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The Germans who want the Wall back
The once communist-controlled, Prussian city of Potsdam lies only a few kilometres from Germany's formerly divided capital, yet two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the elegant ex-garrison t...
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Meet Russia's Thatcher, the chemist who could end up in the Kremlim
Russia's next presidential election is not until 2012, but speculation is already rife about whether Dmitry Medvedev will try for a second term or whether his predecessor, Vladimir Putin, will want to...
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Israeli police accused of targeting Jerusalem's Arab residents
A leading civil-rights group has accused Israeli police of systematic discrimination against the Arab residents of East Jerusalem as growing numbers of hardline religious Jews take up residence in Pal...
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Let us drill or we may not have cash to pay Gulf claims
With the permanent sealing of its blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico perhaps just days away, BP is warning that it may not have the money to pay the colossal clean-up bill if Congress passes a law t...
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UK vow on military ties with France
Defence Secretary Liam Fox promised "closer co-operation" with the French today as military budgets face being squeezed on both sides of the Channel. Dr Fox, who was in Paris for tal...
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Farewell to Iraq, but no talk of mission accomplished
Barack Obama last night brought down a curtain on the long, costly and inconclusive war in Iraq, but amid near indifference from a country now worried about the economy to the exclusion of virtually...
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Libyan leader's unique brand of diplomacy has Italy spellbound
Could Colonel Gaddafi, who is now 68, be planning to retire to Italy? The visit by the Libyan tyrant, which climaxed yesterday in a meeting in his sleeping tent with Silvio Berlusconi,...
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Japan opens up its secret death chamber to the world
One of the world's most secret execution rooms was opened up to reporters for the first time yesterday, the likely first step in a long-delayed debate on Japan' s controversial death penalty. The Jus...
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Mexico: Bleeding to Death in the War on Drugs
Another 72 corpses found in a new mass grave. Feuding cartels blamed for displays of mutilated bodies. Death toll in four-year crackdown passes 28,000
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China Has Money, America Has Guns
Adrian Hamilton: China has money, America has guns Thursday, 26 August 2010 Share Close Digg del.icio.us Facebook Reddit Google Stumble Upon Fark Newsvine YahooBuzz Bebo Twitter Independent Minds Print Email .firstcolumn{ font-family: verdana; ...
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China cracks down on corrupt golfing cadres
China's ruling Communist Party signalled yesterday that it will step up its campaign against corruption amid public anger over a stream of revelations about the luxurious lifestyles of senior cadres. ...
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West jittery as Iran completes its first nuclear reactor
Iran's ambitions to become a nuclear superpower edged closer to realisation yesterday, with the opening of the country's first energy-producing nuclear reactor. The long-awaited project, dogged by op...
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Rock-star critic takes new swipe at Putin
Hundreds of Russian police surrounded a central Moscow square yesterday as a prominent critic of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin led a protest concert against a road-building scheme that is becoming a f...
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Obama under pressure in test that could define presidency
Search the news archive for more stories Even so, were this merely a matter of party politics, the affair would not be so serious. The real risk is that it will reinforce the impression that the US,...
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Wheat is the new gold in time of plenty for Americas breadbasket
Wildfires, floods, crippling droughts, and even a threatened plague of locusts have wrecked crops and ruined harvests around the world, raising fears of global food inflation shortage and food riots. ...
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Far right pays tribute to Japan's 'war heroes'
British and Japanese ultranationalists will shrug off protests from war veterans in an unlikely show of solidarity at a controversial Tokyo memorial today, on the 65th anniversary of Japan's surrender...
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'We're all dying, with me it's accelerated'
Cancer may have robbed Christopher Hitchens of much of his hair. But no one could think it had taken any of his legendary knack for getting straight to the point. "How am I? I am dying," he says as a...
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Briton dies in Iran during charity car rally
A young British man was killed and another injured while driving across Iran during a charity car rally to Mongolia. The 24-year-old died on Friday after their car crashed near Mashhad, the country's...
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A close encounter with Karl Marlantes, US marine turned literary giant
As a soldier in Vietnam, Karl Marlantes exalted in slaughter. Yet he has spent 30 years writing a novel about the futility of war and now it's a best-seller.
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Russians fear worst as fires reach Chernobyl fallout zone
Firefighters tackle flames near the village of Kustaryovka in the Ryazan region of Russia yesterday as the wildfires continued to fan out across the country and head towards the contaminated Chernobyl...
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Gates faces political battle over defence cuts
Robert Gates, the US Defence Secretary, faces a fierce political battle after announcing cuts in America's military spending of $100bn over the next five years, at the cost of thousands of outsourced ...
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