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Nov 30 2009
Labour’s strategy for tackling poverty has reached the end of the road and Britain risks a return to Victorian levels of inequality, according to a major two-year study seen by The Independent. With 20 per cent of the population still stuck in...
Nov 24 2009
Federal officials on Monday unsealed terrorism-related charges against men they say were key actors in a recruitment effort that led roughly 20 young Americans to join a violent insurgent group in Somalia with ties to Al Qaeda.
Nov 18 2009
Not far from the pulsating music and dancing of the high school homecoming, young men were drinking in a dimly-lit courtyard out of sight of chaperones. A friend invited a 16-year-old girl to join them, and she started drinking hard liquor, too. Soon...
Nov 6 2009
Reporting from Washington - As President Obama struggles over a new military strategy for Afghanistan, his advisors are trying to satisfy sharply divergent demands: assuring Americans that any military buildup will be limited while convincing Pakistan...
Nov 6 2009
Taliban-led insurgents in Afghanistan have devised ways to cripple and even destroy the expensive armored vehicles that offer U.S. forces the best protection against roadside bombs by using increasingly large explosive charges and rocket-propelled...
Nov 5 2009
Barack Obama and his Democratic Party were given clear warning yesterday that they face a potentially disastrous 2010 after big Republican victories on Tuesday signalled mounting voter discontent with the economy and the President’s spending...
Nov 3 2009
Kidney donors may be stuck with shocking medical bills because having one kidney could constitute a pre-existing condition resulting in a denial of health care coverage, according to UPI . Hospital officials verbally warn organ donors that having one...
Oct 28 2009
These are heady times for advocates of legalized marijuana in California — and only in small part because of the newly relaxed approach of the federal government toward medical marijuana.
Oct 24 2009
US President Barack Obama’s call for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba has got quite the chorus line of support from the music world, with R.E.M., Pearl Jam and Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello all adding their...
Oct 24 2009
Crews struggled to contain a huge, smoky fire at fuel storage facility outside Puerto Rico’s capital Friday following an early morning explosion that knocked out windows and shook the ground in the U.S. territory. A plume of inky black smoke...