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  Bull 1, Mexican matador: never again

  Posted: June 15th, 2010, 8:34am EDT

  Watch video of the bullfightimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440158/s/b2bfdd3/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199168714/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/187432403/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199168714/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/187432403/a2.img" border="0"//a
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  Emails ‘prove BP systematically put safety at risk’

  Posted: June 15th, 2010, 8:21am EDT

  Congressional investigators have published a series of internal BP memos which they say proves that the British company systematically and negligently put safety at risk on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in order to increase profits.img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440158/s/b2afa2f/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199241046/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/187365935/kg/25-27-40/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199241046/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/187365935/kg/25-27-40/a2.img" border="0"//a
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  Uzbekistan closes borders to refugees

  Posted: June 15th, 2010, 6:46am EDT

  Uzbekistan last night closed its borders to refugees fleeing neighbouring Kyrgyzstan as the numbers killed in the ethnic violence spiralled and aid agencies reported fresh allegations of atrocities from the survivors.img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440158/s/b2a8ad3/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199236894/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/187337427/kg/45/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199236894/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/187337427/kg/45/a2.img" border="0"//a
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  Serbia closer to EU membership thanks to ‘co-operation’ over Ratko Mladic

  Posted: June 14th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  Serbia took a significant step towards joining the EU after European foreign ministers relaxed demands for the alleged genocide fugitive Ratko Mladic to be arrested before allowing its membership application to proceed.img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440158/s/b29716a/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199230432/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/187265386/kg/43/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199230432/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/187265386/kg/43/a2.img" border="0"//a
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  Russia poised to intervene as ethnic violence rages in Kyrgyzstan

  Posted: June 14th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  The Kremlin edged closer last night to military intervention in Kyrgyzstan as the number of people killed in ethnic violence spiralled and as many as 100,000 refugees flooded neighbouring Uzbekistan.img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440158/s/b29440a/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199150467/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/187253770/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199150467/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/187253770/a2.img" border="0"//a
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  India fails to honour its elephant promise over granting of freedom

  Posted: June 14th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  Swaying forlornly in her concrete pen the rheumy-eyed Laxmi does not look like a cold-blooded killer.img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440158/s/b293eb4/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199149893/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/187252404/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199149893/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/187252404/a2.img" border="0"//a
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  US military to punish culprits behind toxic waste dumping in Iraq

  Posted: June 14th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  The American military has announced an investigation into its disposal of hazardous material in Iraq and declared its intention to prosecute anyone violating environmental standards.img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440158/s/b293eb3/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199149892/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/187252403/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199149892/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/187252403/a2.img" border="0"//a
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  Turkish aid flotilla was bringing wheelchairs, toys — and hope

  Posted: June 14th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  For the people of Gaza the most precious commodity on board the Turkish flotilla stormed by Israel last month was not electric wheelchairs or children’s toys or medicine: it was hope.img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440158/s/b293eb2/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199149891/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/187252402/kg/25-63/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199149891/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/187252402/kg/25-63/a2.img" border="0"//a
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  Gaza crossing points opened as Israel bows to international pressure

  Posted: June 14th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  Israel bowed to international pressure yesterday when it agreed to reopen crossing points into Gaza for everyday goods.img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440158/s/b293eb1/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199149890/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/187252401/kg/63/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199149890/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/187252401/kg/63/a2.img" border="0"//a
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  World Cup footballers Messi and Ronaldo join roar for ban on ‘deafening’ vuvuzela

  Posted: June 14th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi joined calls by broadcasters and fans to ban the vuvuzela at the World Cup as British supermarkets reported selling one of the plastic horns every two seconds.img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440158/s/b292460/mf.gif' border='0'/
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  US pension funds sue BP directors over the falling share price

  Posted: June 14th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  Fifteen directors of BP, including Tony Hayward, the chief executive, and Carl-Henric Svanberg, the chairman, are being sued personally by two US pension funds for their role in the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster.img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440158/s/b29245e/mf.gif' border='0'/
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  Britain must prepare for casualty spike in Afghanistan, Cameron warns

  Posted: June 14th, 2010, 2:00am EDT

  David Cameron warned yesterday that there would be more British deaths in Afghanistan this summer but said that the threat to Britain of an al-Qaeda attack from the region had dropped.img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440158/s/b29716b/mf.gif' border='0'/
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  Obama pledges clean energy policy to cut America’s dependency on oil

  Posted: June 14th, 2010, 12:58am EDT

  President Obama likened the impact of the oil spill disaster on the nation’s psyche to the September 11 terrorist attacks as he made his first multi-state tour yesterday of the Gulf of Mexico.img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440158/s/b29440c/mf.gif' border='0'/
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  Value of Afghanistan’s mineral discovery needs to be dealt with cautiously

  Posted: June 14th, 2010, 10:48pm EDT

  The good news from the men at the Pentagon is that beneath the landmines Afghanistan is sitting on a goldmine.img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440158/s/b28e4a7/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199281451/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/187229351/kg/65/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199281451/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/187229351/kg/65/a2.img" border="0"//a
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  Camera becomes turtle’s toy during 1,000-mile sea odyssey

  Posted: June 14th, 2010, 10:20pm EDT

  The mystery of a lost camera’s 1,000-mile aquatic journey has been solved by a sea turtle with a predilection for home videos.img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440158/s/b28f00e/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199147502/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/187232270/kg/25/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199147502/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/187232270/kg/25/a2.img" border="0"//a
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  $5m prize for good governance goes unclaimed again in Africa$

