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 Two fictional companies set up by the Government Accountability Office were approved by Medicare to provide equipment such as wheelchairs despite the fact that the false providers had no customers, as well as no products in stock, said a GAO report released Wednesday. A Medicare supplier that screens providers paid a visit to the two...
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 Mark Burnett, the man behind CBC’s reality series
“Survivor” and “The Apprentice” has been sued by his former business partner Conrad
Riggs for allegedly breaching their partnership agreement and screwing him out
of a massive amount of profit.
Conrad Riggs filled a 13-count complaint in
Los Angeles Superior Court, seeking $70...
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 American television journalist and lawyer, best known for his role as the moderator of NBC’s “Meet the Prees” Sunday talk show, Tim Russert collapsed at the offices of WRC-TV, which houses the Washington, D.C. bureau of NBC News where he was the Bureau Chief, while prerecording a segment for the Sunday edition of “Meet the Press.” He was...
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Britain's Lloyds TSB Bank is taking over ailing mortgage lender HBOS in what is seen as the biggest shake-up in the banking sector in the wake of the current international market turmoil.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling said Thursday the merger was "absolutely necessary to ensure stability in the financial...
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Three people were killed and 70 injured when crowds led by Muslim separatist activists defied a curfew and clashed with security forces in India-administered Kashmir on Monday, officials said.
Police earlier arrested three prominent separatist leaders, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Yasin Malik, to foil a major...
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 China expressed its concern on Tuesday regarding
the accusations made by the International Criminal Court related to Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir over
state-backed acts of genocide in the country’s beleaguered region of Darfur. However, there was no clue that it would take
measures in order to postpone the progression of...
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On Tuesday, Israel
sealed its crossings with the Gaza Strip, in return to a rocket assault across
borders, says The Associated Press.
On Monday, late afternoon, Palestinians fired a missile, but
the occurrence had no damages and nobody was hurt.
As a consequence of gun attacks, the border crossings will
be closed for five...
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Pakistani paramilitary troops
threatened the city of Peshawar
and a close tribal area known as the Khyber Agency. The operation started
Friday, when hundreds of troops, soldiers and police crowded the capital of North-West
Frontier Province.
A day later, 400 supplementary
paramilitary troops came in Bara, the most important city...
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, the 140th day of 2008 with 226 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter. The evening stars are Mars, Mercury and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include American-born Nancy Astor, the first woman member of the British Parliament, in 1879; Vietnamese leader...
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 The Food and Drug Administration has been put under pressure
by the Congress to expand overseas inspections. As a response, the FDA said it
needed a $275 million supplementary fund to provide the safety of foods, drugs
and medical devices, as the Wall Street Journal informs.
The letter was sent by the Food and Drug Commissioner...
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 Just a few days after NASA’s
Atlantis space shuttle returned home after a historic mission, another space
event has just taken place. This time it was Japan
and not the United States of
America that organized the recent space
event.
So, Japan
has just successfully launched an experimental satellite that should be
providing...
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 The 2008 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was filled with events, as Bill Gates announced his partial renouncement at his role in Microsoft and the battle between the HD-DVD and the Blu-Ray format. But one of the main events was the announcement of Netgear on Sunday that it has delivered a system that allows wireless...
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 Some doctors and health care workers are afraid or feel uncomfortable when they have to participate in abortions. Many of them feel fear because of religious, social or moral objections which don’t permit them to agree to such kind of surgeries.The Bush administration obeyed the doctors’ concerns and set out a new law on Thursday through...
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 Almost seven years after the September 11 terrorist attacks, U.S. emergency rooms are allegedly not prepared to deal with a dire situation like a suicidal bomb, as a report from the House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee brings out.
The survey included seven major cities (New York, Los Angeles, Washington,...
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 Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt introduced Google Health at a healthcare conference in Florida last week. The U.S. health care system has an expensive and old-fashioned record keeping system, as an estimated 90 percent of the medical records of patients are kept in cabinets in the doctors’ offices.The first pilot project of Google,...
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 Search giant Google has been working for months, in order to develop a new service in the field of consumer health. The service will give doctors and patients easy access to electronic medical records. Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt introduced Google Health at a healthcare conference in Florida yesterday."The opportunity here...
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 Health experts have warned cases of the winter vomiting
virus could rise this week as offices and schools fully reopen after the
festive break.
Five more wards in Scottish hospitals were closed to new admissions
yesterday, bringing the total number affected by the norovirus bug to 24 north
of the border.
Businesses and schools...
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 Part of the earthquake-stricken New Zealand city of Gisborne remained
behind barricades and under a state of emergency on Friday night as
civil defence chiefs told residents to check on their neighbours nearly
24 hours after a disastrous shake.
An elderly woman, who reportedly suffered a heart attack just after
the quake struck on...
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 The Driver and Vehicle Agency in Coleraine admitted to have lost two computer discs that were containing the personal information of more than 6.000 Irish drivers.The vehicle licensing staff said that the two discs that were not encrypted got lost at a Parcelforce sorting centre in Coventry while they were sent to the Driver and Vehicle...
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 Psychiatrist Khristine Eroshevich, who is charged with conspiracy for allegedly funneling drugs to Anna Nicole Smith in the years leading up to her death from an accidental prescription medication overdose, turned herself in on Monday. According to police spokeswoman Rosario Herrara, Eroshevich presented herself at the Van Nuys police...
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 Over two years since Anna Nicole Smith tragically died from a drug overdose, her former boyfriend and lawyer, Howard K. Stern, and two other doctors have been charged Thursday with conspiring to give her prescription drugs. Stern, who was Smith's longtime partner, and even claimed to be the father of her baby girl, and doctors Sandeep...
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 Sunday, Emily Leatherman, a 33-year-old woman who has allegedly been stalking John Cusack for a pretty long period of time, was arrested
at the actor’s home in Malibu,
California. Even though a
restraining order barring her to come near Cusack existed, the woman showed up
outside his home this weekend.
