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As she enters the third week of her hunger strike, Nobel peace prize nominee Aminatou Haidar is in a critical condition. Yesterday a cross-party group of MPs tabled a motion expressing dismay at her expulsion from Western Sahara. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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Fallon scored with a header just before half-time in Wellington The mood before the game had been extremely tense. Full Article at BBC News
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Driving south of Tel Aviv on Israel's coastal highway, you can't miss them: hundreds of single-family homes with red-tiled rooftops, built among green fields. Getting closer, you notice the temporariness of the neighborhood. Full Article at Newsweek
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Fritz Henderson, who has resigned as chief executive of General Motors. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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Lisa Leitz, a sociology professor in Conway, Arkansas, has noticed that several of her friends have been behaving oddly in recent months. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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"Thank you and thanks to your people who, I know, love you, as is demonstrated by the election results which everybody can see," Berlusconi told [Belarusian President Alyaksandr] Lukashenka. Full Article at Foreign Policy | Passport
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Iran's maritime sovereignty in the Persian Gulf is not straightforward. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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BAGHDAD “Are you going to the funeral?” asked the police officer at a checkpoint near the bombed out hulk of the Justice Ministry, which was attacked in October. Full Article at The New York Times
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PARIS (Reuters) - An Iraqi reporter imprisoned for throwing his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush found himself on the receiving end of a similar footwear attack in Paris on Tuesday. Full Article at Reuters
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Nairobi — The government was on Tuesday looking forward to its meetings with Chief Mediator Kofi Annan because it believes it has tangible reform progress to show. Full Article at AllAfrica.com
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The UN is holding a three-day high-level meeting for developing countries in Nairobi to discuss priority development issues and enhance South-South Cooperation. Full Article at AllAfrica.com
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Nine-year-old Victoria Chant weeps as the coffin of her father, Darren Chant, is carried out of the Guard's Chapel in London. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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Algae stained mud carpets the drought ravaged Gayngaru wetlands of Arnhem Land in Australia's Northern Territory. Photograph Torsten Blackwood/AFP Australia is the hottest and, bar Antartica, driest continent on Earth. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and deputy premier Gianfranco Fini together in parliament. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will join any consensus on more sanctions against Iran, a senior Russian diplomatic source said on Tuesday after Tehran declared it would expand nuclear activity in defiance of a U.N. rebuke. Full Article at Reuters
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NAIROBI, Kenya - International naval forces will never be able to completely secure the vast area of ocean where Somali pirates are hijacking ships off East Africa, the commander of the EU Naval Force's counter-piracy efforts said Tuesday. Full Article at MSNBC
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ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Russia on Tuesday published previously secret documents that shed light on a notorious murder 75 years ago that historians say sparked the purges of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. Full Article at Reuters
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A new top inspector took charge Tuesday of the International Atomic Energy Agency as it faces one of the most turbulent periods in its 52-year history. Full Article at The New York Times
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British attempts to persuade the US to plan for the consequences of an invasion of Iraq foundered on a "blind spot" in Washington where senior officials thought "everyone would be grateful and there would be dancing in the streets", the Chilcot inquiry... Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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Today, U.S. President Barack Obama is announcing his plan to send an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan. Full Article at Foreign Policy | Passport
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So my hope is, is that over time what we're going to see is further clarity and further cooperation between all the parties and all peoples of goodwill in the region to eradiate terrorist activity, to eradicate the kind of violent extremism that we have seen. I think that will benefit the peoples of Pak...
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Israel has not learnt that the rules of engagement in the Middle East have changed since the arrival of US President Barack Obama in the White House. Unlike the war on Lebanon in 2006, which ended in a ceasefire, the war on Gaza continues as a war of diplomacy and public opinion. Israel must face reperc...
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The work that the Pakistan military is doing in the Swat Valley [ Images ] in west -- in south Waziristan -- all indicates the degree to which they are beginning to recognise that extremism, even if initially directed to the outside, can ultimately also have an adverse impact on their security internall...
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If we gave up Afghanistan tomorrow, I absolutely guarantee that if you are an AQ [al-Qaeda] member or Taleban, they will pour back into southern Afghanistan and they will have the freedom to plan and train and conduct operations which now they don't have
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It is in our strategic interests, in our national security interest to make sure that al-Qaeda and its extremist allies cannot operate effectively in those areas
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Are you trying to tell me that a Democratic Congress that couldn't cut off funding on George Bush's awful Iraq war is actually going to pull the plug on (Obama)?
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Afghanistan's stability is important to that process. I have also indicated that after eight years some of those years in which we did not have, either the resources or the strategy to get the job done. It is my intention to finish the job
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I don't think there was a consciousness in the electorate that, if we elect Obama, we're sending 50,000 troops to Afghanistan ... It wasn't hidden, but it wasn't evident to voters who were focused on other issues.
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Mr Prime Minister, as we work to build that future, India is indispensable. As leading economies, the United states and India can strengthen the global economic recovery, promote trade that creates jobs for both our people and pursue growth that is balanced and sustained
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The flood of money, combined with [President] Obama's trillion-dollar deficits, has moved America away from the Reagan-Volcker-Greenspan-Clinton maxim of keeping the dollar 'as good as gold.'
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reflects our admiration for the Prime Minister's leadership, the deep bonds between the peoples of the United States and India, and the historic opportunity we have to strengthen and broaden the partnership between our nations
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to study briefly at the BBC Staff School in London. For the first time I needed and obtained a passport, and saw myself defined therein as a ‘British Protected Person.’ Somehow the matter had never come up before! I had to wait three more years more for Nigeria’s independence in 1960 to end that rather ...
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I reaffirmed to the prime minister my administration's commitment to fully implement the US-India civil nuclear agreement which increases American exports and creates jobs in both countries
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After an American visit that left both Washington and Beijing feeling dissatisfied, China could be tempted to shift its attention to the European Union
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After eight years...it is my intention to finish the job (in Afghanistan)
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The appointment will ensure that Ireland will play a key role in influencing . . . research priorities and funding for the entire European Union
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We join India in remembering the victims of the 26/11 attacks
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We have to check if crimes against humanity, war crimes or genocide have been committed in Afghanistan ... There are serious allegations against the Taliban and al Qaeda and serious allegations about warlords, even against some who are connected with members of the government.
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Need a little help, Joe? You gotta nip it… nip it in the bud! | Here’s what Barack Obama said on March 3, 2009 when outlining how his administration would maintain integrity in the stimulus payout process: To you, he’s Mr. Vice President ... But around the White House we call him ‘The Sheriff’ because i...
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The American side has referred to India as an indispensable or irreplaceable partner in the fight against terrorism in the South Asia region and on whether President Obama’s new Afghan strategy would pay off.
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We want to build a future in which India is indispensable ... India and US can strengthen the global economic recovery.
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we should just focus on Pakistan and Al Qaeda that's in Pakistan
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Yours is the first official state visit of my presidency, its fitting that you and India be so recognised
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this is a quagmire and we're wasting our resources and endangering our young men and women's lives and we should just focus on Pakistan, and Al Qaeda that's in Pakistan.
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India is indispensable to the US and the Indian Prime Minister's visit reflects abiding friendship between the two countries.