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Britain has moved to quash a row over its Middle East policy by taking down a controversial blog post by its ambassador in Beirut praising the late Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, a staunchly anti-American cleric who was a mentor for Lebanon's militant Hezbollah movement. Frances Guy had commented in her blog – on the Foreign Office website – that Fadlallah's death was sad news, calling the
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Job creation has been disappointing, but first-quarter corporate profits were up 44 percent from a year earlier. Consumers are nervous, but the Dow, which was below 8,000 on the day President Obama was inaugurated, is now over 10,000. In a rational universe, American business would be very happy with Mr. Obama. But no. All the buzz lately is that the Obama administration is “antibusiness.” And the
Opinion | The Medium Is the Medium (Published 2010)
Recently, book publishers got some good news. Researchers gave 852 disadvantaged students 12 books (of their own choosing) to take home at the end of the school year. They did this for three successive years. Then the researchers, led by Richard Allington of the University of Tennessee, looked at those students’ test scores. They found that the students who brought the books home had significantly
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UK envoy's praise for Lebanon cleric draws Israel anger
Israel has criticised Britain's ambassador to Lebanon for eulogising a recently deceased Lebanese cleric said to have inspired Hezbollah. Frances Guy wrote on her personal blog that Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah was a "decent man" who rated among the people she most admired. An Israeli spokesman said Ayatollah Fadlallah was "unworthy of praise". The UK foreign office says it has taken
Spies swapped by US and Russia at Vienna airport
Washington has announced the successful completion of its biggest spy swap with Russia since the Cold War. Ten Russian agents were flown to Vienna hours after they admitted in a US court to being agents for a foreign country. A Russian jet carrying four prisoners freed by Russia arrived around the same time. The American plane later flew on to a UK air base, where several people were seen getting
Google says China licence renewed by government
The Chinese government has been in a long-running dispute with Google The Chinese government has renewed Google's licence to operate in China, the internet giant has said, ending a long-running stand-off between the two. Google gave no details of the licence renewal. There had been speculation China would revoke the licence after Google began redirecting Chinese users to its unfiltered search site
Palestinians face being walled by Israeli security barrier
Below is the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv railway, also never travelled by the Bargouth family. Its route here marks the Green line, drawn after Israeli and Arab armies agreed an armistice in 1949, when Bargouth was aged two, which placed most of the original village of Al Walaja out of the reach of its Palestinian owners. A cluster of Israeli houses stand on land owned, inhabited and farmed by the Bargouth
European Parliament bans illegal timber
Illegal logging is a major driver of deforestation in some countries The European Parliament has voted to ban imports of illegal timber. From 2012, companies importing timber will need to prove where it came from, and will face legal sanctions if they do not comply with the new law. The vote follows several years of wrangling over how stringent the legislation should be. Campaigners say they are p
Papers reveal Nixon plan for North Korea nuclear strike
It is more than 35 years since he was shunted out of office, but the thought of Richard Nixon's finger on the nuclear trigger still has the power to terrify. Now it has been revealed that the highly erratic president's metaphorical digit was hovering even closer than was widely realised as his administration laid plans for an atomic strike against North Korea in 1969 following the shooting down of
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