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Saudi Arabia gives Israel clear skies to attack Iranian nuclear sites

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - By Hugh Tomlinson - Jun. 12 (News Report) - Saudi Arabia has conducted tests to stand down its air defences to enable Israeli jets to make a bombing raid on Iran’s nuclear facilities, The Times can reveal.

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George W. Bush 'knew Guantánamo prisoners were innocent'

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - By Tim Reid - Apr. 09 (News Report) - George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld covered up that hundreds of innocent men were sent to the Guantánamo Bay prison camp because they feared that releasing them would harm the push for war in Iraq and the broader War on Terror, according to [...] Lawrence Wilkerson, a top aide to Colin Powell, the former Republican Secretary of State.

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Head of ATSC 'bomb detector' company arrested on suspicion of fraud

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Times - By Simon de Bruxelles - Jan. 23 (News Report) - The boss of a British company that has sold million of dollars worth of “bomb detectors” to Iraq’s security forces has been arrested on suspicion of fraud. Jim McCormick, 53, the managing director of ATSC which is based in a former dairy in Sparkford,

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On-the-spot in Port-au-Prince: still no sign of aid in city centre

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Times - By Giles Whittell - Jan. 18 (News Report) - It is now six days since the earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince and there is still no sign of the global aid effort reaching the camp of homeless Haitian people in the Champs de Mars public park next to the ruined presidential palace in the centre of the capital city.

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World misled over Himalayan glacier meltdown

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Times - By Jonathan Lake, Chris Hastings - Jan. 17 (News Report) - A warning that climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 is likely to be retracted after a series of scientific blunders by the United Nations body that issued it. Two years ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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Taliban bomber wrecks CIA’s shadowy war

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Times - By Christina Lamb - Jan. 04 (News Report) - A middle-aged mother of three and a warm-hearted man called Harold are a long way from the image most Americans have of their top spies in one of the wildest regions of Afghanistan. But they will be among the seven stars added this week to the 90 on the Memorial Wall at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, after a Taliban suicide bomber killed seven agents and wounded six at a CIA base in eastern Afghanistan. The attack has thrown the CIA’s whole strategy into disarray.

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Met Office to re-examine 160 years of climate data

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Times - By Ben Webster - Dec. 05 (News Report) - The Met Office plans to re-examine 160 years of temperature data after admitting that public confidence in the science on man-made global warming has been shattered by leaked e-mails. The new analysis of the data will take three years, meaning that the Met Office will not be able to state with absolute confidence the extent of the warming trend until the end of 2012.

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‘Nations will vanish and millions lose their homes to rising seas’

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Times - By Hannah Devlin - Dec. 02 (News Report) - A rise in sea levels of 1.4m predicted today in a major climate report would result in the loss of entire nations and the displacement of about ten per cent of the world’s population, according to scientists.

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Climate change data dumped

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Times - By Jonathan Leake - Nov. 29 (News Report) - SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based. So not only is their program secret, no one else can view the data it is based on, either.

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Even out of office, Palin is her party’s leader

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - By Daniel Finkelstein - Jul. 15 (Opinion) - There is no more eloquent statement of modern Republicanism than resigning office with time still on the clock. Mrs Palin has chosen to talk about power, rather than exercise it. She would rather write a book and give lectures about being a governor than actually be a governor. And her party has made the same choice.

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Facebook Pakistanis unite against terror

Sun, 31 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - By Christina Lamb - May. 31 (News Report) - The first thing Sadaffe Abid did when she heard Wednesday’s massive bomb rattling the windows in her office four miles away was, like most residents of Lahore, to telephone to check on family and friends. However, what she did next was more surprising. “I told them we should come out on to the streets to protest against these militants,” she said. “This bomb was meant to turn public opinion against the army operation to clear the Taliban from Swat, and we shouldn’t give in.” The stylishly dressed Abid, 35, is chief executive of a foundation providing microfinance for rural women, and says until recently she never thought the Taliban were anything to do with her.

