Obama meets Afghan President Karzai Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT
 Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama met Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul on Sunday, the second day of a visit to Afghanistan that is meant to bolster the senator’s foreign policy credentials.
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Pope warns youth of materialist “spiritual desert” Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT
 Pope Benedict, wrapping up his visit to Australia, on Sunday urged a crowd of 400,000 young people to beware the spreading “spiritual desert” that often accompanied modern prosperity.
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Foreign airstrike kills 9 Afghan police: official Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT
A foreign airstrike killed nine Afghan policemen in western Afghanistan overnight after a clash in which both sides mistook the other for Taliban militants, Afghan officials said on Sunday. |
Arab League gives support to Sudan Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT
 The Arab League on Saturday slammed the International Criminal Court’s “unbalanced” prosecutor for seeking the arrest of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, saying Sudan’s courts should judge alleged Darfur war crimes.
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Beijing starts car ban ahead of Olympics Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT
 Traffic restrictions and factory closures came into affect in Beijing on Sunday in a last ditch attempt to turn the often smoky and dusty Chinese capital into the promised pollution-free venue for next month’s Olympics.
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Malaysia’s Anwar revives bid for power despite arrest Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT
 Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim toured Malaysia over the weekend in a bid to revive his ambitions of seizing power despite his arrest on sodomy allegations - the same charge that saw him jailed a decade ago.
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Dwarf planet near Pluto named for Polynesian god Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT
 A dwarf planet orbiting beyond Neptune has been designated the third plutoid in the solar system and given the name Makemake, the International Astronomical Union said Saturday.
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Canadian killed on patrol in Afghanistan Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT
 To fellow soldiers barely out of their teens, Cpl. James Hayward Arnal was the old man, a veteran soldier who was “utterly fearless under enemy fire” and the glue that held his unit together.
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Hollywood heavyweights Robert De Niro and Al Pacino reunited on the red carpet in New York Wednesday night for the premiere of their new crime thriller “Righteous Kill” — their first film together since making 1995’s “Heat.”
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The Pakistani Army has been given orders to retaliate against any unilateral strike by the Afghanistan-based US troops inside the country.
Army Spokesman Maj Gen Athar Abbas confirmed the orders in a brief interview with Geo News on late Thursday night.
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says he will not accept military action or new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear activities.
“We should not take any unilateral steps. It is not acceptable to opt for a military scenario. It would be dangerous,”
As the world marks the seventh anniversary of 9/11, some European experts say security improvements in the US have been undercut by fairly basic mistakes. Among the remedies is more trust in America’s laws and allies.
Seven years after the attacks
David Miliband has allegedly come in for a rather undiplomatic tongue-lashing from his Russian counterpart.
The Foreign Secretary was apparently given a furious dressing down by Sergei Lavrov over the telephone.
Mr Miliband’s criticism of Russia’s recent incursion into Georgia is believed
PIETERMARITZBURG, South Africa - A South African judge ruled Friday that prosecutors were wrong to charge ANC President Jacob Zuma with corruption, effectively clearing way for the 66-year-old former freedom fighter to become the country’s next president.
Judge Chris Nicholson’s ruling
Thailand’s political turmoil deepened Friday when the ruling coalition failed to turn up to parliament to reelect leader Samak Sundaravej as prime minister.
Lawmakers from the six-party coalition did not attend an emergency session of parliament called to choose a prime minister, three days after a court stripped Samak of power for accepting payments for hosting
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