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U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Christopher Mullins, with 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, provides security during a patrol in Nawa district, Helmand province, Afghanistan, Aug. 30, 2009.

Change in U.S. political climate complicates Afghan war read more
The Dallas Morning News

WASHINGTON - As President Barack Obama prepares to decide whether to send additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan, he faces a challenging political climate that leaves him relying on the Republican Party, and not his own, for support. Abdullah Abdullah (center), the top challenger to President Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan's disputed August election,...

photo: USMC / Staff Sgt. William Greeson

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Michael White's political briefing: Brown's costly lack of courage read more
The Guardian

Whatever Gordon Brown said about the release of the Lockerbie bomber he would have upset...

The NHS is about care, not markets read more
The Guardian

The core goal of universal healthcare and services planned on the basis of need and not ability...

Living with Cheney's poisonous legacy read more
The Guardian

The former US vice-president Dick Cheney is almost as busy now as he was when he was running...

Ill Manson follower Susan Atkins denied parole read more

Convicted murderer and former Charles Manson family member, Susan Atkins, left, is seen in a moveable bed beside her husband and attorney James Whitehouse, during her parole hearing Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009, at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla, Calif. Atkins was again denied parole, remaining the longest-incarcerated female inmate in the California penal system.

Seattle Times

CHOWCHILLA, Calif. - Susan Atkins, the terminally ill Charles Manson follower who admitted stabbing actress Sharon Tate 40 years ago, lost what was likely to be her last bid for freedom Wednesday. Atkins, who suffers from brain cancer, slept through...

photo: AP / Ben Margot/POOL

Executions continue bloodshed in Swat read more

Pakistani army troops patrol on a road after the suicide bombing over a police station in Mingora, the main town of Pakistan's troubled Swat Valley, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009.

BBC News

Pakistan's government declared its anti-Taliban offensive in the Swat valley a success in July. But, as the BBC's Syed Shoaib Hasan reports from Islamabad, the cycle of violence has continued with the corpses of suspected militants turning up across...

photo: AP / Abdullah Khan

EU's Barroso plans more euro zone cooperation read more

Participation of José Manuel Barroso, President of the EC, at the forum Fora - welcome reception of the new Members of the European Parlement

The Guardian

BRUSSELS, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Jose Manuel Barroso vowed on Thursday to work to boost cooperation within the euro currency zone if he is elected for a second five-year term as president of the European Commission, the European Union's executive body....

photo: European Community

Myanmar's Suu Kyi appeals against conviction read more

Myanmar activists take pictures of their pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during an event to celebrate her 64th birthday in Bucheon, west of Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, June 21, 2009.

Khaleej Times

YANGON – Lawyers for Myanmar's detained pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi lodged an appeal Thursday against her conviction on charges of sheltering an American man who swam to her lakeside house. The Nobel peace laureate was ordered to spend 18...

photo: AP / Lee Jin-man

New Politkovskaya probe ordered read more

A woman holds a photograph of recently killed reporter Anna Politkovskaya during a rally on Pushkin square in downtown Moscow, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2006.(gm1)

BBC News

Russia's Supreme Court has ordered a new investigation into the 2006 killing of the journalist, Anna Politkovskaya. The court had originally overturned a decision earlier this year to acquit three men charged with helping to plan the...

photo: AP/ Dmitry Lovetsky

Star wars: Andromeda galaxy devours another constellation read more

The Daily Mail

British astronomers have captured the first ever images of a cannibalistic galaxy of stars 'consuming' another constellation. The remarkable photographs showing the giant Andromeda galaxy 'devouring' a smaller star formation is described by experts...

photo: Public Domain