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Hamas must be brought into peace process, says Tony Blair

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Times - By Philip Webster - Feb. 01 (News Report) - Hamas must somehow be brought into the Middle East peace process because the policy of isolating Gaza in the quest for a settlement will not work, Tony Blair has told The Times. The former prime minister implicitly criticises the strategy followed by the Bush Administration and Israel of focusing all peace and reconstruction efforts on the West Bank. “It was half of what we needed,” he said. In an interview with Ginny Dougary in the Saturday Magazine, Mr Blair says that the strategy of “pushing Gaza aside” and trying to create a Palestinian state on the West Bank “was never going to work and will never work”. He hints in references to how peace was eventually achieved in Northern Ireland that the time may be approaching to talk to Hamas ... “My basic predisposition is that in a situation like this you talk to everybody.”

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Obama has the courage of a great leader

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Times - By William Rees-Mogg - Jan. 19 (Opinion) - The great American presidents have emerged from the great challenges. The greatest president of the 20th century was Franklin Roosevelt who had to overcome the challenges of the Great Depression and the Second World War. The greatest president of the 19th century was Abraham Lincoln, who had to meet the challenge of the Civil War. The presidency of Barack Obama will also be shaped by the challenges he faces; he has to overcome the depression that began in 2007. He also has to create a foreign policy that will restore international confidence in the United States. Mr Obama has taken Roosevelt and Lincoln as his chief role models, and it is the image of Lincoln he has chosen to emphasise as he prepares for his inauguration. The first black president naturally feels kinship with the president who abolished slavery. Mr Obama has formed his Cabinet on Lincoln's principles, appointing the strongest individuals, whether or not they agree with each other and whether or not they have been his rivals for the presidency. Mr Obama is said to have been reading Team of Rivals, an excellent book on Lincoln's choice of colleagues written by the Pulitzer prizewinner Doris Kearns Goodwin.

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Barack Obama's speechwriter Jon Favreau

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Times - By Catherine Philp - Jan. 19 (News Report) - The baby-faced wunderkind who has written the first words Barack Obama will deliver as President is poised to make history as the youngest person ever to write an inaugural address. Jon Favreau, 27, has spent the last two months working for up to 16 hours a day on the speech in locations all over Washington, from the Penn Quarter Starbucks to his new, still-unfurnished apartment in the city’s upmarket Dupont Circle. As the day approaches, he has found himself writing until 2 or 3am, fuelled by double espresso shots and Red Bull. A team of assistants are on hand to furnish him with material, from research on key moments of crisis in American history to the collected speeches of former presidents.

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Top 20 gaffes by outgoing president George W Bush

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Times - By Sarah Baxter - Jan. 18 (Research) - Here are a list of our favourite gaffes by George W Bush. Add your favourites to the feedback panel below 1. "Will the highways on the internet become more few?" 2. "It’s a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life" 3. "I appreciate the fact that you really snatched defeat out of the jaws of those who are trying to defeat us in Iraq"

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China rattled by Sun King attack

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Times - By Michael Sheridan - Jan. 04 (News Report) - The most prominent dissident still living in China has attacked the Communist party’s economic reforms and compared Deng Xiaoping, its late leader, to Louis XIV. His essays are the second public challenge to the leadership after the appearance of Charter 08, a manifesto for political change that has been signed by more than 7,000 prominent citizens. The essayist is Bao Tong, 76, who was the highest-ranking official imprisoned after the 1989 crackdown on China’s democracy movement. He served a seven-year sentence and now lives under house arrest in Beijing.

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Beatings and abuse made Barack Obama's grandfather loathe the British

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The Times - By Ben Macintyre, Paul Orengoh - Dec. 03 (Special Report) - Barack Obama’s grandfather was imprisoned and brutally tortured by the British during the violent struggle for Kenyan independence, according to the Kenyan family of the US President-elect

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad shuts down Iranian weekly that featured Obama on cover

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The Times - By Michael Theodoulou - Nov. 12 (News Report) - The closure of the propular reformist weekly suggests that Mr Ahmadinejad is determined to silence his critics as he prepares for elections next June that could hand him a second-four year term. Where victory had once seemed assured, now he must expect a bruising contest with an uncertain outcome.

