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| Brown faces new poll test in Glasgow East |
| LONDON — Voters in one of Britain’s most deprived areas are to vote today in a by-election seen as the latest test for embattled Prime Minister Gordon Brown. All eyes will be on whether Brown’s governing Labour Party will see a haemorrhage of support in the Glasgow East constituency, or even lose in what has traditionally been its heartland. |
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| Karadzic to run his own defence |
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BELGRADE — Radovan Karadzic will conduct his own defence in The Hague tribunal and is convinced he will be cleared of the charges of genocide, relatives and associates of the war crimes suspect said yesterday. Karadzic, leader of the Bosnian Serbs in the 1992-95 Bosnian war, was arrested in Serbia on Monday after 11 years on the run. |
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| Briton charged with strangling newborn |
| ATHENS — A Greek prosecutor has charged a 20-year-old British woman with strangling her newborn baby after giving birth in a hotel room on the Mediterranean island of Crete, a court official said yesterday. The prosecutor handed the charges to the woman, identified by police as Leah Andrews, late on Tuesday in a hospital in the Cretan capital Heraklion,.... |
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| ‘Back from dead’ canoeist, wife jailed by UK court |
| LONDON — A British woman who helped fake her husband’s death in a canoeing accident was sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison yesterday for her part in a daring scam that deceived even the couple’s children. Anne Darwin, 56, was found guilty of 15 counts of fraud and money laundering following.... |
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| Lebanon forest fire contained |
| BEIRUT — Firemen in Lebanon brought a large forest fire under control yesterday amid exploding cluster bombs and the danger of mines, a civil defence official said. Flames swept through near the summer resort town of Aley, east of Beirut, after breaking out overnight in the Bmikin mountainous region between Souk el Gharb and Aley. |
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| Iran struggles with power cuts despite energy riches |
| TEHRAN — Daily electricity outages lasting several hours are fraying nerves at the height of Iran’s sweltering summer, plunging neighbourhoods into darkness and bringing whirring air-conditioners to a sudden halt. “Life in Tehran is difficult the way it is. With the power cuts it has become intolerable,” said Reza Sekhavat,.... |
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