Saturday May 17, 2008
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Sour Cherie
Published: Saturday, May 17, 2008 12:00 AM Page F1
The secure telephone at 10 Downing Street was on Cherie Blair's side of the bed. After she had cooked dinner, loaded the dishwasher, read the kids their stories, reviewed her legal briefs and climbed into bed, she would sometimes be awoken, in the wee hours, by George W. Bush, who paid little heed to the five-hour time difference. Groggy and not entirely pleased, she would pass the receiver to her husband, and listen to half the conversation.
Serbs reject ultra-nationalists
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Online Edition: Monday, May 12, 2008 03:23 AM
Tadic's pro-Western party comes out ahead as voters shelve anger over Kosovo
Serbs reject ultra-nationalists
Published: Monday, May 12, 2008 12:00 AM Page A13
Serbian voters seem to have put aside their anger over the independence of Kosovo and, in a dramatic surprise result, embraced a pro-European future in an election that had earlier been expected to return the country to the angry ethnic nationalism of the 1990s.
A year in the life of a ladies' man
Published: Saturday, May 10, 2008 12:00 AM Page F1
One year ago, shortly after midnight, crushed between too many men with sweaters tied around their necks near the centre of a jubilant crowd in the Place de la Concorde, I encountered a 24-year-old university student named Celeste Le Tallec, who was staring at the stage with tears streaming down her face.
Five women and 365 days
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Online Edition: Friday, May 9, 2008 11:59 PM
Twelve months after his election as a vigorous reformer, many supporters feel let down by his descent, they say, into vulgarity
Corruption eats away at Afghan government
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Online Edition: Saturday, May 3, 2008 11:24 PM
In a series of interviews with British and U.S. diplomats, Doug Saunders discovers how senior officials in Kabul profit from their country's plight
Solving Afghanistan's poppy problem
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Online Edition: Saturday, May 3, 2008 12:05 AM
The drug war yields the wrong kinds of casualties
Corruption eats away at Afghan government
Published: Saturday, May 3, 2008 12:00 AM Page A1
Among the soldiers, diplomats and aid workers who live in Afghanistan, it is the problem that nobody dares mention.Among ordinary Afghans, it's a daily presence, the corruption that is rooted deeply in the Western-backed Afghan government and its appointed officials.
Afghanistan's drug war yields the wrong kinds of casualties
Published: Saturday, May 3, 2008 12:00 AM Page F3
The pilot of the British army helicopter was taking me on an exceedingly fast, wildly pitching, zigzag trajectory across the sun-baked fields of Afghanistan's southern Helmand province. Even at 20 metres above the ground, the pungent aroma was impossible to ignore, a cloying tang resembling a huge pot of badly wilted geraniums.
U.S. brings Iraq-like surge to Afghan conflict
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Online Edition: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 04:32 AM
3,500 U.S. Marines bring with them new pressures on Canada and its allies to adapt to U.S. tactics and methods
