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July 2007
Turkey's 'creeping Islamisation' divides nation 15 July 2007, The Sunday Telegraph It could have been a scene from any beach in Turkey: a cluster of young women reclining on sun-loungers, soaking up the midday rays, thumbing through novels and smoking cigarettes, while fellow holidaymakers splashed in the sea. Come, friendly bombs, say the people of Putin's outpost in the West 8 July 2007, The Sunday Telegraph With their economy thriving and rising hopes of closer ties with the rest of Europe, citizens of the isolated Russian outpost of Kaliningrad could have been forgiven a collective shudder last week when Moscow threatened to send them back into the front line of a new Cold War. Iraqi teachers are sacked in exam marking scandal Sunnis and Shias fail pupils from rival sects 8 July 2007, The Sunday Telegraph Iraqi pupils have had their dreams of going to university dashed by teachers who have been failing schoolchildren from rival sectarian groups.
The tour guide was seething. "Chiang Kai-shek was a psychopathic dictator,'' she shouted, glaring at the woman in the gift shop of what used to be the main memorial to Taiwan's former leader. "Nonsense,'' the shopkeeper snapped back. "He was a great historical figure, a great man.''
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