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Egypt is gearing up for the final stages of a tumultuous transitional period under the rule of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces and preparing to enter a new phase following a scheduled handover of government authority to a newly elected...

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Among the key initial revelations in the more than 250,000 secret US embassy cables that WikiLeaks began publishing on 28 November was the level of hostility towards Iran expressed by several Arab leaders in private diplomatic discussions. The...
As a presidential candidate in 2007, Barack Obama took part in a questionnaire about executive power distributed by the Boston Globe. In it, Obama, a constitutional law scholar, wrote, "I reject the Bush administration's claim that the...
On 15 April, 2004, 2nd Lieutenant Ilario Pantano, a 32-year-old US marine, stopped and detained two Iraqis driving on a dirt road south of Baghdad. He instructed the two men, Hamaady Kareem and Tahah Ahmed Hanjil, to search their own car for weapons...