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10 Aug 2009 09:06:44 GMT
Five killed as violence flares up in S.Russia
(Releads, update death toll) MOSCOW, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Four Russian security officials were killed in explosions and a shootout with suspected Islamist militants in the North Caucasus region of ...

10 Aug 2009 09:01:30 GMT
Rambo wannabes need not apply; Faced with a high drop-out rate, the French army rejects high-octane recruitment ads for a more prosaic, reality-based pitch. Too many young soldiers thought life in the military was one long, non-stop action film
PARIS -- The American and British armies advertise themselves with high-tech video combat games, dark virtual worlds where players can blow up buildings, smash down doors and spray imaginary enemies with gunfire.

10 Aug 2009 09:01:28 GMT
The wizard of Ottawa, behind the curtain; As he leaves the civil service, Privy Council clerk reflects on how he reshaped the public sector in the Stephen Harper era
OTTAWA BUREAU CHIEF He helped push through the most important budget of the decade, oversaw Canada's strategy on Afghanistan and caused stirs when he decided to leave public life.

10 Aug 2009 09:01:24 GMT
SOCIAL STUDIES; A DAILY MISCELLANY OF INFORMATION
MKESTERTON@GLOBEANDMAIL.COM Year without a summer? In southern Canada and around the Great Lakes, this summer has been cool and rainy. “It's been the un-summer. It's been the year without a summer,� David Phillips, senior climatologist with ...

10 Aug 2009 08:45:36 GMT
FACTBOX-Ships held by Somali pirates
Aug 10 (Reuters) - An Italian tugboat, the Buccaneer, has been freed, Italy's foreign minister said on Sunday. [ID:nLA178141] The Buccaneer, owned by Ravenna-based Micoperi Marine Contractors, was ...

10 Aug 2009 08:41:12 GMT
Israel bombs Gaza tunnel in retaliatory strike
* No casualties reported in tunnel bombing * Israel says raid in response to attacks from Gaza * First Israeli aerial attack in two months (Updates with background) GAZA, Aug 10 (Reuters) - ...

10 Aug 2009 08:33:32 GMT
UK spy agency MI6 "not complicit in torture"-chief
* Intelligence service "committed to human rights values" * Lawmakers concerned about links with Pakistan ISI agency By Avril Ormsby LONDON, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Britain's foreign ...

10 Aug 2009 08:32:05 GMT
New Zealand sets 10-20 pct CO2 cut target by 2020
* NZ sets "conditional" 2020 emissions goal of 10-20 pct cut * Final target depends on robustness of global climate pact * Target to be achieved through forestry, other steps By Adrian ...

10 Aug 2009 08:23:42 GMT
G.D.P. R.I.P.
Montpelier, Vt. -- IF there's a silver lining to our current economic downturn, it's this: With it comes what the economist Joseph Schumpeter called ''creative destruction,'' the failure of outmoded economic structures and their replacement ...

10 Aug 2009 08:23:30 GMT
DRUG CHIEFTAINS TIED TO TALIBAN ARE U.S. TARGETS
WASHINGTON -- Fifty Afghans believed to be drug traffickers with ties to the Taliban have been placed on a Pentagon target list to be captured or killed, reflecting a major shift in American counternarcotics strategy in Afghanistan, ...

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