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  Ruthless
Saddam Hussein Hanged at Age 69
Within days of taking power, Saddam Hussein summoned about 400
top officials and announced he had uncovered a plot against
the ruling party. The conspirators, he said, were in that very
room. As the 42-year-old Saddam coolly puffed on a cigar,
names of the supposed plotters were read out. As each name was
called, secret police led them away.
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 Police
numbers to rise despite peace talks
Police numbers in
Sydney's south will be tripled this weekend in anticipation of
more racial unrest, but community leaders say they have
reached an agreement that ensures an end to the violence.
Leaders of Sydney's Lebanese and ... |
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 Milosevic's
death puts war trials in jeopardy
THE death of the
former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic five years into his
trial for genocide has thrown the prosecution of dozens of
accused war criminals into doubt.
Branded the
"Butcher of Belgrade" after orchestrating the worst bloodshed
in Europe since the Second World War, Milosevic's sudden death
in a prison cell in the Hague was described by some of his
victims last night as "God's judgment". |
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 Iran
president stands by Israel remark
Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stood by his call for Israel to be
"wiped off the map", as thousands of Iranians marched through Tehran
on Friday chanting "death to Israel" and "death to America". |
 Downer
push for nuke testing ban
The
Australian: THE Federal Government has vowed to push ahead for
a worldwide ban on nuclear testing. Foreign Minister Alexander
Downer this week chaired an international conference in New
York to put pressure on ... |
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 Ignoring
the lessons from London
In
the last 10 days, the Department of Homeland Security terminated its
orange alert for mass transit, meaning nothing has changed since the
first London bombing seven we... |
 Japan
to give up its bid for UN seat
TOKYO: Japan will give up its bid for a permanent seat on the UN
Security Council for the time being since it failed to win enough
support from the international community. |
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 G8
should deliver on promises to Africa
World
leaders are now preparing for the millennium summit to be held
in New York next month, described by the United Nations as a
"once-in-a-generation opportunity to take bold decisions."
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 Ethiopia
answers Western critics
Ethiopian PM Meles Zenawi has defended his handling of
opposition protests last week, in which demonstrators were
shot by police and leaders arrested. Mr. Meles told the BBC
the UK was wrong to join ...BBC News |
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Historical Facts ... |
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Today was a quiet
day in the visit of George IV to Scotland on the 19th August
in 1822, the first visit of a reigning monarch to Scotland
since Charles II in 1650. George's visit saw the birth of the
modern image of Scotland, orchestrated by Sir Walter Scott who
had persuaded George that he had legitimate Jacobite lineage.
Highland dress suddenly became immensely fashionable and
lowlanders across Scotland rushed to discover highland
ancestry so they could sport the suddenly trendy kilt in
varieties of dashing new tartan.
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James Clerk
Maxwell, mathematician and physicist, died on the 5th November in 1879. Born in Edinburgh, Maxwell was most famous for the "Maxwell equations", which relate to the behaviour of electric and magnetic fields and which later paved the way for technological advances such as radio and x-ray. Read more here |
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BRITAIN could see another massacre like that at Dunblane a decade ago because of the failure to set up a national gun register, a police chief warned yesterday.
PASSENGERS suffer longer delays if they fly to London with British Airways than with
Easy Jet, the first published league table of airline punctuality at Edinburgh and Glasgow airports shows.
A FLOOD warning was issued last night as heavy snow which brought chaos to much of Scotland was expected to thaw.
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