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Result seen as big success for the British

THE haggling over Europe’s top jobs ended quietly and quickly last night before the European Union’s 27 leaders even got to the main course of their dinner meeting.

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Karzai sworn in for second five-year term

AFGHANISTAN will control its own security within five years and prosecute corrupt officials, President Hamid Karzai pledged yesterday in an inauguration speech made under intense pressure to shed the cronyism and graft that marked his government’s first term.

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Alcohol may cut risk of heart disease in men by a third

ALCOHOL may cut the risk of heart disease by almost a third in men, research suggested yesterday.

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Karzai: Afghanistan will control own security within five years

AFGHANISTAN will control its own security within five years and prosecute corrupt officials, President Hamid Karzai pledged yesterday in an inauguration speech made under intense pressure to shed the cronyism and graft that marked his government’s first term.

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Forensics team find remains

A FORENSICS team searching for the body of a British journalist kidnapped by Palestinian militants more than 20 years ago recovered human remains in Lebanon, the Foreign Office said yesterday.

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