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US ‘order to kill’ Yemen cleric

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:45:18 +0000

The US government has authorised operations to capture or kill the radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, currently based in Yemen, reports say. The cleric, who is a US citizen, is being targeted for his involvement in planning attacks on the US, officials told journalists

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Blasts kill at least 28 in Iraq

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:48:00 +0000

A series of large explosions has hit the centre of Baghdad killing at least five people, reports say.

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Party politics

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:34:32 +0000

As Gordon Brown is due to confirm the general election will be held on 6 May the papers are awash with party politics. cries, predicting the arrival of a "frenzy" of electoral combat. The Daily Mail hails "the most defining" election for a generation, while the Daily Telegraph says the "election battle lines are drawn"

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US anger at Pakistan mission raid

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:28:03 +0000

The US has expressed "great concern" over a deadly assault by militants on the American consulate in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar. The Pakistani Taliban say they carried out the attack, which left three guards and four militants dead.

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Prisoners’ jail protest goes on

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:24:16 +0000

A security alert at Maghaberry Prison is under way after dissident republican inmates barricaded themselves into a dining room. A suspicious object was thrown from the room, where up to 30 prisoners gathered on Sunday morning after attending Mass. Visits at the high-security prison have been suspended

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Attack on Pakistan US consulate

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 11:35:22 +0000

A series of explosions has been reported in the north-west Pakistani city of Peshawar.

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Musharraf set for Hay Festival

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 08:00:05 +0000

Current and former presidents join literary heavyweights among the line up for this year’s Hay Festival. The political world is represented by former Pakistan leader Pervez Musharraf while playwright Tom Stoppard appears from the world of literature.

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Israel allows private imports into Gaza

Sun, 04 Apr 2010 18:32:31 +0000

Israel has allowed 10 trucks of clothes and shoes for Palestinian traders into the Gaza Strip for the first time since Hamas took over the territory in 2007. Food, medicines and fuel are allowed into the territory, but aide agencies say there are serious shortages.

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Car bomb defused at PSNI station

Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:01:17 +0000

Army bomb experts are dealing with a suspicious vehicle outside a south Armagh police station. The red Peugeot was abandoned at the gates of Crossmaglen station late on Saturday night.

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‘The leader’

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 22:00:15 +0000

South African white supremacist paramilitary leader Eugene Terreblanche mounted his trusty black horse Attila after his release from prison. In that moment, he showed that he was still as much a master of the grand gesture as he had been throughout his singularly ineffectual political career. Even the name – “white earth” in French, the language of Terreblanche’s Huguenot ancestors – seemed too good to be real.

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