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  • Politically suicide attack by Darfur rebels in Sudan 12 May 2008 01:16 GMT
    ... JEM leader Khalil Ibrahim," Kamal Obeid, the minister of state in the Sudanese Ministry of ... the reports made by the ministers of defense and interior on the rebel attack. "The ... The international society, notably including the U.S., France, Britain, which used to be vehemently criticizing ...

  • A major rebel movement in Darfur could get nothing but grievous losses. 12 May 2008 01:15 GMT
    ... JEM leader Khalil Ibrahim," Kamal Obeid, the minister of state in the Sudanese Ministry of ... the reports made by the ministers of defense and interior on the rebel attack. "The ... The international society, notably including the U.S., France, Britain, which used to be vehemently criticizing ...

  • The JEM is believed to have the most powerful forces among rebel groups in the Darfur. 12 May 2008 01:15 GMT
    ... JEM leader Khalil Ibrahim," Kamal Obeid, the minister of state in the Sudanese Ministry of ... the reports made by the ministers of defense and interior on the rebel attack. "The ... The international society, notably including the U.S., France, Britain, which used to be vehemently criticizing ...

  • Scotland to be 'named and shamed' by UN over child welfare failures 11 May 2008 23:59 GMT
    ... and the sexual exploitation of children. Government ministers face a detailed "report card" from th ... In Canada it is 12, 13 in France and 14 in Germany. Fiona Hyslop, the education and lifelong learning ... Justice (Scotland) Act 2003 provides for a defence of "justifiable assault" on children by adults, ...

  • News Analysis: Politically suicide attack by Darfur rebels in Sudan 11 May 2008 23:15 GMT
    ... JEM leader Khalil Ibrahim," Kamal Obeid, the minister of state in the Sudanese Ministry of ... the reports made by the ministers of defense and interior on the rebel attack. "The ... The international society, notably including the U.S., France, Britain, which used to be vehemently criticizing ...

  • Ottawa friends fete Charest rebound 11 May 2008 19:56 GMT
    ... OTTAWA - When Jean Charest arrives in Ottawa ... cheerful chatter and clinking glasses in the French bistro near Parliament Hill, Conservative chums in the Ottawa crowd ... cabinet such as finance, foreign affairs and defence. Charest's finance minister and deputy premier are ...

  • Op-Classic, 1990: Are Invasions Sometimes O.K.? 11 May 2008 18:57 GMT
    ... debate, there was no argument about possible French and Russian intervention in Rumania. And that raises ... on behalf of democracy and human rights? France offered to send troops if the Rumanian ... Government's two leading political opponents, one, former Defense Minister Tin U, was just sentenced to ...

  • An alliance in defense of democracy in Iran 11 May 2008 18:55 GMT
    ... of the Alsace Regional Council in eastern France, while opening a debate on April 24 ... UK terrorist lists respected. The second, the “French Committee for a Democratic Iran” (CFID) brings together ... Iran” (CFID) brings together MPs, senators, former ministers and jurists who are demanding justice in ...

  • EPL now a four-gone conclusion 11 May 2008 16:35 GMT
    ... people during the week to examine the security of the stadium and drive there from ... top four in Europe," said Benitez in defence of Liverpool's league position. The Premier League ... number Manchester United would lose? Look at France, where money is more equally divided. Their best players go ...

  • Live - Premier League finale 11 May 2008 16:26 GMT
    ... 15:03 GMT, Sunday, 11 May 2008 16:03 UK AS ... GOAL Middlesbrough 8-1 Man City The City defence go walkabout as Afonso Alves wraps up ... page for the next six hours in French thanks to an internet translator. Nothing can go wrong!" Anon via ...

  • Ottawa friends fete Charest rebound; wonder why federal Tories remain stalled 11 May 2008 15:58 GMT
    ... OTTAWA - When Jean Charest arrives in Ottawa ... cheerful chatter and clinking glasses in the French bistro near Parliament Hill, Conservative chums in the Ottawa crowd ... cabinet such as finance, foreign affairs and defence. Charest's finance minister and deputy premier are ...

  • THE BROADER VIEW : Forty years forward and backward Parallels and paradoxes 11 May 2008 12:30 GMT
    ... occurred 40 years ago this week in France. I found myself in Paris in May ... De Gaulle's party easily triumphed. Despite the French tendency to romanticize revolution, it was widely perceived ... office, protesting the university's connection to a Defense Department think tank and a plan to ...