Leatherman was caught...
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 Relief for Britney Spears, more worries for her parents: the
pop artist has been released from the UCLA Medical
Center.
Spears has been in the psych ward for almost a week to
receive the appropriate treatment and was released on Wednesday. After she
checked out of the hospital, she briefly made a stop at the Beverly...
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 Apparently Britney Spears is a good girl after all.
The pop star finally made it to a deposition on the same
date it was scheduled and on the same time it was set. Way to go, hurray!
Spears and her manager Sam Lutfi drove to the Century City offices of Mark Vincent Kaplan,
Kevin Federline’s attorney. They arrived there at...
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In the investigation of the February 8, death of former
Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith, six locations have been searched by the
police, including drugstores and homes and offices of two California doctors.
Smith was found dead at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood and the autopsy
performed revealed that the cause of...
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 Recently back in business, Robert Downey Jr. already started
receiving offers one after the other.
The “Iron Man” is currently in final negotiations to play
Sherlock Holmes in the movie about the world’s most famous detective, directed
by Guy Ritchie.
Robert Downey Jr. was introduced to the project through his
wife Susan, who...
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 Comedian Adam Sandler stars as a top Israeli agent who longs
for a career styling hair in “You Don’t Mess with the Zohan,” his new movie
debuting in theaters on Friday. The actor said the inspiration from “Zohan”
dates back to his childhood when he heard stories regarding how tough the
Israeli army was.
“Anytime anyone comes...
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 Unlike most producers and directors who make a big deal out
of the theatre premiere of their movies, “Cloverfield’s” producer, JJ Abrams,
advises everyone to skip the movie-theatres when they want to watch the monster
film. The filmmaker apparently, thinks that the best place to see “Cloverfield”
is actually at home. Could it be...
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 The world of information hinders the top-secret projects, as
it is the case of the forth part of the legendary movie that has the focus on
protagonist Indiana Jones, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”.
Information leaks about the plot have augmented once again, with computers
being stolen from the production offices...
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Beijing - A court in south-western China's Sichuan province has sentenced two Tibetan Buddhist nuns to nine and 10 years in prison after a court convicted them of crimes linked to protests last March, a Tibetan exile group reported on Friday.
The Ganzi (Kardze) County Intermediate People's Court sentenced the two nuns from the...
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Beijing - FedEx Corp, the world's largest express transport company, has opened a new Asia-Pacific hub in the southern Chinese city Guangzhou, the company said Tuesday.
The new 150-million-dollar hub of FedEx Express, a subsidiary of the Memphis, Tennessee-based company, is the largest outside the United States and replaces a...
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Beijing - China's government on Friday raised the emergency status in drought-stricken regions to the highest level for the first time, as lack of rain threatens the harvests on more than 10 million hectares of farming land.
Fifteen provinces, including Anhui an Henan as well as the region along the Yellow River, are hit by the worst...
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The World Bank has barred Indian information technology firm Wipro from receiving direct contracts under its corporate procurement programme, a Bank statement said Monday.
Wipro, India's third-largest software exporter, and another IT firm Megasoft, which has offices in India and the United States, had been barred, the World Bank...
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In recent years, the Islamic charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) has done more welfare work than many other national and international non-profit organizations in Pakistan.
But its suspected affiliation with the militant group Lahkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which is believed to be behind November 26 Mumbai attacks, landed it Wednesday on the...
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Pakistan's prime minister Wednesday said the two top leaders of an Islamic militant group that India believes was behind the November 26 terrorist attacks in Mumbai were being questioned by police.
Yousaf Raza Gilani said Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and Zarar Shah, were detained in a raid this week at the offices of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
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Pakistan's prime minister Wednesday said the two top leaders of an Islamic militant group that India believes was behind the November 26 terrorist attacks in Mumbai were being questioned by police.
Meanwhile, Pakistani jet fighters, including F-16s, on Wednesday were flying over Islamabad with live ammunition as a media report said...
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Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou on Wednesday ruled out a planned visit next year by Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.
"The Dalai Lama has visited Taiwan twice, and we generally welcome all religious leaders to visit, but at the current moment, the timing isn't appropriate for that," he told foreign media in...
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New Delhi - Indian forces continued their battle with terrorists in luxury hotels in the financial hub Mumbai where scores remained trapped on Thursday, nearly 24 hours after the gunmen fanned out to high-profile locations and indulged in shooting sprees that left 119 dead and more than 315 injured.
Among the terrorists' targets were...
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German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday opened the first foreign consulate in India's information-technology hub of Bangalore.
More than 120 German firms operate in or near the southern city of 8 million people, including carmaker Daimler AG and software company SAP AG.
The opening of Germany's diplomatic...
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A Pakistani court on Tuesday extended the detention of a senior executive at a top currency exchange firm who is accused of being involved in the illegal transfer of millions of dollars abroad, officials and media reports said.
Munaf Kalia of Khanani and Kalia International was detained in Karachi, the country's commercial and...
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The global financial crisis caught up with Bangkok's property market last month when demand stagnated and large companies started to scale down their expansion plans, Jones Lang LaSalle, a professional real estate service company, said Tuesday.
"Impact of the global economic meltdown has become more evident since the global...
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A Syrian state television broadcast showing people tied to Lebanese organizations confessing to a September Damascus bomb attack is an attempt to smear Lebanese institutions, Lebanese politicians said Friday.
The Thursday-night broadcast showed ten men and a woman alleged to be members of the group Fatah al-Islam confessing to...
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In a new Vatican exhibition, Pope Pius XII's more mundane belongings - his heavily-worn shoes and portable typewriter - have gone on show, along with World War II-era radio transcripts in which he purportedly denounced totalitarian rule, including Nazism.
"The purpose is to allow the general public to get to know the full life...
