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Australians were shocked to learn Tuesday that the Navy ships that protect their shores were taking most of the southern hemisphere summer off so sailors could holiday with their families.
"It's about getting a culture in place that's about working smarter not harder, and I think we owe that to our people," Navy Chief Vice...
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 Representatives of an animal protective
group demanded the Australian military to stop the killing of 400 kangaroos in
the capital Canberra.
Wildlife Protection Association of Australia president, Pat O'Brien,
said Tuesday he and other protesters planned to intervene if the killing
continued. The Defense Department says 400 eastern...
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 An Australian court on Tuesday ruled Japanese whaling in the Antarctic illegal but admitted it had no power to stop it.
The Federal Court, in a hearing brought by the Humane Society
International, declared the Japanese in contravention of Australian
environment protection legislation because they were killing and
injuring minke and...
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Washington - The Federal Reserve took two new steps to unfreeze credit for homebuyers, consumers and small businesses Tuesday, committing up to 800 billion dollars in government-backed debt and loans.
The central bank will purchase as much as 600 billion dollars in debt issued or backed by government-chartered housing finance...
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 Three teenagers from a school-sponsored camp drowned in the Fox River as they tried to sneak out during the night and go for a boat ride. The students took four or five paddle boats, which were already removed the floor plugs for the winter, went on the water and slowly sank.John Greene, battalion chief of the Algonquin-Lake in the Hills...
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 Officials from Santa Barbara County, California, announced that a wildfire which started on late Thursday destroyed a big part of the canyon and obliged the residents from Montecito to flee away. The flames burnt down nearly 70 multimillion dollars homes and ranch-style houses.Because of the strong winds the blaze started to spread...
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The options for survival for US automotive giants General Motors and Chrysler are limited to bankruptcy protection, merger or a receipt of aid from the US government, the Wall Street Journal said Monday.
Citing sources inside GM and Chrysler, the respected financial daily said the two companies which are currently in merger...
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 Nearly 2,500 people were forced to leave their homes after a toxic cloud took over the area. On Saturday, a tank from a chemical plant in Pennsylvania released a corrosive liquid which caused about three residents to have some serious respiratory problems. The liquid, called oleum, is similar to sulfuric acid and leaked from a tank at...
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During the last two weeks many mothers and fathers abandoned their teenagers at Nebraska hospital. Seven teenagers were left at hospitals in the Cornhusker state because, their parents said, they couldn’t take care of them anymore. Todd Landry of Nebraska’s Department of Human and Human Services stated that “they were tired of their...
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The US chemical concern DuPont announced Tuesday that it was elevating executive vice president Ellen Kullman to the position of president as of October 1 and chief executive officer effective January 1, 2009.
The 52-year-old Kullman, who has worked for DuPont since 1988, is to replace Charles O Holliday Jr, a 38-year veteran of the...
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Nordic bourses dipped Tuesday, the day after US investment banker Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection, triggering a global decline on stock markets.
In Oslo, the OSEBX index was down 3 per cent in mid-morning trading, shares in oil companies decling as crude prices dropped.
The Stockholm bourse index was down roughly 1...
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The Irish Stock Exchange or IEX plummeted 7 per cent to 4,033.13 by noon Monday in reaction to the news that US investment bank Lehman Brothers intended to file for bankruptcy protection.
Banks suffered the heaviest losses, with Anglo Irish Bank Corp plc down 11 per cent to 4.48 euros, Allied Irish Banks plc down 9.7 per cent to 7.12...
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 Raymond Hunter Geisel, 22, is being held in police custody with no charges, but accused of threatening to kill Senator Barack Obama if he wins the presidential elections. Police thought the man was serious and they arrested him for precaution, especially because is the first threat toward Obama.Geisel made the threats against Obama while...
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 The Monday Texans’ preparations for the tropical storm were accompanied by a heat wave which has been lasting for 11 days. The tropical storm strengthened as it churned through the Gulf of Mexico toward Galveston. Even if extreme weather is normal for the coast of Texas, the temperatures were too high.Residents bought more water and...
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 According to the Washington Post, officials are allowed to take and examine travelers’ laptops or other electronic devices to an off-site location for an undetermined period of time without suspecting them of unlawful activity, as part of boundary search policies the Department of Homeland Security lately disclosed.Furthermore, federal...
