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BBC News
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Pakistan's former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, will stand for parliament in a by-election, a party spokesman says.
Mr Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-N party is currently in negotiations over joining a coalition government.
His party won the second..
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CNN
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Assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was laid to rest alongside her father in her ancestral home of Garhi-Khuda Baksh after a chaotic funeral procession and scenes of violence in Pakistan on Friday. Hundreds of thousands of people in the surr..
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SF Gate
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A suicide bomber blew himself up Tuesday at a checkpoint near the offices of two prominent lawmakers, including a former prime minister. The attack killed two guards.
The lawmakers, former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and Sunni politician Saleh Mutlaq, w..
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CNN
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Former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski likened U.S. officials' saber rattling about Iran's alleged nuclear ambitions to similar statements made before the start of the Iraq war. "I think the administration, the president and the vice preside..
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CNN
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Clashes erupted in Pakistan Monday as former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was deported to Saudi Arabia shortly after returning home from seven years in exile hoping to campaign against the country's military ruler. Sharif was briefly taken into police cust..
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Al Jazeera
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He said the court also upheld the death sentences against two other accused, Sultan Hashim, Saddam's former defence minister, and Hussein Rashid, the former deputy commander of operations for the Iraqi military.
Anfal massacre
The Anfal military camp..
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CNN
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Saddam Hussein's cousin known as "Chemical Ali" and 14 others faced charges of crimes against humanity for the brutal crushing of a Shiite uprising after the 1991 Gulf War Tuesday as Iraq's third trial against former regime officials began with three of t..
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FOX News
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Federal prosecutors filed notice Tuesday that they will seek the death penalty if former soldier Steven D. Green is convicted of killing an Iraqi family and raping a 14-year-old girl.
The notice, filed in U.S. District Court, cites 12 alleged offenses..
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USA Today
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Federal prosecutors filed notice Tuesday that they will seek the death penalty if former soldier Steven D. Green is convicted of killing an Iraqi family and raping a 14-year-old girl.
The notice, filed in U.S. District Court, cites 12 alleged offenses..
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FOX News
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A former engineer at the nation's largest nuclear power plant has been charged with taking computer access codes and software to Iran and using it to download details of plant control rooms and reactors, authorities said.
The FBI said there's no indica..
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USA Today
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The U.S. is seeking information from Iran about a former FBI agent who was reported missing while on a business trip there several weeks ago.
FBI spokesman Rich Kolko said Monday the agent had retired nearly a decade ago and appeared to be in Iran on p..
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BBC News
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A former top American diplomat says the US deliberately resisted calls for a immediate ceasefire during the conflict in Lebanon in the summer of 2006.
Former ambassador to the UN John Bolton told the BBC that before any ceasefire Washington wanted Isra..
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CBS News
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Saddam Hussein's former deputy was hanged before dawn Tuesday for the killings of 148 Shiites, an official with the prime minister's office said.
Taha Yassin Ramadan, who was Saddam's vice president when the regime was ousted four years ago, was the fo..
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Washington Post
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Federal and local law enforcement authorities are investigating a shooting in Prince George's County that critically injured a prominent intelligence expert who specializes in the former Soviet Union.
Paul Joyal, 53, was shot Thursday, four days after..
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Spiegel.de
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The former chief of the CIA's Europe division, Tyler Drumheller, discusses the United States foreign intelligence service's cooperation with Germany, the covert kidnapping of suspected terrorists and a Bush adminstration that ignored CIA advice and used..
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Sun Times
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The man reported by British media to be a suspect in the murder of a former Russian agent in London hit out Saturday at ''lies, provocation and government propaganda,'' denying any role in the radiation poisoning death of Alexander Litvinenko...
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Guardian Unlimited
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One morning a few weeks ago I sat in a car talking to Rami, a thick-necked former Republican Guard commando who now procures arms for his fellow Sunni insurgents...
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CNN
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Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has been executed, according to two Arabic language media outlets...
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BBC News
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Former Iraqi Deputy PM Tariq Aziz is due to go on trial over the deaths of a group of Baghdad merchants in 1992.
Mr Aziz, along with seven other former members of Saddam Hussein's regime, is accused of involvement in the executions of about 40 merchant..
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BBC News
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Former US President Jimmy Carter has said that Hamas is prepared to accept the right of Israel to "live as a neighbour next door in peace".
After meeting Hamas leaders last week in Syria, he said it was a problem the US and Israel would not meet the gr..
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