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                   Friday July 30, 2010                                                         

 

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Endgame in Afghanistan: 'It's taken a year to move 20km' (Video 15m)


Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian (see more here)

China Blocks Google Again, Despite Compromise

The Death of the Phone Call

100M Facebook Users’ Info Published

Gulf of Mexico Has Long Been a Sink of Pollution

In iPhone, adult industry sees pocket porn market

A Food Chain Crisis in the World's Oceans


WikiLeaks
News so sensitive even we can't carry it

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Special Reports -

A Stroke That Hits Young Women

Wikileaks - Afghanistan documents

UK Sarah's Law: Q&A



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Deadly assault exposes Iraq's
delicate state of security

Germany to deport 12,000 Roma to Kosovo

Russia gives new sweeping powers to Fed Security Service

Military kills Mexican drug lord Ignacio Coronel

Iran: Dangerous levels of nitrate in Tehran's drinking water

Northern Ireland: Maze prison peace centre gets go-ahead

Germany: Former RAF Terrorist to Stand Trial


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Honor the Fallen*

US military deaths in Afghanistan: 1,169
US military deaths in Iraq: 4,416
US wounded in Iraq (approx): 31,400
US Wounded in Afghanistan (approx): 3,722
US Casualties
(chart)
UK fatalities in Afghanistan and Iraq: 389
Iraqi Casualties: 1,033,000 (est)

(Opinion Research Business, London)

 

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Global Debt Comparison

The U.S. National Debt and Who Holds It

Write graffiti on West Bank Wall

How big Is Israel?

Jane's Intelligence Review

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- Image of the day -

Afghan soldier

- bUTLER Archive -

In Srebrenica the Good Men Did Nothing

International Donations Not Always Welcome in Gaza

Female priests as unwelcome as child abuse: Vatican

'Child pornography possession is not a victimless crime'
 -
open letter to Judge Weinstein

The Joys of Selective Outrage

That's not the afterlife - it's a brainstorm

Polanski: Updates, Court Documents - updated

Don Draper Wouldn't Have Signed Off on This (C Boswell)

George Gibney: Perverted Justice

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Wikileaks didn't just happen. It exists because journalists lost control

Gates brings in FBI, vows to prosecute leaker

10 Congressmen Who Should Be Fired

US Army failing troubled troops at home: general

U.S. Military Learns to Fight Deadliest Weapons

Afghan Drug Warlord Is Soldiers Best Chance

Arizona Sheriff Prepares for Immigration 'Sweep'


- Business -

The euro is not a life or death issue

St. Louis Fed head warns of Japan-style deflation risk

Google cleared in Britain over personal data collected from wireless networks

Homes keep falling into foreclosure as programs fail to help

Almost 3,000 City staff took home more than 1m last year

Rich I.P.O. Brings Controversy to SKS Microfinance

Citigroup Pays $75 Million to Settle Subprime Claims
 

Aidan Dowling Cartoonist (click)

- Unusual & Other News -

Luxury car worth 1.2m pounds
clamped outside Harrods

Meteorite hits fan at cricket match

Plastic bottle boat crosses Pacific

Killer: world's strongest beer is 110 proof

Tea-baggers real objection to Obama?


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How U2 Saved Ireland

Child sex offenders: therapy, prison or death?

Acknowledging domestic and child abuse is
a (very) recent phenomenon

Men Sex n Porn

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