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  Reporting Darfur: Kept at arm's length

  Wed Oct 22 01:43PM

  Darfur is the realm of impossibility. Impossible to eat without unfortunate consequences. Impossible to sleep next to the chug of a generator powering the fan that slices through the heat. Impossible to travel without a bone-crunching ride across desert. Most of all, impossible to work. At least if you're a… More »

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  Is the media to blame for the financial crisis?

  Wed Oct 22 09:53AM

  When John Major's Conservatives won the 1992 general election, that bashful tabloid The Sun famously declared its own glorious role in the victory: "It's the Sun Wot Won It" it said. That claim was later rubbished. A study, 10 years later, by academics Dr Neil Gavin of Liverpool University and Essex University's David Sanders found… More »

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  Campaign diary: Feeling the love

  Mon Oct 20 09:54AM

  Barack Obama's supporters are nothing if not ardent. On Sunday morning I emerged from the elevator in our hotel in Fayetteville, North Carolina and felt like a movie star as about 50 people who were crowded in the lobby pressed forward excitedly. When they realised I was not actually Obama, or anyone connected… More »

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  A transition for the press, too

  Mon Oct 20 09:53AM

  For three decades, departing White House press secretaries have given their successors a ceremonial flak jacket, as well as a manual to tell them how to manage their relations with reporters. This time, though, US President George W. Bush's communications team is trying to live by the old writer's adage "show, don't tell" as… More »

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  Can Joe the plumber fix the leak?

  Fri Oct 17 02:38PM

  If you have a leak, you call a plumber. And that's what John McCain did this week with the prospects for his White House bid fast dripping away. Forget vice presidential pick Sarah Palin. Meet Joe the Plumber, the latest savior of the Republican's campaign. Ohio tradesman Joe Wurzelbacher shot from lead-piped obscurity to world… More »

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  Campaign diary: Plane pampered

  Fri Oct 17 09:26AM

  Life on a presidential candidate's plane, despite the cramped seating, awful food and worse coffee, does have its advantages. Flying in and out of New York skies, some of the world's most congested airspace, is rarely without aggravating delays for the commercial traveller. But as Barack Obama's "O Force One" plane was taxiing at La… More »

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  In & out of Baghdad: a hair-raising trip

  Thu Oct 16 10:22AM

  The daily dangers of living and reporting in Iraq are well known. And I don't make light of them. But sometimes it's the mundane that shocks. Nothing quite prepared me for the hair-raising experience at the start of my second stint in Baghdad. A trip to an Iraqi barber left me with a 13-dollar bill, the… More »

• Who writes 'Around The World'?

  Thu Oct 16 10:20AM

  Amal Jayasinghe heads AFP operations in Sri Lanka and the Maldives. He joined the agency in August 1987 after working for over five years as a reporter for Sri Lanka's main English-language newspaper. There is life after the Daily News, he has said referring to the state-controlled paper. The 1988… More »

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  Barack Obama's slice of life

  Wed Oct 15 11:17AM

  Presidential candidates live a strange and rarified life. They spend months jetting around America in a big plane with their name emblazoned on the side, and getting into speeding motorcades that shut down the traffic wherever they go. They are feted by huge and adoring crowds and spend day after day talking about how… More »

• Playing hardball in Hofstra

  Wed Oct 15 10:02AM

  John McCain has a third and final opportunity to debate his way back into the game against Barack Obama on Wednesday night, and not for the first time is vowing to talk tough. But while the Republican is promising to "whip" his opponent's "you know what" at New York's Hofstra University, the perils of a… More »

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