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Calming British fears LONDON—Prime Minister David Cameron tried to reassure a war-weary public on Monday that Britain’s military involvement in Libya will not drag it into another Iraq-style conflict. After a six-hour debate, the British […] […]

An aboriginal man was the victim of racial profiling when he was wrongly arrested in Toronto for possessing a stolen bicycle, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario has found. The complaint stemmed from an incident […] […]

MUAMMAR Gaddafi’s air defences were being protected today by crowds of civilians who, through a mixture of fervour and fear, have become human shields in Libya’s war. “Thousands” of men and women showing support for […] […]

COLONEL Muammar Gaddafi’s regime secretly provided information to Britain and the US on Islamic extremists in the east of Libya, according to leaked diplomatic cables and intelligence sources. The names of hundreds of suspects were […] […]

JAPAN’s nuclear crisis has exposed huge weaknesses in how the world deals with such disasters, the UN nuclear chief says, urging changes in emergency responses worldwide. Yukiya Amano, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, […] […]

THE British government has raised the possibility of assassinating Muammar Gaddafi to force regime change in Libya, after a barrage of allied air strikes successfully imposed a no-fly zone over the country. British Defence Secretary […] […]

LIBYA leader Muammar Gaddafi’s Tripoli headquarters has been flattened, as coalition forces carried out a new wave of air strikes and said they had set up a ‘no-fly zone’ across the country. A missile has […] […]

THE Japanese government has told people not to drink the tap water in a village near the quake-hit nuclear power plant after high levels of radioactive iodine were detected. The warning came as workers said […] […]

A MIRACLE survival story unfolded last night in Japan’s tsunami damage zone with an 80-year-old woman and her grandson plucked from the ruins of a house in Ishinomaki. Japanese television was last night showing dramatic […] […]

COALITION strikes have succeeded in crippling the air defences of Muammar Gaddafi’s Libyan regime and a no-fly zone is effectively in place over the country, the US military said on Sunday. “We judge these strikes […] […]