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 Jim Giuntoli found a large golden retriever mix, named Ben, together with another terrier-mix in the traffic on Interstate 5 near Kent, last month. Giuntoli took Ben at a King County animal shelter, but they wanted to euthanatize it. A non-profit animal-rescue organization saved the dog’s life.At Animals First Foundation in Seattle Ben...
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 While mudslides on fire-blemished territory in the eastern
Sierra Nevada constrained people to leave their properties, more gentle weather
in Northern California facilitated the
firefighters’ work in suppressing parts of the wildfires in the area and
permitted inhabitants of numerous communities to return home.
A massive mudslide...
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The Salt Lake Tribune reports
that the burglarized tapes which contain around 1.5 million health care billing
data, Social Security numbers and medical procedure codes were retrieved on
Tuesday.
Investigators in the case said
Wednesday they received a call which led detectives to University of Utah
billing records that were...
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Sect leader Warren Jeffs was taken to a hospital in
Las Vegas on Tuesday. Police wouldn’t say why and the real cause of his
departure hasn't been found out yet. Jeffs was taken to the Sunrise Hospital and
Medical Center in Las Vegas from an Arizona Jail.
The jail in Kingman, Arizona is 100 miles from the
medical center and the...
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Clarence J. Weber, 58, killed his wife, Adelina Weber, 51,
stabbing her to death Saturday afternoon in the parking lot outside a suburban Chicago hotel, near the
pancake house where she worked as a server. She collapsed in Spring Hill Suites
Hotel, in Lincolnshire.
Weber was caught by the police on Tuesday in a Crown Point...
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A report carried out by the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration points to the alarming fact
that half of all US
coral reefs are in poor health and that responsibility belongs to human beings.
Today will take place the 11th
International Coral Reef Symposium, which will be hosted at The Broward...
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 Starting Monday, federal Food and Drug Administration
inspectors will enlarge the salmonella search beyond tomatoes to include
cilantro, jalapeño and serrano peppers – ingredients used to make salsa,
scallions and onions.
The FDA reported it is about to subject several kinds of
Mexican food to testing for salmonella before they...
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 The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to assess whether
the measures taken in military purposes are directly affecting the environment,
more specifically if the use of sonar in Navy training exercises distress
endangered marine species, such as whales.
Environmentalists blame the Navy for underrating the damage
the sonar...
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The Chicago City Council was busy for three hours today, deciding the final
approval of Chicago Children’s Museum. The plan for this $100 million museum,
which will lie from Navy Pier to Grant Park, gave birth to many controversies
between the council’s members. However, the vote passed with 33 to 16.
Opposition leader,...
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 Two men scaled the 52-story New York Times Building in Times Square on Thursday just hours apart and each was
arrested when he stepped safely onto the roof, the New York Times reports.
The first man was identified as Alain Robert, dubbed
“Spiderman”, a practiced French stuntman known for climbing tall buildings, and
the other,...
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 Eldorado, Texas – A judge from Texas Court issued on Tuesday a
ruling for releasing a 16-year-old girl under special conditions after she had
complained to be sexually harassed by a man from the sect group she belonged to.
Her lawyer insisted she might be in danger.
The young girl is the daughter of the polygamist sect prophet,...
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The Supreme Court in the American state of Texas has ruled that officials overstepped their authority by taking hundreds of children from a polygamist religious group's ranch. The ranch was owned by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The kids were taken in April from their parents and placed in foster care...
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 Two Customs and Border Protection officers
from Long Island were arrested on charges they helped smuggle drugs and other
contraband through Kennedy
Airport.
Federal agents arrested supervisor officer Walter
Golembiowski, 65, of Bethpage and charged him
with bribery conspiracy and narcotics importation conspiracy. Inspector...
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 Politicians, religious and conservative
groups’ representatives are trying to get an initiative on the November ballot
to block a recent state Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage
in the Golden State. The initiative is expected to
qualify for the ballot after June 16, when the court’s decision is scheduled to
take...
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The Santa Cruz Mountains area
burst into flames a few days ago and since then people are fighting desperately
to stop the persistent wildfire. All that the fire leaves behind is ashes. Six square
miles of centuries-old wood has turned into a battlefield, nature versus
humans. At least 20 houses were destroyed and another 570...
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More than 20 people were riding the carnival raid, called the Yo-Yo, when it collapsed shortly after 6 p.m. Friday at the Calaveras County Fair and Jumping Frog Jubilee in Angels Camp in the Gold Country, authorities said.24 people were injured, including three seriously. The three seriously inured were airlifted, one each to UC Davis...
