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Al-Qaida in Iraq claims responsibility for Baghdad blasts
Co-ordinated attacks struck a dozen mostly Shia neighbourhoods, killing 69 people, on single day last weekAn al-Qaida front group in Iraq has claimed responsibility for the wave of bomb attacks that...
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United States as a global power: new world disorder | Editorial
The US is struggling with a paradox: while its military power retains global reach, its role as world leader is gradually endingThe time has long since past when it became fashionable to talk about a...
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Why are imams telling us about nail polish? | Nushin Arbabzadah
I'd never tell Muslim men what it feels like to be a man, but imams and militants are taking an odd interest in female issuesFor Muslim women worldwide, the 21st century is the age of progress and...
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Despite everything, there's plenty to celebrate in 2012 | Charles Kenny
Yes, the mood is downbeat. But the actual statistics – on the economy, terror, crime – tell a very different storyIt seems a hard time to be confident about the state of the country – or the state of...
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Britain's Guantánamo survivors are suffering a toxic legacy
After years of imprisonment, victims of America's 'icon of lawlessness' were released without charge, but their lives have been shatteredThey call each other "brother" and the warmth between them is...
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Aum Shinrikyo cult fugitive turns himself in after 16 years
Police arrest Makoto Hirata, a member of the doomsday cult responsible for the 1995 sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subwayA member of the doomsday cult behind a deadly Tokyo subway gas attack and other...
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Aum cult fugitive was turned away from Tokyo police station
Makoto Hirata, who belonged to cult that carried out 1995 sarin gas attack, gave himself up – on third attemptA simple change of heart during the few minutes' walk from one Tokyo police station to...
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Nigeria's Islamists have the government dancing to their tune | Remi Adekoya
A state of emergency will do nothing unless Goodluck Jonathan faces up to the political backers of Boko Haram's terroristsFaced with mounting pressure following the Christmas Day bombings of churches...
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Deadly blasts rock Baghdad's Shia districts
Motorcycle bomb targeting labourers waiting for work in Sadr City is followed by car bomb in Kazimiya, with attacks killing more than 26More than 26 people have been killed in a wave of bombings in two...
View ArticleBritish doctor abducted at gunpoint in Pakistan - video
Police in the south-western Pakistani city of Quetta confirm the abduction at gunpoint of British doctor Khalil Ahmad Dale
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Afghan president demands control of Bagram prison
Hamid Karzai reacts to being sidelined from Taliban talks by ordering US hand over main military prison within one monthHamid Karzai, furious at being sidelined from Afghan peace talks, has thrown his...
View ArticleDamascus hit by suicide bomb attack - video
A suicide bomb attack in Midan, central Damascus, is believed to have killed at least nine people and injured 46
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Syria blames al-Qaida for Damascus bomb blast
Interior ministry says attack has all the fingerprints of terror group though opposition activists have expressed doubtsSyria's government has blamed al-Qaida for a suicide bombing which reportedly...
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Syria's government has blamed al-Qaida for a suicide bombing which reportedly killed at least 11 people in a Damascus suburb on another Friday of protests across the country
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Syrian bomb attacks cause people to rally around Bashar al-Assad's regime
Suicide bombing which killed 11 people in Damascus has shifted attention away from the protests across the countryIf you looked carefully, in the folds of a plastic bin bag, you could make out part of...
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Kenya: warning of imminent terrorist attack
• Foreign Office says Britons in Kenya should be 'extra vigilant'• Reports that al-Shabaab Islamists plan Nairobi attacksTerrorists may be in the final stages of planning attacks on the Kenyan capital,...
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Church attacks in Nigeria leave at least 27 worshippers dead
Islamist group claims responsibility amid growing concern about government's inability to tackle sectarian violenceA fresh wave of violence against churchgoers in Nigeria has left at least 27 people...
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Pope Benedict XVI appeals for end to discrimination against Christians
Pontiff uses Vatican reception for diplomats to highlight attacks on Christians, citing recent killings in Nigeria and PakistanPope Benedict XVI has made a fervent appeal for religious tolerance and an...
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Too many victims of the war on terror remain imprisoned across the world |...
Hamidullah Khan was 13 when he disappeared from Pakistan in 2008. He is still locked up in an Afghan jailIt didn't take long before one of the incentives offered to coax the Taliban to the negotiating...
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Man charged over alleged plot to bomb Tampa nightclubs
Sami Osmakac, naturalised US citizen from former Yugoslavia, made video explaining his motives shortly before arrestA 25-year-old man from the former Yugoslavia has been charged with an alleged plot to...
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