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Wed Mar 15, 3:31 AM ET BANGKOK - Next month's Thailand election have been thrown into doubt after hundreds of candidates were banned from standing, as the country's embattled premier said he would consider stepping aside temporarily.
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra called the April 2 poll early in hopes of ending weeks of political turmoil that have seen mass protests in the streets calling for his resignation. But after a boycott left nearly one-third of the candidates for parliament running unopposed, an election commission official said that about the same number had also been barred from standing. |
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Wed Mar 15, 1:20 AM ET ROME - Former European Commission president Romano Prodi appeared the clear winner over Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in their first prime-time TV debate ahead of next month's legislative elections.
As the two coalition leaders went head-to-head under the studio lights on Tuesday, commentators were generally agreed that Prodi came over as serene and confident while Berlusconi appeared to be on the defensive, flicking nervous smiles at the camera. |
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March 15, 2006 |
03/14/06
By Eric Margolis PARIS – Scattered across South Africa's windswept veldt are the forgotten graves of 266 Canadian soldiers killed from 1899–1902 fighting to impose British Imperial rule on fiercely resisting Boer farmers.
A century later, Canadian troops have again been sent to fight as auxiliaries in another remote war – this time Afghanistan. Since time immemorial, when great emperors went to war, they summoned contingents of their vassals and tributaries to their standards. So it was in Afghanistan, and then Iraq, when the U.S. decided to invade those nations and demand its allies join the so-called "war on terrorism." Under irresistible pressure from Washington to aid its highly unpopular military expeditions in either Iraq or Afghanistan, America's allies and NATO partners opted for the lesser evil, Afghanistan. That is why 2,100 Canadian troops have ended up in a nation in which Canada has absolutely no strategic, commercial, cultural or emotional interests. |
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