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  • Iranian president denigrates US presence in Afghanistan

    Iranian president denigrates US presence in Afghanistan

    New York City News.Net

    With official visits overlapping in Afghanistan, Iran's outspoken president and the US defence secretary have accused each other of interfering in local affairs.

  • Threat on Internet leads to school lockdowns

    Threat on Internet leads to school lockdowns

    New York City News.Net

    A number of schools in the US were closed down on Wednesday after posted on a social networking site.

  • Bill to extend unemployment benefits in the US may get through

    Bill to extend unemployment benefits in the US may get through

    New York City News.Net

    The US Senate has adopted a draft bill to increase unemployment benefits.

  • Hungry people unable to get through corruption for UN food

    Hungry people unable to get through corruption for UN food

    New York City News.Net

    A United Nations report, which is still to be released, has found that up to half the food aid in Somalia is diverted to corrupt contractors, local UN workers and Islamic militants.

  • More calls for Venables identity to be released

    More calls for Venables identity to be released

    New York City News.Net

    The BBC has reported that a man who has been subjected to claims he is the killer of James Bulger, has asked for the UK government to reveal who the real murderer is.

  • UK protection agencies apologise to incest victims

    UK protection agencies apologise to incest victims

    New York City News.Net

    Two UK women who were repeatedly raped and violently abused by their father have received an apology from 28 different public agencies.

  • Officials take whale meat of restaurant menu

    Officials take whale meat of restaurant menu

    New York City News.Net

    Federal prosecutors in the US have charged the owner of a California restaurant over alleged sales of whale meat, which was labelled sushi.

  • Young actor dies of unknown causes

    Young actor dies of unknown causes

    New York City News.Net

    A young actor who became a teen idol during his time as a Hollywood star, has died of unknown causes.

  • Staff taken off Ukraine plane after drunken revel

    Staff taken off Ukraine plane after drunken revel

    New York City News.Net

    Politicians and police authorities in Ukraine are investigating the airline industry after an incident on the main carrier.

  • Bangkok demonstrators to be kept away from airport

    Bangkok demonstrators to be kept away from airport

    New York City News.Net

    The main airport in Bangkok has been locked down by soldiers as the Thai capital prepares for anti-government demonstrations.

  • Rove: We Mishandled Katrina Recovery

    Washington Times

    Joseph Weber The Bush administration mishandled the rescue effort after Hurricane Katrina, said Karl Rove, the top adviser to former President George W. Bush. Mr. Rove, 59, said the administration...

  • Dodd Offers His Own Finance Regulation Bill

    Washington Times

    By ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) -- Unable to muster bipartisan agreement on key banking provisions, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd said Thursday he will offer his own version ...

  • March 11, 1985 -- A Promise Of Communist Spring

    RadioFreeEurope

    In a memorable scene from the award-winning German movie “The Lives of Others,” the head of East Germany’s Stasi political police angrily demotes an officer who has shown traces of h...

  • Bosnian Courts Could Have Resolved Ganic Case Years Ago, Critics Say

    RadioFreeEurope

    A British court has granted bail to former Bosnian Presidency member Ejup Ganic, who is wanted by Belgrade on war crimes charges stemming from the start of the Bosnian war in May 1992.The High Court i...

  • Aftershocks Rock Chile As New President Sworn In

    New York Post

    SANTIAGO, Chile — Chilean President Sebastian Pinera is urging citizens along the coast to move quickly to higher ground following five strongly felt aftershocks, including the biggest since las...

  • Unease Hangs Over Mideast As Biden Ends Israel Trip

    International Herald Tribune

    Israel early this week to promote new Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and tighten the bonds between Israel and the United States. He leaves on Thursday amid increased uncertainty over the nature and t...

  • Aftershock Measuring 7.2 Shakes Chile During Inauguration

    International Herald Tribune

    From left, Presidents Evo Morales of Bolivia, Fernando Lugo of Paraguay and Rafael Correa of Ecuador during a 7.2 magnitude aftershock during the inauguration ceremony of Chilean President Sebastián ...

