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The U.S. military has reprimanded an unusually large number of commanders for battlefield failures in Afghanistan in recent weeks, reflecting a new push by the top brass to hold commanders responsible for major incidents in which troops are killed or wounded, said senior military officials. Read more
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Six major powers on Friday discussed efforts to persuade Iran to halt its nuclear enrichment program but China made clear it wants them to keep talking rather than impose new sanctions on Tehran. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A powerful winter storm closed in on the U.S. mid-Atlantic on Friday, threatening record snowfalls and unseasonably cold temperatures in a region heavily dependent on home heating oil and natural gas supplies. Read more
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Three Labour MPs and one Tory peer will face criminal charges over their expenses, Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer has said. Read more
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Play Video CNBC  – Euro on the Verge of Implosion? Play Video Video:Davos: Greece vows fiscal restraint Reuters Related Quotes Symbol Price Change ^DJI 9,886.70 -115.48 ^GSPC 1,050.18 -12.93 ^IXIC 2,111.53 -13.90 AP – A broker is seen at the Stock Exchange in Madrid Friday Feb. 5, 2010. Stock markets in Portugal, Spain … By AOIFE WHITE and PAN [...]
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – A lawyer for 10 U.S. Baptist missionaries who tried to take three dozen children out of the country said Friday he would ask a judge to let his clients go free until their trial on kidnapping charges. The missionaries were taken to a downtown courthouse Friday to appear before an investigative judge [...]
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BRITISH MPS were claiming record sums of money from the UK taxpayer until the final moment that the expenses scandal erupted. Read more
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Labour MPs Elliot Morley and David Chaytor, Jim Devine and Tory peer Lord Hanningfield are to be prosecuted under the Theft Act and could be jailed for seven years if found guilty. Read more
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When faults let loose with a mighty rumble, the reverberations are felt across the globe. As Mother Nature takes lives and property with such minute warning, super temblors anywhere in the world remind those in quake-prone zones of the vulnerability of great metropolitan regions and remind us to be prepared with good building codes and [...]
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Why the Valentine’s Day party poopers? Valentine’s Day = St. Valentine = not an Islamic holiday. Plus, as an Islamic scholar told the Saudi Gazette, “As Muslims we shouldn’t celebrate a non-Muslim celebration especially this one that encourages immoral relations between unmarried men and women.” So in Saudi Arabia, the religious police — agents of [...]
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Get the spoken-word version of this column and/or subscribe to my audio feed by clicking here A political bomb that exploded in Illinois 24 years ago detonated again this week. Democratic and Republican primary voters Tuesday nominated inexperienced, unknown rich guys to be the running mates for their gubernatorial candidates, [...]
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6:15am UK, Friday February 05, 2010 Damien Pearse, Sky News Online Ten American missionaries have been charged with child kidnap for allegedly trying to smuggle 33 youngsters out of earthquake-hit Haiti. [...]
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Marvel Brendan McCarthy will write and draw Marvel’s upcoming miniseries Spider-Man: Fever, the publisher has confirmed. The artist is best known for his collaborations with writer Peter Milligan in the ’80s and ’90s, but has not produced any sequential art since his issue of Solo six years ago. He has also worked on film projects, [...]
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North Korea announced Friday that it will free an American missionary detained for illegally crossing its border on Christmas Day. Read more
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If you haven’t seen the ” Demon Sheep” video by now, please do. And then pop some Nyquil because you’ll be haunted in your dreams. But before you do, check out Twitter, where some twisted soul has created… 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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I would be home by now, but our plans have changed. Mr Pavia and I will continue to provide coverage for a little longer. My cameras are dirty and dusty. I have repaired my computer with a match box and some insulating tape and I have repaired my cameras to stop them from accidently turning [...]
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NATO is struggling to make good on commitments to deploy extra forces to Afghanistan, one month after the Obama administration said it was counting on the alliance to send as many as 10,000 more troops to serve alongside U.S. soldiers. Read more
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SEOUL — Amid accounts of starvation, food shortages in the army and runaway inflation, senior economic officials in North Korea have been fired in recent days, according to reports in the South Korean media. Read more