  Posted: June 14th, 2010, 9:52pm EDT

  Wanted — an African leader who has stood down after a free and fair election. Candidates should be honest and have a healthy respect for the democratic process. Young candidates are preferred.img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440158/s/b28ddbc/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199280887/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/187227580/kg/63/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199280887/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/187227580/kg/63/a2.img" border="0"//a
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  Royal two for one: William and Harry go to Africa on first joint tour

  Posted: June 14th, 2010, 6:42pm EDT

  In these times of austerity, it is the royal tour that gives value for money: two princes for the price of one. Prince William and Prince Harry’s trip to Africa — a six-day, three-country dash that began today and will take in England’s next World Cup match in Cape Town — is the first time they have embarked on a tour together.img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440158/s/b281fb8/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199220971/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/187178936/kg/43-44-63-68/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199220971/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/187178936/kg/43-44-63-68/a2.img" border="0"//a
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  President Obama compares Gulf of Mexico oil leak to 9/11

  Posted: June 14th, 2010, 4:48pm EDT

  President Obama predicted a wholesale rethink of America’s love affair with oil today, saying he believed the Gulf disaster would have as profound an impact on the American psyche and policy as 9/11.img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440158/s/b27fc8a/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199274911/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/187169930/kg/25/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199274911/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/187169930/kg/25/a2.img" border="0"//a
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  Israel’s internal inquiry into Gaza ship attack rejected by Turkey

  Posted: June 14th, 2010, 4:40pm EDT

  Israel has agreed to set up an internal commission to investigate the killing of nine Turkish passengers on a humanitarian aid convoy that was boarded by Israeli commandos two weeks ago, officials said.img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440158/s/b2753e1/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199104030/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/187126753/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199104030/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/187126753/a2.img" border="0"//a
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  Israel promises to ease its three year blockade of Gaza

  Posted: June 14th, 2010, 3:27pm EDT

  Read more on the Turkish aid flotilla deaths at The Times's new websiteimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440158/s/b27ac06/mf.gif' border='0'/
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  Riot police break up World Cup pay protest

  Posted: June 14th, 2010, 2:46pm EDT

  Read Simon Barnes on Capello's mistakes and live coverage of the World Cup latest at The Times's new websiteimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440158/s/b2719f0/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199131965/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/187111920/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199131965/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/187111920/a2.img" border="0"//a
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  200 killed in ethnic fighting in Kyrgyzstan

  Posted: June 14th, 2010, 1:20pm EDT

  China sends plane to rescue its nationalsimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440158/s/b267b8e/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199261213/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/187071374/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199261213/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/187071374/a2.img" border="0"//a
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  BP shares dive amid US senators’ £20bn escrow plan

  Posted: June 14th, 2010, 11:59am EDT

  Read how BP managers face years in jail and how America snubbed British offer of help with spill at The Times's new websiteimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440158/s/b26c003/mf.gif' border='0'/
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  Afghanistan ‘holds $1 trillion in mineral deposits$’

  Posted: June 14th, 2010, 8:23am EDT

  Afghanistan has nearly $US1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits, far more than previously thought and enough to turn a country devastated by decades of war into one of the most important mining centres in the world, according to senior US officials.$img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440158/s/b254ff0/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199117626/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/186994672/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199117626/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/186994672/a2.img" border="0"//a
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  Brits storm Broadway in the Tonys

  Posted: June 13th, 2010, 4:15am EDT

  See pictures of last night's Tony awards, and read more about British successes at The Times's new websiteimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440158/s/b24ffa1/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199193954/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/186974113/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/73199193954/u/0/f/440158/c/32313/s/186974113/a2.img" border="0"//a
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  The last thing liberators should leave behind is a poisoned people

  Posted: June 13th, 2010, 2:00am EDT

  Every occupying army leaves its mark on the country t it has “liberated” and the detritus of war can endure for generations. The United States is in the process of winding down its strength in Iraq from 88,000 troops to 50,000 by September 1 and the American military is engaged in one of the biggest removal operations ever recorded.
  
  
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  Man trapped in basement boiler cuts off own arm

  Posted: June 13th, 2010, 5:50pm EDT

  Last week Jonathan Metz became trapped in his basement in Connecticut while trying to mend his boiler. Yesterday he was recovering in a Connecticut hospital, the newest member of an ultra-exclusive fraternity of Americans who have cut off their own limbs to save their lives.
  
  
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  Germany seeks extradition of alleged Mossad agent arrested in Warsaw

  Posted: June 13th, 2010, 4:32pm EDT

  The arrest of a suspected Mossad agent in Warsaw is threatening to disrupt relations between Israel and two of its closest allies in the EU, Poland and Germany.
  
  
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  Police shoot to kill as thousands flee ethnic slaughter in Kyrgyzstan

  Posted: June 13th, 2010, 3:44pm EDT

  Police were given shoot to kill orders today as ethnic slaughter spread across southern Kyrgyzstan and thousands of terrified refugees fled towards Uzbekistan to beg for protection.
  
  
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  Thrusting a wedge into the rainbow

  Posted: June 12th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  For better or for worse, and thanks to the World Cup and the World Cup alone, a rotund little Louis Vuitton Leninist called Julius Malema has shot to something resembling global prominence. Football’s focus is so voraciously indiscriminate at World Cup time that the otherwise internationally insignificant Malema, president of the Youth League of the ANC, South Africa’s ruling party, has suddenly become a figure to be reckoned with. I have been asked about him by journalists from Beijing, Los Angeles, London, Berlin, Buenos Aires and Mexico City, their assumption being that he would plunge South Africa into race war, transforming the World Cup fiesta into a blood-drenched fiasco.
  