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Businesses and schools shut down Monday in India's north-eastern state of Assam as part of a strike called to protest serial bombings there last week, which left 81 people dead and more than 300 injured, news reports said.
The 11-hour dawn-to-dusk strike was called by the influential All Assam Students' Union, which has accused the...
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Rescue workers on Thursday fanned out in south-western Pakistan, distributing relief supplies among thousands of earthquake survivors as the death toll climbed to at least 230, officials said.
Many isolated hamlets remained inaccessible as hungry, distraught women, children and elders waited for aid while preparing to spend a...
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Five people, including an al-Qaeda operative, were killed on Thursday in a suspected US airstrike in Pakistan's tribal area and a suicide attack in the neighboring North West Frontier Province (NWFP), officials said.
Three guided missiles hit a house in Sam area of South Waziristan tribal district, which is believed to have safe...
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India on Thursday imposed a countrywide ban on smoking in public spaces in its fight against tobacco use, which a medical study warned would claim 1 million lives in the country each year from 2010.
The ban, aimed at the country's 120 million smokers, has received a good response from people across the country, Health Minister...
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At least five suspected Muslim militants were killed in separate encounters in Indian-administered Kashmir where people participated in protests called by separatist leaders on Friday, officials said.
The Indian army said three militants belonging to the Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami were killed in a gunbattle in the southern district of...
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Despite Thailand's ongoing political crisis, its stock market jumped 3.07 per cent Monday, boosted by the US government's takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and growing optimism about the world economy.
The Stock Exchange of Thailand index ended at 665.66, up 19.86 points.
"Our market was just following the...
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Energy-strapped Pakistan on Wednesday decided to extend the daylight saving time till October end as prolonged power cuts triggered violent protests throughout the country.
Clocks were set forward by an hour on June 1 for three months to save electricity by benefiting from longer daylight. The move placed the local time six hours...
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Police arrested three Kashmiri separatist leaders in India-administered Kashmir as protestors defied a curfew in the region and clashed with security forces Monday, leaving 22 people injured, officials said.
Two senior leaders of the separatist Hurriyat Conference, hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani and moderate Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, were...
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Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said Monday the military's offensives against Muslim separatist rebels in the south, which have displaced more than 270,000 civilians, would help remove obstacles to peace talks with the guerrillas.
Arroyo stressed that her government has not declared an all-out war against the secessionist...
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One man was missing and 49 people were injured when tropical storm Nuri hit Hong Kong Friday.
Nuri, which had left seven dead in the Philippines, had weakened and been downgraded into a severe tropical storm by the time it reached Hong Kong in the late afternoon.
However, it still managed to bring Hong Kong to a standstill. The...
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Shouting "We want freedom," tens of thousands of protestors joined a rally called by Muslim separatist groups in Jammu and Kashmir state capital Srinagar on Friday.
At least 50,000 people from Srinagar and its outskirts gathered at the Idgah, a historic prayer ground in central Srinagar, which also has a cemetery where many...
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The Philippine military vowed Tuesday to take "aggressive actions" against Muslim separatist rebels who killed 49 people in a rampage that also displaced more than 66,000 residents in southern provinces.
Security was stepped up in the southern region of Mindanao and in Manila amid intelligence reports that the guerrillas...
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Pakistan's government plans to reinstate dozens of senior judges who were sacked by former president Pervez Musharraf, a cabinet minister said Tuesday.
The announcement was expected to be made after a meeting of ruling coalition leaders, including Asif Ali Zardari of the Pakistan Peoples' Party and Nawaz Sharif from Pakistan Muslim...
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India's Tata Group's retail arm Trent announced Tuesday it was entering into a franchise agreement with British retailer Tesco to expand its hypermarket business in India.
The franchise agreement with Tesco would allow Trent to access the former's extensive retail expertise and technical capability to expand its Indian hypermarket...
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China on Monday said a 15-year-old girl who was treated in hospital for injuries was a suspect in a series of terrorist attacks on the weekend in its central Asian region of Xinjiang.
Paramilitary police shot dead eight other suspected terrorists while two others "blew themselves up" after the attacks in Xinjiang's Kuqa...
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Police suspected a terrorist plot was behind a
raid Monday against a police station in north-western China's Xinjiang
region in which two attackers killed 16 police and injured 16 others,
the official Xinhua news agency said.
Two men drove a garbage truck into a team of border patrol police
who were jogging outside their division...
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other
leaders were scheduled to visit the western city of Ahmedabad which had
been rocked by synchronized bombings that claimed 49 lives, officials
and news reports said Monday. A total of 16 small bombs
ripped through markets, residential areas, public transport and
hospitals in the key city of...
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 Typhoon Fung-Wong lashed Taiwan Monday, bringing strong winds and heavy rains which triggered landslides and floods. Schools, offices, banks and the local stock exchange had to be closed. Moreover, the railway traffic was stopped due to the powerful winds of up to 126 kilometers (90 miles).The typhoon made landfall on the east central...
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Mongolian media reported that at least four people have been
killed in the brutal disputes that took place in capital Ulan Bator, as a result of the alleged
electoral fraud.
According to BBC, approximately 130 police officials and
civilians were injured in the protests and hundreds of other activists have
been arrested.
Late...
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Over 800 people were missing Monday after a Philippine ferry turned over in one of the most powerful typhoons the archipelago has ever seen. The capsizing of the Princess of the Stars, on Saturday, was the worst catastrophe in a weekend of tragedy for the Philippines, as typhoon Fengshen razed the islands, bringing torrents and wind...
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Nepal was back to work on Sunday as government offices and schools reopened for the first time since the country turned into a republic, ending its 239-year-old monarchy regime. King Gyanendra was given fifteen days to leave the Narayanhity royal palace. He is very likely to move to his private home in Kathmandu. His almost six hundred...
