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A UN spokesman tells the Swiss News Agency that Libya submitted a proposal to the General Assembly calling for the dissolution of Switzerland last month. The proposal was never accepted or circulated because the U.N. Charter prohibits countries from...
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European Commission maritime officials told The Daily Telegraph that following its first attack in Swedish waters, a second set of radio messages was received from the Maltese-flagged merchant ship after the vessel had passed through the English Channel...
The men mourned silently, raising their hands to their shell-shocked faces in prayer; the women sat on the other side of the courtyard in headscarves, wailing uncontrollably. They had come to bid farewell to two more victims of the horrifying systematic...
A stone tablet found in a cave in Abauntz in the Navarra region of northern Spain is believed to contain the earliest known representation of a landscape.
Engravings on the stone, which measures less than seven inches by five inches, and is less than...
If Nicolas Sarkozy seems to some to represent a kind of modern politician, rudderless and without ideology, he also is deeply aware, on the basis of opinion polls and focus groups, of what his image lacks.
A report in a Russian military journal claims that half the planes Russia lost in its war with Georgia last year were shot down by friendly fire.
The article, in the Moscow Defence Brief magazine, also claims that Russia lost a total of six military...
An innocent man almost lost his freedom after being accused of rape by a woman he met over the internet.
Gary Wood was hoping for romance when he arranged to meet Natalie Jefferson after chatting to her online, but ended up facing a potential 10-year...
The Pope has called for the world economy to be restructured in line with the principles of “love, truth and charity” in a new encyclical issued today.
He urges the reformation of the United Nations and economic institutions to address the...
As the US and Russia negotiate over nuclear weapons, what does the nuclear world look like? These figures are from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and show the best estimates for the big five nuclear powers: the US, Russia, China, France and the...
Dress rehearsals are well under way for the Group of 8 summit meeting that opens here on Wednesday, but whether the production is comedy, tragedy or the serious undertaking Italy hopes for may depend on the host: The gathering is set in an earthquake...
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