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...recent times military operations by the British and Soviets in Afghanistan did not end well. It looks as if the U.S. and NATO have not learned from the past. America is fighting for security and a united world, an aim that will only lead to further security in airports. Tristan Meillard Rennes, France...
...recent times military operations by the British and Soviets in Afghanistan did not end well. It looks as if the U.S. and NATO have not learned from the past. America is fighting for security and a united world, an aim that will only lead to further security in airports. Tristan Meillard, RENNES, FRANCE...
Amid an international outcry, China carried out the death sentence of a British man convicted of smuggling heroin into the western province of Xinjiang. London had sought clemency for Akmal Shaikh, 53, arguing that he was mentally ill and had been exploited by other smugglers. Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he was "appalled" by the Dec. 29 lethal injection, which Chinese officials defended as being in accordance with...
...Iceland took a dramatic stand in the conflict last week when President Olafur Grimsson refused to sign a bill requiring his country to repay the $5 billion that's owed to the British and Dutch citizens who deposited their savings in an online Icelandic bank that collapsed in 2008. Icesave, a subsidiary of the Icelandic bank Landsbanki, offered eye-popping interest rates of up to 15% to foreigners before the crash. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...nigh-on impossible anywhere, let alone in a country where the police can be inept and corrupt. Add in a world press that's only too ready to confirm the unimaginative (and mistaken) view that Africa only produces bad news and all it will take for, say, the British press to label the World Cup a catastrophe is for a couple of drunken England fans to stumble into the wrong part of town. (See pictures of Johannesburg preparing for the World...