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‘Bullet
Magnet’ Prince Harry
fights Taliban in Afghanistan
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LONDON: Prince Harry, the youngest son of Prince Charles and the
late princess Diana, has been fighting the Taliban on the front line
in Afghanistan, the defense ministry in London said Thursday.
The 23-year-old prince’s
deployment to the restive southern Afghan province of Helmand, where
most of Britain’s 7,700 troops are stationed, makes him the first
British royal to be sent on active duty in more than a
quarter-century.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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France leader
Sarkozy offers to personally
collect Colombia rebel hostage
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PARIS: French President Nicolas
Sarkozy urged Colombian rebels Thursday to free French-Colombian
hostage Ingrid Betancourt, offering to personally pick her up after
news that her health had deteriorated.
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Favored Obama to
conquer Bush’s Texas
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FORT WORTH, Texas: Democrat
presidential frontrunner Barack Obama is seeking to conquer Texas,
the conservative home ground of President George W. Bush, hoping to
permanently derail rival Hillary Clinton’s run...
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Saddam enforcer
faces death for genocide
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BAGHDAD: Iraq’s presidency has
endorsed the execution for genocide of Ali Hassan al-Majid, Saddam
Hussein’s enforcer known to the world as “Chemical Ali” for
ordering gas attacks on Kurds in the 1980s,...
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WORLDINBRIEF
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BANGKOK: Thai Prime Minister
Samak Sundaravej told a senior US envoy Friday that Thaksin
Shinawatra will not run his government from behind the scenes, now
that the deposed premier has returned from exile.
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