 China flooding claims kills 200
 25.06.2010 21:55  38 views  1 comments
 Soldiers and rescue workers on Friday pulled stranded people out of deluged swathes of southern China inundated by 11 days of heavy rain, state media said. Read more »
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Storm season could worsen oil-hit Gulf's woes
25.06.2010 20:51 33 views 0 comments
 The oil-hit Gulf of Mexico faces a new problem which could exacerbate the environmental calamity: severe weather from a possible tropical disturbance. Read more »
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Archaeologists probe mass infant burial
25.06.2010 20:28 37 views 0 comments
 English archaeologists said Friday they are trying to figure out why 97 babies were buried around a Roman-era villa that may have been used as a brothel. Read more »
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Demonstrators rail against brutality
25.06.2010 19:45 32 views 0 comments
 Mohamed ElBaradei, the former chief of the U.N. atomic agency and now an Egyptian reformist figure, joined thousands of people in Alexandria on Friday to protest the killing of an Egyptian man and shine the light on police brutality. Read more »
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Defense concludes 'rogue trader' case
25.06.2010 18:02 33 views 0 comments
 Defense lawyers wrapped up their case Friday for French trader Jerome Kerviel, who is on trial for allegedly betting 50 billion euros (US $61 billion) of a French bank's money without its knowledge. Read more »
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Cameron: G8 must be 'more than talk'
25.06.2010 17:12 37 views 0 comments
 Describing himself as the "new kid on the block," British Prime Minister David Cameron said this weekend's G8 and G-20 summits in Canada should be about "more than big talk." Read more »
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150,000 homeless after Brazil floods
25.06.2010 16:58 37 views 0 comments
 Federal aid is flowing to rain-ravaged areas of northeastern Brazil and the number of missing has diminished to less than 140, but more than 150,000 people remained homeless or displaced Friday, the government said. Read more »
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Americans in Kyrgyzstan put on alert
25.06.2010 16:35 35 views 0 comments
 U.S. citizens in Kyrgyzstan have been advised to stay close to their homes and keep an emergency kit available during Sunday's constitutional referendum, according to a news release from the U.S. Embassy in the troubled nation. Read more »
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U.S. lawmakers agree Wall St. plan
25.06.2010 15:50 38 views 0 comments
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Bomber: I regret blast that targeted Thatcher
13.10.2009 22:54 269 views 0 comments
 The man jailed for trying to kill British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in a hotel bombing in 1984 appeared in Parliament Tuesday and said he regretted his actions. Patrick Magee, a former Irish Republican Army activist, held a public discussion with Jo Berry, whose father died in the Brighton bombing 25 years ago. Read more »
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Egyptian woman protest ban on austere veil
13.10.2009 21:34 293 views 1 comments
 There's more to wearing the "niqab" -- the austere, all-covering veil favored by ultra-religious Muslim women -- than meets the eye. Read more »
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Clinton: Russia yet to back Iran sanctions
13.10.2009 20:59 237 views 0 comments
 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stressed Tuesday that Washington and Moscow are working together to ensure Iran's nuclear program is strictly for peaceful purposes, but Russia has stopped short of committing to Iranian sanctions. Read more »
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DNA leads to rape suspect after 19 years
13.10.2009 20:12 250 views 0 comments
 A suspect has been arrested in the 1990 abduction and attempted murder of an 8-year-old Texas girl, police announced at a briefing today. The victim, Jennifer Schuett, is now 27. She recently shared her story with CNN in hopes of someday bringing her attacker to justice. "I want you to know I am OK," Schuett said at the news conference. "I am not a victim but instead victorious." Read more »
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Iraq approves return of small British force
13.10.2009 20:12 235 views 0 comments
 At least 100 British troops are likely to return to Iraq, a few months after the country withdrew its service members from their bases in and around the southern city of Basra. Read more »
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'Mentally ill' Briton faces drugs execution
13.10.2009 19:34 254 views 0 comments
 The brother of a convicted British drug smuggler facing imminent execution in China pleads for authorities to show compassion amid concerns over the man's mental health at the time of his arrest. Read more »
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Boyzone star's death cause revealed
13.10.2009 19:02 227 views 0 comments
 Singer Stephen Gately, a member of the Irish band Boyzone, died of natural causes, a court spokeswoman on the Spanish island of Majorca said Tuesday. Read more »
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Pakistani military jets strike Taliban targets
13.10.2009 18:38 241 views 0 comments
 Pakistani military jets bombed Taliban militant hideouts Tuesday in the country's lawless tribal region, a senior military official told CNN. Read more »
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Attacks, death and cocaine in a blender
13.10.2009 15:49 239 views 0 comments
 A young man with tattoos covering one arm rolls hundreds of marijuana joints in the half-light of a shack in Medellin, Colombia. Others use a blender to mix cocaine with other substances. On the streets a vicious war is raging as the drug gangs fight to fill the power vacuum created after a series of successes by authorities against the old gang bosses. Read more »
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Girls sell sex in Hong Kong for shopping cash
13.10.2009 10:08 261 views 0 comments
 A dangerous social phenomenon is growing among teens of all socio-economic groups in Hong Kong called "compensated dating," a practice in which a young woman agrees to go on a date with a man for a fee. The date often involves sex, say social workers. The consequences can be deadly. Read more »
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Attorney: U.S. father mistreated in Japan jail
13.10.2009 3:05 20 views 0 comments
 An American father jailed in Tokyo has been harshly treated in the Japanese prison system, his attorney said Monday. Read more »
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