The German army's reputation as a disciplined and highly professional fighting force has been undermined by new figures which suggest the service is being weighed down by flabby, overweight conscripts who are unfit for duty.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel was voted the world's most powerful woman for the second year in a row by the US business magazine Forbes yesterday ? but Germans hardly batted an eyelid.
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The move will intensify economic assistance to Sunni groups, particularly in Anbar Province, who have turned against homegrown insurgent groups.
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A native Californian's recent visit to Egypt becomes one of religious discovery and cultural disillusionment.
Friday morning came, and the broad-shouldered young African American made his way to the sedated city's ancient quarters. He walked the streets with the determined gait of a football receiver to Al Azhar Mosque, arriving just as the muezzin's call to prayer summoned the faithful.
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A remote atomic research base, long a forbidden zone, is resurrected as a 'red tourism' attraction.
When word came on Oct. 16, 1964, that China had detonated its first atomic bomb, thousands of scientists and soldiers ran onto the grasslands here, leaping and shouting and weeping with joy.
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A deposed dictator and an exiled president are finding wistful backers. And others now down can't be counted out.
PETIONVILLE, Haiti — Out of sight, out of mind and now out of money, former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier has been quietly sounding out the possibility of returning home after 21 years in exile in France.
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The president appears at a joint session of Congress but gives his state of the nation report in writing. He is to speak on TV today.
MEXICO CITY — For days before President Felipe Calderon's scheduled appearance Saturday at a joint session of Congress, opposing lawmakers argued over the stage directions of what used to be a routine bit of political theater.
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Amid the shooting, an Iraqi sent his pet away. He hopes that one day, in a safer world, he'll run in the garden with Lucky again.
The writer is an Iraqi staffer in The Times' Baghdad Bureau. His name is being withheld for his safety.
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Hurricane Felix gained force with 80 mph winds early today after pounding Grenada. Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao are next on its route through the Caribbean.
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Kheyrita Sadiq still lives in her own country, sort of, but it is small solace for an embittered woman who has lost her son and her home to the war in Iraq.
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Power-sharing talks between former Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto and President Gen. Pervez Musharraf were deadlocked Saturday, setting back efforts to end military rule as pressure grows to restore democracy.
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Over the past six weeks, the Taliban have driven government forces out of roughly half of a strategic area in southern Afghanistan that U.S. and NATO officials declared a success story last fall.
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As 19 South Koreans return home today after six weeks in Taliban captivity, they face a nation relieved that the hostage ordeal is finally over, but also increasingly angry at the Christians' decision to travel to Afghanistan.
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A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 hit the Solomon Islands and could potentially generate local tsunami waves but a Pacific-wide tsunami was not expected, seismologists said.
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British forces may move out of Iraq's Basra province early next month, handing over its control to the local army.
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The US and North Korea's chief nuclear negotiators expressed optimism at the end of a first day of talks following a conciliatory US offer of food aid to the flood-ravaged country.
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Indian soldiers serving under the British Raj were used as guinea pigs to test the effects of poison gases on humans, according to documents released in the UK.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki orders investigation into last week's deadly clashes surrounding Shiite religious celebration in Karbala, promising that it would be conducted without bias.
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Twelve people, including five children, died on Sunday when a pickup truck was washed away in a swollen river following an election rally in Guatemala City, officials said.
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British troops began their withdrawal from their final remaining base in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Sunday, ending their permanent presence in Iraq's second-largest city.
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Pope Benedict XVI urged young Catholics to take the lead in caring for the Earth and its natural resources at an open-air Mass in Italy on Sunday.
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People celebrated in the streets in northern Lebanon on Sunday after soldiers overpowered militants who had been holed up inside a Palestinian refugee camp for more than three months.
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Hurricane Felix was upgraded Sunday night to a Category 5 storm as it plowed its way towards Central America, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
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Nineteen South Koreans freed by Taliban insurgents after six weeks in captivity in Afghanistan returned home Sunday and once again apologized to their countrymen.
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German chancellor Angela Merkel again ranks No. 1 on Forbes magazine's list of the the world's 100 most powerful women, a list featuring 48 Americans and no Canadians.
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon is scheduled to go to Sudan on Monday to push for a political solution to the conflict in the country's ravaged Darfur region.
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Some Arab tribes accused of massacring civilians in Darfur are now battling against one another, killing hundreds and displacing tens of thousands.
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The Lebanese Army said Sunday that it had taken control of a Palestinian refugee camp where troops had been battling Islamic militants for more than three months.
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Two announcements Sunday appeared intended to enforce Iran’s refusal to back down in the face of stepped-up pressure from the United States.
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The move will leave the southern Iraqi city without foreign forces for the first time since the American-led invasion in 2003.
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The top American negotiator with North Korea said that the country agreed to account to international monitors for all of its nuclear programs.
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Inflation and price controls have made everything scarce, but 'cowboys' like Kuda Shumba are at your service, if you can pay a 500% markup.
Kuda Shumba goes at one speed: fast. He prides himself on being able to get hold of almost anything, and he's open for business day or night.
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One Indian group offers a method that uses less wood to burn bodies. Some are wary.
VARANASI, India — Cremation fires crackle all day long on the chipped concrete steps of this riverside holy city, the blazes spewing ash and flakes over the mourners who crowd its famous piers. Sweating, bare-chested men stoke the funeral pyres, squinting against the sting of smoke as they lug and stack the bundles of logs needed to burn the procession of Hindu dead.
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Hurricane Felix strengthened into a dangerous Category 5 storm Sunday and churned its way into the open waters of the Caribbean Sea after toppling trees and flooding some homes on a cluster of Dutch islands.
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The Iraqi premier accuses naysayers in the U.S. of failing to realize the scope of his nation's problems.
Iraq's beleaguered prime minister accused his U.S. critics Sunday of going too far, saying they did not appreciate the scale of the disaster facing his country and the achievements of his government.
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