`Civil War' in US scorches highest court
For now at least, the USA stands before the world as the Divided State of America. Not since the Civil War has this country seen so deep and distinct a rift between two sides, a divide so searing and profound that the highest court in the land has sundered along an ideological fault line.



Sharif in exile, `expelled' says wife
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