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Henry should have owned up, says Wenger

Arsene Wenger yesterday said Thierry Henry should have admitted to his blatant handball that sent France to the World Cup finals, as the Football Association of Ireland called for their controversial World Cup play-off in Paris...

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Karzai 'would fall in weeks' if Nato pulls out

David Miliband says UK needs more time to shore up Afghan government The Afghan government could fall within weeks if Nato pulled out troops now, David Miliband warned today as he urged British opponents of the war to give the...

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Send veto, guns and money: the EU “presidency”

By Alan Beattie, the FT’s world trade editor Look, not my specialist subject, but here’s my eurocent’s-worth on the appointment of the Baroness High Representative and the Lord High Everything Else. (Incidentally, I’d have...

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Milan fetes Steve McCurry

Retrospective looks at photojournalism 'legend' 20 November, 14:41 (ANSA) - A unique retrospective of work by Steve McCurry, one of the world's best known living photojournalists, has opened in Milan in a show specially...

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Errors & Omissions: The Cost of War in Afghanistan

In last Sunday's article, 'Vast Majority of Britons back IoS call for UK forces to leave', we referred to Oxfam's report, The Cost of War in Afghanistan. We would like to make it clear that this report reflected the cost of the...

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Afghan governor turned 3000 men over to Taliban

Sher Mohammed Akhundzada the former governor of Afghanistan's Helmand province has revealed he turned thousands of his followers over to the Taliban after he was sacked from the job under pressure from British officials.

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Voting for failure in Afghanistan | Stephen Kinzer

By forcing a flawed model of democracy on Afghans, the US has made Afghanistan less stable and less democratic The fiasco of the elections in Afghanistan has been widely lamented . Most laments focus on a single obvious fact:...

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Inside the dreams of Mullah Omar

As President Obama decides future American strategy in Afghanistan, never has the US understood a wartime adversary less than now. Even after eight years of war and countless re-assessments, we have remarkably little insight...

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Tories to pull British forces out of Germany

British forces will pull out of Germany for good, nearly 70 years after the Allied victory in World War Two, as part of a Tory defence "revolution" being drawn up by Dr Liam Fox. Liam Fox, the shadow defence secretary Photo:...

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Pubs should welcome our soldiers home

Whether you believe we should be at war in Afghanistan or not, the fact is, we are. Elliott: pubs can help welcome troops home And over the past year, the pub sector has been entangled in its own war of words between so many...

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