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Africa review
Posted on March 11, 2010
Has Nigeria's First Lady seized control of the nation?
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'Monogamy bores me terribly'
Posted on March 11, 2010
As rumours of Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy's affairs abound, Cassandra Jardine asks: is there something to be said for the French attitude towards infidelity?
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    • Colleen LaRose: all-American neighbour or terrorist Jihad Jane?
    Posted on March 11, 2010
    Arrest of 'cat lady', suspected of plot to kill Prophet cartoonist, linked to terror suspects held in Ireland
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    • 'I saw Israeli bulldozer kill Rachel Corrie'
    Posted on March 11, 2010
    The final moments of Rachel Corrie, the American peace activist crushed to death beneath a pile of earth and rubble in the path of an advancing Israeli army bulldozer, were described to an Israeli court by an eyewitness yesterday.
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    • Americans continue to fight for 9/11 truth
    Posted on March 10, 2010
    Nearly a decade after the national tragedy of 9/11, voices still speak loudly saying people of the US are denied the truth.
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    Heads must roll at the BBC, says Geldof after Ethiopia aid report
    Posted on March 10, 2010
    Bob Geldof upped the ante in the row between Band Aid and the BBC yesterday by calling for the director of the BBC World Service, Peter Horrocks – who is also the BBC's director of global news – to be sacked.
  • Aid for Arms in Ethiopia              
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    Europe review
    Posted on March 10, 2010
    Shipwrecks found during pipeline work
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    • Somalia Food Aid Bypasses Needy, U.N. Study Finds
    Posted on March 10, 2010
    As much as half the food aid sent to Somalia is diverted from needy people to a web of corrupt contractors, radical Islamist militants and local United Nations staff members, according to a new Security Council report.
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    Army launches investigation: Corrupt Afghans stealing millions from aid funds
    Posted on March 10, 2010
    Money that is supposed to help impoverished civilians and farmers is ending up in the hands of the Taliban, drug lords and profiteers
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    Korea unveils the ‘future of transport’ — the Online Electric Vehicle
    Posted on March 10, 2010
    The first public demonstration of the Online Electric Vehicle, or Olev, was, however, as much about the road on which it travelled as the prototype bus itself. Electric power strips have been buried 30cm (12in) under the surface and connected to the national grid.
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    China export rebound continues
    Posted on March 10, 2010
    China's exports surged ahead in February, in an indication of revived global demand in the wake of the global financial crisis.
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    Dalai Lama says China trying to annihilate Tibetan Buddhism
    Posted on March 10, 2010
    The Dalai Lama has lashed out at Chinese authorities, accusing them of trying to "annihilate Buddhism" in Tibet as he commemorated a failed uprising against China's rule over the region.
  • Tight security on Tibet anniversary              
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    First praise, then a rebuke: Biden’s Israel visit turns sour
    Posted on March 10, 2010
    The Israeli government last night managed to overshadow a high-profile visit by the US Vice-President, Joe Biden, with an announcement of controversial and politically highly sensitive plans to build 1,600 new homes for Jewish residents in Arab East Jerusalem.
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    • Why I want to stay a single mother
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    Since having her first child at 17, Jo Middleton has not found Mr Right. Now in her thirties, she has given up on dating
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    Biden sees 'moment of opportunity' for Mid-East peace
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    US Vice-President Joe Biden has said there is a "moment of real opportunity" for peace between the Palestinians and Israel during a visit to the region.

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    Spain’s drug consumption on the rise, despite authorities’ struggle
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    Spanish police recently seized over a tonne of cocaine. But despite the authorities’ struggle, the country’s demand for recreational drugs remains the highest in Europe.
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    Fjord Focus--Nicky Gardner
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    The financial crash of 2008 haunts the remote tundra east of Reykjavik.
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    Asia review
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    Cyberwar declared as China hunts for the West’s intelligence secrets
  • China picks mothers for astronaut training              
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    • 'Terror threat' in Malacca Straits
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    Defence officials in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore have increased sea and air patrols in the Straits of Malacca, after Singapore authorities warned that attacks were being planned in the area's shipping lanes.
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    • Winnie Mandela accuses Nelson of letting down South Africa's blacks
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    In a strongly-worded attack she claimed that Nelson Mandela had failed to help the poor, instead becoming a "corporate foundation" who only ever appeared in public to raise money for the ANC political party.
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    • Vatican secrecy ‘let German school abusers go unpunished’
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    Germany has blamed a “wall of silence” created by the Vatican for hampering investigations into decades of abuse of schoolchildren by Catholic clergy.
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    Nigerians bury massacre victims
    Posted on March 9, 2010
    Nigerians are burying victims of a massacre of predominantly Christian villagers near the central city of Jos, blamed on a Muslim group.
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    • Daughter of Dick Cheney considering running for office
    Posted on March 8, 2010
    Liz Cheney, a mother of five children, has become one of the sharpest and most outspoken critics of the new White House and has needled the Obama administration for failing to protect the nation against terrorism, and mollycoddling terror suspects while pursuing government lawyers who approved water-boarding, a method of inquisition she approves of. She called the president's Nobel Peace prize a "farce".
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    • Iraqi doctors demand cancer probe
    Posted on March 8, 2010
    Iraqi doctors believe depleted uranium from US military equipment used in the 2003 invasion is spreading cancer through the population. 
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    • Iraq poll turnout tops 60 per cent despite attacks
    Posted on March 8, 2010
    Turnout in yesterday's parliamentary election in Iraq reached 62.4 per cent despite a concerted effort to intimidate voters and scare them away from polling stations.
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    • Death toll in Turkey earthquake reaches 57: report
    Posted on March 8, 2010
    ANKARA, March 8 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from a 6.0-magnitude earthquake that shook eastern Turkey on Monday reached 57, the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet Daily News reported.

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    Americas review
    Posted on March 8, 2010
    Starbucks sticks to its guns
  • Studying life in Ecuador            
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    Europe may consider IMF-style institution to avoid next Greek crisis
    Posted on March 8, 2010
    The eurozone should consider creating an institution similar to the International Monetary Fund to avoid another Greek crisis, Germany's finance minister has said.
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    Deadly blast rocks Pakistani city
    Posted on March 8, 2010
    A bomb has gone off outside a buliding housing a federal investigative agency in Pakistan's city of Lahore, killing at least 11 people and wounding about 60 others, police and government officials said.  
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    • Inside the world of Obama's secret-service bodyguards
    Posted on March 8, 2010
    Protecting the US president has presented the secret service with the greatest challenge in its history. But who wants to kill him? And how likely are they to succeed?
  • The end of the road for Barack Obama?               
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