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US President George W Bush’s first Secretary of State, Colin Powell, has endorsed Democratic election candidate Barack Obama for the White House.
He backed his fellow African-American over John McCain, the Republican Party’s choice to succeed Mr Bush in the 4 November election.
He told NBC Mr Obama had the “ability to inspire” and was “inclusive”.
“All Americans… [...]

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To the more liberal Americans: Do you really think that Obama is the “anti-war candidate” when he now cravenly says that he is not committed to complete pullout from Iraq on his original timetable and that he will “evaluate the situation at the time.” Obama actually promises to massively increase American troops in the meat-grinder [...]

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Austrian far-right politician Joerg Haider has been killed in a road accident, police reports say.
Haider died near Klagenfurt in Carinthia, his political stronghold.
He was driving alone when his car came off the road and he suffered severe head and chest injuries, police told the Austrian APA news agency.
The 58-year-old was a former leader of the [...]

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The purpose of documenting this heartsearing reality is to give voice to the hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans who have lost everything. - Eric “Harry” Harrison, farmer and author of Jambanja

“War veterans” storming Eric Harrison’s farm Maioio, in
Zimbabwe 2004. Photo: Eric Harrison

Parked in his drive was a small blue utility truck, which had ghosted in [...]

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MOSCOW - Russia’s parliament voted unanimously Monday to urge the president to recognize the independence of Georgia’s two breakaway regions, stoking further tensions between Moscow and the small Caucasus nation’s Western allies.
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On Saturday August 23rd four Ossetians permanently residing in Western Europe climbed at the Eiffel tower to throw more than 2.000 flyers written in French and in English.
According to the information provided by the organisation “Stop the genocide” to “Gazeta.ru”, Russian Internet newspaper, the text of the flyers is about the genocide of the [...]

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Beijing (AsiaNews/Agencies) - For “reasons of safety”, bars are forbidden to serve “blacks”” and Mongolians or place tables in the street. Street musicians are being banned, and so is buying medicines containing “stimulants” without a prescription. Prohibitions are on the rise for the Olympic capital, while the first leaks reveal a grandiose fireworks display for [...]

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