  
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  Catty Carly Fiorina starts fur flying in early primary elections

  Posted: June 12th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  THE year of the woman is in danger of turning into the year of the catfight. In an intriguing twist to America’s most talked-about political trend, the women candidates who are dominating the early primary elections have been plunged into a spicy political debate over how cruelly female rivals should insult each other.
  
  
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  World news in brief

  Posted: June 12th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  Israeli held in Poland
  
  
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  Riding out for her own wounded hero

  Posted: June 12th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  The first week of January brought a surprise for Eleanor Stourton: she opened the newspaper to find that her boyfriend, Andrew Jelinek, a cavalry officer serving in Afghanistan, had been involved in the rescue of two little girls injured by a roadside bomb while playing near their home in Musa Qala.
  
  
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  Inside the Pimpernel’s bunker

  Posted: June 12th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  There was little to arouse suspicion about the group of conspirators who converged on a rented house in Reykjavik on a blustery day three months ago. Their leader, Julian Assange, hid his striking shock of white hair beneath a grey snowsuit and his words to the property’s owner were blandly reassuring: “We are journalists. We’re here to write about the volcano.”
  
  
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  ‘Israeli spy’ arrested in Poland

  Posted: June 12th, 2010, 6:34pm EDT

  An alleged Israeli agent wanted in connection with the killing of a Hamas leader in Dubai has been arrested in Poland.
  
  
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  Teen sailor Abby Sunderland rescued by French fishermen

  Posted: June 12th, 2010, 2:31pm EDT

  Californian teen sailor Abby Sunderland was rescued by French fishermen today after two days of battle with gale force winds and freezing temperatures while stranded on her stricken boat in the Indian Ocean.
  
  
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  Gunmen kill 39 in latest wave of violence in Mexico

  Posted: June 12th, 2010, 9:21am EDT

  Gunmen brought terror to two towns in northern Mexico, killing at least 39 people, as the country struggles to tackle the scourge of powerful and violent drug cartels.
  
  
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  North Korea warns South over loudspeakers

  Posted: June 12th, 2010, 8:30am EDT

  North Korea has issued another threat to shoot down loudspeakers the South has set up at the border to broadcast anti-Pyongyang propaganda messages, keeping tensions on the peninsula bubbling at their highest in years.
  
  
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  Teenage sailor Abby Sunderland set to be rescued

  Posted: June 12th, 2010, 7:06am EDT

  Californian teen sailor Abby Sunderland is set to be rescued later today after spending the past two days battling gale force winds and freezing temperatures while stranded on her stricken yacht in the Indian Ocean.
  
  
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  Arkansas floods sweep 16 campers and hikers to their deaths

  Posted: June 11th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  A torrent of floodwater surged into a picturesque valley in rural Arkansas yesterday killing at least 16 campers and hikers.
  
  
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  Two killed during police raid on ‘Russian Rambos’ hideout

  Posted: June 11th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  
  
  
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  MoD must drop ‘Yes Minister’ approach to Afghanistan, say Tory MPs

  Posted: June 11th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  
  
  
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  Outdated Rent Control Act is stifling our cities, say Indian landlords

  Posted: June 11th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  
  
  
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  Destroying monuments to Stalin a silly attempt to rewrite history: Gorbachev

  Posted: June 11th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  Mikhail Gorbachev, whose attempts to reform the Soviet Union helped to bring about its demise, says he regrets the destruction of monuments to Joseph Stalin which he described as a “silly, anti-historical act”.
  
  
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  Rajapaksa family tighten their grip on reins of Government

  Posted: June 11th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  
  
  
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  World Cup offers us a land of hope, and maybe glory

  Posted: June 11th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  There’ll always be an Inger-land. At least, there will be for the next two or three weeks. Every four years, when the World Cup finals begin, we forsake our traditional allegiance — affectionate, ironic, critical, muted — to England and assume the tribal identity of the warring Neolithic with his atavistic war-cry: Inger-land, Inger-land, Inger-land!
  
  
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  Apple and Google set to follow Rdio with new online music services

  Posted: June 11th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  A rash of new online music services, including offerings from Apple and Google, are on their way this year and could fundamentally change the way we listen to music. They will aim to allow people to listen to millions of songs not only over the internet but also through their mobile phones.
  
  
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  Bitter French villagers reject plaque to massacred Germans

  Posted: June 11th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  As France prepares to mark the 70th anniversary next week of Charles de Gaulle’s call to arms against the Nazis, one village is trying to forget the darker side of the wartime resistance.
  
  
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  Dutch town lets its blond hair down for race row politician Wilders

  Posted: June 11th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  Bouffant blond wigs have sold out in Venlo, a town in the Deep South of the Netherlands.
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  Obama on slippery slope over the worst environmental disaster in US history

  Posted: June 11th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  Can an oil spill sink a presidency? The White House is not taking any chances.
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  Dissidents discover that even Iraq is safer

  Posted: June 11th, 2010, 2:00am EDT

  It is a measure of Reza’s desperation on the first anniversary of Iran’s election crackdown that the safest refuge he can find is, of all places, in neighbouring Iraq.
  
  
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  World Cup village transformed with mobile cells and water cannon

  Posted: June 11th, 2010, 2:00am EDT

  David Tiego recalls as a child running across open veld where England footballers and 25,000 fans will begin their World Cup campaign under an unprecedented level of security.
  
  
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  Tributes as British bus victims identified

  Posted: June 11th, 2010, 5:35pm EDT

  Tearful survivors of a bus crash which killed three British students comforted each other today after their college field trip to South Africa ended in tragedy.
  
