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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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Israeli commando who shot six passengers in aid convoy in line for medal - Times Online

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - Jun. 04 (News Report) - Six of the nine passengers killed in an Israeli raid on an aid convoy bound for Gaza were shot by a single Israeli commando, who is being considered for a medal of valour for saving his injured comrades as passengers attacked them with clubs, knives and even guns they had taken from downed Navy Seals. Fresh details of the controversial raid, which has led to accusations of “piracy” and “state terrorism” being levelled against Israel, and which wrecked its strategic partnership with Turkey, emerged yesterday. There were reports that passengers who attacked the Israeli boarding party had been dragging three captured commandos into the hold of the ship when the shooting broke out.

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It’s risky, but this time North Korea must pay

Wed, 26 May 2010 07:31:56 -0700

The Times - By Rosemary Righter - May. 26 (Opinion) - Something has snapped in Seoul. That something is the hope, clung to against abundant evidence to the contrary for most of the past two decades, that Kim Jong Il's iniquitous regime could somehow be tamed by South Korea’s “sunshine policy” of aid and economic co-operation. The torpedo that sank the warship Cheonan in South Korean waters and sent 46 South Korean sailors to their deaths has shaken the country more than North Korea’s nuclear bomb-making, more than its testing of long-range missiles.

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Oil spill brings death in the ocean from top to bottom

Tue, 25 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - By Frank Pope - May. 25 (News Report) - Cutting the engines, we slide to a stop near Rig 313. We’re not supposed to be in the restricted zone, but other than the dispersant-spraying aircraft passing overhead there’s no one to see us. Despite the thick oil, we’ve seen only two clean-up boats out of the 1,150 that the response claims to have on site: one was broken down, the other was towing it.

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Treasure hunter Michael Hatcher becomes prey for ?deep-sea looting? - Times Online

Mon, 03 May 2010 14:24:01 -0700

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Barack Obama: ‘oil spill is No 1 priority’

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - By Raf Sanchez, Robin Pagnamenta, Jacqui Goddard - Apr. 23 (News Report) - President Obama said today that containing spilt oil from a collapsed rig was the Government’s “number one priority” as the US braced itself for a major environmental disaster. Crude oil was pouring into the Gulf of Mexico this morning from the site

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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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Tiger Woods?s advisers helped to arrange affairs, Vanity Fair claims - Times Online

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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Binyamin Netanyahu humiliated after Barack Obama 'dumped him

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - By Giles Whittell, James Hider - Mar. 26 (News) - For a head of state to visit the White House and not pose for photographers is rare. For a key ally to be left to his own devices while the President withdraws to have dinner in private was, until this week, unheard of. Yet that is how Binyamin Netanyahu was treated by President Obama on Tuesday night, according to Israeli reports on a trip viewed in Jerusalem as a humiliation.

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Obama signs healthcare Bill as Republicans begin legal fight for repeal - contains video

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - Mar. 23 (News Report) - The US health reform Bill was signed into law by President Obama today in a momentous - and momentarily profane - White House ceremony. Using a rack of 22 pens that will each become cherished souvenirs, Mr Obama signed a measure that ends America’s longstanding distinction as the only advanced economy to lack basic healthcare coverage for all.

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The science behind the Chile earthquake

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:40:06 -0800

The Times - Feb. 27 - The catastrophic earthquake which hit Chile today was caused by the Pacific ocean floor gradually sliding under the continent of South America. The 8.8 magnitude quake, which struck at 6:34am GMT about 115km (70 miles) north-east of the city of

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Ousted tribal leaders poised to take over after Nato offensive

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Times - By Jerome Starkey - Feb. 11 (News Report) - A “government-in-waiting” is poised to seize control in Marjah once thousands of Afghan and international soldiers force the Taleban from their central Helmand stronghold.

