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/ 26 November 2009
Whistleblower website Wikileaks has published what it said were hundreds of thousands of pager messages from the day of the September 11 2001 attacks.
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/ 25 November 2009
The United States welcomed on Wednesday a Pakistani court’s decision to charge seven suspects in connection with the Mumbai attacks.
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/ 25 November 2009
The Washington Post is closing its bureaus in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York as it retrenches to focus on news in the capital.
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/ 24 November 2009
Humanity would need five Earths to produce the resources needed if everyone lived as profligately as Americans, according to a report.
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/ 23 November 2009
Zimbabwe activists Jenni Williams and Magondonga Mahlangu have been arrested more than 50 times, but still cling to hope for their country.
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/ 23 November 2009
Major Nidal Hasan, who has been charged with 13 murders over the shootings at Fort Hood in Texas, is paralysed from the neck down, says his lawyer.
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/ 22 November 2009
A sweeping healthcare overhaul cleared its first hurdle in the US Senate on Saturday, with Democrats casting 60 party-line votes.
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/ 20 November 2009
A senior US official voiced concerns on Friday about the restrictions on opposition parties in Ethiopia ahead of elections next year.
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/ 20 November 2009
She’s back! Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor who became a superstar when she ran for the vice-presidency last year, is on a new campaign.
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/ 19 November 2009
The US says Washington and its partners are working on steps to show Iran the consequences of its decision to snub a nuclear deal with the West.
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/ 18 November 2009
An aide to Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday dismissed US anger at Israel’s approval for new homes in a settlement near Jerusalem.
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/ 18 November 2009
President Barack Obama on Wednesday gave his sternest warning yet about the need to contain rising US deficits.
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/ 18 November 2009
Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao mostly lauded the increased cooperation between their countries at a meeting this week.
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/ 17 November 2009
Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather are to begin negotiations on a mega-blockbuster fight, it was reported on Monday.
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/ 16 November 2009
When Robin Webb lived in New York City, he was treated by HIV specialists and had access to counseling and nutritional programmes.
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/ 16 November 2009
United States President Barack Obama on Monday called al-Qaeda the biggest threat to US security.
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/ 16 November 2009
The state that executes more people than any other by far is seeing its once rock-solid faith in capital punishment shaken by overturned convictions.
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/ 15 November 2009
Ohio is set to resume executions using a single drug that has been used in the US to euthanise pets but never to put condemned prisoners to death.
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/ 13 November 2009
Our ‘socially useless’ banks must learn to assist the
socially disadvantaged, writes Larry Elliott.
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/ 11 November 2009
John Allen Muhammad was executed on Tuesday for masterminding and carrying out with his accomplice the 2002 sniper shootings that killed 10 people.
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/ 10 November 2009
Intelligence agencies learned an Army psychiatrist contacted an Islamist sympathetic to al-Qaeda and that the information was relayed to authorities.
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/ 9 November 2009
Investigations into the shooting at Fort Hood that left 13 people dead are continuing to focus on the internet activities of the alleged shooter.
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/ 9 November 2009
Over 1 000 Toyota and Lexus owners have reported sudden, spontaneous acceleration of their vehicles since 2001.
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/ 9 November 2009
It is still too early for concrete results, though. And those responsible for electing Barack Obama are hurting the most.
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/ 8 November 2009
The US House of Representatives approved a sweeping healthcare reform Bill on Saturday, backing the biggest health policy changes in four decades.
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/ 8 November 2009
The carnage at Fort Hood military base, where a Muslim army doctor is accused of killing 13 people in a shooting spree, was a ticking time-bomb.
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/ 7 November 2009
Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a US army psychiatrist, is in hospital under military guard after going on a shooting rampage at a military base in Texas.
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/ 7 November 2009
A US army psychiatrist about to be deployed to Afghanistan allegedly shouted "Allahu Akbar", or "God is greatest", as he opened fire.
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/ 6 November 2009
A report by military experts says the adverse effects
of climate change will result in conflict over scarce
resources. Yolandi Groenewald reports.
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/ 6 November 2009
The National Business Initiative has found there is limited evidence of climate adaptation strategies,
writes Yolandi Groenewald.
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/ 5 November 2009
The US will not agree to targets cutting greenhouse gas emissions unless developing countries, particularly China, make similar moves.
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/ 5 November 2009
News Corp chairperson Rupert Murdoch says that a plan to begin charging readers of his newspapers online may be delayed.