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Homeless sit on the Tiber river banks after they were forced to leave their makeshift houses, in downtown Rome, Friday, Nov. 2, 2007. Many immigrants living in shanty-towns on the outskirts of Rome were leaving their meager homes Friday after a string of attacks blamed on foreigners prompted authorities to crack down on the camps inhabited mainly by Gypsies. Carrying their belongings in bundles and plastic bags, residents left a camp in the northern suburbs of the capital where police arrested a Romanian accused in the latest violent incident, the brutal beating of an Italian woman who died Thursday after two days in a

Italy calls up troops for urban crackdown on migrants
The Independent

Nine hundred soldiers are to be deployed in Rome with the job of making the Italian capital a cleaner, quieter and more decorous place, under a law and order package approved by parliament which targets the country's illegal immigrants. The idea...
photo: AP / Pier Paolo Cito

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German snub for McCain as Merkel praises 'well-equipped' rival
The Independent

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel has praised Barack Obama's political and physical strength...

Iran and Syria are just waiting the Bush administration out
Daily Star Lebanon

By David Ignatius Daily Star staff Thursday, July 24, 2008...

Despite complaints, international justice is advancing
Daily Star Lebanon

By Aryeh Neier Commentary by Thursday, July 24, 2008...

AU wants UN force in Somalia

A Ugandan soldier stands guard at Mogadishu airport after their arrival at Mogadishu airport Tuesday March 6, 2007. The first Ugandan peacekeepers arrived in Somalia's capital early Tuesday to provide protection for the still-struggling transitional government and to allow for the withdrawal of Ethiopian troops who intervened in the cou

TVNZ

Jul 24, 2008 10:01 AM The African Union said it was incapable of stabilising the situation in Somalia and urged the United Nations take over peacekeeping operations in the lawless Horn of Africa country. "Despite all sacrifices of its leaders and...
photo: AP / Mohamed Sheikh Nor

McCain: Israel faces gravest threat in its history

Republican Sen. and presidential hopeful Senator John McCain, R-AZ, speaks during a fund raising event, Thursday, March 8, 2007 in New York. According to a recent poll, McCain is trailing former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani by more than 20 points, t

The Star

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain, appealing to Jewish voters while rival Barack Obama visits the Middle East, said on Wednesday Israel faced the greatest threat in its history because of Iran. U.S....
photo: AP/Stephen Chernin

6.8 quake hits Japan

A rescuer walks outside collapsed houses following a powerful quake that hit Japan´s northwest coast in Kashiwazaki, Monday, July 16, 2007. A 6.7-magnitude earthquake rocked Japan´s northwest coast on Monday, and media reports said at least f

NZ Herald

TOKYO - A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 struck off the northern Japanese coast early yesterday, injuring at least 43 people, causing blackouts and landslides, officials said. The Meteorological Agency said there was no danger...
photo: AP/Koji Sasahara

Once Marxist voice, now leader without party

** FILE ** In this Feb. 28, 2007 file photo, Indian Speaker of Lower House, Somnath Chatterjee gestures as he leaves the Parliament House in New Delhi, India.

Gulf News

New Delhi: His was the stentorian voice that effectively projected the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) view in parliament - and outside - for four decades. Yesterday, just two days before Somnath Chatterjee's 79th birthday, that link snapped...
photo: AP / Gurinder Osan, File

No PM, however dour, can resist the charms of a stately pile

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, center, greets Palestinian children as he walks into the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Sunday, July 20, 2008.

The Times

The day that Gordon Brown became leader, the headlines made it clear. "Gordon will become the first Prime Minister in 80 years not to use Chequers." His aides explained that Mr Brown would be mothballing the 16th- century retreat. Why would a...
photo: AP / Nasser Shiyoukhi

Potent new HIV drug is trialled

A woman turns away after viewing a painting by British artist Damien Hurst entitled ' HIV Aids, Drugs Combination ' at Sotheby's auction house in London, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007. The painting is part of the 'Red' auction of works of art donated by many renowned artists in order to raise money for the treatment of HIV/AIDS in Africa. The sale which it is hoped will raise some US$ 40 million will take place in New York on Feb. 14. This painting is priced at US$ 450-650,0

Canberra Times

A potent new HIV drug has been found to dramatically decrease the presence of the virus in Australian patients who have failed on other treatments. A study led by Sydney researchers...
photo: AP / Alastair Grant

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