The international community has called for calm following the accusations of an "unprovoked invasion" of a fledgling democratic nation by its neighbour, an aging superpower of the region which once held sway over some common territory.

The United States of America (located to the south of Canada) yesterday claimed that they had been the victims of a completely unprovoked invasion by its neighbour, Mexico. The United States, one of the world's newer democracies and best known as the setting for much of the movie Highlander, is already bitterly divided by an upcoming election and this may be militant oppertunism on the part of the invading Mexicans. ...
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Israeli Mathematicians and Economists working in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem are hailing as a breakthrough the latest developments in the Israeli/Lebanon stand-off. On Wednesday the remains of two Israeli soldiers, whose capture sparked the Israeli-Lebanon war two years ago, were returned by Hezbollah in exchange for the release of five Arab prisoners, and the return of 8 other bodies of Hezbollah fighters. This has caused great excitement in the academic arena, where they have dedicated a huge amount of resources to trying to put a value on human life. "We finally have an approximate value of how much a Jew is worth in the ...
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Concern has been raised in England over the state of the prison service, which has been described as being "too comfy" for prisoners to want to leave. The latest wave of controversy springs from the recent break-in at Everthorpe prison in Yorkshire, where a drug dealer scaled the prison's walls with a ladder and broke in through a cell window, where he supplied inmates with drugs and mobile phones. Despite the fact that the window was open, with a ladder leading safely down to the ground, none of the prisoners in the cell took this obvious oppertunity to escape. Glyn Travis, of the Prison Officers ...
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At least 49 people have been killed, and another 50 injured, in a suicide bombing near the town of Kirkuk, in northern Iraq. The attack took place at a funeral being held in a village on the border of the Diyala region. It was originally thought that the attack was carried out by al-Qaeda, who have been increasingly active in the province recently, but in fact a new group, al-Waz'ri Kora, which roughly translated means “Iraqi GraveDiggers' Union”, has come forward to take responsibility.

An anonymous spokesman from the IGDU said in a video sent to al-Jazeera, “this is not a situation that ...

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The process of the Olympic Flame around the world has been marred by protest and violence. While this has been hailed by many, particularly in the Olympic Council, who don't want to look like idiots for giving the Games to one of the world's worst human rights offenders as a free publicity stunt, as a tragedy and an insult to the spirit of the games, others have been much more positive on the issue.

Mr Robert Wilson, a noted expert on the Games, said "I think China's hijacking of the Olympic Games in an attempt to make themselves look like a legitimately accepted member of the ...
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