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uglf details a new tactical approach to liberation...

Downing Street admitted yesterday that MI6 embarked on an unprecedented cover-up after it withdrew intelligence supporting the Government's dossier on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction because it was unreliable....

Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Quraya has told legislators that he has submitted his resignation to President Yasir Arafat....

Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz compared the International Court of Justice to the white courts of Mississippi during the Jim Crow era...Mr. Dershowitz has it backwards. He would like to place Israel above the law in the same way that the courts of Mississippi tried to place white citizens above the law who blatantly and wantonly violated the rights of African Americans...Israel is a Jewish democracy, not a liberal democratic society -- the distinction being that a liberal democracy is ...

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Starting from Midsummer everyone is on a leave in Finland. The whole place becomes a business ghost town, were only Finnish and foreign summer tourists travel across the nation continent....

A looming nuclear threat to the rest of the world, Iran is robbing its own people of prosperity. But the ruling mullahs at the top are getting extremely rich. It's rumble time in Tehran. At dozens of intersections in the capital of Iran thousands of students are protesting on a recent Friday around midnight, as they do nearly every night, chanting pro-democracy slogans and lighting bonfires on street corners. Residents of the surrounding middle-class neighborhoods converge in their cars, ...

At least seven alcohol shops have been bombed or shot at in the Iraqi capital in the past two days, shop owners and witnesses have said....

U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel Washington, DC...

As the International AIDS Conference in Bangkok comes to a close the U.S. is facing sharp criticism for it's funding policies, the small size of its delegation at the conference, and a lack of action to make generic AIDS medications available. We speak with Rep. Barbara Lee, the only member of Congress to attend the conference and we go to Bangkok and South Africa to speak with AIDS activists on the ground....