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 A powerful earthquake devastated China, killing about 10,000 people,
toppling thousands of homes, factories, offices and schools. It was China’s worst
natural disaster in 32 years. It ravaged the mountainous region outside Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province,
destroying 80 percent of structures in some of the towns and small cities...
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 China has
detained 30 people, including six Buddhist monks for their roles in the violent
protests in Lhasa
on 14 March, Chinese authorities announced. One month after the incident, the
International Campaign for Tibet
said more than 160 people were detained from monasteries in the Tibetan capital
of Lhasa during
April.
Three...
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 A suicide blast near NATO troops in eastern Afghanistan
killed 15 local people and injured 25 others, the alliance's military force
said, according to AFP. The explosion took place in Khogyani district in the province of Nangarhar.
“Fifteen local nationals have been killed and 25 wounded,” Major Martin
O'Donnell, a spokesman for...
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 Two suicide bomb attacks took place in Lahore, Pakistan killing at least 26 people. Lahore’s main police building was partly demolished and approximately 175 people were wounded as two cars packed with explosives were detonated a few minutes and kilometers apart during Tuesday’s morning rush-hour.The latest attacks made it clear that...
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 Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said Wednesday that Britain would
help investigate the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto,
whose slaying has forced the delay of crucial scheduled elections by
six weeks.
In a televised address to the nation, Musharraf said British Prime
Minister Gordon Brown agreed to...
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 Two soldiers and three civilians were killed and 28 others were injured
in an explosion in Sri Lanka's capital Wednesday morning, police said.
A bus carrying injured army personnel to a medical clinic appeared
to be the target in the explosion at Slave Island, an area less than 1
kilometre from Air Force headquarters.
The bus...
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 The Election Commission of Pakistan announced Wednesday that crucial
elections meant to usher in a return of civilian rule would be delayed
for six weeks following the assassination of opposition leader Benazir
Bhutto.
"The polling will now be held on February 18, 2008," Qazi Mohammed
Farooq, the chief election...
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 Leaders of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) were meeting Sunday to
chose a successor to assassinated leader Benazir Bhutto and decide
whether to boycott crucial upcoming parliamentary elections.
The nine-member central executive committee of the PPP were meeting
at the Bhutto family ancestral home in Naudero in the southern...
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 Pakistan's besieged government continued to insist Saturday that
Taliban militants assassinated opposition leader Benazir Bhutto as
skepticism and anger mounted among her supporters, the media and
general public.
As Bhutto supporters continued to riot and protest across the
country and publicly claim that President Pervez...
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 Al-Qaeda's top commander in Afghanistan has claimed responsibility for
the assassination of Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, the
Asia Times Online reported Friday.
In a telephone conversation with the news site, Mustafa Abu
al-Yazid, who emerged in May as the chief of al-Qaeda's operations in
Afghanistan, claimed to have...
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 Nationwide riots continued early Friday following the assassination of
Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, with angry mobs torching
dozens of vehicles and government buildings, ransacking several banks
and shops, and clashing with police.
At least 15 people were killed in violence that began after Bhutto
was shot dead at a...
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 Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday promulgated a decree
to end the emergency rule he imposed six weeks ago, but the move
received mixed reaction from opposition parties.
"The proclamation of emergency issued on the 3rd day of November
2007 stands revoked on, and with effect from, 15th day of December
2007,"...
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 Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has signed an order to end the
country's state of emergency, to be lifted on Saturday midday. Hours
later he will address the nation, government officials said late
Friday.
"The President has promulgated some amendments in the constitution
like the one which says that all those senior...
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 The Supreme Court of Pakistan Monday dismissed the main petitions
challenging President Pervez Musharraf's October 6 re-election, leaving
one final legal obstacle to his commencement of a further five-year
term.
Two petitions lodged by a retired judge and a senior member of the
Pakistan People's Party (PPP) of opposition leader...
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 Myanmar Foreign Minister Nyan Win said Monday that his military-ruled
country would sign the landmark ASEAN Charter, including the document's
commitments to democracy and human rights.
"We agree with the charter," Nyan Win said. "We will sign it."
The assurance - the first by any Myanmar official - was given...
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 At the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona, this week, 17 leading mobile companies came together to adopt a “Universal Charging Solution” (UCS) by 2012, using micro USB as the charging interface. The list of 17 members includes GSMA members such as 3 Group, AT&T, KTF, LG, mobilkom austria, Motorola, Nokia, Orange, Qualcomm,...
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 On Friday, FBI officials announced that following an investigation (code-named Operation Cisco Raider) regarding counterfeit network components produced in China, that were bought by the U.S. government, $3.5 million worth of fake devices were recovered. The main concern with this entire situation was the posibility that the counterfeit...
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 Following IBM’s example with BladeCenter S, HP Co. has recently released its own blade chassis especially created for the mid-sized companies. The BladeSystem c3000, or “Shorty”, as it has been codenamed by HP, has been created for smaller technology sites, remote locations and branch offices and, according to HP Co., its implementation...
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The US presidential election campaign was put on ice Thursday out of respect for the seventh anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks.
The nominees participated in some of the formal commemoration activities at the sites where 19 hijackers crashed passenger planes into the symbols of US financial and military might on that September...
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 The Capitol in Oregon was added to the National Register of Historic Buildings in 1988. In 1855 a fire destroyed the state’s first Capitol and a second blaze in 1935 modeled on the U.S. Capitol. This current building in Oregon has been designed by Francis Keally and it was dedicated on October 1, 1938.Another fire caused big damage to...
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The Ecuadorian government Tuesday justified
the seizure of three television stations and more than 100 other
companies belonging to Grupo Isaias, as an attempt to recover more than
661 million dollars in debt.
Grupo Isaias is one of the largest business groups in Ecuador. Some
of its owners live in the United States and are wanted...
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 It appears that firefighters are investigating a blaze that
managed to destroy the presidential campaign office of Senator Hillary Clinton
in Terre Haute,
according to the Associated Press. No one was reported injured due to the fire,
which broke out just after 12:30 a.m. Friday. The cause is currently...
