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In plain terms, in this instance, it’s also called the mother of all policy flip-flops (or what used to be uneuphemistically referred to for what it unabashedly is: a profoundly hypocritical U-turn about which even some staunch supporters of George W. Bush are fuming). Read more
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Covering the visit of Barack Obama to Iraq was never going to be easy.Media access was so carefully controlled that a TV crew was apparently told not to film a stand-up shot in front of a couple of Humvees outside the US Embassy in Baghdad because it might convey military endorsement of the Illinois senator. [...]
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BELGRADE, Serbia, July 22 — With his long gray hair pulled into in a ponytail, a grizzly beard and oversize spectacles, Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb political leader who was arrested on genocide charges Monday evening, lived a strikingly public life practicing alternative medicine and writing for a health magazine in the Serbian capital, according [...]
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KUNMING, China, July 22 — Two explosions on separate buses during Monday morning’s rush hour killed at least two people and injured 14 others in downtown Kunming, the capital of southwest China’s Yunnan province, according to the local public security bureau. Read more
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MOSCOW, July 21 — Russian bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons could be deployed to Cuba in response to U.S. plans to install a missile defense system in Eastern Europe, a Russian newspaper reported Monday, citing an unnamed senior Russian air force official. Read more
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai agreed Monday to start urgent negotiations toward forming a new government, a first but very tentative step toward ending the nation’s political stalemate. Read more
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AMMAN, Jordan, July 21 — When Sen. Barack Obama left Washington last week, he was under pressure to defend what Republican critics called an arbitrary deadline for withdrawing U.S. combat forces from Iraq. By Monday, the White House and rival Sen. John McCain‘s presidential campaign were at pains to explain why the Iraqi prime minister [...]
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai agreed Monday to start urgent negotiations toward forming a new government, a first but very tentative step toward ending the nation’s political stalemate. Read more
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HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s ruling party and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change will begin negotiations on Tuesday on a power-sharing deal that could end a political crisis, the opposition and diplomatic sources said. Read more
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BELGRADE/SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Bosnian Serb wartime president Radovan Karadzic, charged with genocide for the murder of thousands of Muslims at Srebrenica and other crimes during the Bosnian war, has been arrested after 11 years on the run. Read more
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Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, one of the world’s most wanted men, has been arrested in Serbia after more than a decade on the run. Read more
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Karadzic is charged with masterminding the deadly siege of Sarajevo and mass killings that the U.N. war crimes tribunal described as “scenes from hell, written on the darkest pages of human history.” They include the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica, Europe’s worst slaughter since World War II. Read more
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AMY WINEHOUSE‘S husband will serve at least four-and-a-half months in jail after he was sentenced yesterday for trial-fixing and beating up a former pub landlord. Read more
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EAGLE-EYED observers of the British Royal family thought there was something vaguely familiar about the dress Princess Anne wore at last weekend’s wedding of Lady Rose Windsor and George Gilman, at the Queen’s Chapel, London. Read more
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BELGRADE, Serbia (July 21) – Former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic, accused architect of massacres and the politician considered most responsible for the deadly siege of Sarajevo, was arrested Monday evening in a Serbian police raid ending his 13 years as the world’s most-wanted war crimes fugitive. His alleged partner in the persecution and “cleansing” [...]
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Trials of a new pill have shown that it can shrink tumours in up to 80 per cent of cases, and end the need for damaging chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Read more
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SYDNEY – Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has recalled some of the more ridiculous moments during last year’s federal election campaign as he launched a new book on Labour’s journey to victory. Read more
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Just breaking: Radovan Karadzic, one of the world’s most wanted men, was arrested tonight in a sweep by Serbian officials after more than a decade on the run. Karadzic was indicted in 1995 for the slaughter of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica as well as other wartime atrocities. INTERPOL still has Karadzic’s page up, which [...]