Musharraf’s position has been in doubt since elections in February. The resignation means that the West has lost its most important ally.
On Monday, the two most powerful politicians in Pakistan will either be burying President Pervez Musharraf or praising him.
European intelligence chiefs have launched a major investigation into the threat posed by female Islamic militants within the European Union.
Take an elderly anarchist, anti-capitalist, anti-clerical cartoonist and add a suspicion of anti-Semitism and a dash of politics.
The people of Hou Wang Ge Zhung believe that their small community, an hour’s drive from Beijing, has joined the ranks of China’s ”cancer villages”.
The view from Hans-Joachim Sommer’s office window is as wintry as you can get on a spring morning: a few stunted fir trees, a wire fence and the blank grey of a Baltic sky. His conversation is as bleak. ”The teenagers here are all highly criminal,” said the 47-year-old former sports teacher. ”Their problems are very complex.”
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/ 24 February 2008
Turkish forces used jets and heavy artillery to pound the bases of Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq on Saturday, as a prelude to a major assault in the coming days. Turkish news agencies reported more troops moving towards the remote border area. Turkey is thought to have deployed 1 000 to 3 000 soldiers.
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/ 3 February 2008
It is a desolate northern French town, not far from the Belgian border. He is an unremarkable, greying, French former electrician. She is an unexceptional, dowdy housewife. Yet there is nothing ordinary about the coming trial of Michel Fourniret and Monique Olivier in the steel-and-glass modern courthouse of Charleville-Mézières.
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/ 10 December 2007
Up to 6 000 British, American and Afghan forces fighting Taliban militants holding the strategically important Afghan town of Musa Qala were on Sunday preparing for a final assault in the days to come. ”The operation goes on,” said Lieutenant Colonel Tim Eaton, speaking from Lashkar Gah.
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/ 10 September 2006
Monday will mark five years since the attacks of 11 September 2001. If one generation knew where they were when mankind first walked on the moon, another knows where they were when the Twin Towers crumbled. And they know where they were when coalition troops first entered Iraq. And when the bombs exploded in London a year ago. By the end of this decade, there is no doubt we will have other sad anniversaries of other terrible events to be mindful of.