US Boat Contracted To Military Fires Warning Shots At ‘Iranian’ Speedboats
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The cargo ship’s security team then fired “a few bursts” of machine gun and rifle warning shots, according to Commander Robertson. “The small boats left the area a short time later,” she said.
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Hilton, Madden ‘involved in hit-and-run’
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Paris Hilton and Benji Madden have been involved in a hit-and-run incident, say US reports.
The couple drove from the Foxtail nightclub in Los Angeles last night and caught the foot of a photographer.
According to TMZ, Madden briefly got out of the car and approached the paparazzo before driving off with his girlfriend.
The snapper has reportedly […]
Aide to Iraq’s al-Sadr: Threat of open war aimed at US
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An aide says the radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s threat to unleash a full-scale war applies only to U.S.-led forces.
Last week, al-Sadr warned he would declare ‘open war’ if the government did not end its crackdown against his fighters.
Sheik Hassan Al-Edhari says al-Sadr is appealing to Iraqi soldiers and police ‘not to support the occupiers […]
REVEALED: N. KOREA WAS BEHIND SYRIA NUKES
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A top-secret Syrian nuclear reactor - built with North Korean help - was within weeks of going operational when it was blown up by Israeli jets in a dramatic attack last September, US officials revealed yesterday.
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Matthew Yi: Republicans offer their plan to fund education
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Sacramento — Republican lawmakers say they have a plan to save education funding, which like most other items in the deficit-drenched state budget is in danger of facing significant cuts in spending.
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The Democrats’ primaries, seen from abroad
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Keeping tabs on the foreign news media’s coverage of the Democrats’ primary-election contests in the U.S., readers get a strong sense that, overseas, there is often as much excitement - and as much trepidation - about their outcomes as there is about the presidential election that will be coming up later this year.
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Iraqi forces see victory in Basra
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Iraqi soldiers are standing proud in Basra one month after launching a surprise offensive to wipe out murderous gangs of Shia militants that had been allowed to flourish under Britain’s watch.Many of them say the operation has boosted their confidence, but the militiamen warn that the only reason the fledgling Iraqi army had any success […]
Paraguay’s Historic but Not Radical Change
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WASHINGTON — Up until last week, Paraguay seemed frozen in time. While other countries in the region underwent political and social transformations demanded by electorates fed up with corrupt and elitist ruling classes, the Colorado Party of former dictator Alfredo Stroessner was in its seventh decade in power.
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British Court Views Video Of Bomber And Child
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LONDON, April 24 — On the home video, a young father, on his way to a war where he knows he will die, bounces his baby daughter on his knee, showers her with kisses and laments that he will never see her grow up.
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U.S. Details Reactor in Syria
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The Bush administration charged Thursday that a secret Syrian nuclear reactor was within weeks or months of completion before Israel bombed it on Sept. 6 and demanded that North Korea and Syria publicly acknowledge their collusion on a facility that could have produced plutonium for a nuclear weapon.
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N.Y. Airport Target of Plot, Officials Say
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NEW YORK, June 2 — Authorities said Saturday that they had broken up an alleged terrorist plot to bomb aviation fuel tanks and pipelines at John F. Kennedy International Airport, arresting a former airport worker and two other men with links to Islamic extremists in South America and the Caribbean.
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Applying Capitalism to Protect Dwindling Brazilian Forestland
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AGUA BOA, Brazil — Driving a farm truck across the mud roads of the eastern Amazon region is agony on axles, a careful slalom around slippery ruts and yawning craters. The scenery is unromantic: mostly cattle pasture and soybean fields, with the occasional stand of naked tree trunks charred by last year’s fires.
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Bush Defends Trade, Economy at N. American Summit
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NEW ORLEANS, April 22 — President Bush used a summit meeting Tuesday with the leaders of Mexico and Canada to push for congressional approval of a controversial free-trade pact with Colombia and to reiterate his belief that the struggling U.S. economy is not experiencing a recession.
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Across Congo, Freelance Miners Dig In Against Modern Industry
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LIKASI, Congo — In these days of high-tech economic globalization, Innocent Luamba digs for copper and cobalt in the manner of the ancient Romans, by hand.
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Body Identified As Contractor Missing in Iraq
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U.S. authorities on Wednesday identified the body of Jonathon Cote, a private security contractor who was abducted 17 months ago in Iraq with four colleagues.
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