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| Iran: Woman's stoning sentence on hold CNN By the CNN Wire Staff Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- Iran has put the stoning sentence of a woman convicted of adultery and murder "on hold,"Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told state-run Press TV on Wednesday. While the statement did not ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Abbott offered a slice of power Sydney Morning Herald THE Greens and the independents have offered Tony Abbott the opportunity to help govern from opposition, saying they would pass any policies with which they agreed, including paid parental leave, whether Labor liked it or not. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| CFTD Union Calls For More French Protests Vs Pension Reform Wall Street Journal PARIS (Dow Jones)--France's CFTD center-left trade union Wednesday called for fresh nationwide protests against president Nicolas Sarkozy's reform of the state pension system. It called Tuesday's demonstrations which saw between 1 million and 2.5 ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 10 militants killed in US drone strike in northwest Pak Indian Express Stepping up attacks on Taliban hideouts on the Af-Pak border, a US drone on Wednesday fired missiles at a house in the restive tribal belt in northwest Pakistan, killing 10 militants and injuring several others. Two missiles were fired at a suspected ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Cambridge knocks Harvard off top of university table BBC News By Katherine Sellgren BBC News education reporter Cambridge University has come top of an international university rankings table, knocking Harvard off top spot. The US university, which had topped the rankings by careers advice company QS since 2004, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Beijing opens up to Burma as poll nears The Australian BEIJING: Burma's junta leader, Than Shwe, was expected to meet Chinese President Hu Jintao last night, two months ahead of elections condemned in the West as a sham. General Than Shwe arrived in China this week for a four-day visit that was expected to ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Book Discusses BP Report on Causes of Gulf Oil Spill: Video Bloomberg Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Kevin Book, managing director at ClearView Energy Partners LLC, discusses the report by BP Plc on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and the outlook for offshore drilling. BP faulted its own engineers for a fatal drilling disaster that ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Witness Implicates Prominent Family in Philippine Massacre Voice of America Photo: AP Testimony has begun in the trial of a prominent Philippine politician accused in last year's massacre of 57 people, including 30 journalists. A former house servant of Andal Ampatuan told the court Wednesday his boss had gathered his children ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Five of family killed in Kohat blast in Pakistan Sify Five members of a family were among the 18 victims of Tuesday's blast targeting family quarters in police lines in Kohat city of northwest Pakistan. Zakran Ali, a police constable, was about to break his fast with his wife and three children when an ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Nigeria Says 732 Inmates Freed in Attack on Prison Voice of America Nigerian officials said Wednesday at least 732 inmates - including members of a suspected radical Islamic sect - escaped a northern prison during an attack by gunmen. The state police commissioner says four people were killed when gunmen opened fire on ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Euro MPs urge EU action to protect Roma BBC News Euro MPs have accused the European Commission of failing to protect Roma (Gypsies) deported from France. The EU Justice Commissioner, Viviane Reding, told the European Parliament on Tuesday that she had asked France for more information about its ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Diplomacy: Talking the talk Jerusalem Post By HERB KEINON Uttering terms like 'West Bank,' which he says rarely in public, and Palestinian 'sovereignty,' a term he almost never uses, our PM is talking a new course. Politicians and pundits both here and abroad were left scratching their heads ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Data Show German Economic Juggernaut Slowing New York Times By REUTERS BERLIN — A surprise fall in exports and near-zero growth in industry output in July suggested on Wednesday that the German industrial juggernaut may slow somewhat after building up record momentum earlier this year. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Russian airliner lands in forest, no one hurt The Associated Press MOSCOW — Russian aviation investigators have launched a probe into the emergency landing of a passenger jet that rolled into a forest without hurting anyone. The Tupolev Tu-154 airliner was carrying 72 passengers and 9 crew when it suffered an ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Organutan grows so fat that rescue center takes her in CNN By the CNN Wire Staff Oshine the orangutan has been put on a strict diet of fruit and vegetables in a bid to lose weight. "We have a long way to go, she is obese!" the center tweets London, England (CNN) -- A South African has become so fat on her diet ... See all stories on this topic » |
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