Secret dossier reveals Gaddafi’s UK spy links

The extraordinary extent of co-operation between MI6, the CIA and Libyan intelligence during the rule of Col Muammar Gaddafi was exposed on Saturday by the release of secret documents found in Tripoli.

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Full Palestinian UN membership

Arab League approves plans:

The Arab League (AL) and three international organizations approved Saturday plans for supporting the Palestinian full membership in the United Nations. The AL Secretary General Nabil el-Arabi, Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Amr, the African Union Commission Chairman Jean Ping, and Assistant General Secretary of the Islamic Cooperation Organization for Palestinian affairs Samir Baker, held a meeting to coordinate diplomatic efforts and support the plans for the Palestinian moves towards getting a full UN membership.

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Strauss-Kahn back in Paris after sex scandal

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn returned to Paris Sunday for the first time since a New York hotel cleaner accused him of attempted rape in a torrid sex scandal that scuppered his hopes for the French presidency. Strauss-Kahn and his wife Anne Sinclair arrived at dawn at Charles de Gaulle airport on an Air France flight from New York and were whisked off in a black Peugeot to their apartment in the chic Place des Vosges.

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Anna Hazare promises more shocks for govt

Indian anti-graft campaigner Anna Hazare has urged people to give the scandal-hit government in Delhi “repeated shocks” to rid the country of the scourge of corruption. Back in his village in Maharashtra state after a nearly two-week fast in New Delhi last month, Hazare — dressed in his customary plain white cotton clothes and cap — vowed late on Friday to fight corruption to “the bitter end.”

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