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The top US general in Iraq yesterday predicted that Iraqi forces would be able to take over security in the country with “very little coalition support” within a year to 18 months. General George Casey did not say anything specific about parallel withdraw
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Hollywood veteran Glenn Ford has died aged 90 at his home in Beverly Hills.
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Research confirming the human body is designed to strongly resist attempts to lose weight will be presented at an international gathering of obesity experts hosted by QUT this week.
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Scientists using NASA’s Swift
satellite and a combination of orbiting and ground-based observatories have
for the first time caught a supernova in the act of exploding.
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Bush’s remembrances of 9/11 only point to the opportunities that he has squandered. When he stood on the ruins of the World Trade Center virtually the whole world had declared its solidarity with the United States, al-Qaida had lost almost all sympathy th
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May 17: “[T]he first signs of decay are starting. … Subtle things, that no one else seems to notice, as they happen ever so slowly. The schools and the library and other public buildings aren’t quite as clean, quite as kept-up, as they used to be. T
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A closer look reveals just how little most American families have gained from this recovery. According to data released this week by the U.S. Census Bureau, inflation-adjusted median household income remains below where it was in 2000. For families headed
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The platoon commander for the squad of Marines who killed as many as two dozen Iraqi civilians during an attack in Haditha last year recommended later that the sergeant who led the attack receive a medal for his heroism that day, according to military doc
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s urban search and rescue teams are under-funded, understaffed and in need of better oversight, according to a report by the Homeland Security Department’s inspector general.
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The ACORN lawsuit focuses on the wording of letters FEMA sends to inform evacuees that they are ineligible for aid. Rather than explaining the reason for the denial in layman’s terms, the letters typically include a code used by the agency’s computer syst
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Dr John Gee, an expert on chemical weapons, worked with the US-led weapons hunter, the Iraq Survey Group, after the war and wrote the critical six-page letter when he decided to resign in March 2004. In it he warned the Federal Government the hunt was, “f
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Instead, they will suffer all manner of indignity being imposed upon others to preserve themselves. Wiretapping other people without a warrant is fine. Holding other people indefinitely without access to an attorney or due process is fine. Torturing other
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Throngs of Shiite men, most clad in white burial shrouds that symbolized their willingness to die, gathered in the northeast Baghdad slum known as Sadr City. Then they marched toward the center of the capital, chanting: “We will step over America. We are
~ by SAP on 31 August 2006.
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