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 A five-hour hostage standoff Friday at a Hillary Clinton campaign
office ended peacefully when police arrested a man who allegedly held
three captives claiming he had a bomb.
The suspect, described by US media as a local man in his 40s with a
history of mental illness, surrendered to police in Rochester, New
Hampshire, after a...
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 Due to a fearsome flood created by a massive storm, Mayor
Ray Nagin closed City Hall and schools early, and residents were advised to
remain inside until the flood danger abated. The Army Corp. of Engineers closed
a gate in a suburban canal to stop floods from topping a wall.
In Jefferson Parish, one of the areas most damaged...
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 14-year-old Asa Coon student at SuccessTech Academy in
downtown Cleveland, Ohio shot four people on Wednesday, two teachers and two
fellow students, and then committed suicide.
Asa Coon, was described by classmates and neighbors as
frequently volatile and angry. He was suspended for fighting at the beginning
of the week and was...
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 More than 25 people lost their lives and more were killed
when a trailer truck carrying several tons of highly combustible chemicals
exploded after colliding with another truck in the state of Coahuila in northern
Mexico,
officials reported Monday.
Amongst the victims are numerous police officers, soldiers,
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Fifteen people were killed and other 40 were wounded as a
result of another bomb attack carried out by a woman in central Baquba on
Sunday, Iraqi security officials reported.
The suicide bomber detonated the explosives hidden beneath
her black robe near a fortified courthouse and government outpost. Seven
policemen were killed...
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 The Iraqi parliament on Saturday passed a law allowing the return of
functionaries of the Baath party of former dictator Saddam Hussein to
public life.
The measure passed by a large majority of the only 140
parliamentarians present, said Rashid al-Azzawi of the Sunni Iraqi
Accordance Front (IAF) to the Aswat al-Iraq news...
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 Nervousness gripped southern Iraq on Thursday amid fears of further
terror attacks a day after a triple bombing shattered the relative calm
in Maysan province and ahead of the handover by British troops of
security tasks in neighbouring Basra.
The triple blasts in Amara - the deadliest in Iraq in months -
highlighted how fragile...
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 Insurgents in Iraq killed four US soldiers, the US military command in
Baghdad said Wednesday, as further violence as well as arrests of
militants and suspected rogue policemen were reported.
One US soldier was shot dead Wednesday during an operation near the
city of Mosul, two were killed and four wounded Tuesday in an...
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 Dozens of people were injured on Monday when riot police used tear gas and baton-charged hundreds of lawyers who were holding protest rallies in several Pakistani cities against the weekend proclamation of a state of emergency by President Pervez Musharraf.
"The police harshly beat us up with the batons and more than a dozen...
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 A new offensive consisting of 2,500 troops was launched
against Islamic rebels in one of Afghanistan's most violent regions.
The operation started on Wednesday and already 25 people were reported dead.
According to a media release, the offensive is targeting the
same al-Qaeda-supported militants that ruled Afghanistan until 2001,...
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 According to the Pakistani election committee, a new rule
implemented on Monday will allow Gen. Pervez Musharraf to remain army
chief even as he seeks another term as president.
The committee is made up of members appointed by Musharaf
himself, but says that the updated rules were not intended to help the
president in any way;...
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 For the last few years, Dubai has been witnessing a major
transformation and incredible urbanization rate.
Yesterday, it was made official that Dubai’s latest
construction, the Burj Dubai, a freestanding tower building that eclipses all
the other constructions around it, half way through its construction, has
surpassed the world’s...
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 In the wake of new clashes and bloodshed, influential Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr suspended the activities of his Mahdi Army in Karbala for at least six months on Wednesday.Al-Sadr made public a statement in which he said the Shiite militias will cease fire in Karbala and are going to enter a restructuring phase that “will maintain its...
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The Taliban militants released two South Korean women whom they held hostage. The militants said they were released because they were in poor health and also as a goodwill gesture after talks with South Korean officials. The Taliban already killed two of the 23 hostages, so only 19 of them remain in their captivity. The two killed were...
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Antananarivo, Madagascar - Tourism industry officials in Madagascar are growing increasingly concerned about the effects of politcally motivated violence that has kept the island's capital Antananarivo in its grasp, media reports said Thursday.
"Reservations until and including March have been cancelled almost completely....
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Antananarivo - Around 8,000 demonstrators marched through the capital of the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar Wednesday in support of Antananarivo ex-mayor Andry Rajoelina, who is embroiled in a bitter power struggle with President Marc Ravalomanana.
The 34-year-old former mayor who last week unilaterally declared himself the...
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South Africans have been invited to mourn deceased singer Miriam Makeba at a public memorial service in her native Johannesburg at the weekend, The Star newspaper reported Friday.
Makeba, Africa's first Grammy award winning singer and a leading anti-apartheid activist, died on Sunday in Italy after performing at a concert.
On...
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The headquarters of Egypt's opposition al-Ghad party were set on fire on Thursday amid clashes between rival factions in the party, security sources told the Deutsche Presse-Agentur, dpa.
Twelve fire trucks were called in to extinguish the flames in the party's offices in downtown Cairo.
The clashes involved supporters of the...
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At least 26 people have been killed in a wave of suicide car bomb attacks in Somalia, hospital and government officials said Wednesday.
Five near-simultaneous suicide bomb attacks, including one on an Ethiopian embassy and one on a United Nations compound, rocked the breakaway northern state of Somaliland and the semi-autonomous...
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Five suicide bomb attacks, including one on an Ethiopian embassy and one on a United Nations compound, rocked Somalia Wednesday, witnesses and the UN said.
Witness Farhaan Omaye told Deutsche Presse Agentur dpa that three near-simultaneous bombs went off in in Hargeysa, in the breakaway northern state of Somaliland.
The Ethiopian...
