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In demonising America, Chomsky has fallen into the same trap as the neocons"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you...(more)
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Former vice-president Mohammed Waheed Hassan calls for national unity government as police keep watch on predecessorThe new president of the Maldives has called for the formation of a national unity government as police and soldiers keep watch over his predecessor at an undisclosed location.Mohammed Waheed Hassan,...(more)
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• PM Lucas Papademos to meet coalition leaders today• It's Deja EU all over again - meeting postponed to 3pm• Today's agenda10.22am: The eurozone crisis is hitting the travel industry. Thomas Cook said this morning that the "uncertain economic environment across Europe" has hit bookings. Sales...(more)
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• Bombardment of Homs continues for a fifth day• US says it won't arm Free Syrian Army• Russia calls for an Arab solution to the crisis10.01am: The EU is considering a new round of sanctions against the Assad regime, our Brussels correspondent Ian Traynor has been...(more)
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Santorum won political caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota, along with beauty contest in Missouri securing triple victoryRepublican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has revived his flagging campaign with a trio of victories to upset frontrunner Mitt Romney's seemingly inevitable progress towards the party nomination.Santorum achieved a clean...(more)
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Reuters - Japan and the United States said on Wednesday they have started talks to transfer U.S. Marines to Guam from the southern Japan island of Okinawa despite little progress being made on the planned relocation of a U.S. airbase on Okinawa, a step forward in...(more)
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AP - Russia's foreign minister says that Syrian President Bashar Assad wants his vice president to hold talks with the opposition forces.
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German's trade surplus rises to 158bn euros in 2011 on record exports of 1.06tn euros, official figures show.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil exporters have stopped supplying Iran with most of the 30,000 tonnes of the food staple the Middle Eastern country buys each month, or about half its demand, as Western financial curbs on Tehran stymie payments, two trading sources said....(more)
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A Midwood Army veteran is finally coming home Wednesday after a long battle to recover from massive injuries suffered in an explosion in Iraq - and get the military to grant him a discharge.
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Reuters - A Communist "princeling" fond of small town America and Hollywood war dramas, and brusque critic of Western pressure with a daughter at Harvard, Chinese leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping embodies his nation's contradictory ties with the United States.
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The decision to once again prosecute Sergei L. Magnitsky, whose death in prison was considered a symbol of rights abuses in Russia, infuriated his family and former employer.
