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 FBI called in on Wikileaks issue
Indonesia News.Net
The FBI has been asked to look into how Wikileaks got hold of more than 90,000 classified US military documents.  Pakistan poll finds Taliban support
Indonesia News.Net
The US polling group, Pew Research Centre, has done a survey in Pakistan to determine how Pakistanis view the Taliban and other terrorist groups. Police release video of brutal Bx. stab
New York Post
Police today released video of a brutal stabbing in the Bronx that left an 18-year-old girl dead and another man wounded. In the video, the assailant is seen exiting a black Lincoln Town Car and pulli... From Germany to Radicalism for Young Muslims
International Herald Tribune
Germany last year, she asked her father, “Daddy, what can I bring you from my journey?” He looked up from his book and answered, “Some perfumed oil.” “Will do,” she... Deadly German Stampede Gets Its Villain
International Herald Tribune
Angela Merkel , was to interrupt her vacation to attend the service. But the mayor of Duisburg, Adolf Sauerland, won’t be present. Mr. Sauerland, who has been in charge of this aging industrial... Barak, Ban Ki-moon 'discuss flotilla'
Jerusalem Post
UNITED NATIONS — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak discussed the Security Council's demand for an international investigation of Israel's deadly commando raid on ... HUMAN RIGHTS-CHILE: Unfinished Business
IPS
SANTIAGO, Jul 30, 2010 (IPS) - The controversial proposal to pardon some convicts in Chile for humanitarian reasons, which was put forward by the Catholic Church and partially taken up by President Se... Canada intercepts two Russian bombers near Arctic
Channel News Asia
MONTREAL: Canadian military jets intercepted two Russian bombers this week as they approached Canadian airspace near the Arctic, the defence ministry said on Friday. "The two Russian TU-95 bombers hav... Israeli warplanes hit Gaza after rocket attack
Channel News Asia
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Israeli warplanes fired missiles at several targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday wounding eight people, witnesses and medics said after a rocket fired from the strip... Iranian with stoning sentence 'tormented'
New Zealand Herald
LONDON - An Iranian woman whose sentence of death by stoning was lifted earlier this month says she's grateful for the international support she's received, but remains heartbroken at the separation f... We will bite them on the beaches: famous dentures sold
New Zealand Herald
LONDON: A partial set of dentures used by former British wartime leader Winston Churchill - described as the teeth that saved the world - sold at auction for £15,200 ($23,723). The upper dentures, on... LA building explosion kills one
New Zealand Herald
LOS ANGELES - Fire officials are now saying only one person died and a second is in critical condition after an explosion that destroyed part of an industrial building in South Los Angeles. A tampere... California: $2.4b cannabis bust
New Zealand Herald
FRESNO: Nearly 100 people have been arrested in an ongoing sweep of cannabis-growing operations that have netted more than US$1.7 billion ($2.4 billion) worth of the drug in California's Sierra Nevada... Obama's daytime TV charm offensive
New Zealand Herald
Barack Obama became the first sitting President to appear on a daytime television chat show as he attempted to reach out to ordinary Americans yesterday after a slump in his opinion poll ratings. Oba... Plan to plug oil well ahead of schedule
New Zealand Herald
The Transocean Development Driller III, foreground, which is drilling the primary relief well, and the Helix Q4000, background, are seen at the Deepwater Horizon oil spill site in the Gulf of Mexico, ... Soldiers are strangers in their homeland
New Zealand Herald
The Afghan soldiers look like they belong. They wear beards, carry Soviet-era rifles and stride confidently through fields of wheat, melons and okra. In one village, a young girl brings them a jug of... Woman saves her own life by losing 200 pounds
USA Today
Results came almost immediately. Her doctor OK'd her for more strenuous exercise in mid-February, and she joined a women's-only gym. She weighed in at 300 pounds exactly. She'd lost at least 25 pounds... Kids who get mom's affection less stressed as adults
USA Today
The more a mother showers her infant child with warmth and affection, the less anxiety, hostility and general distress the child will ultimately grow up to harbor as an adult, new research indicates. Former Swedish police chief is jailed for rape
The Independent
A former chief constable in Sweden, who was known for lecturing on gender equality and sexual harassment, has been jailed for six and-a-half years for rape and other sex crimes. Goran Lindberg, forme... 25 die as forest fires spread out of control in Russia
The Independent
Forest fires burned across Russia yesterday, destroying villages, surrounding one southern city and killing at least 25 people, including three firefighters. The fires have spread quickly across mo... Mexican drug lord killed in gun battle with army
The Independent
Soldiers killed a top leader of the Sinaloa cartel in a raid on his hideout, dealing the biggest blow yet to Mexico's most powerful drug gang since President Felipe Calderon launched a military offens... Priest held over cocaine stash
The Independent
The Aymara priest who blessed the Bolivian President Evo Morales at his inauguration ceremony has been arrested in possession of 240kg of cocaine. Police found a cocaine laboratory in the home of the... Three shot dead in Kashmir violence
The Independent
Paramilitary soldiers fired on thousands of demonstrators in Kashmir yesterday, killing three men and wounding at least 80 others, as protests against Indian rule spread across the disputed region. T... Floods in Pakistan kill more than 400 people
The Independent
The death toll from three days of flooding in Pakistan reached at least 430 yesterday, as rains bloated rivers, submerged villages, and triggered landslides. Pakistani TV showed striking images of pe... Mugabe's sister afforded hero status in death
The Independent
A new plot is being dug at Zimbabwe's Heroes Acre cemetery after the death of Robert Mugabe's younger sister, Sabina. The 76-year-old – who died yesterday after a long illness – will be i... The tycoon, the temptress, and a TV station in turmoil
The Independent
On the face of it, Heather Naylor is no different from any other bright young thing who dreams of reality TV fame. The 29-year-old singer, who performs with an unsigned girl band called The Electr... Blockade helps Hamas recruit, says ambassador
The Independent
Israel's three-year blockade of Gaza has thrust its residents into the embrace of the Islamist group Hamas and created a generation of Palestinians hostile to the Jewish state, according to the depart... Photo of disfigured Afghan woman outrages America
The Independent
A shocking picture of an 18-year-old Afghan woman whose nose was hacked off after she fled an abusive husband has stirred up the long-running controversy over whether Nato forces should negotiate with... Syria and Saudi leaders in mission to avert war
The Independent
From left, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, the Lebanese President Michel Suleiman and President Bashar al-Assad of Syria at the presidential palace near Beirut yesterday. They were discussing the UN-bac... Scarlett Keeling's mother testifies at trial in India
The Independent
The mother of the murdered British teenager Scarlett Keeling told a court yesterday how she heard the news of her daughter's death in a phone call. Fiona MacKeown gave evidence for the first time in ... After 129 years, pardon beckons for Billy the Kid
The Independent
He was a feared gunslinger and a conniving outlaw who was steeped in the blood of many men, yet the paradox is that he remains a favourite folk hero of the American West. Now, 129 years after his dea...
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