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ISLAMABAD, April 26 — After weeks of deliberation, Pakistan’s newly formed coalition government appears to have reached an impasse over its month-old promise to reinstate dozens of judges fired last year by President Pervez Musharraf.
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KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai escaped unhurt on Sunday from an assassination attempt by Taliban fighters who fired guns and rockets at an official celebration near the presidential palace in Kabul.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Militants bombarded Baghdad’s Green Zone with rockets on Sunday, taking advantage of the cover of a blinding dust storm to launch one of the heaviest strikes in weeks on the fortified compound.
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A 73-year-old Austrian is under arrest on suspicion of hiding his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathering seven children with her, police say.
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Appearing calm, Karzai said “the enemy of Afghanistan” tried to disrupt the ceremony but was thwarted by security forces. He said several suspects were arrested and smiled as he signed off his brief recorded statement.
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He seems tired, brittle and more aggressive, and some of his appealing hope and charisma have been dispensed with.
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Kosovo is more or less at peace after years of one of the most brutal ethnic wars in history. But the peace in the new state of Kosovo is a fragile thing, and over it hangs a dark cloud of despair.
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KABUL, Afghanistan (April 27) - Suspected Taliban militants attacked a ceremony attended by the Afghan president on Sunday, unleashing automatic weapons fire that sent foreign dignitaries and senior members of the government fleeing for cover.
Three people, including a lawmaker, were killed and eight were wounded. President Hamid Karzai, Cabinet ministers and ambassadors escaped unharmed, the […]
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Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles was with the President Hamid Karzai at an official celebration when Taliban fighters fired guns and rockets.
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President Robert Mugabe appeared unlikely this week to win back control of parliament in a partial vote recount after a police crackdown on members of the opposition, which accuses him of stealing the poll.
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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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In a move stirring controversy throughout the region, Evo Morales has brought Bolivia’s energy production under state control. Yesterday, he gave foreign companies a six month ultimatum: renegotiate their contracts with the government or leave the country, and sent the military to occupy oil and gas fields throughout Bolivia. Bolivia has South America’s second largest […]
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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism
Indonesia began a three-day, large-scale bird-flu drill on Friday, preparing in case the H5N1 virus mutates into a deadly human-to-human strain — which, medical experts believe, is just a matter of time. Between a third and a half of the human-to-bird transmission cases reported since 2003 have been in […]
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• Gun-control backers: Where are you? (April 21)• Gun compromises
(April 19)
• Gun rights rhetoric has familiar ring
(April 17)
• Another gun-control bill voted down today in Springfield (April 16)
• Gun Limits: Why not? (April 11)
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Here’s a taster of the videos we’ll show on dot com tonight - an impressive bicycle “tailwhip”.
We’ll also discuss why Shakespeare is getting down with the kids, why some say James Bond is cursed and why a hacker was able to change Harriet Harman’s blog (and, temporarily, her political affiliation).
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Two South Koreans who had been chosen to run in the torch relay said they would boycott the event to protest China’s crackdown in Tibet.
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Keith Chegwin has spoken out about a survey claiming that the ’80s was the worst decade of the 20th century.
He argued that the decade created plenty of musical talent and said he was proud of the unusual clothing fashions that dominated the era.
Chegwin told DS: “People have been knocking the ’80s - what’s going on, […]
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“We’re going to get together tomorrow to consult about the state of the hostages and how we can promote the humanitarian accordâ€
Governor seeks help to break hostage deadlock http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/?id=357375&type=World Governor seeks help to break hostage deadlock NEW Mexico Governor Bill Richardson is looking to …
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April 26, 2008 — The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog vowed yesterday to thoroughly investigate US evidence that Syria secretly built an atomic reactor with North Korean help.
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Barack Obama agreed to appear on “Fox News Sunday” with Chris Wallace and it is bound to be a watcher. Why is this news? A presidential candidate going on a Sunday chat show happens all the time, right? Yeah, but there’s some history here, and it ain’t pretty.
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