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 US President George W. Bush arrived
on 16th May in Saudi Arabia, in order to discuss two major issues
with the king Abdullah: the increase of oil output towards the United States and
the growing power of Iran.
Regarding the first issue, it is
a general truth that Saudi Arabia is the world’s largest supplier of oil and
also the...
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 The U.S. government listed polar bears as a threatened species Wednesday, AFP reports. The announcement was made by Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne “While the legal standards under the ESA compel me to list the polar bear as threatened, I want to make clear that this listing will not stop global climate change or prevent any sea ice...
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 The Vallejo
City council voted
unanimously Tuesday to file for bankruptcy. The dramatic vote, which was the
result of hours of public comment, reflected the San Francisco Bay Area
suburb’s budget crisis.
With this decision, Vallejo
has become the first city of its size to seek bankruptcy protection. Vallejo faces a...
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 Although the sea lions are federally protected by the Marine
Mammal Protection Act., several of them were found shot dead in river traps.
The traps had been put there to capture sea lions, which eat
endangered salmon. Their bodies were discovered by the wildlife officials Sunday
at noon.
“In each of the two traps were three...
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 The Environmental Protection Agency was accused of
“foot-dragging” to avoid regulating greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles.
More that 18 states sued the Bush administration for taking no action
concerning the issue of global warming.
In a petition signed Wednesday several states’ officials had
required the EPA...
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 Officials said a fire erupted at a Lockport hotel early Tuesday morning. As a
result, the entire downtown Lockport
was shut down.
The fire at the Towpath Inn in Lockport,
about 25 miles south-west of Chicago,
started before 4 a.m. Until 7 a.m. the firefighters managed to keep the fire
under control preventing it from spreading...
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 A math teacher from Long Island
was arrested for having sex with a 16-year-old student in a high school parking
lot, police officials said on Thursday.
Heather Kennedy, 25, has been teaching at Wantagh High School
for three years and it seems that she has a good reputation among both students
and professors. She has no past...
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 Global warming threatens the ribbon seal. Other special species
need protection and federal scientists have already taken into consideration
listing the ribbon seal under the Endangered Species Act. Chinese River
Dolphin, Elephant, Giant pangolin, Golden Marmoset, Gorilla, Steller Sea Lion, Orangutan
and Tiger are mammals protected...
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 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton proposed
on Monday several remedies to raise the U.S. economy and ease the housing
crisis.
The New York
senator recommended bigger protection for lenders and said she would propose
legislation in order to provide mortgage companies with security against the
threat of lawsuit...
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 United States President George W. Bush made it clear on Thursday that if the House Democrat leaders send their new version of the terrorist-surveillance bill to him, he will veto it. Bush labeled the new version as "a partisan bill" that would undermine the country’s security. The President and House Republicans maintained that...
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 An Associate Press-led investigation brought to the light the fact that the water of about 41 million Americans contains a vast array of pharmaceuticals. The concentration of the pharmaceuticals is bellow the levels of a medical dose, but their presence increases worries among scientists, who said the exposure to random combinations of...
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 A Union Pacific train derailed Tuesday morning in Southern California spewing toxic gas. Authorities quoted by The Associated Press confirmed the derailment and added there were no injured people.The area was quickly sealed off and about 60 people living in the town situated in the southern desert area couldn’t return to their homes. The...
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 The FBI searched the home in which the man possibly sickened by the ricin found in a Las Vegas hotel room lived.Authorities said they had found all the ricin in several vials recovered Thursday from the hotel room where the man identified as Roger Von Bergendorff had been staying, but they though it might be better to check the home in...
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 The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) asked a federal
judge to block the presidential primary elections in Ohio’s most populous county
in order to prevent election officials from switching to a balloting technology
that doesn’t allow voters to correct errors.
The ACLU of Ohio filed the challenge Monday in U.S. District
Court...
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 According to airline officials, tens of thousands of airline
passengers will soon be flying on jets outfitted with anti-missile systems as
part of a new government test aimed at thwarting terrorists armed with
shoulder-fired projectiles.
Three American Airlines Boeing 767-200s that fly daily
round-trip routes between New York and...
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 California sued the administration of President George W Bush Wednesday
over the refusal by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to allow
the state to impose strict limits on vehicle emissions that cause
global warming.