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At least 25 people have been killed in a wave of suicide car bomb attacks in Somalia, hospital officials said Wednesday.
Five near-simultaneous suicide bomb attacks, including one on an Ethiopian embassy and one on a United Nations compound, rocked the breakaway northern state of Somaliland and the semi-autonomous state of...
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Aid agency Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has shut down two offices in eastern Chad and evacuated its staff after armed robberies, the charity said Thursday.
MSF said that all activities in Ade and Goz Beida had been suspended indefinitely, leaving 70,000 people without access to health services.
"The fact that MSF is being...
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The Zambian government announced Friday that the country's late president Levy Mwanawasa would be buried on September 3 after his body had been taken around the country for public viewing.
The date had been chosen to coincide with Mwanawasa's birthday, secretary to the cabinet Dr Joshua Kanganja said.
Mwanawasa would have turned 60...
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 More than 60 people were killed, including 10 United Nations employees,
when two car bombs exploded in the Algerian capital Algiers on Tuesday,
Algerian security and hospital sources said.
In addition, dozens were reported injured and in hospital in the worst terrorist attack to strike Algeria in nearly a decade.
One bomb...
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 Nigeria was numb Wednesday after unions across the country called for a major strike in all sectors except the oil industry, where production was no ceased.It seems that Olusegun Obasanjo’s decision to raise the price of gas at pumps during his last week as president of Nigeria triggered a chain reaction that has repercussions even...
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 On Monday, Alvarion Ltd., the largest WiMax and wireless broadband solutions provider in the world, announced the official commercial release of the Mobile WiMax Internet service by DigitalBridge Communications (DBC). The network is already operational in the Jackson Hole, Wyoming area. As the region is highly attractive to tourists all...
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 On Friday, at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Matt Cutts, Google engineer, head of Google's Web spam team, kept a very informative speech ("What Google Knows About Spam") on spam and ways to go around it. Keyword spam, widely covered by the session, represents the use of words, oftenly having to connection what so ever with...
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Jorge Romero, 24, is now on FBI’s list of criminals for allegedly uploading on livedigital.com four episodes from the popular, FBI-themed TV show “24”.20th Century Fox Studios, the rightful owners of the four episodes and also the producers, have expressed their gratitude to the FBI, in a declaration that is also a warning for other...
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 On Monday, Alvarion Ltd., the largest WiMax and wireless broadband solutions provider in the world, announced the official commercial release of the Mobile WiMax Internet service by DigitalBridge Communications (DBC). The network is already operational in the Jackson Hole, Wyoming area. As the region is highly attractive to tourists all...
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 Two of Japan’s major
panel makers, Hitachi Display and Sharp, are going to be investigated by the
Fair Trade Commission.
The Fair Trade
Commission represents Japan’s
fair trade watchdog; the institution said on Thursday that the two electronics
companies would be investigated because they were suspected of fixing prices...
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 EMC Corporation, the world’s leading maker of corporate storage computing gear, announced on Thursday that it has reached an agreement in order to acquire Pi Corporation, a Seattle based developer of software and provider of services for personal information management.Pi Corp, a privately held start-up founded by Paul Maritz, who is now...
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 The search giant Google has been working for months, in
order to develop a new service in the field of consumer health. The service is supposed to give doctors and
patients easy access to electronic medical records, Business Week reports.
The U.S. health care system is very expensive and also old-fashioned.
90 percent of the...
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 Macy's Inc. had announced that it plans to close three of its regional offices, which would reportedly save the company of around 100 million dollars annually beginning with next year, according to Women’s Wear Daily.The report said that Macy’s would renounce at its Macy’s North, Macy's Midwest and Macy's Northwest, while it would still...
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 United States' largest provider of business information and the largest title insurance company, The First American Corporation, announced it is to cut 1,300 jobs during the third quarter mostly in its core title insurance business, as a result of the slumping housing market. First American already cut another 600 jobs last quarter. The...
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 The former COO of Enron Corp.'s broadband Internet division, Kevin Hannon, was sentenced to 2 years in prison. The sentence came as a result of his role in defrauding Enron, which led to the giant's collapse. Hannon was COO of Enron Broadband Services from January 2000 to June 2001 and he pleaded guilty in August 2004 to one count of...
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 British Airways and TPG Capital decided to unite forces and make a bid for Spain’s largest airline, Iberia, the British operator announced Tuesday.Former Texas Pacific Group is a private equity investment firm with offices in Hong Kong, Japan and the United States. Its main area of activity regards major turnarounds and management...
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 A final decision regarding the fate of World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz failed to be pronounced several times, as the leader’s drama continues.Wolfowitz has been accused of breaking the ethic and staff rules of the international organization when he secured a substantial pay rise for his girlfriend, soon after he became president of...
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Berlin - Germany condemned Wednesday's "murderous attacks" on Afghan government offices in Kabul, which left more than 20 people dead.
The attacks appeared designed to "undermine the functionality of important pillars of the nascent Afghan political system," according to a statement released by Foreign Minister...
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Britain's Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) announced the sale of its stake in the Bank of China for 1.6 billion pounds (2.3 billion dollars) on Wednesday.
The Edinburgh-based bank, which also owns NatWest, was effectively nationalized during the banking crisis when the government took a majority share of almost 58 per cent.
RBS...
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Eight people were killed and dozens injured in an explosion in the North Caucasus region of Ingushetia that destroyed an official building, Russian news agencies reported.
Rescue workers were still searching for people in the rubble of the three-story building late Tuesday.
"A total of 30 people were pulled from under the...
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Flights in and out of Budapest's Ferihegy International Airport were cancelled on Wednesday following an indefinite walkout by staff.
A few flights made it out shortly after the strike began at 6 am. However, the airport shortly descended into chaos after security staff joined the strike, cutting off the flow of passengers to the...
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Austria's post offices were partially closed Wednesday, as postal workers protested plans to downsize the mail service.
