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'Good progress' in Karabakh talks

President Aliyev said before the talks Azerbaijan could use force Azeri and Armenian leaders have made significant progress in talks on the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, a French mediator has said. But Bernard Fassier,...

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Police question two men over killing

Published Date: 23 November 2009 TWO men were questioned yesterday over the murder of a teenager who was stabbed and then run over by a car. Michael McCarthy, 19, became involved in an altercation with two men, Scotland Yard...

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Two policemen hurt in motorway crash

Published Date: 23 November 2009 AT LEAST two police officers were injured yesterday after their car was involved in a crash on a motorway slip road. The incident, involving a marked Essex police car, caused delays on the M20...

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'Myth' of Mr Useless: Why women breadwinners exaggerate partner's faults

I would disagree that men are 'useless' about the house, although I would agree that they are, generally, not as good at housekeeping as are women. When in the Royal Navy lower deck(1945 - 56), I did my share of cleaning,...

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A Matter of Time, By Alex Capus

The French-Swiss novelist Alex Capus bases his 10th book on a highly eccentric character and a farcical incident early in the First World War. Kaiser Wilhelm's outnumbered soldiers rattled sabres at Belgian troops and a small...

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Pierre Harmel: Former Belgian foreign minister

Pierre Harmel, who died on 15 November aged 98, was a former Belgian foreign minister who authored a 1967 strategy that led the Nato allies to seek detente with the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact. His report, entitled Future Tasks of...

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James R. Lilley: CIA operative and US ambassador

James R. Lilley, who died on 19 November aged 81, was a long-standing CIA operative and later the United States ambassador to China during the time of the Tiananmen Square crackdown. Lilley, who was born in China to an oilman...

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Iraq War Inquiry pledges to expose 'full story' behind invasion decision

Published Date: 23 November 2009 THE head of the long-awaited Iraq War Inquiry pledged to produce a "full and insightful" account of the decision-making process which took Britain into the conflict. On the eve of the first...

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Orig Williams: Welsh wrestler

Orig Williams was one of the most well-loved villains in sport, a Welsh-speaking native of North Wales who rose to television stardom as a wrestler under the unlikely pseudonym of “El Bandito”. His favourite saying was: “If you...

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Four arrests as police break up rave

POLICE officers were pelted with missiles by a crowd of angry revellers as they tried to break up an illegal rave in a disused warehouse yesterday. Officers were called out just before midnight on Saturday following reports...

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