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  White House goes Fox Hunting

  Sat Oct 24 12:34PM

  The White House has declared war. Not on a country, or a terrorist group, but on Fox News, the Rupert Murdoch-owned news channel.Fox, with its line-up of ebullient conservative commentators who rail and rant against liberals on blustery evening shows has been reviled by Democrats for years.But until now, no… More »

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  Hollywood comes to Tbilisi

  Fri Oct 23 03:25PM

  It's not every day that Hollywood descends on Tbilisi. Sure, Renny Harlin is not the star action director he was in the early 90s when he was making films like "Die Hard 2" and "Cliffhanger." And Andy Garcia is no longer at the top of Hollywood's A-list. But by the… More »

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  Did Griffin's Question Time debut help or hinder the BNP?

  Fri Oct 23 01:10PM

  So after all the protests and the heckling, was Thursday night's "Question Time" appearance a dream or a nightmare for British National Party (BNP) leader Nick Griffin? Griffin cut a nervous figure on Thursday night, hands trembling and lips twitching as he faced a barrage of angry questions and heckles… More »

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  Griffin's TV dream could be nightmare for opponents

  Thu Oct 22 12:42PM

  Just a few years ago, Nick Griffin, leader of the far-right British National Party (BNP), can only have dreamed of being invited on to the nation's leading political panel show. But now he is due to appear on the BBC's "Question Time" Thursday night, commentators are asking what impact it… More »

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  Military ops, crops and laptops in rural Afghanistan

  Mon Oct 19 10:11AM

  I sat on the mud floor of my home for the night, goat droppings all around me, hunched over my laptop in smelly clothes next to Afghan soldiers and US Marines while I filed my copy by satellite.Snipers lined the domed roofs of our compound while Marines patrolled the perimeter,… More »

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  Vietnamese justice: keeping the press at a safe distance

  Sun Oct 18 09:20AM

  I covered a court case recently but never set foot in the courtroom. The general public, let alone reporters, cannot just wander in to trials in Vietnam. A few family members of the accused are allowed but otherwise you need permission to be there.Even with authorisation, the authorities still want… More »

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  Obama's Nobel win: A tale of two Fridays

  Sat Oct 10 12:44PM

  "What?" That was the reaction of most people I know in Washington, possibly including President Barack Obama, when news broke early this morning that the US leader had stunningly scooped the Nobel peace prize. Normally, when the presidential phone rings at 6 am it's bad news -- some crisis breaking… More »

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  Life may finally be getting better in Iraq

  Sat Oct 10 12:39PM

  Iraq is a country for whom the expression "false dawn" could have been coined. Its very short history -- less than 100 years as a state -- has never seen the often high expectations of its people delivered by its rulers, be they kings, generals or, since 2005, democratically-elected politicians.… More »

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  In Milan, the Accidental Fashion Writer

  Tue Sep 29 06:09PM

  During most of my waking hours I think of myself as living in the real world, a place full of more or less familiar conflicts, complexities, highs and lows.Sometimes, though, my job takes me through the looking glass to a bewildering world of cryptic messages, pulsating music and impossibly long-legged… More »

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  On being a woman reporter in rural Afghanistan

  Tue Sep 29 05:46PM

  There aren't many women to be seen in rural Afghanistan -- neither in the villages, nor on Golestan military base where I have been living for the past week.Scores of Marines chewing on hunks of steak laughed when I -- a vegetarian female of all things -- arrived by helicopter… More »

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