Sunday, September 19, 2010

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Factbox: Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt
Reuters
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Fredrik Reinfeldt seems sure to have won re-election as Swedish prime minister in Sunday's election. While his four-party Alliance did not win a parliamentary majority, it is the biggest bloc and Reinfeldt has said he was prepared ...
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Taiwan's Major Technology Firms Not Affected By Typhoon Fanapi
Wall Street Journal
TAIPEI (Dow Jones)--Major technology companies including chip foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSM) and panel maker AU Optronics Corp. (2409.TW) said Monday their operations weren't impacted by Typhoon Fanapi, which made landfall near ...
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China and Japan Escalate Standoff Over Fishing Captain
New York Times
By MARTIN FACKLER and IAN JOHNSON TOKYO — What started nearly two weeks ago with the Japanese Coast Guard's arrest of a Chinese trawler captain in disputed waters has snowballed into a heated diplomatic standoff between China and Japan, ...
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Thai 'Red Shirts' mark 2006 coup
Aljazeera.net
Thousands of red-shirted anti-government protesters rally in Bangkok despite ongoing state of emergency. Thai anti-government protesters have defied an ongoing state of emergency to stage a major demonstration in central Bangkok to mark the anniversary ...
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Aljazeera.net
UN Holds High Level Meeting on Pakistan, Few New Contributions
Voice of America
Photo: AP US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, is greeted by Andrew Mitchell, right, International Development Secretary of United Kingdom at the UN Headquarters Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010. A high-level meeting on Pakistan's flood crisis ...
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Week before the freeze end, US tries to broker compromise
Jerusalem Post
By HERB KEINON Netanyahu's chief negotiator is expected to travel to the US on Monday for meetings with chief PA negotiator Saeb Erekat. With the end of the 10- month settlement moratorium only a week away, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are ...
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String of bomb attacks in Baghdad kill 32
Xinhua
by Jamal Hashem BAGHDAD, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- A series of bomb attacks, including a twin massive car bombings, in Baghdad on Sunday killed 32 people and wounded 119 others. Two deadly car bomb explosions, almost simultaneously, ripped through Baghdad ...
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In pictures
BBC News
Pope Benedict XVI has said goodbye to the UK after his four-day state visit. Before climbing the steps to the papal plane, he thanked all those who had made him feel so welcome. David Cameron told the Pope he had made the country "sit up and think" ...
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Syria has received Russian missiles, diplomats say
Ha'aretz
By Avi Issacharoff and Barak Ravid Syria has already received shipments of advanced surface-to-sea and sea-to-sea missiles from Russia, Western diplomats said yesterday. The weapons, they said, reached the Syrian Army at some point in the last few ...
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Kanishka bomb-maker Reyat found guilty of perjury
The Hindu
TORONTO: Inderjit Singh Reyat, the sole person convicted in the 1985 bombing of Air India's Kanishka flight that killed 329 people, has been found guilty of perjury by a Canadian court for lying under oath during the trial of the world's deadliest ...
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Chile launches new plan to rescue trapped miners
Xinhua
SANTIAGO, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- Chilean President Sebastian Pinera said a new drill started to carve a third rescue tunnel to save miners trapped in a copper mine in northern Chile since Aug. 5.az` The so-called Plan C for rescuing the 33 miners trapped ...
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Xinhua
22 rebels killed in Colombia
Hindustan Times
At least 22 leftist rebels were killed in an operation by the police in southern Colombia, officials said. The guerrillas of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) were killed in a coordinated operation early Sunday by the National Police with ...
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* Prime minister offers to make way for fellow legislators willing to lead
Daily Times
LAHORE: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Sunday warned that any change effected by nonpolitical elements would be dangerous, but saw no harm in democratic intervention to better things. Talking to senior journalists and columnists at his residence ...
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As November nears, voters turn backs on both parties
Washington Post
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Wednesday that he is confident that Democrats will retain control of Congress following November's election. By Chris Cillizza What happens if they hold an election in which voters don't like either of ...
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Washington Post
Award in hand, crusader son remembers King Jr & Gandhi
Indian Express
Martin Luther King III, eldest son of Martin Luther King Jr, was conferred the Ramakrishna Bajaj Memorial Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Promotion of Human Rights on Sunday at the 26th Priyadarshini Academy Global Awards. ...
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