9 Sep 10
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AFGHAN police went on alert yesterday to guard against demonstrations triggered by a US church's plan to burn a copy of the Al-Quran on the anniversary of the Sept 11 attacks which has drawn global condemnation.Tension has risen with the approach of...
9 Sep 10
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S Korea imposes new Iran sanctions
SEOUL: South Korea blacklisted yesterday 102 companies, including the Seoul branch of Iran's Bank Mellat, and 24 individuals accused of facilitating Iran's efforts to develop nuclear weapons. Bank Mellat...
9 Sep 10
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WORLD powers are moving slowly toward an accord on the strategy to be embraced at a looming United Nations summit aiming to get the lofty Millennium Development Goals back on track.Ten years after more than 150 leaders set eight ambitious targets...
9 Sep 10
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POLICE yesterday detained the brother of an Iraqi soldier killed after gunning down two American troops and wounding nine others, the first US deaths since combat operations were declared over.Tuesday's violence, which also saw two US soldiers...
9 Sep 10
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GULF Arab countries want Britain to deport two opposition figures accused by Bahrain over an alleged coup attempt and could make a formal request to London soon, Gulf Arab media reported yesterday.Bahrain, home to the US Fifth Fleet, on Saturday...
9 Sep 10
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A SENIOR member of Egypt's ruling party said yesterday the Muslim Brotherhood had failed to provide an effective parliamentary opposition, in the latest hint that the Islamists may be sidelined in November elections.In an interview with Reuters, Ali...
9 Sep 10
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IRANIAN authorities have suspended the sentence of death by stoning for a woman convicted of adultery, the foreign ministry said yesterday, after weeks of condemnation from around the world. "The verdict regarding the extramarital affairs has...
9 Sep 10
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US PRESIDENT Barack Obama yesterday threw down the gauntlet to Republicans on the economy, as the lagging recovery and crippling unemployment threaten Democrats with a mid-term election meltdown.Obama was travelling to Cleveland, Ohio, in a personal...
9 Sep 10
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A THAI Airways plane was cleared yesterday to leave Los Angeles airport and return to Bangkok following a bomb hoax on a flight carrying nearly 200 people, the airline said.The threat sparked a security alert in the US, which is particularly tense...
9 Sep 10
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A TOP official of Cairo's Al-Azhar university, which US President Barack Obama referred to as a "beacon of learning" in an appeal for reconciliation with Muslims, warned yesterday that a Florida church's plan to burn copies of Al-Quran...
9 Sep 10
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HUTU rebels and their militia allies blamed for the mass rape of 284 women in the Democratic Republic of Congo "hunted all night" and raped old and young alike, one of the survivors told AFP."All the women who were there in the...
9 Sep 10
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BP SHIFTED much of the blame for a rig blast that led to the United States' worst-ever oil spill onto its contractors Transocean and Halliburton.In a report released yesterday, BP defended decisions that US politicians have said represented cost-...
9 Sep 10
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THE father of British Prime Minister David Cameron died yesterday after suffering a stroke while on holiday in France, Downing Street said. "It is with deep regret we can confirm that Ian Cameron died earlier this afternoon," a statement...
9 Sep 10
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HAMAS yesterday accused the Palestinian Authority of "treason" over its arrest of members of the Islamist group in connection with the killing of Jewish settlers.Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhum called the arrests "national treason and...
9 Sep 10
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SUSPECTED members of an militant group have freed hundreds of inmates in an attack on a prison in northern Nigeria that led to a fierce gun battle with authorities, officials said yesterday.Authorities said more than 700 inmates escaped in the...
8 Sep 10
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UNITED STATES President Barack Obama has pledged US$50 billion dollars to create jobs in a massive transportation infrastructure campaign, targeting huge unemployment and ripping resurgent Republicans.Obama, under intense pressure to stimulate the...
8 Sep 10
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Don't meddle in stoning case: Iran
TEHRAN: Foreign countries should not interfere in Iran's legal system and stop trying to turn the case of a woman sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery into a human rights issue, Tehran said...
8 Sep 10
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EXPECTATIONS intensified yesterday that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin may run again for the Russian presidency after he drew a surprise comparison with four-term US president Franklin D Roosevelt. Speculation was rife over whether Putin or President...
8 Sep 10
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ISRAELI police are recommending an Austrian billionaire be charged with bribery for funnelling millions of dollars into the pockets of former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, a newspaper reported yesterday.According to the Haaretz newspaper,...
8 Sep 10
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FRENCH workers took to the streets yesterday to challenge President Nicolas Sarkozy's plan to raise the retirement age, the centrepiece of his reform agenda as he prepares to seek re-election.Unions called the showdown over Sarkozy's pensions bill,...
