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US: Taliban can be beaten

Britain's military commander and ambassador in Afghanistan are being "defeatist" by thinking the war against the Taliban cannot be won, the US Defence Secretary, Robert Gates, said as Washington sought more troops for the...

Review: Oliver Stone's W in Beverly Hills

W is a remarkable movie - an historic movie - in two ways. First, Oliver Stone began making it (based on a partially completed script) only nine months ago. Alas, in all other respects, Mr Stone’s ‘biopic’ of George W. Bush’s...

Ed Pilkington: Henry Waxman - the scariest politician in Washington

Henry Waxman, 2008. Photograph: Karen Bleier/AFP It is an axiom of public life that if extreme crises bring out the worst in human nature, they also bring to the surface what is best. So it is with the world financial meltdown,...

What is Paulson's Plan B?

Monday, 29 September, the US financial bail-out is rejected by the House of Representatives and the stock market plunges. A week later, after the Bill has passed, the stock market plunges again. What's to conclude from these...

Bush to America: Hang in there

"I know that the days are dim right now for a lot of folks," Bush said. The government's unprecedented plan to buy up Wall Street's failed assets has not kept the stock market from plunging or the credit crisis from imperiling...

A new, more powerful Fed emerges in crisis

Central bank is increasingly aggressive in attempting to stabilize economy Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's words have always loomed large over the traders on the New York Stock Exchange. Radical steps by the Fed under chairman Ben...

In Visit to Kosovo, Gates Underlines U.S. Support

PRISTINA, Kosovo, Oct. 7 -- Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates visited Kosovo on Tuesday and reiterated U.S. support for the newly independent state, which has failed to achieve the broad recognition it expected because of...

U.S. updates exercise guidelines

Most adults should aim for 2½ hours of exercise a week, and children and teens need at least an hour a day of brisk activity, the U.S. government recommends in new guidelines issued Tuesday. The guidelines from the U.S. Health...

AP Exclusive: Documents say detainee near insanity

WASHINGTON -- A U.S. military officer warned Pentagon officials that an American detainee was being driven nearly insane by months of punishing isolation and sensory deprivation in a U.S. military brig, according to documents...

Obama, McCain clash on economy, judgment

Squaring off in the second of three debates, Barack Obama and John McCain drew sharp differences over the origin of domestic and international problems -- and how to tackle them. Obama tied McCain to President Bush on Iraq and...

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