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11/19/2009
A bogus, pompous, ludicrous and overpriced job
The manner of the birth of the new European presidency tells you everything that is wrong with it. Instantly it has provoked confusion, a satirical focus on personalities and rancour between nations large and small. Everyone is talking about who the president and foreign minister of this abstract ...
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11/16/2009
Mirror, mirror into space, can you cool off this place?
By Henry Chu
If there were some kind of panic button to stop global warming, what would it look like? How about billions of tiny mirrors, launched into orbit to deflect solar rays away from Earth? Or big, fluffy clouds, artificially whitened so they reflect more sunlight back into space? Or ...
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11/15/2009
CIA pays hundreds of millions for Pakistani intelligence
By Greg Miller
The CIA has funneled hundreds of millions of dollars to Pakistan’s intelligence service since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, accounting for as much as one-third of the foreign spy agency’s annual budget, current and former US officials say.
The Inter-Services Intelligence ...
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11/14/2009
Nevada’s hidden ocean of radiation
By Ralph Vartabedian
A sea of ancient water tainted by the Cold War is creeping deep under the volcanic peaks, dry lake beds and pinyon pine forests covering a vast tract of Nevada. Over 41 years, the federal government detonated 921 nuclear warheads underground at the Nevada Test Site, 75 ...
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11/13/2009
Pakistani scientist confirms Chinese proliferation role
By R Jeffrey Smith and Joby Warrick
In 1982, a Pakistani military C-130 left the western Chinese city of Urumqi with a highly unusual cargo: enough weapons-grade uranium for two atomic bombs, according to accounts written by the father of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons programme, Abdul Qadeer ...
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11/8/2009
Morality police take their job seriously
Aceh is the
only province
in Indonesia
to employ
Shariah law for its criminal code.
By John M Glionna
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia: The young couple are totally busted. They sit at a beach-side park, near signs forbidding teens from sitting too close. ...
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11/7/2009
Britain’s Afghan quagmire
It was November 1999. The winter was closing in, a sharp wind blew through the deserted streets of Kabul and a hard, cold rain drummed on battered iron roofs. There was almost no electricity, a handful of telephone lines, a single restaurant. In the city’s rundown stadium, I watched a woman ...
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11/2/2009
Jordan Valley may be a hurdle in peace talks
The Jordan Valley, which makes up about 25 percent of the West Bank, is almost entirely under Israeli control, with an electronic fence running the length of the eastern border facing Jordan.
by Howard Schneider
The backhoes are busy on housing plots for this new ...
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11/1/2009
Has Obama met hopes of the world?
Keith Richburg: On one year
Time is needed to clear the mess he inherited
Before he was elected president, Barack Obama, in The Audacity of Hope described himself as “a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views. “I am bound to ...
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