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US cluster bombs to be banned from UK

The United States will no longer be able to stockpile cluster bombs at its military bases in Britain under government proposals for an international ban on the controversial…

Prince’s role was ‘carrot’ in response to threat

The job that Prince Harry was doing in Afghanistan was essentially a ”carrot” to stop him leaving the army after he was refused permission to fight in Iraq with the soldiers he…

Army prepares to evacuate Harry after blackout fails

Army commanders were making frantic arrangements on Thursday night to bring Prince Harry back from Afghanistan after an American website disclosed that he had been serving with…

Britain says North Sea incident ‘contained’

Britain evacuated of oil workers from a North Sea accommodation platform on Sunday after reports of a bomb threat but officials said the incident was quickly contained and there…

Captured videos show ‘al-Qaeda children’ training

American forces in Baghdad on Wednesday warned of a ”disturbing trend in the use and exploitation of children by al-Qaeda in Iraq”, after discovering videos showing young boys…

Sri Lanka bus blast kills 24 as truce scrapped

A roadside bomb tore through a Sri Lankan bus killing 24 people and wounding dozens on Wednesday, officials said, as a six-year ceasefire formally expires between the government…

China to send peacekeepers to Darfur

China has committed to sending an engineering unit of peacekeepers to Darfur at the end of the week, the top United Nations peacekeeping official said on Wednesday. China has…

Heavy toll in Afghanistan suicide attack

A suicide attack on a parliamentary delegation killed at least 50 people in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday, a provincial official said, in the worst such blast in the country’s…

Iraq war has cost 1,2-million lives, claims civilian survey

A startling new household survey of Iraqis released last week claims as many as 1,2-million people may have died because of the conflict in Iraq — apparently lending weight to a…

British jets intercept eight Russian bombers

Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) scrambled four Tornado jets on Thursday to intercept eight Russian long-range bombers, the Ministry of Defence said. ”In the early hours of this…

Sudan has drones, is pursuing missiles

Sudan has developed unmanned surveillance planes, is developing missiles, and is now ”self-sufficient” in conventional weapons, a Sudanese state news agency reported. The rare…

Don’t ban Facebook, British employers told

Employers should allow their workers to befriend, chat and ”poke” each other through online networking sites while at work, Britain’s largest labour federation says. The Trades…

Bomb blasts in Pakistani city kill, wound dozens

Two bombs exploded in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi during the morning rush hour on Tuesday, killing 24 people and wounding 66, and at least one of the blasts was caused by a…