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In northern Iraq, Kurds warn: “Beware the Arabs”
Posted on March 21, 2010
Sunni Arab Muslim politicians are using elections to push for renewed control over Kurdish-majority, oil-rich frontier lands, raising tensions with other groups.
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Iranians train Taliban to use roadside bombs
Posted on March 21, 2010
TALIBAN commanders have revealed that hundreds of insurgents have been trained in Iran to kill Nato forces in Afghanistan. The commanders said they had learnt to mount complex ambushes and lay improvised explosive devices (IEDs), which have been responsible for most of the deaths of British troops in Helmand province.
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    • The Teamsters, a trade union like no other
    Posted on March 21, 2010
    In its dispute with BA, Unite has consulted the infamous US transport workers' outfit. Talk about playing with the big boys
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    Whatever became of Elisabeth Fritzl?
    Posted on March 21, 2010
    Her 24-year ordeal of captivity and rape in that cellar in Amstetten is beyond belief. But Josef Fritzl's daughter is fighting back
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    'Day of Wrath' brings Russians on to the streets against Vladimir Putin
    Posted on March 21, 2010
    Nationwide protests sparked by falling living standards and demanding the prime minister's resignation have taken Kremlin by surprise
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    • US homeless want bank to foot the bill
    Posted on March 21, 2010
    Protestors took to the streets of New York demanding that one of America's biggest banks start to repay its billion dollar bailout and provide help for some of the city's homeless. Chase Manhattan bank is accused of letting hundreds of unused properties go to waste when many people don't even have a roof over their head.
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    • North Koreans fear the country is on the verge of a new famine
    Posted on March 20, 2010
    Once again, rice has disappeared from tables in North Korea. A famine looms and — as happened in the 1990s — millions could die. Desperation is stamped on the faces of those few who have braved barbed-wire fences, armed guards and patrols to slip into neighbouring China. They seek food over freedom.
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    The Norway town that forgave and forgot its child killers
    Posted on March 20, 2010
    In 1994, in Trondheim, five-year-old Silje Redergard was beaten to death by two little boys. Today, the girl's family still suffers and one of the boys is in trouble again – the echoes of the Bulger case are clear. So why has the public reaction in Norway been so startlingly different?
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    Mexico president struggles as drug war explodes across the country
    Posted on March 20, 2010
    A year after he was hailed as the saviour of the violence-plagued city of Juarez, Mexico's president was this week presented with a stark message of dissaffection on a return visit.
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    • General David Petraeus tipped as Republican 2012 presidential candidate
    Posted on March 20, 2010
    The shrewd and articulate military commander, credited with turning around the Iraq war, will deliver a speech at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire next week, a traditional staging post in the state where the first presidential primaries are held every four years. Each of the last eight presidents has spoken at the college on their way to victory.
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    Dutch outrage as US general blames gay soldiers for Srebrenica
    Posted on March 19, 2010
    A retired American general has blamed the UN's historic failure to protect the Bosnian "safe haven" of Srebrenica on the fact that there were openly gay soldiers in the Dutch peacekeeping battalion assigned to it.              
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    • Quartet blasts Israel over East Jerusalem settlements
    Posted on March 19, 2010
    Strongly worded statement from Middle East peace envoys calls for pullout from Palestinian territories within 24 months
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    • The disfigured statue of Henry Morton Stanley, we presume
    Posted on March 19, 2010
    A campaign to restore a memorial to the explorer has reopened the scars left by colonial rule in the Congo. Katrina Manson reports from Kinshasa
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    India's 'modern-day Nero' to be grilled over Muslim bloodbath
    Posted on March 19, 2010
    Narendra Modi, tipped as a future prime minister, is called to appear before tribunal investigating 2002 Gujarat massacre
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    Middle East review
    Posted on March 19, 2010
    Islam Online faces collapse after Cairo staff revolt over ‘religious pressure’
  • Islamism: why the west gets it wrong            
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