Sunday, September 5, 2010

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Eta 'ceasefire' all too familiar
BBC News
By Sarah Rainsford BBC News, Madrid The Spanish government has held a firm line on the issue for some time: unless Eta, the armed Basque separatist group, renounces violence for good and disarms, there can be no negotiations. ...
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Netanyahu to cabinet: We must learn lessons from the past
Jerusalem Post
By JPOST.COM STAFF PM debriefs ministers on direct talks meetings in Washington; says "creative thinking" is key for progress in peace talks with Palestinians. Creative thinking and original solutions are key to the success of the peace process and the ...
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Christchurch in lockdown as aftershocks keep hitting
ABC Online
By Philippa McDonald About 500 buildings have been destroyed and the CBD remains closed while structural checks are carried out. (AFP : Barnaby Carter) Christchurch residents have been told to prepare for a hard grind ahead after Saturday's ...
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ABC Online
Russia's defense minister arrives in Dagestan
RIA Novosti
Russia's Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov arrived in Dagestan to order measures to help those injured in the suicide bombing in Buinaksk. A defense ministry's plane carrying a team of military doctors has left Moscow for Makhachkala, Col. ...
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RIA Novosti
Security stepped up at Kabul Bank
BBC News
Armed police in pick-up trucks have been stationed outside the main branch of Kabul Bank as customers continue to withdraw money amid fears the Afghan bank may collapse. Barbed wire has also been placed across the road to hold back the crowds. ...
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Philippine National Police head takes full responsibility over dealing with ...
Xinhua
MANILA, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- Philippine National Police chief Director General Jesus Verzosa on Sunday took full responsibility over the bungled operation during Aug. 23 hostage taking at the Quirino grandstand that left eight Hong Kong tourists and the ...
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Nine killed in New Zealand's worst plane crash
Indian Express
The scene of the crash where nine people died including an Australian, a German, an Englishman and an Irishman, in New Zealand. Nine people, including four foreigners were killed in New Zealand's worst air accident in 17 years, when a skydiving plane ...
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Tony Blair's scary journey
Telegraph.co.uk
By Andrew Gilligan It is somehow fitting that last Wednesday, the date the Iraq operation officially ended, was also publication day for a man whose own personal Iraq War will probably never be over. As the political classes pawed frantically through ...
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Relatives describe emotions as they awaited news of Chilean miners
CNN
By Karl Penhaul, CNN "My Claudio can't leave me like this. Claudio has to be alive," Claudio Yanez's wife recalls Copiapo, Chile (CNN) -- One month ago, the San Jose copper and gold mine in Chile caved in, trapping 33 miners far underground. ...
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Suicide Bomber Targets Baghdad Recruitment Center
Voice of America
The Iraqi military is blaming a suicide bomber for a deadly blast near a compound used to recruit new troops in Baghdad. Officials said the explosion killed two people and wounded eight others. Just a few weeks ago, a suicide bomber targeted the same ...
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N. Korea's leader set to begin power shift to son, experts say
Washington Post
By Chico Harlan TOKYO - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il will probably use an upcoming meeting of party elites to introduce his heir apparent, initiating the Stalinist dictatorship's second hereditary power transfer, US and South Korean experts and ...
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Taliban death threats hang over Afghan elections
AFP
KABUL — Taliban insurgents appear to be making good on threats to kill candidates in Afghanistan's parliamentary elections, adding a grim dimension to the ambitions of political hopefuls in the war-torn country. In recent weeks, three candidates and at ...
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AFP
Nepal Maoists lose PM's race, blame India
Times of India
KATHMANDU: Nepal's opposition Maoist party's manoeuvre to divide the regional parties and ride to power again on their support backfired badly on Sunday when their chairman and former prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda failed to win the prime ...
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Adult services censored on Craigslist
CNN
By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- Online classified service Craigslist's decision to censor its adult services section could be a model for other websites, a leader in the fight against prostitution ads said Saturday. "This step is very much in the right ...
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UPS pilots 'struggled to land' with smoke-filled cockpit
AFP
DUBAI — The cockpit of a United Parcel Service 747 cargo plane filled with smoke as pilots fought to maintain altitude and return to Dubai, where the plane crashed and both crew members died, a civil aviation statement said on Sunday. ...
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AFP
Iran Stoning Woman 'Faces 99 Lashes'
Sky News
An Iranian woman set to be stoned to death for adultery is facing 99 lashes for a photograph allegedly of her without a headscarf, her son has said. Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani has been the subject of international outcry over her death sentence. ...
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Sky News
Media see close fight for Japan leadership
Financial Times
By Mure Dickie in Tokyo Naoto Kan, Japan's prime minister, is locked in an extremely close race with ruling Democratic party challenger Ichiro Ozawa, according to media surveys of the party members that will decide this month's DPJ leadership election. ...
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