US Defense Secretary Visits Afghan Taliban Birthplace - Voice of America

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US Defense Secretary Visits Afghan Taliban Birthplace
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US Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Friday visited US troops in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, the spiritual homeland of the Taliban and the center of the latest US efforts to oust Islamic militants. Gates met with about 100 soldiers at a ...
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3 Sep 2010 at 6:20am

Police say attacks on Pakistani minorities kill 23 - The Associated Press

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Police say attacks on Pakistani minorities kill 23
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QUETTA, Pakistan ? Suicide bombings targeting religious minorities killed at least 23 people in Pakistan on Friday, driving up the toll of sectarian assaults in a country already battered by massive flooding. A blast killed at least 22 people in the ...
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3 Sep 2010 at 6:50am

Armed groups vow Israel attacks - Aljazeera.net

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Armed groups vow Israel attacks
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Thirteen Palestinian factions issue threat amid relaunch of direct Middle East peace negotiations in Washington. Hamas fighters have threatened to carry out a new wave of attacks against Israel after Palestinian and Israeli leaders relaunched direct ...
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3 Sep 2010 at 5:40am

Aquino Takes Responsibility for Manila Bus Siege That Killed 8 Tourists - Blo...

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Aquino Takes Responsibility for Manila Bus Siege That Killed 8 Tourists
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Philippine President Benigno Aquino said today he takes full responsibility for the outcome of the bus siege that killed eight members of a Hong Kong tour group. ?At the end of the day, ...
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3 Sep 2010 at 2:48am

North Korea Takes Steps to Extend Dynastic Rule - New York Times

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North Korea Takes Steps to Extend Dynastic Rule
New York Times
SEOUL, South Korea ? Kim Jong-il, the North Korean leader, is expected to convene a rare congress of the ruling Workers' Party in coming days to pave the way for his son to succeed him, a feat of political engineering that would be a ...
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3 Sep 2010 at 7:13am

Putin allocates $33 million to Volgograd, Saratov regions hit by wildfires - ...

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Putin allocates $33 million to Volgograd, Saratov regions hit by wildfires
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MOSCOW, September 3 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin allocated on Friday 1 billion rubles ($33 million) to the wildfire-stricken Volgograd and Saratov regions, a cabinet statement said. The Volgograd Region will receive a total of ...
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3 Sep 2010 at 6:05am

Mexican army kills dozens of drug suspects - The Guardian

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Mexican army kills dozens of drug suspects
The Guardian
Soldiers killed 25 suspected drug cartel members yesterday in a raid in a Mexican state near the US border that has seen a surge in gang violence, the military said. Mexico's defence department said soldiers on a reconnaissance flight over Ciudad Mier ...
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3 Sep 2010 at 4:42am

Karzai tells Afghans not to panic in rush for withdrawals - Washington Post

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Karzai tells Afghans not to panic in rush for withdrawals
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DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - As depositors thronged branches of Afghanistan's biggest bank, President Hamid Karzai told Afghans on Thursday not to panic shortly after his brother, ...
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3 Sep 2010 at 1:47am

Police patrol after Maputo riots - BBC News

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Police patrol after Maputo riots
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The police and army are patrolling the streets of the Mozambique capital Maputo after two days of deadly riots over rising food prices. The BBC's Jose Tembe in the city says some businesses have now reopened but there are long queues for goods such as ...
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3 Sep 2010 at 6:51am

Top German Banker's Attack on Immigrants Causes a Stir - TIME

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Top German Banker's Attack on Immigrants Causes a Stir
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Books written by bankers rarely cause much of a stir, except, perhaps, among other bankers. But a new book by Thilo Sarrazin, a director on the board of the Bundesbank, Germany's central bank, ...
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3 Sep 2010 at 7:06am

Bosnian police find girl who through puppies into river
A girl shown in a video throwing puppies into a river has been traced, police in Bosnia said today.
3 Sep 2010 at 7:50am

Revealed: Afghan lie test flops
They are supposed to be Afghanistan's bravest, straightest legal minds - the men leading President Hamid Karzai's charge to rid the land of corruption.
2 Sep 2010 at 7:00pm

First tentative steps to Middle East peace deal?
Israeli and Palestinian leaders last night agreed to produce a framework for a permanent peace deal and to hold a second round of direct talks this month.
2 Sep 2010 at 7:00pm

Independents set to deliver new minority Australian government
Prime minister Julia Gillard edged closer to retaining power in Australia yesterday when an independent politician said he would support her centre-left Labour Party to form A
2 Sep 2010 at 7:00pm

