Tuesday, September 28, 2010

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Segway tycoon Jimi Heselden dies in cliff plunge on one of his own scooters
Daily Mail
By Chris Brooke The multi-millionaire owner of the company that makes Segway motorised scooters has died in a freak accident while riding one of his vehicles. Jimi Heselden, 62, was found dead in a river after plunging 80 feet over a limestone cliff ...
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Daily Mail
Military presence never far in North Korea
AFP
PYONGYANG — Army trucks are among the few vehicles on the streets of Pyongyang, a constant reminder of leader Kim Jong-Il's "military-first" regime in communist North Korea. Small green Jeep-like vehicles and military transport trucks move about ...
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AFP
Dismissed ex-mayor Luzhkov absent from meeting
RIA Novosti
Moscow's ex-mayor Yury Luzhkov, who was fired on Tuesday for losing the trust of the Russian president, did not attend a City Hall meeting chaired by newly-appointed acting mayor Vladimir Resin. President Dmitry Medvedev sacked Luzhkov, who had run the ...
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RIA Novosti
Israel warship approaches Gaza-bound activist boat
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — The captain of a catamaran carrying Jewish activists toward the blockaded Gaza Strip says an Israeli warship is approaching the vessel. Capt. Glynn Secker says his boat is about 25 miles (40 kilometers) from Gaza. Secker says he expects the ...
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Abbas wants settlement moratorium for talks
AFP
PARIS — Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas said Tuesday that Israel should impose a new moratorium on settlement building in the occupied West Bank for as long as peace talks are continuing. Speaking in an interview with the French radio station Europe 1 ...
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Pakistani government condemns NATO airstrikes
Washington Post
By Ernesto Londono and Haq Nawaz Khan JALALABAD, AFGHANISTAN - The Pakistani government on Monday strongly condemned a series of airstrikes on Pakistani soil, including two that NATO officials said killed about 55 suspected insurgents over the weekend. ...
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Chinese Ban on Rare-Earth Exports Would Hurt Japan's Economy, Kaieda Says
Bloomberg
By Keiko Ujikane and Jarrett Banks - Tue Sep 28 06:53:23 GMT 2010 China's "de facto" ban on exports to Japan of rare earths, a group of 17 metals used in weapons, hybrid vehicles and laptop computers, may have a "big impact" on Japan's economy, ...
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Australia's new parliament sworn-in
The Hindu
PTI AP Australian Cabinet Ministers pose with Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Governor General Quentin Bryce after the swearing in ceremony in Canberra, Australia. The members of Australia's 43rd parliament were on Tuesday sworn-in Canberra by Chief ...
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The Hindu
Obama says DC schools not on par with Sidwell
Washington Post
By Nick Anderson and Bill Turque President Obama reopened Monday what is often a sore subject in Washington, saying that his daughters could not obtain from DC public schools the academic experience they receive at the private Sidwell Friends School. ...
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Iran struggling to contain 'foreign-made' computer worm
Washington Post
By Thomas Erdbrink and Ellen Nakashima TEHRAN - Iran suspects that a foreign organization or nation designed "Stuxnet," a quickly mutating computer worm that has been infiltrating industrial computer systems in the Islamic republic, a high-ranking ...
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UN head backs Burma election call
BBC News
Burma's upcoming elections will not be credible without the release of political prisoners, including democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said. Mr Ban was speaking after a ministerial meeting in New York of the ...
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Gilani and co haven't paid tax for 5 yrs
Times of India
ISLAMABAD: Even as Pakistan is reeling under devastation caused by unprecedented floods that has cost the country's economy a whopping $43 billion, a report by a newspaper on Monday said PM Yousaf Raza Gilani and 25 of his cabinet members have not paid ...
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Nigeria parl't body accepts need for poll delay
Reuters Africa
ABUJA (Reuters) - A Nigerian joint parliamentary committee said on Monday it had accepted there was a need to delay January's elections, making a three-month postponement of the vote to April almost certain. The Independent National Electoral ...
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World Tourism Day observed
Express Buzz
KOCHI: The World Tourism Day was celebrated here on Monday, with programmes centering on this year's theme, 'Tourism and Biodiversity.' The District Tourism Promotion Council's programmes were held at the Government Guest House. ...
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EU moves towards new sanctions on budget rule-breakers
Reuters
By Julien Toyer and Marcin Grajewski BRUSSELS, Sept 27 (Reuters) - European Union ministers backed tougher sanctions on Monday for euro zone budget rule-breakers and disciplinary steps for countries running high debts, but clashed over how automatic ...
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US doesn't want to arm Pak against India, Zardari was told
Times of India
WASHINGTON: Although US plans of punitive strikes against Pakistan terror camps are linked to another 9/11 type attack on US, it evidently evolved after the 26/11 Mumbai carnage, when then President Bush called his national security team into the Oval ...
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Nepal court sentences Sobhraj's 'wife', 'mother-in-law' to jail
Times of India
KATHMANDU: She claimed to have tied the knot with "Bikini Killer" Charles Sobhraj for better or worse during a headline-hitting romance. But 23-year-old Nihita Biswas realised how bad and black things were only on Monday when Nepal's Supreme Court ...
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