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Obama forced to clarify Iraq position

euronews.net     9 hrs ago   70 related          

Barack Obama’s has been accused of backtracking on his plans to withdraw troops from Iraq. The Democratic presidential candidate was forced to clarify earlier comments. He said: “We’re planning to visit Iraq. I’m going to do a...

Strike and we'll strike you back, warns Tehran

Iran has handed over its long-awaited response to the West's offer of incentives to halt its suspected nuclear weapons programme, after a warning by one of its top military leaders that any strike against it would trigger war.

Canada ruling boosts US deserter

bbc.co.uk     1 hr ago   11 related          

There are at least 200 US army deserters in Canada A Canadian court has ordered the country's refugee board to re-examine an American deserter's rejected attempt for asylum in Canada. The court ruled that the board made...

Nine British soldiers in court accused of Ayia Napa rampage

A Cyprus bar owner yesterday recounted in court the night he says a gang of soldiers, released from tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, ran amok and beat him up. Kyriakos Hadjiyiannis was giving evidence at Famagusta...

Obama seeks to tackle doubters

ft.com     5 hrs ago   114 related          

Brendhan from Florida is not happy with Barack Obama. “What the heck is going on?” he asks the senator in a blog entry on the official web portal of the Democratic presidential campaign. A month after Mr Obama sealed the...

Marathon ride in aid of Heroes

A MARATHON 1,200-mile cycle ride from Norton Manor Camp to Germany is set to raise around £5,000 for troops injured in Iraq and Afghanistan. Friends John Hines and Paul Browne, from Taunton, and Mike Bennett, of Yeovil, are...

Gordon Brown won't holiday in Cliff Richard's Barbados villa

telegraph.co.uk     6 hrs ago          

The bags under Gordon Brown’s eyes may look heavier than ever these days, but Mandrake hears that he is unlikely to avail of the lavish hospitality of Sir Cliff Richard. “Cliff has no plans to offer him his home in Barbados,”...

Military action 'would destabilise Iraq'

By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad Iraq will be plunged into a new war if Israel or the US launches an attack on Iran, Iraqi leaders have warned. Iranian retaliation would take place in Iraq, said Dr Mahmoud Othman, the influential...

America gripped by story of love triangle amid bombs of Baghdad

The main news tonight: a television reporter is making front-page headlines across America, after being entangled in a scandalous love triangle during a posting to Baghdad. Lara Logan, a CBS news correspondent and former...

Casualties of war

scotsman.com     2 hrs ago          

Published Date: 05 July 2008 AT THE BEGINNING OF 2007, EFPs – explosively formed projectiles – were a new and frightening addition to the insurgents' arsenal. In early 2007, Robert Cumming, a former paratrooper from Comrie,...

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