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Gaza City is dark after officials shut down power plant

date: 2008-11-14 00:50:42

: Gaza City was dark Thursday evening after a day of violence and retribution, raising the prospect of an end to a truce that has stopped most Israeli-Palestinian violence in and around the seaside territory for five months. Officials in Gaza shut down the territory's only power plant, ...

source: article.wn.com

Top Italy G8 riot police cleared

date: 2008-11-14 00:21:50

The top police officials charged in connection with the handling of G8 summit riots in Italy in 2001 are cleared.

source: news.bbc.co.uk

Lockerbie bomber awaits bail fate

date: 2008-11-14 00:14:22

Judges are to announce whether the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing can be released for medical reasons.

source: news.bbc.co.uk

Erwin James visits a high security prison in Norway

date: 2008-11-14 00:06:02

Erwin James visits Skien high security prison in southern Norway, and finds that behind the forbidding walls rehabilitation and education are key

source: www.guardian.co.uk

Bush defends free-market system

date: 2008-11-13 21:17:16

US President Bush admits the financial system needs reform but insists the credit crisis was not a failure of the free-market.

source: news.bbc.co.uk

One thing should stay the same

date: 2008-11-13 18:49:27

Robert Gates should remain the US defence secretary – at least while Barack Obama establishes himself The election of Barack Obama as president provides a golden opportunity for Democrats to close the national security credibility gap that has troubled their party since the Vietnam war. The ...

source: article.wn.com

U.S. rejects scrapping missile defense plans

date: 2008-11-13 18:49:27

Posted  | Comment  | Recommend | | | TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has rejected a Russian suggestion that both countries scrap plans to place missile systems in Eastern Europe. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in a televised interview ...

source: article.wn.com

Palin calls for Republican rally

date: 2008-11-13 17:48:49

Defeated Republican running mate Sarah Palin urges her party to rebuild after its bruising defeat in the US presidential vote.

source: news.bbc.co.uk

William Hague: Europe is showing weakness in trade talks with Russia

date: 2008-11-13 17:30:00

William Hague: By agreeing to trade talks with Russia before it observes the terms of the Georgia peace deal, Europe is enfeebling itself

source: www.guardian.co.uk

Sarkozy scorns Bush over Georgia

date: 2008-11-13 17:17:11

French President Nicolas Sarkozy accuses George Bush of failing to take the initiative over the summer conflict in Georgia.

source: news.bbc.co.uk

VHP announces nationwide agitation after Malegaon arrests

date: 2008-11-13 15:48:45

13 Nov 2008, 1712 hrs IST,PTI             JAMMU: The VHP on Thursday announced a countrywide agitation against the arrest of religious leaders in Malegaon blast case, accusing the UPA of a hatching a conspiracy to implicate "nationalist organisations and Hindu seers" ...

source: article.wn.com

Iraqi Soldier Fires On Troops

date: 2008-11-13 15:48:45

BAGHDAD - An Iraqi soldier Wednesday sprayed automatic weapons fire at U.S. soldiers at an Iraqi military base in Mosul, killing two and wounding six before he died in a hail of bullets, a U.S. general said. In Baghdad,...

source: article.wn.com

Cellar father faces murder charge

date: 2008-11-13 14:26:22

The Austrian who allegedly imprisoned and abused his daughter for 24 years is charged with killing one of their children.

source: news.bbc.co.uk

Conrad Black in jail plea to Bush

date: 2008-11-21 20:12:57

Ex-media tycoon Conrad Black is appealing to US President George W Bush for clemency over his prison sentence for fraud.

source: news.bbc.co.uk

How to get out of the mess in Afghanistan

date: 2008-11-21 19:44:29

Afghanistan's swift unraveling has created new - and in some quarters unrealistic - enthusiasm for talks with the Taliban. We agree that there should be a serious effort to win over lower-level militants and tribal leaders - people who are ...

source: article.wn.com

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Cholera outbreak strikes Zimbabwe

date: 2008-11-21 18:18:25

The death toll from a cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe nears 300 as the water and sanitation situation "worsens", the UN says.

source: news.bbc.co.uk

Arroyo husband falls ill on plane

date: 2008-11-21 16:50:57

The husband of Philippines President Gloria Arroyo is taken ill on a plane, forcing a diversion to Japan.

source: news.bbc.co.uk

Imprisoned Human Rights Observers Start Hunger Strike In Israel

date: 2008-11-21 16:44:03

Massiyahu Prison, Lida, Israel (20 November, 2008) - Three Human Rights Observers (HRO) with the International Solidarity Movement will begin a hunger strike tomorrow in protest over their illegal detention by Israel. The three HROs, Darlene Wallach ...

source: article.wn.com


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China startled by force of crisis

date: 2008-11-13 12:54:12

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao says the effects of the economic crisis on China have been worse than expected.

source: news.bbc.co.uk

Afghans, US soldier killed in blast

date: 2008-11-13 12:46:54

Nov 13, 2008 7:37 PM Twenty Afghan civilians and a US soldier were killed in a suicide attack in eastern Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan, a spokesman for the US military said....

source: article.wn.com

Afghan suicide attack kills eight

date: 2008-11-13 12:29:12

Seven civilians and a US soldier die in a suicide car bomb attack on a US convoy in eastern Afghanistan, Afghan officials say.

source: news.bbc.co.uk

White tigers maul zoo worker to death

date: 2008-11-13 11:39:28

Three 220-pound Bengal tigers have killed a zoo cleaner in Singapore

source: www.guardian.co.uk

Israel delays Gaza aid supplies

date: 2008-11-13 11:37:48

Israel authorises the entry to Gaza of 30 lorries carrying humanitarian supplies, but deliveries are delayed.

source: news.bbc.co.uk

Kaesong Firms Worry About Closure

date: 2008-11-13 09:46:00

South Korean companies in the joint-Korean Kaesong Industrial Complex are worried Wednesday’s threat by the North to cut off cross-border transport will mean they have to shut down production. A staffer ...

source: article.wn.com

Charges over Russian sub disaster

date: 2008-11-13 08:45:45

A sailor is charged with setting off a gas firefighting system, killing 20 people on a Russian submarine.

source: news.bbc.co.uk

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