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The really quite marvellous… Beau Bo D’Or

KENEMA, SIERRA LEONE—Standing waist-deep in one of the many gravel pits that surround the city of Kenema, and struggling to fight off the harsh African sun, local diamond miner Muwomba D’akari was deeply saddened Monday to learn of Linda Hines and David Meyer’s recently canceled wedding engagement. “Dave and Lulu? But that can’t be,” said [...]

Success in Afghanistan © Andy Bunday for http://tribunecartoons.com

In a stunning ninety-page decision issued on New Year’s Eve, federal judge Ricardo Urbina dismissed all charges against five Blackwater operatives accused of gunning down fourteen Iraqi civilians in Baghdad’s Nisour Square in September 2007. The cases were not thrown out for lack of evidence. In fact, Judge Urbina acknowledged in his decision that military [...]

The Icelanders have risen up and humiliated their political class over its handling of the financial crisis, as I mentioned on Thursday. But there’s nothing terribly unusual about their sense of powerlessness and alienation from the writing of the rules of the banking and finance game. When it comes to how banks are allowed to behave, [...]

The inside story on how Mark upset the U.S secret service by putting a bounty on President G.W Bush.The war on ‘Terror’, ID cards, animal rights,politicians and just about everything gets a look in…

It looked like many of the dhows that sail the Gulf of Aden, a nameless boat identifiable only by its registration number — 11S2. This dhow, however, was not carrying fish, or even engaged in the lethal people smuggling trade conducted across these waters. Tracked by Yemeni intelligence officials, it was laden with a quite [...]

TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that further UN Security Council sanction will not deter Tehran from pursuing its controversial nuclear programme. The hardliner also vowed that Iran will not back down “one iota” in the face of international pressures over the atomic work, which the West fears may be a [...]

© Matt Buck, Tribune Cartoons

http://www.bbdo.co.uk You must check this guys site out…. brilliant.

The marvellous Chris Riddell… The Observer.

“Let us say, hypothetically, that American forces kill or capture Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar, enabling President Obama to declare victory and bring our troops home. Would he? Not according to the Pentagon’s plan for a fifty-year “Long War” of counterinsurgency spanning Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Horn of Africa, the Philippines and beyond. Military [...]

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“Mr Wilshire, the MP for Spelthorne in Surrey, made the announcement after spending hours attempting to defend his allowance claims to the Tory leadership. He said that the investigation into his controversial arrangements would cause “great distress” to his family and friends. “These allegations also run the risk of harming my local party and our [...]