Muqtada Al-Sadr is an Iraqi religious and political leader. He is also a militia commander and is head of the Mahdi Army. He is strongly opposed to Americas presence in his country but has stuck to a 2005 truce, which has seen levels of violence decr

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By Barry Newhouse Irbil 25 May 2007 Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has made his first public appearance since the Baghdad security crackdown began in February, again demanding the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq. The leader of the powerful Mahdi

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- Overall bank lending conditions for emerging markets have improved for the first time since the second quarter of 2011, said a global financial industry report on Wednesday. The emerging market bank lending index rose

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TOKYO, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Japan's economy shrank(缩小) an annualized real 1.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2010, marking the first contraction in five quarters, the Cabinet Office said Monday. The October-December period figure, measured by gr

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BERLIN, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- German economy (经济) has seen a rapid recovery in the second quarter, as the gross domestic product (GDP) (国内生成总值) registered a growth of 2.2 percent compared with the first quarter, a record in the

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Britain's economy is sinking further into recession, even more than analysts had projected. The British government said Wednesday its economy contracted seven-tenths of a percent in the April-to-June period, its worst quarter since the height of the

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