  
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  Mandela pulls out of World Cup ceremony after crash

  Posted: June 11th, 2010, 9:03am EDT

  Live on our new site: World Cup coverage
  
  
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  Teenage round-the-world sailor Abby Sunderland found alive

  Posted: June 11th, 2010, 8:21am EDT

  Full world news coverage
  
  
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  Outback landing ends seven-year space odyssey for Hayabusa

  Posted: June 11th, 2010, 7:30am EDT

  Around midnight on Sunday, in a sparse desert in the middle of the Outback in South Australia, a small capsule is expected to drop from the sky, ending a 3 billion-mile (4.8 billion km), seven-year odyssey to bring a piece of space rock to Earth.
  
  
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  New calculations double rate of oil spill into Gulf

  Posted: June 11th, 2010, 7:21am EDT

  A new calculation of the amount of oil spilt into the Gulf of Mexico from the fractured BP oilrig has dramatically increased the estimate, suggesting that an amount equivalent to the Exxon Valdez disaster could be pouring into the ocean every eight to ten days.
  
  
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  We want troops out as soon as we can, says Cameron

  Posted: June 10th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  Read The Times's exclusive investigation into Britain's war in Afghanistan at our new website: US warned Britain to send more troops to Helmand | Pictures: from the frontline | Unworkable command structure | Were platoon houses a disastrous error? | Commander nearly quit in frustration | Complacent British ignored Pentagon advice | Comment: Lessons of Helmand |
  
  
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  Obama feels the heat from BP backlash

  Posted: June 10th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  Read more about the controversy over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill at The Times's new website: Boris Johnson attacks 'anti-British' rhetoric | 'Kick-ass' Obama condemns BP chief executive | BP shares plunge as clean up costs soar | BP accused of 'judge-shopping' | BP accused of skewing Google search results on spill
  
  
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  Briton wanted in Singapore over vandalism

  Posted: June 8th, 2010, 8:30am EDT

  Police in Singapore have issued an arrest warrant for a British man they believe could have vandalised a metro train, as his alleged accomplice awaited trial under the island state’s tough laws.
  
  
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  Dozens of bodies dumped in Mexico mine

  Posted: June 8th, 2010, 8:10am EDT

  Police in Mexico have discovered dozens more bodies in an abandoned mine suspected of being used by drug gangs as a dumping ground for their victims which is one of the biggest mass graves to be unearthed in the country.
  
  
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  Barack Obama defends handling of BP oil spill

  Posted: June 8th, 2010, 7:34am EDT

  Barack Obama today defended his handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, saying he had been talking closely with experts and officials about the environmental disaster “so I know whose ass to kick”, and called for BP to pay compensation.
  
  
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  Mexican drug gang killers cut out victims’ hearts

  Posted: June 7th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  Mexican police have discovered six bodies with their hearts cut out in an underground cave on the outskirts of Cancun, apparently victims of a wave of drug violence between rival cartels.
  
  
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  BP accused of judge-shopping for seeking Republican judge to handle lawsuits

  Posted: June 7th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  BP has been accused of “judge shopping” after pushing for a specific judge in Houston, Texas — the centre of America’s oil and gas industry — to handle the lawsuits against it.
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  French political elite to lose their bodyguards perk

  Posted: June 7th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  Accountants have blown the whistle on one of the most exclusive perks enjoyed by the French political elite: round-the-clock bodyguards who often double as personal valets.
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  Angela Merkel unveils Germany’s largest programme of public sector cuts

  Posted: June 7th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  Germany seems to be heading for a summer of unrest after Angela Merkel announced what she described as the country’s largest programme of public sector cuts.
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  Bhopal verdict shows that wealthy can outwit India’s judiciary

  Posted: June 7th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  For a quarter of a century Bhopal has been synonymous with the gas leak that killed thousands of people on and after December 3, 1984, and prompted a global debate that still rages about corporate liability for environmental disasters.
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  Like a scene out of Dallas, Big Oil and officialdom go hand in hand

  Posted: June 7th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  For followers of the fictitious oilman J.R. Ewing in the 1980s television series Dallas, the real-life relationship between the oil industry and the officials who regulate it may seem a little like fact mirroring fiction.
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  Adidas Jabulani World Cup football ‘is the most stable ever made’

  Posted: June 7th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  David James, England’s goalkeeper, described it as dreadful, the Italian striker Giampaolo Pazzini labelled it a disaster and Brazil’s Julio Cesar likened it to a “grocery store” football. But the British scientist behind the official World Cup ball has defended the adidas Jabulani as the most stable and precise football ever made.
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  Zimbabwe’s new independent daily ends state news monopoly

  Posted: June 7th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  Zimbabweans woke yesterday to the unexpected sight of a new independent daily newspaper being hawked on the streets of the capital — seven years after the last one was shut down.
  
  
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  Cyclist goes for gold owed for Olympic victory 62 years ago

  Posted: June 7th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  For this particular Olympic champion it really was a moment he had been waiting for all his life. A gold medallist from the postwar London Games has finally received his award — 62 years after winning the team cycle race at Windsor Great Park, officially started by Princess Elizabeth.
  
  
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  Fake designer goods become more of a trap than tourists bargained for

  Posted: June 7th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  It must have seemed a bargain: a Louis Vuitton bag for €7 (£5.80). It was being sold on an Italian beach by a hawker with a charming smile as its only guarantee of authenticity, but Ursula Corel still managed to beat him down from €50.
  
  
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  Israel accuses former US Marine on aid mission of terrorist links

  Posted: June 7th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  A former US Marine is at the centre of Israel’s response to the outrage caused by its raid on a Gaza-bound aid boat after it listed him as one of five people on board with terrorist links.
  
