Interviewed by John Simpson on BBC, General Petraeus said violence in Iraq was being perpetuated by Iran's Quds Force. "The rockets that were launched at the Green Zone yesterday - were Iranian-provided, Iranian-made...
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Following up on Mardtech's and mtippet's reports, here is the article from the New Yorker."And you could inflict pain. “You also had stress positions, and you escalated the stress positions,” Davis said....
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Little girls are suger and spice. Little Boys can be monsters at times and it may take years before parents eventually realise they might be hyperactive and seek help. But what happens to a troublesome...
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"Smoke has been seen rising from the Iraqi capital's heavily fortified Green Zone after it was targeted by a series of rockets or mortars.
At least 10 blasts were heard in the area in central Baghdad,...
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An American by birth, Sharla Musabih argues that confrontation is essential in order to fight ingrained patriacal tradition, and points out that the Emirates needs to address human trafficking. “When a woman has...
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I can't remember
why or how I first started reading al Jazeera on the net. It might have been because I was trying to find out about the airstrike during which Tariq
Ayoub, an al Jazeera reporter was killed and three...
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Just over a week after she resigned her post on Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign after making controversial comments about Barak Obama's presidential bid, Geraldine Ferraro said she resented being compared to...
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I'm not sure how the judge thinks this is going to happen. How do you find "as many as 1000,000 former and current baristas?" If there are 500,000 current baristas in employment, the cost and logistics of...
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Lewis "Scooter" Libby will lose his license to practise or appear in court in Washington until at least 2012. He will also probably lose any bar membership he holds in other states.Convicted of lying to the FBI...
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The US has offered Russia assurances over parts of a missile shield it wants to deploy in Europe, the Russian foreign minister has said.
I have no liking for the way Vladimir Putin
appears to have run his country,...
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"""LOS ANGELES — Stop that $1 million check: It turns out the call girl linked to Eliot Spitzer had already shed her clothes for "Girls Gone Wild" as an 18-year-old while partying in Miami, the video company's...
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Scientists have measured the composition of oxygen at the birth of the Solar System.
The discovery is a vital piece of data for reconstructing the evolution of our cosmic neighbourhood.
Nasa's Genesis...
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"At least 80 people have been killed in unrest following protests by Tibetans against Chinese rule, the Tibetan government in exile says.
Indian-based officials said the figure was confirmed by several sources, even...
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Despite the rumours about problems at the American
bank, Bear Stearns, that had been circulating all week, two days ago Britain’s Chancellor,
Alistair Darling, claimed the country was on a course of stability and...
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