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International
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Wednesday, 15 May, 2013
FALLUJAH, Iraq — Attacks in Iraq yesterday killed four people, including a child and a protest organiser, and wounded 14, security and medical officials said.
In Fallujah, west of Baghdad, gunmen killed an anti-Qaeda militiaman along with his brother, while a car bomb in the main northern city of M
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Wednesday, 15 May, 2013
HARUR, Iraq — The first group of Kurdish fighters leaving Turkey as part of a peace drive with Ankara arrived to handshakes and embraces in Iraqi Kurdistan early yesterday after a gruelling week-long journey.
"We are the first group to reach the safe area in Iraq," said Jagar, leader of the group o
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Wednesday, 15 May, 2013
NASIRIYAH, Iraq — Police in Dhi Qar are to replace fake bomb detectors bought from a now jailed British businessman with sniffer dogs, the police chief of the southern Iraqi province said yesterday.
"We decided to buy 30 police dogs to strengthen security checkpoints and detection of explosives...
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Wednesday, 15 May, 2013
LONDON — British Prime Minister David Cameron bowed to pressure from his Conservative party yesterday and published a bill to hold a referendum on membership of the European Union.
The move was designed to head off growing turmoil in the party the day before many Conservative MPs were expected to v
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Wednesday, 15 May, 2013
MOSCOW — Russia yesterday said it had detained an alleged American CIA agent working undercover at the US Embassy who was discovered with a large stash of money trying to recruit a Russian agent.
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB, ex-KGB) identified the man as Ryan C Fogle — third secretary of
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Wednesday, 15 May, 2013
NAIROBI — Kenyan demonstrators released two dozen piglets at the gates of parliament and poured blood on the pavement yesterday to protest demands by newly elected lawmakers for a wage hike.
Police, who fired tear gas to disperse the protesters and beat others with truncheons, scurried after the pi
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Wednesday, 15 May, 2013
BRUSSELS — The European Union came a step closer yesterday to cracking down more forcefully on tax cheats, as Austria and Luxembourg dropped their long-lasting opposition to the renegotiation of tax agreements with European financial hubs outside the bloc.
Those agreements help EU countries recover
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Wednesday, 15 May, 2013
PARIS — The French parliament passed a landmark reform of the country's labour code yesterday, part of President Francois Hollande's efforts to convince European partners he is determined to revamp the euro zone's second largest economy.
Negotiated with employers and three trade unions in January,
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Wednesday, 15 May, 2013
GROSSETO, Italy — Prosecutors rejected a plea bargain offer by the captain of the cruise ship Costa Concordia, which capsized off Italy's west coast last year with the loss of 32 lives, lawyers said yesterday.
Captain Francesco Schettino is accused of manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandonin
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Tuesday, 14 May, 2013
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said yesterday it would be "outrageous" if US tax authorities targeted conservative groups opposed to his White House.
Obama also denied his White House had engaged in a cover-up to downplay the impact to his re-election campaign of the attack on the US mission i
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