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China's hawks demand cold war on the US - Times Online

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Times - By Michael Sheridan - Feb. 11 (News Report) - MORE than half of Chinese people questioned in a poll believe China and America are heading for a new “cold war”. The finding came after battles over Taiwan, Tibet, trade, climate change, internet freedom and human rights which have poisoned relations in the three months since President Barack Obama made a fruitless visit to Beijing.

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Climate chief was told of false glacier claims before Copenhagen - Times Online

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Times - By Ben Webster - Jan. 29 (News Report) - Rajendra Pachauri was told that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment that the glaciers would disappear by 2035 was wrong, but he waited two months to correct it. He failed to act despite learning that the claim had been refuted by several leading glaciologists.

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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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Western troops accused of executing 10 Afghan civilians, including children

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Times - By Jerome Starkey - Jan. 01 (News Report) - American-led troops were accused yesterday of dragging innocent children from their beds and shooting them during a night raid that left ten people dead. Afghan government investigators said that eight schoolchildren were killed, all but one of them from the same family. Locals said that some victims were handcuffed before being killed. Western military sources said that the dead were all part of an Afghan terrorist cell responsible for manufacturing improvised explosive devices (IEDs), which have claimed the lives of countless soldiers and civilians. “This was a joint operation that was conducted against an IED cell that Afghan and US officials had been developing information against for some time,” said a senior Nato insider. But he admitted that “the facts about what actually went down are in dispute”.

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Glowing Walls Could Kill Off the Light Bulb

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Times - By Ben Webster - Dec. 30 (News) - Light-emitting wallpaper may begin to replace light bulbs from 2012, according to a government body that supports low-carbon technology. A chemical coating on the walls will illuminate all parts of the room with an even glow, which mimics sunlight and avoids the shadows and glare of conventional bulbs.

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At least 15 dead in Tehran street battles

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Times - By Martin Fletcher - Dec. 28 (News Report) - At least eight anti-government protesters, including a nephew of Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran’s opposition leader, were shot dead yesterday as the smouldering confrontation between the regime and the so-called Green Movement finally erupted.

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Inconvenient truth for Al Gore as his North Pole sums don't add up

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Times - Dec. 14 (News) - There are many kinds of truth. Al Gore was poleaxed by an inconvenient one yesterday. The former US Vice-President, who became an unlikely figurehead for the green movement after narrating the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, became

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A world willing to fry for the prize of ‘green gold’ - Times Online

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Times - By Leo Lewis - Dec. 12 (Special Report) - The inconvenient truth about palm oil is that while it may be the bogeyman of environmentalists and the embarrassment of the likes of Unilever, Cadbury and Danone, it is the nectar of the developing world. Palm plantations, for all of the controversy and condemnation they generate, are the most efficient producers of edible oil on Earth.As the economies of China, India and other Asian nations expand, so too does the appetite of the average family for fried food.

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Copenhagen summit: decade is world's warmest on record

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Times - By Ben Webster - Dec. 08 (News Report) - This decade has been the warmest on record and this year is likely to be the fifth warmest, according to the World Meteorological Organisations’s (WMO) assessment of global average temperatures. There were sharp differences between regions, with central Africa and parts of southern Asia having their warmest year but the United States and Canada experiencing cooler than average conditions. The WMO released the preliminary data at the Copenhagen climate summit in what the Met Office, which contributed to the figures, admitted was an attempt to influence the negotiations over cutting greenhouse gases. The WMO is also anxious to quell doubts about the scientific analysis of temperature records raised by the publication of stolen e-mails in the “Climategate” scandal.

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Climate e-mails were hijacked 'to sabotage summit'

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Times - By Ben Webster, Murad Ahmed - Dec. 08 (News Report) - Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, a vice-chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said that the theft from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was not the work of amateur climate sceptics, but was a sophisticated and well-funded attempt to destroy public confidence in the science of man-made climate change. He said the fact that the e-mails were first uploaded to a sceptic website from a computer in Russia was an indication that the culprit was paid.

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