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Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown delivers a speech to the Royal College of Defence Studies, setting out Britain's position in the on-going war in Afghanistan, Friday Nov. 6, 2009.
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Karzai could lose West's support, Brown warns
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LONDON (AFP) – The West could withdraw support for Afghan President Hamid Karzai if he fails to live up to its expectations during his second term, Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned on Friday. While defending Britain's Afghanistan mission against waning public support, Brown admitted Karzai's government had become a "by-word for...
This still made from video shows a police officer and soldier blocking the road at the main gate of the Army base at Fort Hood, Texas on Thursday Nov. 5, 2009.
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Army post shooting rampage leaves 13 dead, 30 hurt
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FORT HOOD, Texas-Military officials were starting Friday to piece together what may have pushed an Army psychiatrist trained to help soldiers in distress to turn on his comrades in a shooting rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 30 in Texas. The suspected shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, was on a ventilator and unconscious in a hospital after...
Villagers in Moyamba, Sierra Leone, walk by a United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL).
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Did Sierra Leone get war crimes justice?
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As Sierra Leonean war crimes convicts begin their sentences this week in Rwanda, the BBC's Umaru Fofana considers the achievement of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, which has now finished its work in Freetown. Kadiatu, who had one of her legs chopped off in January 1999 by rebels, sat in her wheelchair at her makeshift shelter in Grafton...
Israel rejects UN endorsement of report alleging war crimes happened during Gaza fighting
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Israel rejects UN endorsement of report alleging war crimes happened during Gaza fighting
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JERUSALEM - Israel said on Friday that a U.N. General Assembly decision to endorse a report accusing the Jewish state of war crimes lacked the support of the world's "moral majority." In a vote Thursday, the General Assembly overwhelmingly approved an Arab-drafted resolution calling on Israel and the Palestinians to conduct...
In this image made from Associated Press Television video, police respond at the scene at the U.S. Army base in Fort Hood Texas where a soldier opened fire, unleashing a stream of gunfire that left at least 12 people dead and at least 31 wounded.
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At Fort Hood, carnage, disbelief and questions
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An Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire yesterday on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, killing at least 12 people and wounding 31 in what is believed to be the deadliest mass shooting on a U.S. military base in history. The gunman, identified by authorities as Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who once practiced at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in...
Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change party addresses a press conference in Harare, Saturday, April, 5, 2008.
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Zimbabwe back from brink as Morgan Tsvangirai calls off boycott
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Morgan Tsvangirai accuses Robert Mugabe of flouting their deal Photograph: Alexander Joe/AFP/Getty Images 's unity government pulled back from the brink last night when , the prime minister, called off his boycott of power sharing with president . "We have suspended our disengagement from the government with immediate effect," said Tsvangirai after...
Activists of the environmental protest group Greenpeace stage an extreme weather event as delegates arrive for a summit on climate change, holding a banner reading "Zapatero: Stop the climate change" at the Climate Change Talks in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009.
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UN climate change conference likely to fail, officials warn
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THE UN climate change conference in Copenhagen next month will fail to produce an agreement to combat the threat of global warming, British officials have warned. They forecast here yesterday that a deal could take another 12 months to strike. This gloomy assessment of the latest state of play was delivered at an off-the-record briefing by senior...
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown gives a television interview following a tour around Leyland Trucks in Leyland, Lancashire Thursday Oct. 15, 2009.
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UK's Brown stands firm on Afghanistan, says Britain 'will not be deterred'
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LONDON - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to defend his government's commitment to Afghanistan in a major speech Friday, saying the war is essential to his country's security, according to excerpts released in advance by his office. The speech comes after the deaths of seven British soldiers in the past week, including five who were shot and...
In this image made from Associated Press Television video, police respond at the scene at the U.S. Army base in Fort Hood Texas where a soldier opened fire, unleashing a stream of gunfire that left at least 12 people dead and at least 31 wounded.
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Several shot dead at US army base
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The US army has said that at least 12 people have been killed and at least 31 injured in a shooting at the Fort Hood base in Texas. Lieutenant-General Bob Cone, the base commander, said that one suspected shooter was killed and two others were arrested after the attack on Thursday at the facility, which lies halfway between...
Palestinians react during a funeral of four men killed in Israeli military operations, at the mosque in Beit Lahiya northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009. Israel showed no signs of slowing its bruising 19-day offensive against Gaza's Hamas rulers, striking some 60 targets on Wednesday. Israel launched the onslaught on Dec. 27, seeking to punish the Hamas militant group for years of rocket attacks on southern Israel. The offensive has killed more than 940 Palestinians, half of them civilians, according to Palestinian hospital of
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UN endorses Goldstone report
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The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a UN-sponsored report which says Israel committed war crimes during last winter's military assault on the Gaza Strip. The Goldstone report, which accuses both Israel and Hamas of war crimes, has already been endorsed by the UN Human Rights Council, which sponsored the...
 
 
Since becoming Conservative leader David Cameron has shown considerable skill on the domestic...
The world still remembers how, with tumbling of communism, statues of Lenin, Hoxha and...
 
A US officer who killed 13 soldiers in a gun rampage at a Texas army base was being investigated for links to extremist websites, security sources said today. Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a devout American-born Muslim, was on life support after being...
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BRUSSELS, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Ukraine has told the European Commission that it has 25 billion cubic metres of gas in storage, which should be enough to prevent disruptions to flows to Europe this winter, a spokesman said on Friday. "They are saying...
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The moral responsibility of Britain towards the Palestinians Few days ago all Palestinian around the world mourned the 92nd anniversary of the infamous Balfour declaration that lead to 4.5 million Palestinian refugees. Our agony as Palestinians...
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By Matthew Fisher And Steven Edwards, Canwest News ServiceNovember 6, 2009 5:05 AM Destruction of guest quarters for its staff is prompting the United Nations to start "short-term relocations. Photograph by: Paula Bronstein, Getty Images, Canwest...
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British Airways chief executive, Willie Walsh, warned BA's 38,690 staff that the airline's worst first half results since privatisation made further cost reductions 'essential'...
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China has described as protectionist new US anti-dumping duties on steel pipes and called for Washington's swift recognition that it is a market economy. The US imposed on Thursday preliminary anti-dumping duties ranging up to 99 per cent on...
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This undated photo released by BHP Billiton LTD, shows an aerial view of the Olympic Dam uranium mine, located 560 km (348 miles) north of Adelaide, near the opal mining center of Andamooka. The Australian Cabinet has agreed to sell uranium to India on the condition that inspectors are allowed to ensure the nuclear fuel is used only for peaceful power generation, a newspaper reported Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2007
 
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