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| Barzan: Dapper & deadly |
| In Geneva, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti was Saddam’s dapper “banker in the West” but in Iraq he was his brother’s ruthless enforcer, a man who ate grapes as he watched torture and was reputed to have a meat grinder for human flesh.
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| Trembling at gallows |
| Iraqi government officials showed journalists film of today’s execution of two aides to Saddam Hussein in which they appeared to tremble with fear and his half-brother B
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| Young ‘guns’ in new House |
| Mostly dressed in “regulation” gray suits popularised by their leaders Prachanda and Baburam Bhattarai, they came in ones and twos, walking side-by-side, overwhelme
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| Hard bargain behind scenes |
| Although the Maoists in Nepal have entered Parliament in an ostensibly smooth fashion today, they are engaged in hard bargaining behind the scenes.
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| No early Bangla polls |
| With Bangladesh’s major alliances clamouring for early elections, the new interim government today said the polls will be held in three to six months as it needed time t
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| Germany ban |
| A court today upheld a ban on Muslim teachers wearing head scarves in the schools of a German state under a law that says teachers’ attire must be in line with “wes
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Actress Kate Winslet at a Bafta awards party in Los Angeles. (AP) |
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