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Russia raises its price to rescue Nato from Afghan quagmire
Kim Sengupta: Demands that Alliance restricts number of troops based in member countries which were former members of the Warsaw Pact.
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Afghanistan: Russia steps in to help Nato
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
Kim Sengupta: Russia returns to war at request of Western states which helped mujahedin to drive its forces out of country 21 years ago.
Pack Assange off to Guantanamo, US conservatives tell Obama
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
David Usborne: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be arrested as an 'enemy combatant'.
Somalia: 'The most corrupt nation in the world'
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
Somalia is the most corrupt country in the world, followed by Afghanistan, Burma and Iraq, an international watchdog has said.
The shaming of America
Sunday, 24 October 2010
Robert Fisk on the revelations that expose the brutality of war in Iraq - and the astonishing deceit of the US.
Torture, killing, children shot – and how the US tried to keep it all quiet
Sunday, 24 October 2010
The largest leak in history reveals the true extent of the bloodshed unleashed by the decision to go to war in Iraq – and adds at least 15,000 to its death toll.
Assange defends leaks, and says more will come
Sunday, 24 October 2010
Jonathan Owen: Whistleblower fights back against attacks fromthe US government.
Secret files show the US ignored torture of Iraqis
Saturday, 23 October 2010
Jerome Taylor: Wikileaks unveils Iraq war documents in what is the largest leak in US military history.
Obama meets with Apple CEO Steve Jobs
Friday, 22 October 2010
President Barack Obama met on Thursday afternoon in San Francisco with Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.
Chinese bullets killed our staff in Darfur, says UN
Friday, 22 October 2010
China is trying to block a UN report which says that more than a dozen types of Chinese bullet have been used against peacekeepers in Darfur.
Chavez meets Syrian President
Friday, 22 October 2010
The Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez met his Syrian counterpart, Bashar al-Assad, yesterday on the Middle East leg of an international tour partly intended to counter what he calls US "imperialism".
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