  
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  US intelligence worker detained for ‘leaking secret helicopter video’

  Posted: June 7th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  A 22-year-old US army intelligence analyst in Iraq has been arrested for allegedly passing hundreds of thousands of classified documents and a video of a US helicopter strike in Baghdad to the Wikileaks whistleblower website.
  
  
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  Dear Leader prepares the way for son’s succession with cadre spring-clean

  Posted: June 7th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  North Korea’s “Dear Leader” Kim Jong Il appointed his brother-in-law as his deputy yesterday in the latest sign that he is consolidating his family’s grip on the world’s only hereditary communist dictatorship.
  
  
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  Veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas quits at 89 after Israel outburst

  Posted: June 7th, 2010, 9:50pm EDT

  It is always dangerous for a reporter to become the story. For Helen Thomas, two months before her 90th birthday, it has meant the end of her career.
  
  
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  Security under spotlight at England’s first match after stampede

  Posted: June 7th, 2010, 1:33pm EDT

  England play their first game in South Africa this afternoon with attention off the pitch focused on the security arrangements following a stampede by hundreds of fans yesterday which left two police officers and 14 supporters injured.
  
  
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  Seven Union Carbide employees convicted over 1984 Bhopal gas disaster

  Posted: June 7th, 2010, 12:10pm EDT

  An Indian court found seven people guilty of negligence today for failing to prevent a gas leak in the city of Bhopal that killed thousands of people in 1984 in one of the world’s worst industrial accidents.
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  BP costs in oil spill ‘siege’ hit $1.25bn$

  Posted: June 7th, 2010, 10:22am EDT

  BP said that its costs for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico spill have reached $1.25 billion ($£870 million) as it set out plans to place a second cap on the leak.
  
  
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  Foxconn announces wage rise of nearly 70%

  Posted: June 7th, 2010, 9:43am EDT

  In a dramatic move to avert more suicides at its huge factories in south China, the giant electronics maker Foxconn has announced a nearly 70 per cent increase in wages on top of a rise last week.
  
  
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  Israeli patrol kills four Palestinian militants

  Posted: June 7th, 2010, 8:34am EDT

  An Israeli naval patrol killed at least four Palestinian militants in diving gear off the Gaza coast earlier this morning, according to Hamas security officials and the Israeli Army.
  
  
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  A warning to everyone

  Posted: June 6th, 2010, 2:34am EDT

  Fifa and the World Cup Organising Committee require that each of the 32 competing nations holds one free “meet the public” session, either a match or training session. It may be a well-intentioned idea, particularly at a tournament where most locals have been priced out of tickets for the main event, but it creates obvious dangers and almost lethal conditions at the Makhulong stadium yesterday.
  
  
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  Clean-up workers clutch at straws (literally) as BP says oil cap is working

  Posted: June 6th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  The official leading the US Government’s response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico warned against celebration yesterday as BP claimed to have got a partial grip on the ruptured well after nearly seven weeks of trying.
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  Cameron clashes with Brussels over request to see George Osborne’s budget

  Posted: June 6th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  David Cameron will face an early test of the Government’s relationship with Europe today when he clashes with the EU President over whether Brussels should be allowed to see George Osborne’s Budget before it is presented to Parliament.
  
  
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  Two British soldiers killed in Afghan firefight

  Posted: June 5th, 2010, 3:22pm EDT

  Two British soldiers have been killed in a firefight in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand, in the area soldiers tried to secure earlier this year with the Operation Moshtarak spring offensive.
  
  
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  Israeli troops board aid ship bound for Gaza

  Posted: June 5th, 2010, 2:57pm EDT

  Israeli naval forces boarded an Irish-owned ship bound for Gaza today, just five days after killing nine passengers in a bloody raid on a previous aid convoy.
  
  
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  Obama chooses military veteran to reset US intelligence

  Posted: June 5th, 2010, 1:42pm EDT

  President Obama is today set to nominate a former military spy chief to take on the troubled role of Director of National Intelligence, aiming to draw a line under a series of terror near-misses against the US.
  
  
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  Israel ready to board Gaza bound ship

  Posted: June 5th, 2010, 6:12am EDT

  Israeli naval boats are threatening to board an Irish-owned ship bound for Gaza, just five days after killing nine passengers in a bloody raid on a previous aid convoy.
  
  
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  Israeli commando who shot six dead on ship may get ‘medal of valour’

  Posted: June 4th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  Six of the nine activists killed in Monday’s raid on an aid convoy were shot by a single Israeli commando who is now being considered for a medal of valour.
  
  
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  South Africa: World Cup brings new optimism to a once divided nation

  Posted: June 4th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  The door of the modest house was wide open. Outside sat a large, smiling woman barbecuing boerewors, the fatty sausage favoured by Afrikaners.
  
  
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  Karzai welcomes jirga’s call for prison release as step to peace

  Posted: June 4th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  President Karzai welcomed official calls to release hundreds of prisoners from US and Afghan jails yesterday as a gesture of goodwill to kickstart peace talks with the Taleban.
  
  
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  ‘Tenderitis’ at root of ANC’s corruption problem in South Africa

  Posted: June 4th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  It is called “tenderitis”. It has swept through the ruling African National Congress and — if critics are to be believed — is threatening the body politic of South Africa.
  
  
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  Helena Christensen stays in Trash Hotel to highlight litter crisis

  Posted: June 4th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  The model Helena Christensen took stock of her surroundings in the world’s first hotel made out of rubbish.
  
