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FBI hunts for investigator paid £500,000 by McCanns
Briton implicated in string of frauds thought to have changed his identity
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Battle lines drawn on US health Bill
Monday, 23 November 2009
Senate vote clears way for debate to begin on historic legislation
Guy Adams: Fox suspends 'racist' basketball commentators new
Monday, 23 November 2009
There’s a classic episode of South Park which revolves around a simple observation: while racism against African Americans, or Latinos, or Native Americans has become firmly unacceptable, mainstream US culture can be surprisingly tolerant of discrimination against people who happen to boast a foreign nationality.
US builds up its bases in oil-rich South America
Sunday, 22 November 2009
From the Caribbean to Brazil, political opposition to US plans for 'full-spectrum operations' is escalating rapidly
US health care bill clears Senate hurdle
Sunday, 22 November 2009
60-39 vote clears way for a bruising, full-scale debate on the bill.
The Sarah Palin phenomenon
Sunday, 22 November 2009
The American right's darling sold a 300,000 copies of her autobiography on day one. David Randall reports.
I was Prince Albert of Monaco's private spook
Sunday, 22 November 2009
Ex-novelist who ran intelligence service for Monte Carlo's royal family relaunches legal action against his old boss
Peruvian gang 'killed peasant farmers for their fat'
Saturday, 21 November 2009
Police claim bodies were drained by killers seeking to sell lipids for use in cosmetics
Chavez praises Carlos the Jackal
Saturday, 21 November 2009
Hugo Chavez has defended the alleged terrorist mastermind Carlos the Jackal, saying the Venezuelan imprisoned in France was an important "revolutionary fighter" who supported the cause of the Palestinians.
Fake That: The uncanny world of America's biggest celebrity-lookalike convention
Saturday, 21 November 2009
Holy mackerel! Look over there! Isn't that Richard Gere, with his dreamy silver hair and professorial wire spectacles, taking a leak in the Gents?
US senator calls for return of Lockerbie bomber to jail
Saturday, 21 November 2009
A US senator has written to Gordon Brown, demanding the immediate return of the Lockerbie bomber to prison. Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, said Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi's early release from Greenock jail in Scotland on compassionate grounds was granted on the assumption that he had only three months to live because he was suffering from prostate cancer.
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