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Republican civil war breaks out behind John McCain

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - Oct. 29 (News Report) - Even in the midst of a final bombardment in the battle for the White House the sound of gunfire can be heard coming from behind Republican lines, presaging a protracted and bitter civil war. A party that only four years ago appeared so disciplined and dominant as it delivered President Bush a second term is now divided in the face of an anticipated rout that may give Democrats unfettered power across Washington. Mr Bush's legacy — unfinished wars, a tainted reputation for competence, record high spending, a global economic crisis and the effective nationalisation of the financial system — have shaken loose the ideological cement that once bound the Republican party together.

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Rove says Obama has copied his tactics

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - By Sarah Baxter - Oct. 26 (News Report) - If Barack Obama wins the American presidential election in nine days’ time, it will be because he has beaten the Republicans at their own game, according to Karl Rove, the noted “architect” of President George W Bush’s two victories. The Democrats have copied Rove’s formidable tactics and ground operation, pumping out a disciplined message, assembling a broad-based coalition which includes young first-time voters and African-Americans, and drowning their Republican opponents with money.

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McCain tussles with Palin over whipping up a mob mentality

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - By Sarah Baxter - Oct. 12 (News Report) - With his electoral prospects fading by the day, Senator John McCain has fallen out with his vice-presidential running mate about the direction of his White House campaign. McCain has become alarmed about the fury unleashed by Sarah Palin, the moose-hunting “pitbull in lipstick”, against Senator Barack Obama. Cries of “terrorist” and “kill him” have accompanied the tirades by the governor of Alaska against the Democratic nominee at Republican rallies. Mark Salter, McCain’s long-serving chief of staff, is understood to have told campaign insiders that he would prefer his boss, a former Vietnam prisoner of war, to suffer an “honourable defeat” rather than conduct a campaign that would be out of character – and likely to lose him the election.

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British envoy says mission in Afghanistan is doomed, according to leaked memo

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - By Charles Bremner, Michael Evans, - Oct. 02 (Special Report) - Britain’s Ambassador to Afghanistan has stoked opposition to the allied operation there by reportedly saying that the campaign against the Taleban insurgents would fail and that the best hope was to install an acceptable dictator in Kabul. Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, a Foreign Office heavyweight with a reputation for blunt speaking, delivered his bleak assessment of the seven-year Nato campaign in Afghanistan in a briefing with a French diplomat, according to French leaks. However sources in Whitehall said the account was a parody of the British Ambassador’s remarks.

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Mark Lynas: the green heretic persecuted for his nuclear conversion

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - By Mark Lynas - Sep. 28 (Opinion) - Best of all, these new reactors - prototypes of which have already been tested - can produce power by burning up existing stocks of nuclear waste. As Blees puts it: "Thus we have a prodigious supply of free fuel that is actually even better than free, for it is material that we are quite desperate to get rid of." Who could object to that?

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European Union right to avoid gamble on risky Ukraine accession

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - By Bronwen Maddox - Sep. 10 (Opinion) - The EU and Nato have both bracketed Ukraine with Georgia in mulling over whether to extend their borders again. The EU did the same with Romania and Bulgaria, treating them almost as a joint application. It would do itself a favour by treating all these countries separately. Ukraine and Georgia are completely different, and so would be the problems of letting them in.

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Strutting Russia is heading for a fall

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - By Richard Beeston - Aug. 13 (Opinion) - Unfortunately, the conclusions they draw are completely wrong. Russia may have smashed its tiny neighbour but victory will come at a heavy price. The war will reduce rather than increase Russia's stature abroad, where the Kremlin faces growing isolation.

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