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LONDON (Reuters) - Phone hacking was widely discussed at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World, according to a reporter who was blamed as the sole culprit, contradicting repeated denials by senior...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's bloodiest day this year delivered a deadly reminder to the government and departing U.S. troops that al Qaeda affiliates can still stage complex, coordinated attacks and...
Article by WorldNews.com correspondent Dallas Darling. When George Orwell wrote in, "Politics and the English Language," that, "Our civilization is decadent and our language-so the argument runs-must...
Police in India have detained prominent activist Anna Hazare hours before he had planned to start a fast against a proposed new anti-corruption law. As news of the arrest spread, his supporters came...
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The UN has acknowledged that it has been investigating food theft in Somalia for two months. Stefano Porretti, the World Food Programme's Somalia country director, said on Monday that the agency's system of independent, third-party monitors has...
HAMZA HENDAWI Associated Press= CAIRO (AP) — Television cameras won't be allowed in the courtroom for the rest of ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's trial, the presiding judge ruled Monday. Judge Ahmed Rifaat adjourned the trial until Sept. 5,...
David Cameron is to announce a review of every government policy following last week's riots, to ensure they are bold enough to fix a "broken society". In a speech later, the prime minister will talk of the need for a social fightback to confront a...
Reporting from Katmandu, Nepal, and New Delhi— Nepal's prime minister resigned Sunday, the third government to fall in three years, as the nation braced for another political crisis while still short of a peace agreement or new constitution....
THE chilling images of Anders Behring Breivik simulating shots into the water at the island where he killed 69 people at a youth camp were broadcast around the world on Sunday after police brought him back there. Restrained by a harness, the...
WILL HE or won't he? The international community of human-rights activists and national-security hardliners wonders whether President Obama will demand an Arab leader's ouster. Yes, it's déjà vu all over again. This time it's Damascus, not Tripoli,...
Yulia Tymoshenko, the former Ukrainian prime minister who is now on trial for abusing high office, has sent a stark warning to current President Viktor Yanukovych, saying it is "just a matter of time" before the country is hit by another revolution....
MORE than 3000 rioters are facing punishment as Britain's top police officer set his sights on the largest-scale conviction in modern times. The acting Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Tim Godwin has vowed to exhaust all opportunities to...
MOSCOW - First came Mikhail Gorbachev, who moved a monolithic Soviet Union toward reform. Then in August 1991, an ill-conceived coup attempt by clumsy and occasionally drunken men opened a crack that could not be closed. A few pieces of the empire...
Somalia has called for the creation of a new force to protect food aid convoys and camps in the famine-hit country after declaring a state of emergency in parts of Mogadishu. Al-Shabab fighters mostly retreated from the capital last weekend but the...