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Britain jails Iraqi doctor for terror plots, as Brown orders troops out
Bilal Abdulla received life in prison for a 2007 attack on the Glasgow airport and a foiled plot against a London nightclub.
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Greek protesters take over radio, television outlets
Protracted rioting threatens the Greek economy and regional stability, the government says.
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Zimbabwe official injured in shooting
Air Force Commander Perrance Shiri was shot in the arm. President Robert Mugabe says it was an assassination attempt by opposition party members.
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Joint raid sets camp of Ugandan rebel group ablaze
Uganda, Congo, and south Sudan attacked the Lord's Resistance Army camp in northern Congo on Sunday.
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India overhauls national security after Mumbai attacks
Reforms arrive amid fears of additional attacks; India prepares to confront Pakistan over handling of terror suspects.
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Ethiopian troops launch major offensives against Islamist insurgents in Somalia
The action raises questions about whether troops will withdraw, as planned, by the end of the year.
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Five Blackwater guards to face Washington jury on Baghdad manslaughter charges
None of the Iraqis killed in Nisoor Square on Sept. 16, 2007, was armed.
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In unconfirmed raid, Pakistan seizes Mumbai attack ringleader
Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, an operations chief for Lashkar-e-Taiba, was reportedly captured Monday in Pakistani Kashmir.
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Rice demands 'robust' cooperation from Pakistan in Mumbai probe
While Pakistan confronts growing evidence that the terrorist attack was carried out by the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, India braces for further sea, air assaults
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Rice urges Pakistan to act quickly' in Mumbai terror investigation
During a visit to India Wednesday, the US secretary of State said Pakistan's cooperation could help smooth fragile India-Pakistan relations.
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Another rate cut would be a big mistake
If we wish to emerge with less damage sooner from this crisis, we need to allow the banks to make more profit, writes John Redwood
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What Tesco knows and Woolies forgot
The people who succeed in business are passionate about it. And, by the way, you can make a lot of money in the process, writes John Kay
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The battle of the oligarchs behind the gas dispute
Ukraine and Russia tolerate, even encourage, use of the upper political echelons as instruments in business disputes
, write Jérôme Guillet and John Evans
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Choices made in 2009 will shape the globe's destiny
Some entertain hopes of restoring the globally unbalanced economic growth of the middle years of this decade. They are wrong. Our choice is between a better balanced world economy and disintegration. And it must be made this year, writes Martin Wolf
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Do not tie the markets - free them
We need to weaken labour, environmental, social, health and other 'standards' that block rational human activity, writes Vaclav Klaus
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Why it would be wrong to write off the Brics
For three consecutive years we will see expansion in global demand being led by these four economies, writes Jim O'Neill
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Israel's self-defeating Gaza offensive
Ending the blockade in return for a ceasefire remains the best option for both humanitarian and strategic reasons. But the longer the bloodshed goes on, the more both sides in the conflict will be sucked into a logic of revenge and retaliation, writes Gideon Rachman
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There is only one alternative to the dollar
The clear replacement for the US currency in 2009 is not that of another country but that ancient form of money: gold, writes David Hale
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Central banks must be the debt watchdogs
Only the central bank has the necessary closeness to the financial nervous system to oversee the build-up of leverage, writes Andrew Large
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Sterling's fall can rescue Britain
The Brown boom threatens to prove far more damaging than the Barber boom because it lasted so much longer, writes Peter Oppenheimer
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Body Count Nation
The Bush administration tried, but they couldn't help it. They just had to count.
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Body Count Nation
The Bush administration tried, but they couldn't help it. They just had to count.
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Fiscal Therapy
Getting the economy back on its feet, giving taxpayers a break, saving your retirement fund and your kid's college tuition? Done. And it won't cost you a penny.
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$3.43 Trillion & Counting
The real cost of the Wall Street bailout.
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Saving Private Industry
Corporate bailouts of the past 40 years. Corporate bailouts of the past 40 years.
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The New Year
Remembering the bad and the ugly of 2008. And good luck Baby New Year. Remembering the bad and the ugly of 2008. And good luck Baby New Year.
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Why the Auto Bailout's a Dead End
Detroit's primary moneymaking vehicle has been selling credit, not cars. The Big Three may have finally run out of road.
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Getting Away With Murder After Katrina
There’s a story about Katrina we don’t know—a version that turns everything we were told in the first days upside-down and inside out.
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A Corruption Carol
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the land, politicians were flailing at their very own hand. Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the land, politicians were flailing at their very own hand.
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MoJo Audio: Dave Chameides
What happens when you store a year's worth of trash in your basement?
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Israel declares unilateral daily three-hour ceasefire for humanitarian corridor
DEBKAfile's military sources report that Israel announced Wednesday, Jan. 7 a three-hour daily halt in military operations from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. as a goodwill gesture for the passage of humanitarian aid. Israel will suspend attacks in certain areas – though not the entire territory - to allow people...
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US, Egypt, Jordan, Germany and Israel are working together on Gaza ceasefire package
DEBKAfile's Washington sources disclose that Washington, Cairo, Amman and Jerusalem are hammering out the lines of a ceasefire deal that will be contingent on the state of combat in the Gaza Strip. Jerusalem accepts the proposition that the ceasefire lines will follow the lines of combat reached in the Gaza...
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Israeli troops still outside Hamas rocket strongholds in urban centers
High-placed Israeli officers have told DEBKAfile's sources that the Israeli incursion into the Gaza Strip Saturday night, Jan. 3, gained less ground in its first 24 hours than officially indicated - in much the same way as civilian casualties are overstated by the Palestinian side. While essentially bisecting the Gaza...
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Sixth Israeli soldier killed in Gaza, UNWRA school used as Hamas firing position
1st Sgt. Alexander Mashvitzki, 19, from Beesheba, was killed Tuesday, Jan. 6, when his combat engineering unit came under Hamas fire in Gaza City. Four of his comrades were injured. In the past 24 hours, an Israeli paratroop officer and three Golani Brigade fighters have been killed accidentally by friendly fire,...
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Erdogan may call off regular joint Turkish-Israeli military maneuvers
The close, longstanding Turkish-Israel relationship may be the first strategic casualty of Israel's Gaza offensive against Hamas. Monday, Jan. 5, Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan outdid many of the Jewish state's enemies in vituperation when he accused Israel of "perpetrating inhuman actions which would bring it to self-destruction. Allah...
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The four Israeli soldiers who died from accidental tank fire in 24 hours
The three killed mistakenly Monday night, Jan 5, by an Israeli tank shell in mid-battle with Hamas on the fringes of Gaza City were members of the Golani Brigade's 13th Battalion: Cpl. Yusuf Muadi, 19, from Yerka Major Dagan Vertman, 32, from Maaleh Machmesh 1st Sgt. Nitai Stern,...
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Three Israeli soldiers killed, 24 injured in Gaza by friendly tank fire
Three Golani Brigade soldiers were killed and more than 20 injured, one critically, 3 seriously and the rest suffering moderate to light injuries, by an Israeli tank shell fired by mistake at a building in which they sheltered in Tel al Shakef at the eastern edge of the Tofah district...
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Israeli forces tighten siege on Gaza City, deploy at Philadelphi to block Hamas' weapons route
1st Sgt. Dvir Emanueloff, 22, from Givat Zeev, died in battle with Hamas in Jibalya Sunday. DEBKAfile's military sources report that on the second day of their ground offensive, Sunday, Jan 4, Day 9 of its offensive against Hamas, Israeli forces closed their siege encirclement of Gaza City. One soldier...
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