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