  • Police Battle Demonstrators In Strike-hit Greece

    Channel News Asia

    ATHENS: Greek police battled demonstrators on Thursday as the country ground to a halt in the latest protest strike against government austerity measures aiming to end a crippling debt crisis. Violenc...

  • Mideast Talks Hopes In Tatters

    Channel News Asia

    RAMALLAH, West Bank: Prospects for indirect peace talks lay in tatters on Thursday after the Palestinians said they would not negotiate with Israel unless it reversed plans to build 1,600 settler home...

  • Japan Growth Revised Down

    New Zealand Herald

    Japan's economy grew sharply less in the fourth quarter than initial estimates, the Government said yesterday. GDP expanded at an annual pace of 3.8 per cent in the October-December quarter, revised d...

  • Ad Evokes Dubai Killing

    New Zealand Herald

    An Israeli supermarket looked to cash in on the infamous surveillance camera footage showing suspected assassins stalking a Hamas operative in Dubai with a new advertising campaign. The commercials f...

  • Uk Frowns On Jet Purchase

    New Zealand Herald

    Britain, Malawi's main bilateral donor, has cut aid to the southern African nation this year after Malawi bought a US$13 million ($19 million) presidential jet last year, a senior British diplomat sai...

  • Experts To Put Climate Work Under Microscope

    New Zealand Herald

    NEW YORK - At a tumultuous time in United Nations-led climate negotiations, one of the world's most credible scientific groups agreed to plug the cracks in the authoritative reports of the UN's Nobel ...

  • Sarkozy Scandal Fails To Fire In France

    New Zealand Herald

    Shrink PARIS - More than the Channel divides Britain and France, as testified by their media's response to internet rumours that French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his supermodel wife, Carla Bruni,...

  • Devoted Caregiver At Home, Jihad Jane Online

    New Zealand Herald

    PHILADELPHIA - Colleen LaRose spent long days caring for her boyfriend's father in an apartment in Pennsburg, a small town north of Philadelphia. But online, United States federal authorities say, th...

  • Coalition 'dream Team' Sinks To New Low In Popularity Poll

    New Zealand Herald

    BERLIN - The parties in Angela Merkel's increasingly embattled Government were struggling to digest their worst popularity rating in nearly a decade yesterday, less than six months after the German Ch...

  • Winnie Says Mandela's Deal Bad For Blacks

    New Zealand Herald

    JOHANNESBURG - Nelson Mandela's ex-wife has bitterly criticised the 92-year-old anti-apartheid icon as having "let us down," prompting outrage in South Africa. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela said she coul...

  • Berezovsky Wins Libel Case Over Poisoning Claim

    New Zealand Herald

    LONDON - The British-based businessman Boris Berezovsky has won his claim for libel after being falsely named on Russian state television as the man behind the murder of the former Moscow agent Alexan...

  • Wartime Wasps Receive Long-overdue Recognition

    New Zealand Herald

    Shrink WASHINGTON - They flew planes during World War II but were not considered "real" military pilots. No flags were draped over their coffins when they died on duty. And when their service ended,...

  • Fishing Village Closes Ranks

    New Zealand Herald

    Shrink OTSUCHI - As soon as the fishermen saw my TV camera, one ran at me, yelling "No!" and pushing me out of the building. Another smeared his rubber fish-gutting glove across my lens. Following t...

  • Radical Transformation Lifts 20-year Ban On Sex Changes

    New Zealand Herald

    Shrink HAVANA - Looking in the mirror used to make Yiliam Gonzalez sick to her stomach. "I would see myself, and my body didn't match who I was," said the 28-year-old wedding pianist, who went by th...

  • Officials Apologise To Sisters Raped By Dad

    New Zealand Herald

    LONDON - Two sisters who were repeatedly raped by their father and gave birth to nine of his children were given an apology yesterday by the authorities that failed to protect them. An investigation ...

  • Sushi Restaurant Gets Roasting For Whale Scandal

    New Zealand Herald

    Shrink LOS ANGELES - "Is this the whale?" joked a noisy patron, pointing to some dark red slabs of tuna on the small tray of sushi, which had just been deposited on his table at one of California's r...

