AFP - Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said Thursday power-sharing talks with President Robert Mugabe’s ruling party could spill over the two-week deadline, after calling for an “honourable exit” for the veteran African leader.
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AFP - England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff said his side were “right back in it” after he won a stirring duel with South African batting star Jacques Kallis during a fiery spell on the second day of the second Test at Edgbaston Thursday.
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In one “Flemish” Brussels suburb citizens are asked to grass up businesses that do not use Dutch. In another, people are asked to sign pledges that Dutch is the main language spoken at home before being able to get access to childcare entitlements. There is something rotten at the heart of Belgium - and ironically enough it is often the Flemish who uphold all that is worst in the country’s dysfunctional state.
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AP - July had the lowest monthly U.S. death toll in Iraq since the start of the war. Here are the 10 American personnel who died this month and two whose bodies were discovered and identified:
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AP - The monthly U.S. toll in Iraq fell to its lowest point since the war began, with at least 10 American deaths as July drew to a close Thursday after the departure of the last surge brigade.
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AP - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has ordered the release of all Hamas activists detained in recent days by his security forces.
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AFP - Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said Thursday power-sharing talks with President Robert Mugabe’s ruling party could spill over the two-week deadline, after calling for an “honourable exit” for the veteran African leader.
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I wonder how all the new passengers who are being forced on to public transport by high petrol prices, will cope when they discover just what a hell hole the London Underground system has become.
At the moment, the mean temperature on the already criminally overcrowded trains is aroun…
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AP - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic had his first skirmishes with the U.N. war crimes tribunal Thursday: He was cut short by the judge when he tried to protest his arrest, and put on notice that the prosecution will object to his demand to represent himself.
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