Tuesday, September 7, 2010

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Bloomberg Defends Pastor's Right to Burn Quran
Wall Street Journal
By MICHAEL HOWARD SAUL New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended on Tuesday a Florida pastor's right to burn copies of the Quran during a public demonstration on the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. ...
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Minority government gridlock good for the ALP
ABC Online
Nobody thought the Gillard team could come together as it did in the last two weeks. Julia Gillard herself kept largely out of the public eye; distant and, dare I say it, prime ministerial. The leaks stopped after Kevin Rudd was brought back inside the ...
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Sarkozy, labor unions face showdown over pension reform
Xinhua
PARIS, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- French labor unions leading a nationwide strike against retirement reform hailed on Tuesday the success of the largest demonstration aimed at forcing the government to bow to the streets' call. ...
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Iran's Shadow Games
Wall Street Journal
Another International Atomic Energy Agency report serves up more data on Iran's atomic progress. Ho-hum. So, barring an epiphany of seriousness by the so-called international community, one of these days Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will usher his regime into ...
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Obama to unveil more stimulus, tax breaks for business
Washington Post
With Democrats facing dismal prospects in the November elections, the party is weighing President Barack Obama's role in the midterms. By Lori Montgomery President Obama plans Wednesday to officially unveil more than $180 billion in fresh spending and ...
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Washington Post
Australia leads on foreign students
Sydney Morning Herald
AUSTRALIA has the highest proportion of international students enrolled in its tertiary institutions in the world, according to an international study. The OECD's Education at a Glance report, released last night, found one in five students in tertiary ...
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'Devastatingly vicious' aftershock rocks Christchurch
Sydney Morning Herald
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key stands in front of a destroyed building in Kaiapoi. Photo: AP The state of emergency in earthquake-stricken Christchurch has been extended for a further seven days after a violent aftershock this morning. ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Europe is Acting as Though it
Wall Street Journal
By IAIN MARTIN If José Manuel Barroso was hoping to emulate successive presidents of the United States with his first "state of the union" address to the European Parliament on Tuesday, he will have been disappointed. Typically, in Washington ...
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21 killed, over 40 injured in suicide attack in Pak
IBNLive.com
PTI | 11:09 PM,Sep 07,2010 A Muhammad Peshawar, Sep 7 (PTI) A suicide bomber struck at a police residential colony, killing at least 21 people, including women and children, and injuring over 40 others, at Kohat in northwest Pakistan today. ...
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BBC World Service broadcasts in Burma face axe
The Guardian
The BBC is locked in talks with the government over drastic cuts to the World Service budget which could force it to withdraw from Burma and several other countries. The Foreign Office, which funds the World Service through an annual £272m grant, ...
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The Guardian
Icelandic WikiLeaks associate says founder should step aside
AFP
REYKJAVIK — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who faces rape allegations in Sweden, should step aside as a spokesman for the whistleblower website, an Icelandic parliamentarian and close associate of the site said Tuesday. ...
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AFP
Iraqi Treasures Return, but Questions Remain
New York Times
A statue is lifted out of its protective case as hundreds of archeological treasures were brought back to Baghdad by the Iraqi Foreign Ministry from the United States. By STEVEN LEE MYERS BAGHDAD — Iraq announced on Tuesday the return of hundreds of ...
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New York Times
In Colombia, world's smallest man clings to short-lived title
AFP
BOGOTA — It was only this week that Colombia's pint-sized Edward Nino was on top of the world, named the Guinness Book's smallest man on the planet. Now a tiny Nepalese teen is about to torpedo his low-rise glory. Nino, 24, stands 70.21 cm (27.64 in) ...
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AFP
Conservatives craft plans to thwart human smugglers
Globe and Mail
Tamil asylum-seekers are escorted of their vessel by Canadian border agents after MV Sun Sea docked at CFB Esquimalt, near Victoria, on Aug. 13, 2010. John Lehmann/The Globe and Mail Ottawa — From Wednesday's Globe and Mail Published on Tuesday, Sep. ...
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Globe and Mail
UN warns Nepal over political peace mission
Sify
The United Nations on Tuesday threatened to end its political mission in Nepal unless the warring political parties make a greater effort to end the country's deadlock. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon a withdrawal would be considered if Nepal did not ...
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Japan ruling party kingpin vows to stay on even if indicted
AFP
TOKYO — Ruling party kingpin Ichiro Ozawa, seeking to become Japan's new prime minister, said Tuesday he would not step down even if a judicial review panel orders his indictment in a political funds scandal. Ozawa, vying with Prime Minister Naoto Kan ...
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AFP
'PPP govt to complete term'
Daily Times
KARACHI: The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) government would complete its full constitutional term and was "not afraid of survey polls carried out by private organisations," said Federal Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Dr Babar Awan at a news ...
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China Strikes Positive Note in Talks With US
Wall Street Journal
BEIJING—Chinese leaders called for enhanced dialogue and cooperation with the US in meetings with visiting White House officials, signaling Beijing's concern that tensions over currency and other issues are again threatening ties between the world's ...
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Japan reporter tricked captors into using Twitter
The Associated Press
TOKYO — A Japanese journalist held hostage in Afghanistan for five months managed to send out a message via Twitter that he was alive when his captors asked him how to use a cell phone. Just days before he was freed, Kosuke Tsuneoka said one of the ...
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