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John McCain‘s prisoner-of-war experience is a strong selling point for him in this American election. But it is a powerful drag on his popularity in Europe, where past U.S. involvement in Vietnam still generates intensely negative feelings. Read more
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LONDON, July 26 — By almost every measure, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama‘s overseas tour that concluded here Saturday was a clear success, with meticulously planned and deftly executed events designed to beam back images to the United States of a politician comfortable on the world stage. Read more
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Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani has a clear agenda for his inaugural visit to Washington this week: He wants more aid, more patience and less pressure from the United States as his four-month-old coalition government develops a strategy to combat Taliban and al-Qaeda forces in the tribal areas along his country’s border with Afghanistan. [...]
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Typically, you might expect hotel owner Robert L. Johnson to leave the spiel about bed linens and room decor to his marketing types. Read more
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Saddam Hussein‘s survival instincts were not dulled by prison, according to one Iraqi judge who faced the former president in a courtroom and recalls his cunning and rhetorical posturing. Read more
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NEW DELHI, July 26 — At least 29 people were killed and 88 injured when as many as 16 small blasts tore through the western city of Ahmedabad on Saturday evening. It was the second synchronized bomb attack in India in two days. Read more
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NEW DELHI, India (Reuters) – India’s major cities were put on high alert on Sunday, with fears of more attacks after at least 40 people were killed in two days of bombings that hit a communally-sensitive western city and a southern IT hub Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said in an interview published on Saturday the size of a residual U.S. force left in Iraq after the withdrawal of combat troops would be “entirely conditions-based.” Read more
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India’s president and prime minister have appealed for calm after a series of explosions killed at least 45 people in the western city of Ahmedabad. Read more
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“It’s clearly an extremely rare and unusual event that a hole opens up in the fuselage,” he told reporters in Australia. “I know there’s a number of theories around, but they’re just that at this stage, they’re just theories. We don’t have the solid facts.” Read more
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US presidential contender Barack Obama defended his decision to travel to Europe and the Middle East, saying yesterday that problems encountered by Americans at home are often best dealt with by working with allies overseas. Read more
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You’ll all have read about the capture of Radovan Karadzic, transformed from a reasonably good-looking guy with great hair into a nutty-looking beardie. No doubt you’ll all, like me, be rejoicing that this bastard might now face justice. I would guess that most of us know little about the Serbs except for the atrocities of [...]
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AHMADABAD, India (July 26) – Bombs exploded Saturday near a busy market and a hospital in a western Indian city, killing 29 people and injuring 88 a day after deadly blasts struck the southern technology hub of Bangalore. Bombings in India Gautam Singh, AP A series of at least 16 bombs exploded in Ahmadabad, India, [...]
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A senior Harrods executive is being investigated by Scotland Yard after a 15-year-old schoolgirl claimed she was sexually assaulted there. Read more
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KABUL, Afghanistan – Nato forces killed four civilians and wounded three others when they fired at a vehicle that did not stop at a checkpoint in Afghanistan’s volatile south, the alliance said. 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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Plus, all shipments from Switzerland to Libya have been barred, with ships unable to unload their cargo at ports. This after the arrest of Moammar Gaddafi’s youngest son, Hannibal; The Independent has the background: “Gaddafi, 30, who has a record of run-ins with police across Europe, was arrested and jailed on 15 July after [...]
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Plus, all shipments from Switzerland to Libya have been barred, with ships unable to unload their cargo at ports. This after the arrest of Moammar Gaddafi’s youngest son, Hannibal; The Independent has the background: “Gaddafi, 30, who has a record of run-ins with police across Europe, was arrested and jailed on 15 July after [...]
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Plus, all shipments from Switzerland to Libya have been barred, with ships unable to unload their cargo at ports. This after the arrest of Moammar Gaddafi’s youngest son, Hannibal; The Independent has the background: “Gaddafi, 30, who has a record of run-ins with police across Europe, was arrested and jailed on 15 July after [...]
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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 [...]