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PARIS. – Nicolas Sarkozy was seething yesterday after it emerged that an aide had secretly recorded hundreds of hours of meetings and private conversations involving the former French president when he was in office.
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MOSCOW. — President Vladimir Putin yesterday said Russia will not go to war with the people of Ukraine, but will use its troops to protect citizens, if radicals with clout in Kiev now try to use violence against Ukrainian civilians, particularly ethnic Russians, Putin told the media.
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MAPUTO. — Suspected members of Mozambique’s ex-rebel movement turned opposition Renamo killed four policemen and wounded five others at the weekend, local media reported yesterday.
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PRETORIA. — Lawyers for Paralympian Oscar Pistorius for a second day yesterday grilled a key witness at his murder trial who claims to have heard screams, then shots, as his girlfriend was killed.
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MOSCOW – Russia could reduce to zero its economic dependency on the United States if Washington agreed sanctions against Moscow over Ukraine, a Kremlin aide said on Tuesday, warning that the American financial system faced a “crash” if this happened. “We would find a way not just to reduce our dependency on the United
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LONDON – Britain opposes trade or financial sanctions on Russia over its intervention in Ukraine, media reports said on Tuesday, citing an apparently official document photographed as it was being carried into Downing Street. The document was snapped in the hand of a senior official walking into a meeting at Prime
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JOHANNESBURG. – South African double-amputee Paralympian star Oscar Pistorius went on trial yesterday, accused of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, a law graduate and model.
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CAIRO. – An Egyptian court yesterday sentenced two policemen to 10 years in jail for the killing of a blogger whose death rallied protesters in the 2011 revolt that toppled Hosni Mubarak.
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GENEVA.- Russia’s decision to allow troops to be sent to Ukraine is meant to deter radicals from using violence in the country and to facilitate reconciliation, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
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TRIPOLI. – Libyan authorities vowed yesterday to pursue a democratic transition in the face of mounting lawlessness after two MPs were shot when protesters stormed the country’s transitional parliament.
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BEIJING — China’s top political advisor Yu Zhengsheng yesterday pledged to further efforts to contribute to the deepening of the country’s reforms in a comprehensive manner. Yu, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), made the pledge in a report delivered at the opening
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BEIJING — It is a time of shock and grief for the Chinese people. Dozens of innocent lives perished and over 100 others were injured in a hair-raising terrorist attack on the railway station of the southwestern city of Kunming.
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KIEV – Russia cemented its control of the flashpoint Crimean peninsula without firing a shot as markets plunged on Monday and world leaders held a series of crisis talks over the worst standoff between Moscow and the West since the Cold War. The price of oil surged on fears of an all-out conflict as Russia […]
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HOLLYWOOD – Lupita Nyong’o, winner of the best supporting actress Oscar on Sunday, stunned Hollywood in her big-screen debut with her searing turn as an abused servant in “12 Years A Slave.”
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PRETORIA – Paralympian star Oscar Pistorius on Monday pleaded not guilty to the Valentine’s Day murder of his girlfriend, as he faced a possible life sentence in the full glare of a trial broadcast around the world.