  • Iraq reconsidered 11 May 2008 12:27 GMT
    ... in "Roosevelt and Hopkins" and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill did in his World War ... to kill others. Similarly, the fact that France has WMDs is not a problem; the fact ... as two years. Only deft negotiation by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld produced a June 30, ...

  • Get Lit: The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and Americaâs Finest Hour, by Andrei Cherny 11 May 2008 11:45 GMT
    ... Get Lit: The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of ... by the US, Soviet Union, British and French), and the capital city of Berlin, deep ... Forrestal, the driven and paranoid Secretary of Defense who threw himself to his death from ...

  • Relive 1758 in desperate fight at fort 11 May 2008 10:50 GMT
    ... the 400th anniversary next year of the explorations of ... rather than by the one the founding French gave it. But make no mistake, the consequences ... Montcalm's resourcefulness in executing a classic, patient defense. But Nick Westbrook, the director of Fort ...

  • IAF inducts the Akash missile 11 May 2008 10:49 GMT
    ... Distinguished Scientist and Chief Controller in the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). Prahlada is ... could be involved in its manufacture. The army has also expressed willingness to accept the ... the supersonic BrahMos cruise missile, the US, France, Germany and UK were all ready to provide the required ...

  • Together to stop punishment against newspaper and journalists 11 May 2008 10:07 GMT
    ... to cancel a resolution issued by the Minister of Information Hasan al-Lawzi to ban the ... and added new predators topped by Israel Defense Forces. Reporters Without Border said the IDF ... countries of the European Union (EU) including France, Italy, Denmark, Spain, and North Ireland. Violence ...

  • Larry wilson: Luminaries, well-wishers drop in on city 11 May 2008 10:01 GMT
    ... truly in need: the citizens of the war-ravaged town of Ludwigshafen, Germany. And thus Pasadena's ... reached out to bash yours truly's seeming defense of our antediluvian unmetric system, which, as dad ... from `on high' than it is in France, for example." ...

  • New US Embassy in Berlin Triggers Architecture Debate 11 May 2008 09:38 GMT
    ... Much about the building's design seems influenced by security ... up being world policeman and withdrawn into self-defense, Zohlen said. "It would look okay in ... "bunker-style," a charge also lobbed at the French embassy, which opened across the square in 2003. ...

  • Alan M. Dershowitz: Israel's 60th birthday is occasion for admiration 11 May 2008 08:46 GMT
    ... with notable exceptions, to be adept at self-defense, and capable (albeit imperfectly) of protecting civil ... dirtiest colonial wars in Kenya. Certainly not France, which also fought a brutal colonial war in Algeria. Not Russia. Not China. This ...

  • Merkel slams Myanmar's aid stance 11 May 2008 08:15 GMT
    ... In a telephone conversation with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon ... on Friday, and has already backed a French proposal seeking to involve the UN's Security Council on ... to think about a UN resolution,” German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung told the same ...

  • Off the bus on security 11 May 2008 06:18 GMT
    ... experienced, American-led Boeing team and an untested French-run, Airbus-led consortium. In choosing Airbus, the Air ... Airbus is controlled by the European Aerospace Defense Systems firm owned by France, other European companies and even a Russian ...

  • Two takes on terrorism 11 May 2008 04:36 GMT
    ... “TERRORISM”, like “fascism”, is one of those words ... occupation? Algerian rebels used similar tactics against French imperial rule, including numerous brutal attacks on innocent ... neo-conservative Richard Perle, former chairman of the Defense Policy Board, famously declared in 2002 that ...

  • Today in History - Saturday, May 10, 2008 11 May 2008 04:36 GMT
    ... Louis XVI acceded to the throne of France. In 1775, Ethan Allen and his Green ... and France. That same day, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigned, and Winston Churchill formed ... Chi Mak of conspiring to export U.S. defense technology to China. (Mak was later sentenced ...

  • From Pokhran-II to nuclear deal, it's been a long journey (Ten years after Pokhran-II) 11 May 2008 04:32 GMT
    ... From Pokhran-II to nuclear deal, it's been a long ... Security Advisor Brajesh Mishra and Jaswant Singh. Defence Minister George Fernandes was told about the ... allied countries followed. The response of the French and Russians was a little subdued. But they were unable ...


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