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US joins South Korean war games
The entry of the 55,000-ton George Washington, with a full complement of fighter planes on its decks, is the climax to a crisis triggered last Tuesday by North Korea's attack on a remote South Korean island in the
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Brian Viner: War is best left out of sport – even when some say it's a…
The last known survivor of that famous kickabout, Bertie Felstead, died as recently as 2001, aged 106, and one wonders what he thought of military images being used to inspire modern sportsmen to greater deeds with clubs, bats… -
Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah: Prominent Shiite cleric who…
Fadlallah was an early supporter of the Iranian revolution and of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's first supreme leader. However, he eventually became a critic of the concept of wilayat al-faqih, the Iranian system of … -
Children of Gaza: Scarred, trapped, vengeful
"Here is where they shot my brother Ibrahim, God bless his soul. And here is the F16 plane that threw rockets into the house and trees, and here is the tank that started to shoot," she says, to a round of applause from the… - View f16 visually. Visit the NewsWall.
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Holes are shot in army's denial of Gaza attack
The presence of a large part of the fractured Mark 82 bomb was reported to a demining team in late January 2009, and technicians were dispatched to defuse the 500lb device on 11 February. The flour mill is the only one in… -
How Gaza became a rich canvas for Palestinian art
But if this is no surprise in a Gaza starved of building materials and spare parts, the interior of the spotless and stylishly furnished fourth-floor flat, where Maha El-Daya lives and works, certainly is. -
Drones: silent killers, or a vital source of information against the Taliban?
These were Taliban fighters attempting to dispose of the corpse of a fallen Afghan soldier near Gereshk in the volatile Helmand province and the scene was being streamed in real-time by an unmanned British drone to a UK… -
Britain punishes Israel for Gaza naval bombardment
Britain has officially told Israel's embassy in London that it is revoking five licences for exports of equipment used in Saar 4.5 vessels because they violate UK and EU criteria precluding military sales which could be used… -
Smugglers back at work in tunnels beneath Gaza
They say that highly prized diesel and petrol for fuel-starved Gaza is still flowing through improvised piping under the border as other operators begin to assess the damage and work on reconstructing tunnels filled in by … -
Mohammed Dawwas: Gaza diary
Troops and tanks begin fighting in Gaza City suburbs. Around 20 rockets launched into Israel from Gaza.The whole night no one could sleep. Everyone is terrified. The Israelis said there would be a three-hour ceasefire and I…
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Two strikes, and another family lay buried in rubble
Yesterday the children's uncle, Rashad Abu Eysha, said a missile fired by an Israeli F16 went through the second and first floors before exploding on the ground floor where his brother lived with his immediate family. -
Gaza: The death and life of my father
It was the closest farm to the northern border with Israel. Ironically, we always thought the biggest danger there was not from Israeli troops, who usually went straight past if they were mounting an incursion, but from … -
David Ashdown's sports picture diary: The Tour of Britain
Road cycling is a difficult sport to photograph, it may appear easy just to use a long lens with auto focus and blast away as they hurtle towards you. That's fine if all you want is lots of bikes that could be taken in any location. - View f16 visually. Visit the NewsWall.
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David Ashdown's sports picture diary: Beijing Olympics - Fencing
With this picture I had to use a very slow shutter speed, and as the shutter is pressed turn the zoom lens back, so moving it from 85mm to 170mm when the shutter is open. As you can see it gives a very interesting image. -
Friends rejects new Flowers offer
Friends said the proposal, worth 150p-a-share, "significantly undervalues" the company and represented no "basis for discussion". The offer is less than the 175p-a-share New York-based Flowers was reportedly looking at…