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Western leaders have called for a complete withdrawal of Russian combat troops from Georgia, and for peacekeeping forces to resume the positions they had in South Ossetia before the conflict.
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Hillary Clinton’s youngest brother has met a top aide to the Republican candidate Senator John McCain, fuelling accusations that some of those close to the former First Lady are actively working against Senator Barack Obama.
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The ripples from a short and brutal war in the Caucasus spread out to encompass the Middle East yesterday, when the Syrian president rekindled a strategic alliance with Moscow that had been neglected since the Cold War.
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IGOETI, Georgia (Aug. 22) - Russian military convoys rolled out of three key positions in Georgia and headed toward Moscow-backed separatist regions Friday in a significant withdrawal two weeks after thousands of troops roared into the former Soviet republic.
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Glitter arrives back in Britain but is FREE to go abroad despite refusing to sign sex offenders’ register
Jacqui Smith under fire after Home Office loses personal details of thousands of criminals
Three men held in terror probe linked to threats to kill Gordon Brown
British man arrested in Japan after ’shaking his 12-day-old baby son to death’
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It was a moment of political history too sensitive to be revealed for more than a decade. In the luxurious surroundings of an English country house, secret round-table talks took place in the late 1980s that were to bring about the dismantling of the apartheid system in South Africa.
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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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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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Wrangling over the future of Zimbabwe after the country’s sham elections continues, as opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has proposed a power-sharing deal that would leave Robert Mugabe as president, but would see himself become prime minister. More:
“George Sibotshiwe, MDC spokesman, told Al Jazeera: ‘It is a proposal that he has made, his proposal is that […]
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The thrills of victory and the agony of Lolo’s defeat: Click here to listen. And click here to use the handy embedded audio player.
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Georgia’s security council has said that Russian troops appear to be leaving the town of Gori, on the day Moscow had given as its withdrawal date.
Russian soldiers in South Ossetia
There were also reports of a column of 80 Russian military vehicles in the west of Georgia crossing back into the breakaway region of Abkhazia.
However, a […]
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Channel 4 chief executive Andy Duncan has said the broadcaster’s new autumn lineup reflects a further push for “creative renewal”.
The phrase, first uttered at last year’s Edinburgh Festival in the wake of a half-year of bad publicity after the Shilpa Shetty race row on Celebrity Big Brother, has come to embody the goals outlined in […]
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The United Arab Emirates-based renewable energy company Masdar has broken ground for its $230-million photovoltaic production plant in Germany.
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A Spanish jetliner headed to a popular European vacation spot plowed into a tree-covered ravine during takeoff and burst into hellish flames, flinging charred bodies and smoldering wreckage over a half-mile area.
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We’ve told you the story of Pauline Beck, 62, the Alameda mother of three and foster mother of two who — as a home health care worker — spent some quality time with Barack Obama, teaching him the ropes of her very difficult job.
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The out-of-control federal deficit; the endless, costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; the Bush-Cheney administration’s record of crime, corruption and in-your-face violations of the U.S. Constitution, wrapped in its condoning of torture and the Abu Ghraib prison scandal; its suppression of free speech, totalitarian spying on Americans’ phone calls, e-mail and Internet usage, stretched-to-the-breaking-point military […]
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TSKHINVALI, Georgia, Aug. 22 — On the steps of the bombed-out Parliament building Thursday, down the street from a neighborhood in ruins, the black-suited maestro prepared to lead a concert he aptly called a requiem, or composition for the dead.
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BEIJING, Aug. 21 — Six Americans detained by police this week could be held for 10 days, according to Chinese authorities, who appear to be intensifying their efforts to shut down any public demonstrations during the final days of the Olympic Games.
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BERLIN, Aug. 20 — Synchronized bombings killed 12 people in Algeria on Wednesday, a day after a suicide bomber drove an explosives-packed car into a police academy, killing 48. It was believed to be the deadliest stretch of violence to strike the North African country since its civil war in the 1990s.
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BAGHDAD, Aug. 21 — Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Thursday that Iraq and the United States are close to an agreement on a pact to govern the future use of U.S. forces in the war-torn country, and Iraqi officials said a draft is expected to beshown to top Iraqi leaders in the next couple […]