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Where is Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping?
One of the most powerful men in the largest country on the planet has gone missing, with rumours as to the cause of his disappearance ranging from a sports injury to assassination.
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Ad Wars: Liar, liar, pants on fire
The Obama and Romney campaigns have been putting out out a series of increasingly hysterial ads ahead of the party conventions. Brand consultant James von Leyden casts an eye over them.
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A woman in the White House – when will America be ready?
It is cracked – but not broken yet. That old political glass ceiling is still blocking women from reaching the very top of American political power. What is going wrong?
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Syria town torn apart by Assad’s bombs
As the UN concludes that the massacre in Houla was a war crime authorised by President Assad, at least 30 people are reported killed in an air strike by Syrian forces on the rebel-held town of Azaz.
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Syrian and Jordanian forces clash in border area
Syrian and Jordanian forces clashed along the border overnight in an incident that highlights international concerns that the civil war in Syria could ignite a wider regional conflict.
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Aleppo sees fierce fighting for fourth day
Aleppo is reportedly bombed by Syrian fighter jets in a blistering attack on the fourth day of clashes between government and rebel forces battling to control the commercial hub.
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More cash than dash: Romney’s likeability gap
He is raising millions of dollars in a Hamptons fundraising drive this weekend. But even top Republican John Boehner has admitted the American people just do not like Mitt Romney. Ouch.
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General's defection creates crack in Syria's regime
Confirmation came this morning that a confidant of President Assad of Syria has defected, writes Jonathan Rugman, and that will give some hope to those hoping to encourage President Assad to quit.
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Syrian general close to Assad defects to France
A Syrian general from a powerful family close to President Bashar al-Assad defects and is on his way to Paris, the French government confirms.
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Rahn Emanuel: White House fixer to Chicago mayor
He is a brilliant political strategist, and a Chicago bruiser who moved from Congress to the White House as Obama’s chief of staff – then back to Chicago as mayor. But who is Rahm Emanuel?
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Work v life: the great balancing act
You can’t hold down a top job and have a family: that’s the conclusion of former US State Department policy chief Anne Marie Slaughter – who’s sparked a fierce debate about ‘having it all’.
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The US, Syria and the Moscow arms dealer – a tangled tale
While the US accuses Russia of supplying Syrian attack helicopters, the Pentagon defends its own $1bn deal with the same Moscow arms dealer.
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Should the west attack Syria?
Syria blogger Sakhr Al-Makhadhi considers the options as the UN struggles to find a credible plan for ending the violence.
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UN monitors enter alleged massacre site in Syria
United Nations monitors enter the village in Syria where a massacre was reported, hours after the organisation’s chief warns that civil war is an “imminent and real” danger.
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UN monitors ‘shot at’ in Syria
A new plan for addressing violence in Syria is to be considered by the UN on the day its monitors in Syria were shot at while trying to reach the site of the latest “massacre” near Hama.
