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A group of south London graffiti artists were jailed last week for up to two years for defacing public property. Yet as they begin their sentences, their work is to be championed by a New York gallery. By Arifa Akbar and Paul Vallely
On the face of it, as a society, we seem to […]
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KABUL, Afghanistan (July 16) - U.S. troops abandoned a remote outpost in eastern Afghanistan where militants killed nine American soldiers this week and insurgents briefly overran the area, officials said Wednesday, underlining the difficulties faced by forces in the border region.
Militants seized the village of Wanat in Nuristan province after driving out the handful of […]
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The wife of back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin claimed she was desperate to tell her sons he was still alive but that he blackmailed her to keep quiet, a court heard today.
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SYDNEY - A Sydney teacher sacked after posing nude in a women’s magazine says she will sue the NSW Education Department for its “sad” treatment that has ended her career.
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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 on March 27, 2008.
The film begins with […]
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The trial of Michel Fourniret — who reportedly enlisted his wife’s help to seize virgin girls to rape and kill — began March 27, 2008, with Fourniet refusing to speak unless court went into closed session and refusing to let the press take his photograph. The Times of London reported the gory details:
“The couple resembled […]
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One who was featured in our photo gallery here, actually: Callixte Mbarushimana had been sought by INTERPOL in connection with allegations of genocide, murder, extermination and creation of a criminal organization. Mbarushimana was a United Nations Development Programme official at the time of the 1994, and is accused of becoming a militia chief, killing fellow […]
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 The New Yorker maintains that the illustration on the cover of its current issue (right) is meant to satirize, not spread, the smears and rumors about  Sen. Barack Obama — that he is an unpatriotic Muslim with terrorist sympathies who hates the American flag..
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Dominic Waghorn,
Middle East correspondent, in Lebanon
Israel and Hizbollah have begun the process of swapping captives - including one of the most notorious prisoners ever to serve in an Israeli jail.
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Samir Kuntar is escorted from Hadarim prison in Israel ahead of the prisoner swap
Hizbollah has delivered the bodies of two kidnapped Israeli soldiers to Israeli authorities […]
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Alicia Douvall is planning to have her 14th boob job later this year.
The Celebrity Love Island contestant wants the operation to correct a mistake made during her 13th round of surgery.
Douvall told Heat: “I know it will kill me. But I’d rather die trying to sort things out.”
She continued: “My last boob job was a […]
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Queen Elizabeth II is reportedly short on cash to redecorate the Palace’s State Rooms, which haven’t been spruced up since the Queen took the throne in 1952. Plus, there isn’t even enough money (about $65 million) to carry out less glamorous projects, like asbestos removal, rewiring and roof repair.
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Osama bin Laden’s former personal driver, held in Guantanamo Bay, claimed today that he was sexually humiliated by a touchy-feely female interrogator who groped him.
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Democrats have taken an early lead in the money race for a pair of hotly contested Northern California congressional seats, but the numbers aren’t as comforting as they could be in one of those contests.
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It was back in 2003, Britain’s Independent recalls, in the Darfur region of western Sudan, that “[a]rmed groups from the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa tribes launched a rebellion…, protesting [about] their marginalization. Sudan’s response was a brutal counter-insurgency, in which civilians were routinely targeted by government forces and [the] Janjaweed militia.” The Fur, Masalit […]
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U.S. Navy ships in the Mediterranean will provide ballistic missile defense to the Czech Republic under a commitment contained in the agreement to place a U.S. radar site in that country, according to State and Defense Department officials.
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Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain shifted their foreign policy focus yesterday from the future of U.S. military involvement in Iraq to the deteriorating war in Afghanistan, with both White House hopefuls pledging thousands of additional troops and a large-scale infusion of aid for the Afghan conflict.
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MEXICO CITY — On any given day, there are six or seven or eight demonstrations taking place in the Mexican capital. The city government keeps a running list of them on its Web site.
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NAIROBI, July 14 — The Sudanese government defiantly rejected International Criminal Court charges of genocide against President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on Monday, vowing to fight them “legally and diplomatically” instead of retaliating against U.N. peacekeepers, aid workers or residents of Darfur, a reaction that is feared in the volatile, western Sudanese region.
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BAGHDAD, July 15 — At least 28 Iraqi army police recruits were killed Tuesday morning in two suicide bombings north of Baghdad in Diyala province, where the Iraqi government has said it intends to launch a military offensive against insurgent groups.
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JOHANNESBURG — At first glance they are nothing alike. Zimbabwe’s aging president, Robert Mugabe, is, at 84, among the last of a generation of African Big Men, clinging to power through brutal repression. South Africa’s suave President Thabo Mbeki, nearly two decades younger, rules by popular mandate as the elected leader of one of the […]