Employees at around 80 branches were on strike, but mail delivery went on uninterrupted, Oesterreichische Post AG said in a statement.
The protests came one day before the post's management meets to discuss...
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The situation in the Greek capital Athens calmed down early Tuesday after three days of heavy rioting, triggered by the fatal police shooting of a teenager, media reports said, but unrest was likely to continue.
Violence was concentrated on the area around the Polytechnic University, where several dozen hooded youths were still...
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The Greek capital Athens and dozens of other cities were left crippled Tuesday after several days of arson and looting, triggered by the fatal shooting of a teenager by police.
Described as the worst riots in decades, thick black smoke, flames and tear gas had engulfed central Athens for hours as students set fire to cars, banks,...
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Greece braced for more widespread protests and possible violence Tuesday with the funeral of the teenager who was fatally shot by police over the weekend, triggering the worst rioting the country has seen in decades.
Widespread riots first erupted late Saturday shortly after the shooting of the teenage boy by a police officer in the...
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Japanese investment bank Nomura said Thursday it would axe 1,000 jobs at their offices in London over the next few months under moves to ensure that the company remained "competitive in the current economic conditions."
Nomura said the job losses from its 4,500 strong workforce in Britain would establish the "right cost...
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Greece's health ministry is pushing to implement a ban outlawing smoking in all public places, including restaurants, bars and offices by the summer - a half year earlier than required by law.
The new law does not require implementation until January 1, 2010. But Greek Health Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos announced in parliament that...
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Berlin refused to comment Friday on the arrest in Kosovo of three Germans in connection with an attack on the European Union (EU) headquarters in Pristina.
A German Government spokesman declined to be drawn on speculation about the possible involvement of Berlin's security services (BND) in the case and instead pointed to the ongoing...
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A new ceiling artwork meant to inspire dialogue, human rights and global solidarity was unveiled Tuesday at the United Nation's Geneva offices.
The work, created by Spanish abstract painter Miquel Barcelo, graces a room where groups like the UN's Human Rights Council and the High Level Group of the Alliance of Civilizations...
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European Union countries must improve their energy efficiency and stop using the financial crisis as an excuse not to reduce pollution, the bloc's top officials said Thursday.
"The financial crisis has not diminished the risks to our planet deriving from climate change," European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso...
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The head of a German armoured van company where executives were quietly helping themselves to the customers' cash was jailed Friday for 11 years.
Karl-Heinz Weis, 60, was convicted of misappropriation and embezzlement in the northern city of Hildesheim. He had already been convicted in May 2007 of related offences including...
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Legislators in the German state of Bavaria elected a new premier, Horst Seehofer, 59, on Monday after the party he leads, the Christian Social Union (CSU), lost its absolute majority at the polls.
He comfortably won the vote by a 104-71 margin, though four members of the new state coalition, comprising the CSU and the small...
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Unknown vandals have knocked over and, in some cases, destroyed 131 headstones in Bucharest's Jewish cemetery.
According to the Mediafax news agency on Friday, the vandals also smashed windows in the administrative offices of the cemetery in Romania's capital.
Some office equipment was also destroyed.
No anti-Semitic slogans...
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Main Swedish banking groups Nordea, Swedbank and SEB on Thursday reported third-quarter results suggesting they had weathered the first phases of the financial turmoil.
Shares for all three groups were mid-morning in positive territory on the Stockholm bourse where the OMXS index was flat. The fourth major group Handelsbanken, which...
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German police led by prosecutors searched the offices of a federally owned bank Wednesday in connection with a banking blunder last month as the financial crisis developed.
The KfW bank remitted 319 million euros to Lehman Brothers of New York on September 15, the day that the US investment bank failed.
The main office of KfW in...
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Bavarian Finance Minister Erwin Huber said Wednesday he was stepping down from his post in the wake of the financial crisis that has engulfed the state-owned state BayernLB bank.
The troubled Munich-based BayernLB this week asked for 5.4 billion euros (7.1 billion dollars) from Berlin's bank rescue plan as a result, becoming the...
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The trial of 86 people accused of plotting to create havoc in order to prepare the ground for a military coup got under way in Istanbul on Monday.
The long-awaited trial of the so-called Ergenekon gang began some 17 months after police discovered hand grenades in an Istanbul house belonging to a former non-commissioned officer.
An...
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In a one-day legislative marathon, German legislators signed off Friday one of world's biggest bail-outs, injecting 480 billion euros (650 billion dollars) into shaky banks.
The Bundestag lower chamber passed the bill with only two small opposition parties, the Left and the Greens, opposed.
But the bill is still not law until the...
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The economic outlook is grim for central and eastern Europe (CEE) in general and the Baltic states in particular, according to a report released Wednesday by Scandinavian bank SEB.
In its latest Eastern European Outlook, SEB's Mikael Johansson warned: "Countries with large external imbalances - the three Baltic countries and...
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 Officials stated that a Tamil Tiger suicide bomber caused an entire blast in the main building of the opposition party in Sri Lanka on Monday. The explosion killed nearly 27 people, among which there was a retired senior general. The attack occurred in the town of Anuradhapura and it seems that it represented an act of revenge against...
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As Germany sought to calm the public with a "decisive" pledge about savings property lender Hypo Real Estate (HRE) came under pressure Monday from other banks and Berlin to sack its chief executive after HRE needed a vast bail-out.
Questions about the German government assurance of an estimated 1 trillion euros (1.4 trillion...
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The Irish Association of Pension Funds has warned that some private pension funds would collapse during the current financial crisis unless action was taken to shore them up, national broadcaster RTE reported Thursday.
The association had sent proposals to the government on how to deal with the problem, association chairman Patrick...
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The banking crisis spread to Germany on Monday, with the government and fellow banks forced to throw a 35-billion-euro (50-billion-dollar) lifeline to Hypo Real Estate (HRE), a mortgage lender.
