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On his first day as prime minister, David Cameron signed, as is customary, a so-called letter of last resort. Nicolas Kent explains what happened next. "That letter was put in a safe, the safe put in another safe and that safe put in a submarine." The le
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Difficult though it is to believe for one of my generation, it has been more than half a century since Dwight David Eisenhower left the White House after 4 1 / 2 decades of exemplary public service. At the time — January 1961 — many of us welcomed his de
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Anthony Shadid 'changed the way we saw Iraq, Egypt and Syria over the last, crucial, decade,' said one former colleague. Photograph: Ho/AFP/Getty Images By : Ben Dowell Journalists and senior politicians have paid tribute to Anthony Shadid, the Pulitzer
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BAGHDAD: Baghdad’s wax museum features famous historical figures from Iraq’s past, but it remains unclear whether the facility will include a replica of Saddam Hussein. Baghdadi Museum provides a window into a time before the deposed Iraqi dictator, the
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In this Dec. 3, 2003 photo provided by The Washington Post, correspondent Anthony Shadid works on his laptop under the moonlight on a hotel rooftop in Najaf, south of Baghdad, Iraq. In this Dec. 3, 2003 photo provided by The Washington Post, corresponden
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New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid died Thursday in Syria from an asthma attack. His reporting from Iraq, Libya and all over the Mideast was unparalleled. Robert Siegel speaks with Rajiv Chandrasekaran, an associate editor at The Washington Post and
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Khaled Asadi, a former General Electric executive based in Iraq, filed a lawsuit in federal court in Houston, Texas, against General Electric (GE) on February 3, 2012, alleging that the company retaliated against him after he raised concerns about potent
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Authorities have released two directors who were detained by police Feb. 13 in connection with the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) probe due to a trip they took to northern Iraq to shoot a movie subsidized by the Culture Ministry. Director Mizgin Müjde
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A frame from an amateur video released Thursday purports to show a Syrian military tank in Daraa, Syria. Syrian troops intensively shelled rebel-held neighbourhoods in the restive central city of Homs on Friday, activists said. (Associated Press/Shaam Ne
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Defendant Mohanad Shareef Hammadi, an Iraqi citizen who was granted refugee status under the Refugee Admissions Program and resided in Bowling Green, Kentucky, was arrested and charged with 10 terrorism-related offenses. The indictment alleged that Hamma
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February 17, 2012 — WASHINGTON (AP) — Spending on two of the Pentagon's top priorities, cybersecurity and special operations forces, would largely remain flat or dip slightly in 2013 under the Defense Department's budget proposal, as officials beef up pe
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February 17, 2012, 4:54 pm By JOEL LOVELL There’s little we can add to the outpouring of admiration and love for Anthony Shadid, except to say how grateful we at the magazine are to have worked with him, and how inspired we were, are, by him as a journal
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Don't say that Diego Bunuel is hosting a travel show with his series, Don't Tell My Mother. The former war correspondent visits spots like Colombia, Lagos, Iraq and Venezuela in a bid to show viewers "the good and the bad" of these countries. "I'm sure t
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South Korea on Friday renewed its call on Iraq to ensure a stable supply of crude oil as it seeks to diversify sources of crude imports amid pressure from the U.S. to join sanctions against Iran. Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan made the request to the vis
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It was all quite overpowering and became more so when nine or 10 hidden killers who had slipped in amid the worshipers detonated their suicide vests, creating literal explosions of body parts and a panicked stampede of humanity. It was carnage on a scale
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 17, 2012 Fresh from three days of Capitol Hill testimony, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta today flew to Louisiana, where he shared his strategy and budget vision in a more dressed-down setting. Speaking with a bit more salt than he ha
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Former Governor Howard Dean speaks with TRNS about Camp Ashraf, a refugee camp in Iraq currently holding exiled Iranian dissidents associated with the People’s Mujahedin of Iran, an organization recognized by the U.S. government as a terrorist organizati
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The Republic of Iraq (conventional short form: Iraq) (Arabic: العراق (help·info) translit: 'al-‘Irāq, Kurdish: عيَراق), is a country in Southwest Asia encompassing most of Mesopotamia as well as the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range and the eastern part of the Syrian Desert. It shares borders with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to the... Full Article
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Iraqis hold portraits of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr (L) and his assassinated father, Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Sadeq al-Sadr (R), during a mass celebration marking the departure of US troops from Iraq in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in northern Baghdad on February 9, 2012.
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A few hundred supporters of the Bahraini government demonstrate Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012, in Muharraq, Bahrain, near a banner with upside-down images of, clockwise from top left, Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Iraq's Shiite Prime Minister Nouri...
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An Iraqi soldier stands guard at a new jetty harbour which opened at the strategic Shatt al-Arab waterway in southern Iraq on February 7, 2012. Commercial traffic has resumed on the strategic Shatt al-Arab waterway after 31 years, with the official opening of a port for oil giant Shell,...
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