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By Jerome Starkey in Camp Bastion and Anne Penketh Published: 26 December 2007 Two senior Western diplomats were given 48 hours to leave Afghanistan yesterday after trying to negotiate with anti-government leaders in Helmand. Michael Semple, the acting...
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In 1950, 12 days after the start of the Korean War, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover had a plan "to apprehend and detain persons who are potentially dangerous to the internal security of the country" -- thousands of them, almost all American...
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· Law flouted as leader prolongs rule yet again · Dissidents condemn EU inaction over regime Luke Harding in Tashkent Monday December 24, 2007 The Guardian Uzbek president Islam Karimov votes during presidential elections in Tashkent. Photograph: EPA...
· Outbreak of Korean war brought letter to Truman · List of potential detainees compiled over many years Dan Glaister in Los Angeles Monday December 24, 2007 The Guardian It all sounds familiar. A newly proclaimed war in a far-off land, the suspension...
By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal's government agreed on Sunday to abolish the centuries-old monarchy in a political deal with Maoist former rebels, but the decision only comes into effect after next year's elections, party officials said. The...
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by Ian Urbina This is the season of frenetic shopping, but for a devious few people it’s also the season of spirited shopdropping. Otherwise known as reverse shoplifting, shopdropping involves surreptitiously putting things in stores, rather than illegally...
Andrew Sullivan Almost all of the time, the Washington I know and live in is utterly unrelated to the Washington you see in the movies. The government is far more incompetent and amateur than the masterminds of Hollywood darkness. There are no rogue CIA...