Move to force Roma into camps
A FAR-RIGHT Hungarian party has called for gypsies considered a threat to public order to be forcibly settled in camps outside towns and subject to curfew.
2 Sep 2010 at 7:00pm

Analysis: Another awkward moment in a strained, distrustful alliance
IT IS not difficult to imagine what went through the mind of at least one passenger as she sat waiting for United Airlines Flight 727 to take off from Washington Dulles Airpor
2 Sep 2010 at 7:00pm

World News: We'll keep on talking, say Israeli and Palestinian chiefs
Israeli and Palestinian leaders said they would keep talking and produce a framework for a permanent peace deal following their first session in two years.
2 Sep 2010 at 7:00pm

Floor prices for alcohol applied across the globe
MINIMUM pricing policies already in place in other parts of the world include those in Ontario in Canada and Russia.
2 Sep 2010 at 7:00pm

Opposition magazine is raided by riot police
Armed and masked Russian police raided an opposition magazine yesterday, pressing journalists to hand over interview recordings used in reports on alleged abuses by the much-f
2 Sep 2010 at 7:00pm

Gunman 'hated TV message on population'
A GUNMAN police shot dead after he took hostages at Discovery Channel's headquarters said he hated the company's shows such as Kate Plus 8 because they promoted popula
2 Sep 2010 at 7:00pm

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Thirteen workers flee drilling platform but oil company denies spill

Fresh fears about drilling in the Gulf of Mexico were raised today when fire forced workers to abandon an oil and gas platform, just six months after the BP explosion that created an environmental disaster in the region.

The company, Mariner Energy, said none of the 13 workers, who fled the platform and took to the sea in immersion suits, were injured. The coastguard said they were taken by ship to a nearby platform and from t...

Israeli and Palestinian leaders begin framework talks on a peace deal which could encompass borders, Jerusalem, Jewish settlements and security

The Israeli and Palestinian leaders, Binyamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas, met for the first day of direct talks in Washington yesterday and agreed that a peace deal could be achieved within a year.

George Mitchell, the White House envoy who joined the negotiations, said the two leaders decided to begin putting together a framework agreement on all majo...

Warnings issued from North Carolina to Nova Scotia as storm nears landfall on east coast

Hurricane Earl pounded eastern North Carolina with heavy rains and strong winds early today, after tens of thousands of people were told to evacuate nearby islands.

Hundreds of thousands more were warned to prepare for severe weather across the north-eastern coast. The hurricane came within about 85 miles of the shore, but early signs suggested the ocean surge was not as severe as predicted.

More states alo...

Daniel Houghton, 25, offered sensitive information to Dutch agents for £2m

An MI6 worker has been given a 12-month jail sentence after attempting to sell intelligence to the Netherlands.

Daniel Houghton, 25, offered sensitive information to Dutch agents for £2m, the Old Bailey heard today.

The software engineer had pleaded guilty to two offences under the Official Secrets Act at an earlier hearing, after arranging to meet the agents at a London hotel.

Houghton had offered to hand over sensitive c...

I was thinking that we haven't done much literature in these quizzes. There's a reason for that, which is, compared to a lot of people I know, I haven't read a lot of things. I have some deeply embarrassing gaping holes. I've never read Jane Austen. Can you imagine? How could this be? I spent more time when I was a younger man reading history, political philosophy, political science and current events. Within history, I've read lots of intellectual and cultural history, so I know about writer...

About 54,000 jobs lost, far fewer than the 100,000 expected, easing fears of a second US recession

Fears that the world's largest economy is spiralling back into recession eased today as US unemployment data came in stronger than expected.

Global stock markets rallied in relief as the US government said employers shed almost half as many jobs as markets had been expecting last month, while the picture in previous months was also brighter than first thought.

Non-farm payrolls showed a drop of 54,...

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Comments came as cricketers Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir were being questioned by police

The head of the International Cricket Council's anti-corruption unit denied today that the ICC was failing to identify corruption within the sport, as the three Pakistan cricketers at the centre of an alleged betting scam were being questioned by police.

Speaking for the first time since the allegations surfaced, Sir Ronnie Flanagan, the former Northern Ireland police chief who was appointed...

The growth and development of South Africa's cities gives pause for thought, says David Smith

Tens of thousands of people have been told to evacuate islands off North Carolina and hundreds of thousands more warned to expect hurricane-force winds and heavy rain across the US north-eastern coast, as hurricane Earl brushes along the shore.