The EPA "has done nothing at the national level to curb greenhouse
gases, and now it has wrongfully...
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 California Governer Arnold Schwarzenegger intensified his battle with
the Bush administration over environmental issues Thursday, announcing
that his state was suing the government to gain the right to enact its
own laws limiting auto emissions.
The maverick Republican politician and former movie star accused
the federal...
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 For the first time, the long-proposed measure has passed
either chamber of Congress, the House voting on Wednesday to extend the
nation's employment discrimination protections to gay workers.
In the debate, which lasted more than five hours, some members of Congress
referred to the historic civil rights fight against racial...
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 According to a statement released by the US Army on Thursday, the Pentagon is ordering an additional 2,400 bomb resistant
armored vehicles for its soldiers in Iraq
and Afghanistan
from three manufacturers in a deal valued at $1.2 billion.
The winning vendors are: Ladson, S.C.-based Force Protection
Industries Inc., which received...
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The derailment of about 30 cars of a freight train hauling
some toxic chemicals in Painesville
Township, Ohio on
Wednesday led to the evacuation of the perimeter as a large, smoky fire rose
from the crash. According to local authorities, nu injuries were reported.
Authorities were evacuating an area within a half-mile...
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 According to a recent study, only a mere 20 states in the United
States implement wearing a helmet while
riding a motor vehicle. Kansas is
not one of them, but change is in the air. The NTMS (National Transportation
Safety Board) is now strongly enforcing a helmet law so that all states require
riders to wear head protective...
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Somali pirates achieved a new milestone in their seemingly unstoppable rise this weekend when they seized a Saudi Arabian supertanker laden with two million barrels of oil worth almost 100 million dollars.
It seems that every month there is a new first for the pirates, who have dramatically increased the frequency of their attacks...
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A West African court of justice on Monday found the government of Niger guilty of not protecting a woman against slavery despite laws abolishing servitude.
The Court of Justice of the Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) forced the Niger government to pay the plaintiff, 24- year-old Hadijatou Mani, 19,750 dollars in...
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Albinos in Burundi have been forced to go into police protection after gangs killed three of them for their body parts, reports said.
The BBC said that four albinos were taken to a provincial town, where they were being guarded by police.
Two of the albinos killed were found with limbs missing, the BBC quoted local police as...
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The official levelling of war crimes charges
against Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir has been
welcomed in many quarters, but fears remain the decision could cause an
escalation of violence in Darfur and more misery for millions of
long-suffering displaced Darfuris. International Criminal
Court (ICC) Prosecutor Luis...
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As African Union (AU) leaders meeting in Egypt continued to debate a solution to Zimbabwe's political crisis white farmers in the country continued to be chased off their farms, despite an order from a regional court protecting them from eviction.AU heads of state were meeting for a second day in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el Sheikh...
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 13 people were killed in an outbreak of violence targeting foreign workers in the poorest communities in Johannesburg’s Cleveland area, South Africa. 200 people had been arrested on charges ranging from rape to robbery and public violence, police said. More than 50 victims of the attacks were taken to hospitals with gunshot and stab...
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 Comoros
demanded on Thursday that France
extradite rebel leader Mohamed Bacar, who is wanted by the Indian Ocean
Archipelago for crimes against humanity. Troops had to fire teargas in order to
stop demonstrations against the former colonel.
The self-declared leader of the Anjouan
Island fled to the French-run island of...
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 Statements released by aid officials and diplomats on
Tuesday talked about the latest fighting in east Chad which has disrupted
humanitarian operations and raised the risks for a European peacekeeping force
due to deploy there soon to protect civilians.
In the biggest clash for months between Chad's government
army and eastern...
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 French President Nicolas Sarkozy set off for Chad on Sunday for talks with Chadian President Idriss Deby over the fate of the detained Europeans charged with trying to kidnap 103 purported Darfuri orphans, his office announced in Paris.
According to the press statement, the discussion between the two leaders in the Chadian capital...
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Kenyan Airways confirmed that the Nairobi-bound airliner
that was lost after issuing a distress signal shortly after takeoff from Cameroon has
been found after a two full days of searching.
The crash site of the Boeing 737-800 was in a mangrove
swamp, 20 kilometres southwest of Douala, a
business centre on the Cameroon
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A rise in mobility within South-East Asia as people search for economic opportunity has made millions of people more vulnerable to HIV infection, a joint ASEAN-UN report issued Thursday said.