The bail-out, the same day as Britain nationalized lender Bradford & Bingley (B&B) and a day after three governments took stakes in...
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The maiden flight of the much-delayed European military transport plane A400M is being postponed because the engines are still not ready, manufacturer EADS said Thursday from its German offices in Munich.
The propellor plane is intended as Europe's answer to the Lockheed C-130 Hercules, but the project at planemaker Airbus has...
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Spain's National Court has handed 21 members of a Basque separatist organization prison terms ranging from 8 to 10 years for links with the militant Basque separatist group ETA, the court said Wednesday.
The court also ordered the dissolution of Gestoras Pro Amnistia, which is seeking an amnesty for more than 500 ETA activists...
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A pub packed with memorabilia of the Stasi has caused outrage among victims of the former East German secret police.
An East German flag draped behind the bar and shredded surveillance logs are among the decorations in The Firm, located in an East Berlin Street where the Stasi headquarters used to be.
On one of the walls there is a...
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Eighty-six staunch secularists are to be tried
on terrorism-related charges after a year-long investigation into an
alleged plot to destabilize Turkey and create the conditions for the
military to carry out a coup to depose the moderate Islamist government
of Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Unveiling a 2,455-page indictment on Monday,...
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 A British Muslim accused of plotting to blow up
transatlantic jets admitted he planned to explode a device at a U.K airport
terminal, AFP reports.
27-year-old Abdulla Ahmed Ali also said he intended to set
off a device in the Houses of Parliament in London
in order to attract attention to an online documentary attacking...
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 The British government Thursday denounced as "reprehensible" Russia's
actions in the current diplomatic row over cultural activities, and
said the methods used by the Russian authorities were reminiscent of
the Cold War.
But Foreign Secretary David Miliband, while condemning Moscow's
behaviour over the activities of the...
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 The simmering tension between Russia and Britain took a further bizarre
twist Wednesday with the arrest of a senior British Council official in
St Petersburg - who also happens to be son of a prominent British
Labour Party politician.
The government in London gave a furious reaction to the arrest on
charges of drunk driving of...
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 Russia announced putative measures against Britain's cultural offices
on Monday as they came back to work from holiday break, defying Russian
orders to shut down.
The Russian Foreign Ministry called Britain's move a "deliberate
provocation," in spiralling bilateral relations since the 2006
poisoning in London of former...
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 Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili secured re-election Wednesday
according to official vote counts vehemently rejected by the
opposition, which vows to continue its ongoing protest.
With barely two per cent of the vote left to tally, the election
commission website showed Wednesday that Saakashvili led decisively
with 52.21...
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 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov slammed Britain Friday for
knowingly "violating international law," as Russia ordered British
Council offices across Russia to close.
Anglo-Russian relations have sunk to Cold War lows after Moscow
refused to extradite an ex-KGB bodyguard suspected of murdering Kremlin
critic...
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 One person was killed Thursday when a parcel bomb exploded near the
offices of a Paris law firm founded by French President Nicolas
Sarkozy, the public prosecutor of Paris, Jean- Claude Marin, said.
The victim worked as a secretary for a law firm on the fourth floor
of the building in the elegant Eight Arrondissement in central...
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 Russian voters went to the polls Sunday in parliamentary elections
expected to deliver a sweeping victory to President Vladimir Putin's
party.
Accusations that Putin's party United Russia enjoyed an unfair
advantage were echoed by all 11 parties participating in the vote,
which is seen as a referendum on Putin's political...
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 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Wednesday sought to head off an
embarrassing scandal over the loss of personal computer data of 25
million Britons by offering a public apology and ordering a data
security check in all government departments.
His government has been plunged into crisis by the revelation that
two computer discs,...
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 Schools and post offices were closed, planes were late, newsstands were
empty of newspapers and hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated in
cities throughout France Tuesday as civil servants carried out a
24-hour strike to demand higher wages and fewer job cuts.
In addition, train service throughout the country and...
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 German Chancellor Angela Merkel lost a key ally on Tuesday when veteran
Social Democrat (SPD) Franz Muentefering tendered his resignation as
vice-chancellor and labour minister.
Muentefering told a news conference he was stepping down for
"family reasons" to spend more time with his wife, Ankepetra, who has
long suffered...
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 The death of an innocent Brazilian man shot by marksmen of Scotland
Yard's ant-terrorism squad in the summer of 2005 resulted from "very
serious but avoidable mistakes," an independent report said Thursday.
Jean Charles de Menezes, who was shot seven times in the head by
anti-terrorist officers who mistook him for a...
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 According to Spanish officials, the separatist group in
Basque called ETA planted a booby-trapped car on Monday outside a government
building. The following day, the armed Basque separatist group warned it would
“keep striking.”
“Fortunately ETA failed with their bomb, which did not
explode because of a malfunction,” Jose Antonio...
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 The streets of Hamburg, Germany’s
principal port, were flooded Monday by thousands of demonstrators marching
against next month G8 summit, rally which turned violent when police forces
stepped in to break it up.
A large number of police forces were deployed to ensure a calm
consecution of the rally, but the people were irritated...
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 The anti-globalization demonstrators took the streets of Karlsruhe to protest against the harsh treatment applied by the police and the abusive arrests.On May 9 hundreds of globalization opponents demonstrated in Berlin, Hamburg and other major cities in Germany, demonstrations which eventually turned into riots. The violence was...
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 The Basque separatist group ETA kept its promise and began a terror campaign against the candidates for the local elections. Sunday, two women that were posting campaign notices in Bilbao were attacked by supporters of the separatist group.The two members of the People’s Party were hospitalized along with the men guarding them and two of...
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 With less then a month before the 33rd G8 summit takes place at the Baltic Sea resort of Heiligendamm, German police conducted raids across the country in order to prevent terrorist acts that would disrupt or even stop the meeting.The police received information that some leftist activists are planning to disrupt the summit which starts...
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