Syrian troops seal off northern town

Syrian tanks sealed the northern city of Jisr al-Shughour today, with activists predicting an all-out government assault on the region.

Hemingway travelling with US soldiers, in his capacity as war correspondent, on their way to Normandy for the D-Day landings in 1943

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Ernest Hemingway, ended his life 50 years ago – in a manner that his biographers have struggled to explain.

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