TEHRAN - The main issue in Iran's June 2009 presidential election is certain to be the country's economic woes, but both candidates will be linking the economy to the issue of relations between Iran and the West, according to Iranian

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G eneral David Petraeus, the former military commander of US forces in Iraq and author of the military's most recent counterinsurgency manual, learned the lessons of the successful British counterinsurgency experience in Malaya in the 1950s. He was able to

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A ccording to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz , someone "close" to President-elect Obama told them that the Obama-Biden-Hillary administration intends to offer Israel a "nuclear umbrella." Now, you know what an ordinary umbrella is. And if you can find it

D id you, too, get that frisson of déjà vu when you first heard about the bank bailout and its rationale? If you don't hand over untold trillions of dollars in the next five minutes , the economy is going

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TIS the season to be jolly - but not too jolly - as Holyrood's festive political party circuit gets into full swing.

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