  
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  Calligraphy scroll smashes auction record for Chinese work of art

  Posted: June 4th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  An 11th-century calligraphy scroll has set a record for a Chinese work of art — more than doubling the previous high price set at auction late last year.
  
  
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  Et alors! How French cricketers aim to beat us at our own game

  Posted: June 4th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  For centuries it was dismissed by the French as an incomprehensible activity practised by British eccentrics and the inhabitants of other nations that had had the misfortune — or the poor judgment — to fall under British influence.
  
  
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  Brits’ dream homes in the sun crumble along with unfinished developments

  Posted: June 4th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  When Marjorie Drummond left Britain two years ago for a new life in Spain, she never imagined she would spend long days pulling up weeds under the scorching summer sun.
  
  
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  Swedish author says Gaza flotilla attack was a brutal act of piracy

  Posted: June 4th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  “On the night of the raid we thought that we should maybe have a guard on the ship, even though we were some hours away from the territorial waters of Israel. I was on patrol between midnight and 3am.
  
  
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  Didier Reynders killing: suspect arrested in Brussels park

  Posted: June 4th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  A judge was shot dead at point-blank range in her courtroom by a man who had nurtured a grudge against her for three years, prosecutors said yesterday.
  
  
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  Latest iPhone to be unveiled in San Francisco

  Posted: June 4th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  Apple is preparing to unveil the latest version of the iPhone next week, confident that its fans are still keen to buy yet another device from the company, despite the recent launch of the iPad.
  
  
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  Florida keen to persuade tourists the coast is almost clear

  Posted: June 4th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  There is no arguing with the webcams set up along Florida’s 825 miles of beaches, or the hundreds of photographs posted on the state’s tourism website. The captions announce “No oil here” and “Pristine” below images of waves lapping at clean, white sand.
  
  
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  Obama secretly deploys US special forces to 75 countries across world

  Posted: June 4th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  President Obama has secretly sanctioned a huge increase in the number of US special forces carrying out search-and-destroy missions against al-Qaeda around the world, with American troops now operating in 75 countries.
  
  
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  Angry President Obama flies in as oil hits Florida

  Posted: June 4th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  President Obama, at the mercy of events and unproven technologies, flew to Louisiana yesterday for the third time since the Deepwater Horizon blowout to console those living along the state’s polluted coast and to find out whether BP may finally be winning the race to cap the well.
  
  
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  The ‘Bullet Magnet’, Mick Flynn, recalls a firefight with the Taleban in 2006

  Posted: June 4th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  If the crossing turned out to be as dangerous as it looked, it was better if I led from the front. I always get a buzz out of going first.
  
  
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  Want more success with women? Don’t do it yourself

  Posted: June 4th, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  “My wit is more polished than your moustache” — Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, Act 1.
  
  
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  Judge and clerk were shot over grudge about eviction three years ago

  Posted: June 4th, 2010, 7:09pm EDT

  A Belgian judge was shot dead at point blank range in her courtroom because her attacker nurtured a grudge dating back three years over her decision to evict him from his home, prosecutors said today.
  
  
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  Israeli commando who shot six passengers in aid convoy in line for medal

  Posted: June 4th, 2010, 4:11pm EDT

  The latest on the fallout from the flotilla raid thetimes.co.uk
  
  
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  Burma is trying to build nuclear weapons and missiles, says US senator

  Posted: June 4th, 2010, 2:26pm EDT

  The Burmese Government is attempting to build nuclear weapons and long-range missiles, according to a military defector who smuggled photographs and documents of secret nuclear equipment out of the isolated dictatorship.
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  Fire in Dhaka kills at least 114 people as chemicals suffocate victims

  Posted: June 4th, 2010, 11:45am EDT

  See the latest pictures of the tragedy at thetimes.co.uk
  
  
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  Naoto Kan is Japan’s latest Prime Minister

  Posted: June 4th, 2010, 7:26am EDT

  The latest foreign coverage at thetimes.co.uk
  
  
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  BP receives clean up bill for $69 million$

  Posted: June 4th, 2010, 6:51am EDT

  The latest on President Obama's visit at thetimes.co.uk
  
  
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  Kevin Rudd will be blamed if President Obama cancels plans to visit

  Posted: June 3rd, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  If, as expected, President Obama cancels his planned trip to Australia later this month, Australians will have their explanation ready.
  
  
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  Life-giving waters of Nile a source of conflict for centuries

  Posted: June 3rd, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  During the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Hutu killers threw their Tutsi victims into the feeder rivers of Lake Victoria, saying the corpses would be carried back to Egypt and Ethiopia from where, legend had it, they once came as invaders.
  
  
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  Eric Zemmour provokes France’s elite with claims of national decline

  Posted: June 3rd, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  France has been thwarted in its destiny of greatness by the English and is now doomed to collapse into civil war between Christians and Muslim “barbarians”.
  
  
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  ‘Man who tried to sell Obama seat’ welcomes chance to tell his story

  Posted: June 3rd, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  The latest news from the Rod Blagojevich trial at thetimes.co.uk
  
  
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  Family fears for Briton held in violent Afghan jail

  Posted: June 3rd, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  The family of a former British army officer jailed in Afghanistan on corruption charges have spoken of their fears for his safety after visiting him in one of the country’s most violent jails.
  
  
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  Javier Moro’s ‘fictional biography’ of Sonia Gandhi stirs Indian anger

  Posted: June 3rd, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  An unauthorised “fictional biography” of Sonia Gandhi has angered the leader of India’s Congress party — prompting threats from her lawyer to block its publication.
  
