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Voice of America | Photo: AP Iran says it has begun further enriching uranium, a move some Western nations say should be met with sanctions. But China continues to push for a diplomatic solution. Iranian envoy Ali Asghar Soltanieh says he has informed the International ...
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Christian Science Monitor | After weeks of publicizing, US troops are set to launch one of the biggest offensives of the Afghanistan war, against the Taliban stronghold of Marjah in Helmand Province. Here's a briefing on just how important this town is and why NATO gave the ...
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Voice of America | Photo: AP Sri Lanka's opposition parties are protesting the arrest by the military of their defeated presidential candidate, the former top Army commander credited with helping to defeat the Tamil Tiger rebels. A day after the arrest of former ...
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New York Daily News | City Council member Larry Seabrook is facing federal criminal charges in an indictment expected Tuesday afternoon, sources said. City Council member Larry Seabrook is facing federal criminal charges in an indictment expected Tuesday ...
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PC World | Does your laptop have switchable graphics? You know, both an integrated graphics chip that sips energy and gives you long battery life along with a discrete GPU (graphics processing unit) that offers better 3D graphics and video performance? ...
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CNN International | Supporters of Presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovich rally in front of the Central Election Commission in Kiev. Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) -- Incumbent Yulia Tymoshenko refuses to concede defeat in Ukraine's presidential election and plans to demand a ...
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Reuters | An Afghan villager watches US Army soldiers from Task Force Denali Platoon 1-40 CAV as they patrol next to a police station at Manzai village in Khowst province, Afghanistan, December 19, 2009. KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan villagers should stay inside and ...
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AFP | COLOMBO — The wife of Sri Lankan ex-army chief Sarath Fonseka accused the government on Tuesday of abducting her husband and treating him "like an animal" following his dramatic arrest. "This is not an arrest. It is an abduction," a tearful Anoma ...
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AFP | KABUL — A planned assault on a major Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan is the first real test of a new US-led counter-insurgency strategy to re-establish government control and end the war. Operation Mushtarak is an experiment in combining the ...
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Telegraph.co.uk | The Iranian president has promised a 'telling blow' against world leaders. But, says Con Coughlin, his recent nuclear posturing is an attempt to shore up his increasingly perilous position at home. By Con Coughlin First came the announcement that Iran ...
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Washington Post | For some soldiers in southern Afghanistan, the mission is to preserve freedom of movement on key roads. (Joshua Partlow/the Washington Post) By Joshua Partlow ZARI, AFGHANISTAN -- Four of the Army's hulking mine-resistant armored vehicles had just been ...
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Wall Street Journal | MIDDLETOWN, Conn.—Investigators are looking at a range of possibilities, including a procedure that uses natural gas to purge pipes, as the cause of an explosion at a power plant here Sunday. ...
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Jerusalem Post | Every European leader he meets tells him he must renew talks, senior European diplomat tells 'Post.' Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is under “intense” pressure by the international community to return to negotiations, ...
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Los Angeles Times | Am I the only one to notice the coincidence that the Tea Party Convention met in Nashville, which is also the title of a 1975 Robert Altman movie about (among other things) an anti-establishment presidential candidate? ...
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BBC News | Will she or won't she pursue her political ambitions through the courts or in protest action on the streets? It is not often that the woman with the famous golden braid, whose glamour permeated the Orange Revolution five years ago, ...
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The Hindu | COLOMBO: With the dissolution of the Sri Lankan Parliament expected on Tuesday and the general election scheduled for the first half of April, the arrest of the former Army Chief and consensus Opposition presidential candidate, General Sarath Fonseka, ...