‘The president still says ‘wall.’ Oftentimes frankly he’ll say ‘barrier’ or ‘fencing,’ now he’s tended toward steel slats,’ says John Kelly
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/ 7 February 2012
A group of Chinese workers kidnapped in South Sudan 11 days ago by rebels have been freed and flown to Kenya.
Vietnam has announced it will hold a naval drill next week in the South China Sea as an escalating maritime dispute fuels tensions with Beijing.
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/ 19 November 2009
Afghan President Hamid Karzai begins his second presidential term tarnished by corruption and fraud.
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/ 25 October 2007
The days of cursing the passenger in front of you could be over. On the world’s biggest airliner, the Airbus A380, it is the little things that will make travel more comfortable for ordinary flyers, said Tom Ballantyne, senior correspondent for the industry publication <i>Orient Aviation</i>.
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/ 18 September 2007
Oil prices topped 81 dollars a barrel for the first time on Tuesday, setting another record high amid fears of critically tight supplies for the winter season in the United States. Opec’s announcement last week that it would pump an extra 500 000 barrels per day from November has failed to stop the surge in price.
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/ 28 December 2006
The chaos in Asia’s internet service sparked by an undersea earthquake shows the region’s cable network is too fragile and overly reliant on connections to the United States, industry observers said on Thursday. Millions of people across Asia were enduring a second day without full internet services after a 7,1-magnitude earthquake hit Taiwan late on Tuesday.
The front door of the seaside Hotel Monroe is padlocked but a uniformed soldier greets visitors who enter through the back. "Do you want to rent a room?" he asks from behind his desk. Forget it. The high-rise hotel has been closed "since the aggression" by Israel last month and there is no sign of when it will reopen, says the soldier who was not authorised to speak and did not give his name.