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Rageh Inside Iran transcends images of angry demonstrations and burning flags to reveal a country that isn’t without its problems but which is also fascinating, dynamic and hospitable.
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And yet, as the situation continues to deteriorate both for Iraqis inside and outside of Iraq, and for Americans inside Iraq, Americans in America are still debating on the state of the war and occupation- are they winning or losing? Is it better or worse
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And if you find that you are a Conservative, then you can quit bothering to hunt for phantom enemies within like the Liberal Press and the Dirty Hippies because you – personally and specifically — are the enemy. You – personally and specifically — a
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As the open source insurgency continues to improve its methods and the US counter-insurgency effort becomes more of a police force to bolster street level security, the potential for successful assaults and overruns of small US outposts becomes a major th
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Walter Reed Army Medical Center began repairs yesterday on Building 18, a former hotel that is used to house outpatients recuperating from injuries suffered in Iraq and Afghanistan and that has been plagued with mold, leaky plumbing and a broken elevator.
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Behind the door of Army Spec. Jeremy Duncan’s room, part of the wall is torn and hangs in the air, weighted down with black mold. When the wounded combat engineer stands in his shower and looks up, he can see the bathtub on the floor above through a rotte
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 20 — In a rare coordinated assault on an American combat outpost north of Baghdad, suicide bombers drove one or more cars loaded with explosives into the compound on Monday, while other insurgents opened fire in the ensuing chaos, accordin
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A former BNP candidate who is accused of possessing explosives told a court yesterday that he thought the UK was on the brink of civil war and he had purchased crossbows and airguns to protect his family from attack.
Robert Cottage, 49, told Manchester c
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Has the Transportation Security Administration’s website been hacked? All indications are yes, and that a malicious phishing attack has been launched against travelers who have or think they have been delayed because they are on a watchlist or have a name
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – Journalists here don’t criticize the government much anymore, perhaps because doing so has landed at least 15 of them in prison on treason charges.
Since a bloody crackdown after elections in 2005, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles
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Fisheries experts and scientists have called for an end to subsidised deep-water trawling, which is stripping the oceans of slow-maturing “old growth” fish.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in San Francisco was told
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BAGHDAD (AFP) – Allegations that a squad of Iraqi policemen enforcing a new Baghdad security plan took turns to rape a young Sunni woman have fed sectarian tensions at the summit of the Iraqi government.
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s office dismissed
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A study published in 2001 that surveyed Job Corps graduates and a control group, conducted by Mathematica Policy Research for the Labor Department, found that the program led to significant increases in self-reported earnings over four years and to lower
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Karl Rove, then White House senior political advisor for President George W. Bush, received a copy of the secret Iranian proposal for negotiations with the United States from former Republican Congressman Bob Ney in early May 2003, according to an Iranian
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It’s time for some perspective, please. It’s time to close Guantánamo Bay. Yes , I am the military officer who sued my commander in chief and the secretary of defense on behalf of a Guantánamo Bay detainee named Salim Hamdan. What I sought was simply th
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Struggling music company EMI Group PLC, beset by profit warnings and an accounting scandal in Brazil, was thrown a potential lifeline Tuesday with a possible new takeover bid by former suitor Warner Music Group.
A tie-up would bring a badly needed infusi
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Prime Minister Tony Blair is expected to announce a timetable for the withdrawal of UK troops from Iraq.
Mr Blair is due to make a statement about the 7,000 British troops serving in Iraq at the Commons on Wednesday.
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The truth is that EFPs are simple to make for anyone who knows how to do it. Far from a sophisticated assembly operation that might require state supervision, all that is required is one of those disks, some high-powered explosive (which is easy to procur
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Seizing on an investigative report by The Washington Post’s Dana Priest and Anne Hull, Sens. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) will introduce legislation next week to require more frequent inspections of hospitals providing treatment to a
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In today’s press briefing, a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Tony Snow about the Washington Post’s two-part series over the weekend, highlighting the Walter Reed hospital’s dilapidated conditions. Snow stated that “the president certain
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This film is Akira Kurosawa’s adaptation of Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s short story dealing with the subjectivy of eyewitness evidence in the … all » solving of a crime. In July 2006, a Japanese court euled that all Japanese films produced before 1953, incl
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Saving indigenous languages from extinction is the only way to preserve traditional knowledge about plants and animals that have yet to be discovered by Western scientists, says a linguist and cultural expert. More than half of the word’s 7000 languages a
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WASHINGTON – Concerned about a possible mass exodus of Cubans, the Department of Defense plans to spend $18 million to prepare part of the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay to shelter interdicted migrants, U.S. officials told The Miami Herald. The new ins
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The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) won’t say what it plans to do with thousands of dollars in campaign donations it received from an accused terror financier. Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari gave $15,250 to the NRCC since 2002, accordin
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