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Manny Pacquiao to stand for congress in Philippines

Seven-time boxing champion Manny Pacquiao has announced he is to stand for election in the Philippines on the back of his latest world title win. No pain, no gain: Pacquiao waved to the crowd with his damaged right wrist, an...

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Petrol bomb revenge woman jailed

A mother-of-three who placed a petrol bomb under the car of her former partner has been jailed for two years. Caernarfon Crown Court was told that Einir Hughes, 34, from Nefyn, Gwynedd, carried out the "revenge attack" after...

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More on the civilian trial | Michael Tomasky

On today's WashPost op-ed pages, Jim Comey and Jack Goldsmith, who worked in the Justice Department under GWB, defend Eric Holder's decision and say that in fact it's military tribunals that don't work that well: In deciding to...

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Turnip Taliban: A brilliant way to turn off Tory voters

The Conservative Party positively encourages the persecution of such types as Sir Jeremy Bagge, old Etonian and leader of Norfolk's "Turnip Taliban", says Simon Heffer. We had a prime example this week in Sir Jeremy Bagge, 7th...

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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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Analysis: Local grievances are being sucked into 'global jihad'

Published Date: 21 November 2009 YOU may know al-Qaeda wants to kill you, but does al-Shabaab, the Islamic militia fighting the UN-backed government of Somalia, perceive the West as a direct enemy? And does the Eastern...

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Eight Taleban killed by missile strike

Published Date: 21 November 2009 A SUSPECTED American missile strike killed at least eight Taleban militants yesterday in north-western Pakistan, officials said. It was the second attack this week in an area believed to hold...

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Book review: The Arabs: A History

Published Date: 21 November 2009 BY EUGENE ROGAN Allen Lane, 513pp, £25 PIRATES take over North Africa, armies clash over the holiest of Islamic sites, the great western powers threaten to bomb each other in a squabble over...

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Homecoming hell

It is difficult and expensive to travel to Jaffna (Photos: Ananda Jayasekara) It has been six months since the end of the armed conflict in Sri Lanka, but normality has yet to return to the Tamil cultural heartland of Jaffna,...

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