3 Aussie activists board Japanese whaling vessel
(AP)
08.01.2012 7:59 0 views 0 comments
AP - Three anti-whaling activists boarded a Japanese vessel off southwest Australia on Sunday as part of a campaign to stop whale hunting in Antarctic waters.
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Haiti 2 years later: Half a million still in camps
(AP)
08.01.2012 6:00 2 views 0 comments
AP - Days after the earthquake killed his little girl and destroyed much of his house, Meristin Florival moved his family into a makeshift tent on a hill in the Haitian capital and called it home. Two years later they're still there, living without drains, running water or electricity.
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North Korea to top agenda at Lee-Hu summit in China
(Reuters)
08.01.2012 5:58 0 views 0 comments
Reuters - South Korean President Lee Myung-bak will this week ask China's leaders to use their influence to lean on North Korea to show restraint amid a delicate transition to a new leadership. Read more »
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Activists board Japanese whaling vessel: Sea Shepherd
(Reuters)
08.01.2012 3:19 1 views 0 comments
Reuters - Three Australian environmental activists boarded a Japanese whaling vessel Sunday to protest against Japan's annual whale cull in the Antarctic, anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd said in a statement. Read more »
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U.S. concerned about Bahrain activist, urges probe
(Reuters)
08.01.2012 2:12 2 views 0 comments
Reuters - The United States called on its ally Bahrain on Saturday to investigate the case of a prominent Bahraini human rights activist who the opposition says was beaten by security forces. Read more »
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Opposition supporters rally in Bahrain despite ban
(AP)
08.01.2012 1:32 0 views 0 comments
AP - Anti-government protesters converged on the headquarters of Bahrain's main opposition party Saturday, defying a government ban on the gathering and pressing ahead with their campaign for greater political and civil rights for the nation's Shiite Muslims. Read more »
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Stricken cargo ship breaking up on reef off New Zealand
(Reuters)
08.01.2012 0:43 0 views 0 comments
Reuters - A stricken container ship wedged on a reef off a popular New Zealand holiday spot has broken up but is still on the reef after running aground three months ago, maritime authorities said on Sunday. Read more »
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Arab ministers to discuss "toothless" Syria mission
(Reuters)
08.01.2012 0:31 0 views 0 comments
Reuters - Arab League foreign ministers meet on Sunday to discuss whether to ask the U.N. to help their mission in Syria, which has failed to end a 10-month-old crackdown on unrest that has killed thousands.
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End of decades of Nigeria cheap gas fuels unrest
(AP)
07.01.2012 23:42 0 views 0 comments
AP - For decades, Nigerians have expected low gasoline prices, one of the few perks seen by residents of an oil-rich nation where corruption siphons billions. Now, that long-cherished benefit has ended, more than doubling prices and fueling a planned nationwide strike by angry labor unions.
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Five severed heads found in northern Mexican city
(Reuters)
07.01.2012 23:28 0 views 0 comments
Reuters - Mexican police in the northern city of Torreon found the severed heads of five people killed in a suspected outbreak of drug gang violence. Read more »
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Protesters march for ETA prisoners in north Spain
(AP)
07.01.2012 21:09 3 views 0 comments
AP - Tens of thousands of protesters filled the streets of downtown Bilbao late Saturday to call for an amnesty that would allow ETA prisoners to serve out the remainder of their sentences in the Basque region, rather than in jails further afield.
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Claim and Counterclaim: Who Is Bombing Damascus?
(Time.com)
07.01.2012 6:15 3 views 0 comments
Time.com - The regime says terrorists are behind the attacks (and by extension the protests); the opposition claims the incidents are staged by the government Read more »
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Waiting for the Sentence: Joran van der Sloot's Slow Road to Justice
(Time.com)
07.01.2012 6:15 1 views 0 comments
Time.com - The main suspect in the Natalee Holloway case is about to find out his fate in the death of a young Peruvian woman Read more »
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Body found in Ivory Coast may be missing reporter
(Reuters)
06.01.2012 23:19 1 views 0 comments
Reuters - Investigators in Ivory Coast have unearthed a body which they say may belong to Franco-Canadian journalist Guy-Andre Kieffer, who went missing in country's economic capital Abidjan in 2004, his brother told France 3 television on Friday. Read more »
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China's new European trade hub: An Irish town of 18,000
(The Christian Science Monitor)
06.01.2012 18:32 0 views 0 comments
The Christian Science Monitor - As China's government readies to buy up European infrastructure, a trade hub slated for the Irish midlands could prove a showcase for the world's second-largest economy in a struggling continent and provide much needed jobs in debt-addled Ireland. Read more »
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What the execution of 15 kidnapped Pakistani soldiers means
(The Christian Science Monitor)
06.01.2012 17:21 2 views 0 comments
The Christian Science Monitor - Islamist militants killed 15 captive soldiers Thursday in an attack, dealing a blow for tentative peace talks between the government and the Pakistani Taliban. Read more »
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East Nigeria clashes kill at least 50: state government
(Reuters)
31.12.2011 21:48 0 views 0 comments
Reuters - Clashes between rival ethnic groups in eastern Nigeria's Ebonyi state on Saturday killed at least 50 people, the state government spokesman said, and police said mobile units had been sent to the state to quell the violence. Read more »
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Mexico gang seen ramping up meth in Guatemala
(AP)
31.12.2011 21:45 1 views 0 comments
AP - Mexico's powerful Sinaloa drug cartel appears to be extending its massive production of methamphetamine into neighboring Guatemala, as hundreds of tons of precursor chemicals stream into the Central American nation.
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Sarkozy vows reforms in austere New Year's speech
(Reuters)
31.12.2011 21:43 0 views 0 comments
Reuters - French President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged in a grave New Year's message to find ways to pull the economy out of stagnation in the four months left before a presidential election and vowed no further public spending cuts. Read more »
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Israeli ultra-Orthodox rally for gender separation
(AP)
31.12.2011 21:13 0 views 0 comments
AP - Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews are protesting in Jerusalem to defend their contentious effort to ban the mixing of the sexes on buses, sidewalks and other public spaces. Read more »
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