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AMSTERDAM — The Dutch coalition government collapsed Saturday over irreconcilable differences on whether to extend the Netherlands’ military mission in Afghanistan. Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende announced that the second largest party in his three-party alliance is quitting, in a breakdown of trust in what had always been an uneasy partnership. Balkenende made no mention [...]
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Alexander M. Haig Jr., the mercurial four-star general who served as a confrontational secretary of state under President Ronald Reagan and a commanding White House chief of staff as President Richard M. Nixon’s administration crumbled, died Saturday in Baltimore. He was 85. He had been admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital on Jan. 28, said Gary [...]
Psychological distress among Iraqis is on the rise. Though normalcy has returned to a large extent and the country is picking up gradually, the issue of displaced persons is yet to be resolved. According to estimates, millions of Iraqis are stateless, as a direct consequence of war and occupation, and are still languishing in neighbouring [...]