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When a window of opportunity opened to strike the leader of al-Qaeda in East Africa last September, U.S. Special Operations forces prepared several options. They could obliterate his vehicle with an airstrike as he drove through southern Somalia. Or they could fire from helicopters that could land at the scene to confirm the kill. Or [...]
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MARJA, AFGHANISTAN — U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers encountered pockets of stiff resistance and extensive minefields as they sought to press into this Taliban sanctuary in southern Afghanistan on Saturday. Read more
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LONDON (Reuters) – The far-right British National Party voted Sunday to open membership to non-whites following the threat of a court injunction and said it expected a “trickle” of black and Asian people to join its ranks. Read more
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MARJAH (Reuters) – NATO rockets killed 12 Afghan civilians on Sunday, the second day of an offensive designed to impose Afghan government authority on one of the last big Taliban strongholds in the country’s most violent province. Read more
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Nato has confirmed that two rockets fired at militants during its offensive in Helmand, south Afghanistan, missed their target and killed 12 civilians. Read more
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MUMBAI (Reuters) – The prospect of International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Special Drawing Rights (SDR) becoming a reserve currency is remote in the near future, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney said on Saturday. “Prospect of SDR as a meaningful reserve currency is remote in a reasonable time horizon partly because of the governance structure of [...]
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Play Video AP  – Limited resistance to massive Afghan assault Slideshow:Afghanistan Play Video Video:Major Afghan assault claims first Taliban casualties AFP Play Video Video:Troops mass ahead of Afghan onslaught AP AP – In this photo released by Britain’s Ministry of Defense, members of the F Company (Fire Support) 1 Royal … By ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU, Associated Press Writer Alfred [...]
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THE stepfather of tragic Baby P has been injured in a shocking prison attack, it was reported yesterday. Read more
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Dozens of Britain’s highest paid celebrities and business chiefs have been caught up in an investigation into an alleged tax avoidance scheme. 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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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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In Why the MSM loves Palin, Jim VandeHei and Jonathan Martinof Politico write: For the media, (former Alaska governor Sarah)Palin is great at the box office. Among modern American political figures, she is second only to Barack Obama in generating clicks (for Web sites such as this one) and ratings (for the cable news [...]
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5:51am UK, Sunday February 14, 2010 James Jordan, Sky News Online The biology professor charged with killing three of her colleagues, shot her brother more than 23 years ago, police said. [...]
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‘Doctor Who’s Product PlacementsWe look at how Doctor Who might have taken shape if product plugging had been allowed. Classic Moment: Captain Jack’s sacrifice ‘Lost’s Final Season Premiere: The Verdict ‘Caprica’s Premiere: The Verdict Read more
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” Hundreds of people marched Saturday against the drug gang violence besieging Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, gathering at a bridge where they simulated the massacre of a group of teenagers last month. Read more
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GOP US Senate candidate Tom Campbell has raised $706,592 since leaving the Guv’s race to challenge OC Assemblyman Chuck DeVore and ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina, according to Team Campbell. A nice chunk… 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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A Sunday lunchtime arrival at Eleftherios Venizelos airport in Athens, newly built for the 2004 Olympics and the drizzle and overcast sky seem appropriate for the story of economic gloom we’re here to follow. One of the so called PIGS, together with Portugal, Ireland and Spain, the country’s debt is huge, and could threaten the [...]
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LONDON — The British government Wednesday disclosed once-secret details of the United States’ harsh treatment of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee after losing a lengthy legal battle to suppress the information. Read more
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KABUL (AP) — Three U.S. service members have been killed in southern Afghanistan, but they did not die in connection with a major offensive under way in the Taliban stronghold of Marjah in Helmand province, NATO said Saturday. Read more