A country-by-country assessment of HIV and mobility in the 10 ASEAN-member countries revealed that despite their contributions to national...
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Shi Han Min, who led the Beijing's effort to clean up its air for the 2008 Olympic Games, on Wednesday won the first Kong Ha Award for excellence in air quality management.
The award, which included a 10,000-dollar purse, was granted to Shi at the Better Air Quality 2008 workshop in Bangkok, which has drawn 900 delegates from the...
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Tokyo stocks ended Tuesday trading lower after the US market declined overnight on grim earnings outlooks and the yen's advance against other currencies.
The Nikkei 225 Stock Average fell 272.13 points, or 3 per cent, to close at 8,809.3.
The broader Topix index of all first-section issues also dropped 27.29 points, or 2.98...
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China expects continuity but fears trade protectionism once Barack Obama takes office as US president, a leading scholar said on Wednesday.
"China's expectation of the new president is the same as the whole world's expectation, that is, to develop US finance and the economy away from the global financial crisis and economic...
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Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem Monday accused the US of "criminal and terrorist aggression" by launching a raid on civilians in which seven people, including three children, were killed.
Speaking at a news conference during a visit to London, al-Muallem urged the US government and the government of Iraq to...
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After a series of atrocities against Iraqi Christians in Mosul, around 400 Christians arrived in Syria to escape the harsh conditions of home, according to a statement by a Syrian refugee assistance organization Friday.
In the last few days, some 20 Christian families arrived in the city of Qamhley, which is close to the Syrian-Iraqi...
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A senior Chinese official was assaulted Tuesday by a group of pro-independence activists during a visit in the southern Taiwan city of Tainan, threatening to undermine high-level China-Taiwan talks planned for this month in Taipei.
Zhang Mingqing, vice chairman of the Association of Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), was...
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Guatemala and Taiwan on Wednesday agreed to strengthen bilateral ties by expanding trade and increasing exchange visits.
President Alvaro Colom of Guatemala on his four-day visit to Taiwan was expected to discuss bilateral relations with President Ma Ying-jeou and attend Taiwan's National Day celebrations.
"Cooperation from...
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A suicide bomber killed least 27 people, including an opposition politician and former military officer who spearheaded military operations against Tamil rebels, and injured 94 others in north-central Sri Lanka Monday, police said.
Retired Major General Janaka Perera was taking part in the opening of a political office of his party -...
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A court in southern Vietnam has sentenced a Chinese woman to death for circulating large amounts of counterfeit Vietnamese currency, the presiding judge said Wednesday.
Chinese citizen Guo Jin Hua, 65, conspired with 31-year-old Mai Van Truc and 35 other Vietnamese to smuggle nearly 5 billion dong (300,000 dollars) in fake bills from...
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Japanese real estate developer C's Create Co filed for bankruptcy Friday as the US mortgage and credit crisis plagued Japan's real estate sector.
The Tokyo-based firm said it had 11.44 billion yen (107.86 million dollars) in liabilities.
C's Create faced increased difficulties in procuring funds because of a global credit...
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South Korean medical professor Shin Young-Soo was nominated Monday to become the next regional director of the World Health Organization (WHO) for Asia and the Pacific.
The 64-year-old Shin bested two other nominees from Tonga and Malaysia during elections at the 59th Session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific in...
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Japan's financial sector has been plagued by a series of bankruptcies of real-estate firms, giving rise to worries about Japan's economic outlook and having an impact Thursday on the stock exchange.
While the world's second-largest economy has been spared the worst effects of the US mortgage and credit crisis, rising debt among its...
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An international human rights watchdog says immigrant maids in Lebanon are dying of "unnatural causes" at an alarming rate and called for an immediate investigation, local radios reported Wednesday.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said at least 95 migrants who worked as domestic servants died in Lebanon since January 2007, mostly...
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Nearly 25 per cent of the traditional Chinese medicine companies in Singapore have pledged not to sell products derived from endangered species, an animal protection group said Friday.
The shops from 189 companies are displaying a bright red and white label proclaiming, "We do not sell endangered species...
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The Taiwanese coast guard Monday arrested a Chinese man who swam to Taiwan from China in an attempt to seek political asylum, officers said.
The man, identified as Jai Wei, 40, told the coast guard he spent eight hours swimming from the Chinese coastal city of Xiamen to Lesser Kinmen, a tiny islet of Taiwan's offshore island of...
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