  • More Horror Sites Set To Be Added To Busy Tourism Trail

    New Zealand Herald

    Shrink The place where the body of Pol Pot, the former Khmer Rouge leader, was unceremoniously burned in a pile of rubbish is set to be the latest location from Cambodia's dark recent history to be t...

  • Biggest Aftershock Hits Chile On Inauguration Day

    The Independent

    The largest aftershock since Chile's devastating earthquake rocked the South American country Thursday minutes before the inauguration of President Sebastian Pinera. The 7.2-magnitude aftersh...

  • 3 Strong Quakes Strike Chile In Quick Succession

    CNN

    They were the strongest aftershocks to rattle Chile since a February 27 earthquake on the country's west coast that toppled buildings and spawned a tsunami, killing several hundred people.

  • Haim Was Beating Drugs, Friends Say

    CNN

    Corey Haim weaned down to nearly "zero medications," manager says Haim, 38, seemed to be winning battle against drug abuse before death, manager and co-star say Corey Feldman asks people not...

  • Hustler Can't Have Pics Of Hiker's Body

    CNN

    Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- Photos of the nude and decapitated body of a murdered hiker, sought by a writer on assignment for Hustler magazine, will not be released, a judge in Georgia ordered Wednesday...

  • Photos Taken By Serial Killer Released

    C News

    These are two of the hundreds of photos recovered during court-authorized searches of Alcala's Monterey Park home and a storage locker Alcala rented in Seattle that were released Wednesday, March 10, ...

  • New Quakes Shake Chile Inauguration

    C News

    Chile's President-elect Sebastian Pinera, right, accompanied by his wife Cecilia Morel, waves to the media prior to his inauguration. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/ Max Montecinos) SANTIAGO, Chile - Two stro...

  • James Bulger's Mother Meets Straw

    BBC

    Justice Secretary Jack Straw has met the mother of murdered toddler James Bulger to discuss the return to prison of one of her son's killers.James was murdered by 10-year-old's Jon Venables and Robert...

  • Man Jailed For Killing Ex-partner

    BBC

    A man who killed his ex-girlfriend in a "frenzied" knife attack has been jailed for life at Cardiff Crown Court.Cyron Williams, 20, admitted murdering Joanna Michael, 25, with police compari...

  • Pair Guilty Of Homophobic Murder

    BBC

    Two men have been found guilty of murdering a County Tyrone supermarket manager almost two years ago. Shaun Fitzpatrick, 32, was found dead in an alleyway off the Donaghmore Road in Dungannon early on...

  • Cuts Fears For Secret Agencies

    BBC

    The government has said the security services face "difficult choices" amid fears of impending spending cuts.The Intelligence and Security Committee said MI5 and MI6 could suffer real-term c...

  • Cruise Control Helps Ship Beat The Gap

    Sky News

    download Flash from the Adobe download website. The Celebrity Eclipse sailed down the River Ems in Germany and in a nerve-wracking manoeuvre managed to squeeze through the shipyard entrance. S...

  • Ba Worker Accused Of Terrorism

    IOL

    London - A British Airways computer expert appeared in court on Thursday on charges of planning suicide bombings, with prosecutors saying he tried to get a place as a stand-in cabin crew member during...

  • 7.2 Magnitude Quake Rocks Chile

    IOL

    Valparaiso, Chile - A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked central Chile Thursday, including the cities of Santiago and Valparaiso where a new president was to be sworn in, authorities said. Th...

  • Tigers Starve To Death At China Zoo

    IOL

    At least 11 tigers have died of hunger and malnutrition in a Chinese zoo so far this year, the Year of the Tiger in the lunar calendar, local media reported on Thursday. China's wild tiger populati...

  • Chile Aftershock Measured At 7.2 Magnitude

    Reuters

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  • Ukraine's Yanukovich Gets Close Ally As Pm

    Reuters

    KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's new prime minister, Mykola Azarov, declaring state coffers were empty, promised on Thursday to meet all obligations to the International Monetary Fund and push through a rea...