  
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  Umpire apologises as he fails to catch pitcher’s perfect game

  Posted: June 3rd, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  There are no instant replays to help umpires in major league baseball but an incredulous nation is beginning to wish there were.
  
  
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  War clouds gather as nations demand a piece of the Nile

  Posted: June 3rd, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  Without the Nile, Egypt would be a scarcely habitable desert, Sudan a parched wilderness. The world’s longest river flows for more than 4,000 miles through northeast Africa; it irrigates farmland, provides water for drinking and sanitation and drives hydroelectric power stations.
  
  
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  From the might of Rome to beach football for Circus Maximus

  Posted: June 3rd, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  Once famed for staging Ben Hur-style chariot races, the Circus Maximus in Rome is about to suffer the ultimate humiliation: a beach football tournament featuring players in centurion gear.
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  Mavi Marmara British activists describe moment when ship was attacked

  Posted: June 3rd, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  Freed British activists arrived in Istanbul early yesterday to a heroes’ welcome, as up to 20,000 people gathered for the funerals of those killed in Israel’s raid on an aid ship.
  
  
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  Dutchman linked to missing girl and murder victim is arrested

  Posted: June 3rd, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  A Dutchman linked to the disappearance of an American teenager in the Caribbean five years ago was arrested on Thursday after an international manhunt for the killer of a young woman in Peru.
  
  
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  I enjoy the fear, says Major Mick Flynn, off to the front line at 50

  Posted: June 3rd, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  To his army comrades in Iraq he was known as the Beast of Basra. Others, noting the way that he always seems to be at the centre of the action, call him Bullet Magnet or Mad Mick. To Prince William, who served with him in the Household Cavalry, he is legendary.
  
  
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  Independent owner Alexander Lebedev questioned by Russian police

  Posted: June 3rd, 2010, 10:57pm EDT

  The Russian owner of the Independent and Evening Standard newspapers has been questioned by Moscow police over allegations that he made death threats to a businessman and attempted to extort money from him.
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  BP credit rating downgraded over oil disaster

  Posted: June 3rd, 2010, 5:58pm EDT

  Moody’s became the second of the “big three” credit rating agencies to downgrade BP today, over concerns that the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster will damage the energy giant’s balance sheet.
  
  
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  Jamaican leader plots a great escape

  Posted: June 3rd, 2010, 7:47am EDT

  The Jamaican Prime Minister has ordered a full-scale military assault on his own parliamentary constituency.
  
  
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  Returned British activists describe Israeli ‘massacre’

  Posted: June 3rd, 2010, 7:23am EDT

  Eight Turks and an American of Turkish descent were among those killed in an Israeli commando raid on aid ships bound for Gaza.
  
  
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  Mini tornado hits Australian holiday town

  Posted: June 3rd, 2010, 6:47am EDT

  A mini tornado hit a seaside holiday village on Australia’s east coast earlier today, damaging homes, devastating a caravan park and leaving several locals injured.
  
  
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  Sir Paul McCartney serenades the Obamas at the White House

  Posted: June 2nd, 2010, 5:41am EDT

  He may have a repertoire of scores of classic hits to choose from, but there was only one song Sir Paul McCartney deemed appropriate to croon to the First Lady: the love ballad Michelle.
  
  
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  Mousa inquiry: minister admits he misled MPs over Iraq prisoners

  Posted: June 2nd, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  The former Labour defence minister Adam Ingram conceded yesterday that he had misled MPs when asked whether British troops hooded Iraqi prisoners during interrogation.
  
  
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  Turkish charity that sent aid convoy to Gaza ‘has links to terrorism’

  Posted: June 2nd, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  The Turkish charity at the centre of the raid by Israeli forces on an aid vessel in the Mediterranean was under intense scrutiny last night over its alleged links with militant organisations.
  
  
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  Financial crisis could kill off German national service

  Posted: June 2nd, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  The German army could lose as many as 100,000 soldiers and suspend conscription as part of radical plans to cut Government spending.
  
  
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  Gaza raid exposes flaws in Turkey’s attitude towards Israel

  Posted: June 2nd, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  Is Turkey a Western outpost in the east or a Muslim country with European aspirations? Unloved in most of the EU, Ankara has been performing an awkward tightrope act in its neighbourhood, preaching Western values to Muslim countries while nurturing close ties with Israel.
  
  
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  Fabian Cancellara laughs off claims of electric bike in cycle race

  Posted: June 2nd, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  After decades using illegal chemicals to win their gruelling races, errant professional cyclists have now turned to something else for a bit of va-va-voom: electricity.
  
  
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  Obama hails Professor Donald Berwick as an ‘outstanding leader’

  Posted: June 2nd, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  Born in 1946 in New York City and raised in Connecticut, Professor Berwick is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, a not-for-profit organisation helping to improve healthcare throughout the world.
  
  
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  President Sarkozy named by inquiry into Pakistan submarine payments

  Posted: June 2nd, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  President Sarkozy was caught up in a long-simmering kickbacks scandal yesterday when police in Luxembourg named him as the creator of a company that handled tens of millions of pounds in illegal funds.
  
  
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  British activists released by Israelis

  Posted: June 2nd, 2010, 10:55pm EDT

  All 37 British citizens captured by Israeli forces while attempting to sail a flotilla of aid ships to Gaza were released without prosecution today.
  
  
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  First British Gaza activist home as others face deportation

  Posted: June 2nd, 2010, 5:33pm EDT

  The deportation of 42 Britons being detained in Israel was underway today as the first activist to be freed arrived back in the UK.
  
