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Dominique de Villepin, the former French prime minister, was cleared yesterday of charges that he plotted to smear Nicolas Sarkozy and scupper his campaign for the presidency in 2007. Read more
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England hero: Father-of-two John Terry, pictured with his wife Toni, had an affair with his former Chelsea team-mate Wayne Bridge’s girlfriend Read more
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The biggest threat facing the world now, according to the chief of international police agency Interpol, is passport fraud – the millions of stolen documents that could be used by terrorists or criminals to travel worldwide. Airport body scanners are a misguided solution, said Interpol Secretary-General Ronald K. Noble. “The greatest threat in the [...]
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The news stories that shaped the first decade of the new millennium, from terrorism to natural and humanitarian disasters. (Note: These are not ranked in order of importance.) Read more
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The news stories that shaped the first decade of the new millennium, from terrorism to natural and humanitarian disasters. (Note: These are not ranked in order of importance.) Read more
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Get the spoken-word version of this column and subscribe to my audio feed by clicking here Perhaps you’ve heard of the GOP’s 11th Commandment — “Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.” According to legend, it originated during Ronald Reagan’s 1966 campaign for governor of California. And, as you may have noticed, [...]
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Kudos to the French rescue teams who would not stop the search for survivors, even after the authorities decided the search was over. It should be mentioned in this article. Who knows how many people waited in vain buried in the debris for someone to rescue them for over 10 days, [...]
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EastEnders and Coronation Street drew neck and neck in the Thursday evening soap ratings battle last night for the first time since ITV’s new drama schedule launched in July. Read more
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She is amazing her doctors, the 16-year-old choir girl who came close to dying but wouldn’t in the crumbled concrete graveyard of Port-au-Prince. More than two weeks after the earthquake brought down her school – and a day after she was lifted from the ruins – Darlene Etienne was eating yogurt, talking, and regaining her [...]
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As we clean out our post-SOTU closet — please, turn your head — we offer a belated Lies, Half-Truths and Contradictions on the status of the e pluribus unum . President Obama has stopped talking, right… Read more
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It is jokingly dubbed ‘the most expensive B&B in the world’. Then again the trailer camp is the only ‘bed and breakfast’ that also provides lunch, dinner, a gym, 24-hour Internet access and a relatively secure place to stay in Basra.Situated within the newly-acquired American military base in this southern-Iraqi province, the B&B provides private [...]
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JANUARY 27, 2010 Yesterday a sixteen-year-old girl was extracted from the rubble of a college in Port-au-Prince sixteen days after the massive earthquake flattened vast swathes of the city. I was on the wrong side of town when the call came in and when I arrived at the site she was safely inside [...]
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PARIS — The allegations read like a potboiler: treachery and high jinks in the gilded salons of Paris politics. But in a trial that riveted France, the charges were brought for real in a paneled courtroom beside the Seine by a very serious prosecutor and endorsed by a bitter President Nicolas Sarkozy. Read more
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LONDON — Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Thursday that he will convene a nationwide meeting of tribal, religious and political leaders in the next few weeks to discuss reintegrating and reconciling with insurgents. Afghan government officials said Taliban members would also be welcome to attend. Read more
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After two weeks of near-sleepless nights and exhausting multihour rescue missions in earthquake-stricken Haiti, 114 members of Fairfax County’s urban search and rescue team returned home late Thursday. Read more
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CARACAS, Venezuela — Every day, Pascual Cicenia plays golf on an emerald course that is 18 holes of tropical heaven in the middle of this chaotic city. He doesn’t take it for granted, he said, especially now that President Hugo Chávez has disparaged the sport as an elitist endeavor with few friends in his populist [...]
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KARORI VILLAGE, INDIA — The old, potholed road was a source of endless traffic jams and accidents. It did not have a median or lights. Trucks, tractors and camels frequently collided at night. Read more
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LONDON (Reuters) – The Afghan government on Thursday invited the Taliban to a peace council as its Western allies worked out plans to try to end the war in Afghanistan. Read more
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TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) – President Barack Obama vowed on Thursday he would not rest until U.S. businesses were hiring again, as he took his recast agenda on the road and sought to dig out of his deepest political rut since taking office. Read more
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Afghan forces could take control of security in some provinces by the end of 2010, delegates at a key summit about the country have said. Read more