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José Manuel Barroso, President of the EC, receives Dominique de Villepin, French Prime Minister . ula1

Former French PM to stand trial over Sarkozy smear

Globe and Mail

Former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin has been ordered to stand trial for his role in an alleged plot to smear Nicolas Sarkozy, now president, when they were rival ministers. Mr. Villepin has consistently denied wrongdoing in the case, dubbed the "Clearstream Affair", in which he has been accused of trying to torpedo Mr. Sarkozy's...

photo: European Community, 2006

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David Mamet: The media must not allow government to proscribe free speech

The Independent

The so-called Fairness Doctrine, the enforcement of the doctrine that any broadcast medium,...

Berri urges Kuwait to mediate between Syria, Saudi Arabia

Daily Star Lebanon

By Hussein Abdallah Daily Star staff Wednesday, November 19, 2008...

Pakistan and Turkey are at a crossroads on religion in politics

Daily Star Lebanon

By Ozlem Gemici and Rehan Rafay Jamil Commentary by Wednesday, November 19, 2008...

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SKorea seeks to stop propaganda leaflets to NKorea

A South Korean protester burns a picture of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il during an anti-North Korea rally in Seoul, Monday, Oct. 9, 2006. North Korea said Monday it performed its first-ever nuclear weapons test, claiming it set off a successful underg

Wtop

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korean officials urged activists Wednesday to refrain from sending propaganda leaflets over the border into . But activists vowed to keep sending the flyers critical of North Korean leader into the North in huge...

photo: AP/Lee Jin-man

Clintons 'co-operating fully'

News24

Beth Fouhy Chicago - Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has engaged a team of prominent lawyers to help President-elect Barack Obama vet her candidacy for secretary of state. Friends of the former first lady said she was weighing whether to take the job...

photo: AP Photo / APTV

McCain starts mapping out a new role in the Senate

Republican presidential hopeful, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., laughs as he is introduced at a rally at the Virginia Aviation Museum in Richmond,Va. Monday, Feb. 11, 2008. Behind him is an A-4 Skyhawk fighter jet like the one he was flying when shot down over Vietnam.

Kansas City Star

Chris Carlson Cindy McCain, wife of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is seen during an election night rally in Phoenix Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008. Before resting from the grueling presidential race, John McCain began discussing with senior aides what role he...

photo: AP / Gerald Herbert

Mbeki to scrutinise Zim constitution bill

South African President Thabo Mbeki announces to the media Thursday, Sept 11, 2008, that the ruling ZANU-PF and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change has reached an agreement, with details of the power sharing deal still to be made availab

Independent online (SA)

By Nelson Banya Harare - Zimbabwe has sent a draft copy of a constitutional amendment giving President Robert Mugabe the power to form a government unilaterally to mediator Thabo Mbeki for review, the state-run Herald newspaper said on Wednesday. But...

photo: AP

Top Pakistan ex-commando killed

Pakistani police officers guard the house of Asfandyar Wali Khan, whose party competes with Islamists for the loyalties of the region's ethnic Pashtuns, in Charsadda, Pakistan, on Friday, Oct. 3, 2008.

BBC News

A former chief of Pakistan's elite military commandos has been killed in a targeted attack near the capital Islamabad, police officials say. They say that retired General Amir Faisal Alvi and his driver were shot dead on the main highway leading into...

photo: AP / Muhammad Sajjad

Officials Report US Missile Strike in Pakistan

Pakistani paramilitary soldiers secure a road during a military operation against Islamic militants in troubled area of Dara Adam Khail, Pakistan, Monday, Sept. 29, 2008.

ABC News

By MUNIR AHMAD Associated Press Writer ISLAMABAD, Pakistan November 19, 2008 (AP) The Associated Press FONT SIZE Residents stand on the rubble of shops and a house damaged in the fighting between Pakistan army and... Residents stand on the rubble of...

photo: AP / Muhammad Sajjad