  
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  Secretive Bilderberg Club ready for protests

  Posted: June 2nd, 2010, 2:53pm EDT

  Amid huge security, the Bilderberg Club, the organisation which is said to secretly control the world, is prepared the meet at an exclusive resort near Barcelona.
  
  
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  Chinese newspaper cartoon defies ban on mentioning Tiananmen Square

  Posted: June 2nd, 2010, 1:19pm EDT

  A Chinese newspaper has defied a 21-year-old ban on all mention of the Tiananmen Square crackdown by publishing a cartoon that echoes one of the event’s most iconic moments.
  
  
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  Woman stabs nine on China sleeper train

  Posted: June 2nd, 2010, 12:22pm EDT

  Nine people asleep on a train travelling through northeastern China were stabbed in the early hours of this morning by a woman armed with a 15-cm-long knife.
  
  
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  Stars pull out of Bollywood Oscars amid Sri Lanka ‘war crime’ protests

  Posted: June 2nd, 2010, 11:20am EDT

  Top Bollywood stars including Shah Rukh Khan have pulled out of the Indian equivalent of the Oscars, which begins in Colombo tomorrow, following protests over alleged war crimes during Sri Lanka’s civil war with the Tamil Tigers.
  
  
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  Taleban suicide squad attacks peace talks in Kabul

  Posted: June 2nd, 2010, 10:34am EDT

  A Taleban suicide squad disguised in Afghan army uniforms clashed with security forces this morning as President Karzai welcomed hundreds of dignitaries to a massive peace conference in Kabul.
  
  
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  'Morally bankrupt’ Sarah Ferguson weeps on Oprah

  Posted: June 2nd, 2010, 8:53am EDT

  In an hour-long interview broadcast on The Oprah Winfrey Show last night, Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, repeatedly talked about herself in the third person, broke down in tears, and declared the US talk show host to be a “genius” when she called her a “spiritually and morally bankrupt person”.
  
  
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  ‘Drunk’ parrots struck down by mystery illness

  Posted: June 2nd, 2010, 8:33am EDT

  It is usually the locals who go ‘troppo’ during the tropical wet season in Australia’s Northern Territory, however this year it is the native parrots.
  
  
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  Israel deports hundreds of activists from aid flotilla

  Posted: June 2nd, 2010, 6:00am EDT

  One of the Britons on board the Gaza bound aid flotilla stormed by Israeli commandos has described the moment the convoy was surrounded and attacked.
  
  
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  Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama resigns

  Posted: June 1st, 2010, 5:04am EDT

  Yukio Hatoyama, the Japanese Prime Minister who made history by bringing to an end decades of conservative rule, resigned today after eight months of indecision, scandal and plummeting popularity.
  
  
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  Letters show how Richard Burton’s love for Elizabeth Taylor lingered until death

  Posted: June 1st, 2010, 2:31am EDT

  Theirs was a turbulent 20-year romance — but Richard Burton longed for Elizabeth Taylor on his deathbed, newly released love letters reveal.
  
  
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  Anxious families still wait for news of 42 Britons held by Israel

  Posted: June 1st, 2010, 2:22am EDT

  Friends and relatives were desperately waiting to hear from the 42 Britons among those detained by the Israeli Government after Monday’s attack on their aid flotilla en route to Gaza.
  
  
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  BP to promise $10bn payday as criminal inquiry looms$

  Posted: June 1st, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  BP’s long-term credibility was at stake last night as its chief executive fought to halt a headlong slide in its stock price and the Obama Administration announced a criminal investigation into the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster.
  
  
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  Bodies litter Everest’s death zone, but climbers are not deterred

  Posted: June 1st, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  Though 4,000 people have climbed Everest, more than 200 have died in the attempt. In the “death zone”, above 8,000m, there is a third as much oxygen as at sea level and most unsupported climbers can survive for only a few hours. Casualties tend to be left where they fall, and so many bodies are now scattered on the upper slopes that in April a team was sent to clear some of them.
  
  
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  Now BP tries to put the lid on £42bn collapse in value of company

  Posted: June 1st, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  BP’s chief executive will attempt to halt the collapse in the company’s share price this week by promising leading investors that it will not axe its dividend and that the expected $4 billion ($£2.7 billion) cost of the devastating Gulf of Mexico oil spill is “eminently manageable”.
  
  
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  Israel’s elite naval Shayetet 13 criticised over botched operation

  Posted: June 1st, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  Israel’s elite naval unit faced intense criticism yesterday after the botched operation against a pro-Palestinian flotilla on Monday.
  
  
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  Drone strikes the most effective weapon against al-Qaeda — but at what cost?

  Posted: June 1st, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  
  
  
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  Al Gore and wife Tipper announce separation after 40 years’ marriage

  Posted: June 1st, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  The former US Vice-President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, are separating after 40 years.
  
  
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  Diplomatic dilemma posed by Chinese waiter who walked to India

  Posted: June 1st, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  
  
  
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  Police study CCTV footage after second hold-up at European Parliament

  Posted: June 1st, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  Police are studying CCTV footage after a second hold-up inside the European Parliament building.
  
  
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  Merkel must repair a rudderless nation and find a new head of state

  Posted: June 1st, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  Angela Merkel cleared her diary yesterday, cancelling a trip to Lithuania so that she can begin her search for a new head of state.
  
  
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  Inside Gaza: blockade has brought the enclave’s economy to its knees

  Posted: June 1st, 2010, 2:01am EDT

  There is no shortage of food in Gaza’s markets: Israel allows basic humanitarian goods through its tightly controlled crossings and smugglers on the Egyptian border bring in anything from cars to fridges and toasters.