Saturday, September 11, 2010

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Obama backs Ground Zero mosque, slams Pastor Jones
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Washington, Sep 11: Amid the raging row over Quran burning and the Ground Zero mosque, President Barack Obama yet again backed controversial plans to build an Islamic centre in New York. Ahead of the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attack, United States ...
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Sheer khurma, Idi & good wishes to all
Times of India
A month of rigid fasting later, Shakhira Sheikh has hennaed her hands, stitched a stunning new salwaar kameez and is all set to celebrate on Saturday. Eid-ul-Fitr, most Muslims will tell you, is the treat awaited for from the very first day of Ramzan. ...
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PG&E carries nearly $1 billion in fire insurance
Los Angeles Times
But even that amount might not be enough to cover the utility's liabilities from the San Bruno natural gas pipeline explosion, especially if it is found negligent, analysts say. By Ronald D. White, Los Angeles Times PG&E Corp. told federal regulators ...
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Quran burning threat fuels protests
Aljazeera.net
One person reported killed near Afghan Nato base amid global demonstrations against US pastors' threat to burn Qurans. Thousands of Muslims around the world have taken to the streets to protest against threats by an obscure pastor in the United States ...
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Rudd affirms relationship with US
Sydney Morning Herald
Kevin Rudd has used his first public appearance since being appointed foreign minister to underline the importance of Australia's relationship with the United States. Mr Rudd, accompanied by US Ambassador Jeff Bleich, faced the media on the shore of ...
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Obama: Mideast talks may focus first on border
Washington Post
By Glenn Kessler President Obama on Friday signaled that Israeli and Palestinian negotiators might begin their peace talks by focusing on the potential border between the two states in order to overcome conflicts over Israeli settlement growth on the ...
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Iran balks at release of American woman
The Associated Press
TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian authorities abruptly halted plans to release an American woman Saturday after more than a year in jail with two friends, dashing their mothers' hopes and pointing to the internal rivalries within Iran's leadership. ...
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New economic face is still familiar
Washington Post
By Lori Montgomery President Obama named Austan Goolsbee to chair the White House Council of Economic Advisers on Friday, choosing one of his longest-serving confidants to help chart a course through a period of high unemployment and economic ...
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China cancels Japan talks, warns on sea dispute
Reuters
By Chris Buckley BEIJING (Reuters) - China called off planned talks with Japan over an undersea gas bed dispute and warned that worse repercussions may follow, state media said on Saturday, intensifying pressure in a rift between the two big neighbors. ...
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International structures condemn S.Russia market bombing
RIA Novosti
The United Nations Security Council and the European Parliament strongly condemned terrorist attack in South Russia's Vladikavkaz which left at least 17 people dead. A suicide bomber on a Volga car blew himself up at a market in Vladikavkaz, ...
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NATO denies firing mortars into Pakistan
Sydney Morning Herald
The US embassy in Islamabad has denied claims that NATO soldiers in Afghanistan fired mortars across the Pakistan border, killing at least three people. Officials in the militant-infested Pakistan region of North Waziristan on Friday claimed shells ...
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EU struggles to agree trade breaks for Pakistan
Moneycontrol.com
Six weeks after Pakistan was ravaged by floods, the European Union is still struggling to decide how to help beyond emergency aid, with a plan to offer lucrative trade concessions locked in dispute. Last month, the EU's foreign affairs chief, ...
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Kuwait Plans to Build Four Nuclear Reactors as It Seeks Alternative to Oil
Bloomberg
By Tsuyoshi Inajima and Yuji Okada - Fri Sep 10 03:21:52 GMT 2010 Ahmad Bishara, secretary general of the Kuwait National Nuclear Energy Committee. Photographer:Haruyoshi Ymaguchi/Bloomberg Ahmad Bishara, secretary general of the Kuwait National ...
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World Trade Center rising from the ashes of Ground Zero
BBC News
As ceremonies take place around the world to remember victims of the 9/11 attacks, around 2000 workers are building a huge development at Ground Zero in New York. Six skycrapers, a museum, two massive waterfalls where the twin towers once stood, ...
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Japan uncovers centenarian 'scam'
BBC News
More than 230000 elderly people in Japan who are listed as being aged 100 or over are unaccounted for, officials said following a nationwide inquiry. An audit of family registries was launched last month after the remains of the man thought to be ...
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WikiLeaks gearing up for next big spill on Iraq
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New York, Sep 11: After taking the world by a storm with the massive leak of classified US military Afghanistan war documents, Wikileaks is gearing up for its next spill with documents relating to the Iraq war. The whistleblowers' website, WikiLeaks, ...
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