Special Reports

Special Report: Return to Baghdad, epicenter of Islam's growing divide

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BAGHDAD - The last time I left Baghdad I was on a stretcher.

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Special Report: The Bundesbank's fight to be heard

FRANKFURT - Meeting in Bratislava's neo-classical Reduta concert hall on May 2 this year, the 23 men who form the European Central Bank's policymaking Governing Council were divided.

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Insight: From remote Mauritania, hacker fights for Islam worldwide

DAKAR - In Nouakchott, a dusty city wedged between the Atlantic ocean and western dunes of the Sahara, a young hip-hop fan coordinates a diverse group of hackers targeting websites worldwide in the name of Islam.

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Special Report: GM takes on the Toyota Republic

JAKARTA - Indonesia is Toyota country. After more than 40 years here, Toyota Motor Corp and affiliates including Daihatsu have 450 dealerships and a 54 percent share of the market.

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Special Report: Myanmar gives official blessing to anti-Muslim monks

YANGON - The Buddhist extremist movement in Myanmar, known as 969, portrays itself as a grassroots creed.

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Insight: Kuwaitis campaign privately to arm Syrian rebels

KUWAIT - At a traditional evening meeting known as a "diwaniya", Kuwaiti men drop banknotes into a box, opening a campaign to arm up to 12,000 anti-government fighters in Syria. A new Mercedes is parked outside to be auctioned off for cash.

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Insight: Britain's bankers look forward to Carney era

LONDON/OTTAWA - To many in the City of London financial centre, incoming Bank of England governor Mark Carney looks and sounds like one of them.

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Insight: Educated with a dead-beat job - the unseen legacy of Europe's crisis

BRUSSELS - As the first anniversary of her graduation in eco-tourism and cultural history approaches, Linnea Borjars remains jobless and frustrated.

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Insight: Ex-Qaeda allies ready to fight for Mursi in Luxor

LUXOR, Egypt - When President Mohamed Mursi made a hardline Islamist governor of Luxor, it seemed his latest folly to many in this city, and across Egypt, who depend on tourists already scared off by unrest since the revolution.

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Special Report: Deepening ethnic rifts reshape Syria's towns

IDLIB PROVINCE, Syria - The villages that dot the valleys and terraced hills of Syria's northwest used to epitomize the country's diversity. Each one was dominated by a different religion or sect. The settlements coexisted - sometimes peacefully, sometimes less so - for centuries, a patchwork of distinct but interwoven communities that, for many Syrians, was central to the nation's identity.

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Taliban attack on supply base in Afghan capital kills six

KABUL - Taliban insurgents including a suicide bomber in a truck killed six people in an attack on a foreign logistics and supply company in Kabul on Tuesday, police said, the latest in a string of daring assaults in the Afghan capital.