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• British mercenary goes on trial over EGuinea coup plot

  - 2008-06-17

  MALABO AFP — British mercenary Simon Mann goes on trial Tuesday in Equatorial Guinea for allegedly plotting to oust the oil-rich country's iron-fisted ruler -- a charge that could carry the death penalty. Other well-connected Britons such as Mark Thatcher, the son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher,...

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• Briton Simon Mann goes on trial over EGuinea coup plot

  - 2008-06-17

  MALABO, June 17, 2008 AFP — The trial of British mercenary Simon Mann, accused of plotting to oust the president of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea in a 2004 coup attempt, opened Tuesday in the capital Malabo. Mann arrived at the court in an armoured van amid tight security for his...

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• Israeli-Russian billionaire boasts he could be PM

  - 2006-11-19

  JERUSALEM AFP — Israeli-Russian billionaire Arkady Gaydamak has boasted that he could become prime minister of the Jewish state if he decided to run for election. "Today I have the public support to be elected prime minister with a large majority," he was quoted as telling the country's mass-selling Yediot...

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• Billionaire gives free holidays to Israel's rocket town residents

  - 2006-11-16

  JERUSALEM AFP — An Israeli-Russian billionaire has invited nearly 2,000 residents of Sderot, the Negev desert town in southern Israel that regularly comes under Palestinian rocket fire, to holiday in the Red Sea resort of Eilat. "I decided to invite nearly 2,000 Sderot residents -- parents and their children --...

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• Suicide blast in crowded Afghanistan bazaar kills 17

  - 2006-08-28

  KANDAHAR, Afghanistan AFP — A suicide blast tore through a crowded bazaar in a southern Afghanistan town, killing 17 people and wounding nearly 50, a provincial government spokesman has said. Witnesses of the blast in the Helmand province capital of Lashkar Gah told AFP Monday that a man with bombs...

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• Police suspect more involved in Cambodian school siege that killed one child

  - 2005-06-18

  SIEM REAP, Cambodia AFP — Cambodian authorities said they suspected more men may have been involved in this week's school siege where an armed gang took dozens of children hostage and killed a young boy. Police requested that the four men arrested for the attack not immediately be sent...

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• Iraq counter-insurgency chief gunned down

  - 2005-05-23

  BAGHDAD AFP — An insurgent killer squad shot dead the commander of Iraq's new counter-insurgency headquarters as he drove to work in Baghdad, as US and Iraqi troops conducted a massive sweep for insurgents. Suicide bombers attacked a US base in central Iraq and a town hall in the...

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• Eight dead in Iraq unrest as parties thrash out coalition deal

  - 2005-03-07

  BAGHDAD AFP — Eight Iraqis were killed in attacks on security forces and a Jordanian businessman reported kidnapped as the main factions moved to finalise a deal on a new governing coalition more than five weeks after historic elections. Gunmen attacked an Iraqi army checkpoint with grenades and machine...

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• Judge blocks bid for probe into Princess Diana crash

  - 2004-03-12

  EDINBURGH AFP ? A British judge blocked a bid to hold a full public inquiry into the death of Princess Diana and her lover in 1997, rejecting "speculative" claims that the pair were murdered by the British security services. Egyptian-born businessman Mohamed Al Fayed, father of Diana's lover Dodi,...

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• Hezbollah deal was moral, ethical: Israeli PM Sharon

  - 2004-01-29

  BEN GURION MILITARY AIRPORT, Israel AFP ? A controversial deal with Hezbollah to free hundreds of Arab prisoners in return for a kidnapped Israeli businessman and the bodies of three soldiers was both moral and ethical, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said. "It was the right moral and ethical decision,"...

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