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Most Britons believe Afghan war to be 'unwinnable,' poll says
A new poll reveals that most Britons think the war in Afghanistan is "unwinnable" and want UK troops to pull out. The findings come a day after Britain announced the end of Operation Panther's Claw, its offensive in southern Afghanistan.
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UK
Brown says UK to investigate role in Iraq war
Amid accusations of delays and secrecy, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has unveiled an inquiry into the circumstances leading up to the British government's decision to support the United States in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
SIERRA LEONE
Rebel leaders sentenced to up to 52 years in prison for war crimes
The UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone has sentenced three rebel leaders to up to 52 years in prison for committing war crimes - including rape and mutilations - on a massive scale, to establish control in the 1990s.
REPORTERS
Media kept at bay in Gaza
During the Gaza raids against Hamas, the Israeli army denied international media access to the conflict zone, against a decision by the Israeli Supreme Court to lift the embargo. Our correspondents Sophie Claudet and Willy Bracciano report.
MILITARY - TECHNOLOGY
Robots will be the future American army
An American researcher has predicted that the US military - which already recruits soldiers using a custom war videogame - will be formed of half machine, half human units by 2015.
THE WEEK IN AFRICA
Father Pedro's fight for the poor
In Madagascar, one of the world's poorest countries, FRANCE 24 meets a Roman Catholic Priest who's been helping those living in suffering; we look at rape as weapon of war in DR Congo and the role of Africans in France's artistic history.
GAZA ASSAULT - Israeli-Palestinian conflict - warfare
Urban warfare and the civilian death toll in Gaza
By deciding to strike back and to attack the densely populated Gaza strip, Israel has been forced to confront the difficulties of urban warfare while the shocking civilian death toll of 'Operation Cast Lead' continues to escalate. Who's to blame?
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GEORGIAN CONFLICT
Russia starts troop pullback from Georgia
Russian troops started pulling back from a buffer zone near South Ossetia, Georgia, on Wednesday. Under a ceasefire deal brokered by France, Russia has until Friday to pull back troops from buffer zones established after a five-day war in August.
AFGHANISTAN
Roadside bomb kills four US-led soldiers
Four soldiers from the US-led coalition forces and an Afghan national were killed in a roadside bomb explosion in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, raising the death toll to 160 soldiers in the battle against the Taliban in 2008.
FRANCE
War photographer Demulder dies aged 61
French war photographer Francoise Demulder, the first woman to win the prestigious World Press Photo award, has died at age 61 of a heart attack at her home in the Paris suburb of Levallois.
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