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  • Javanese terror suspects killed

    Javanese terror suspects killed

    Rio de Janeiro News.Net

    Indonesian police have confirmed the deaths of three terrorists in raids outside the capital, Jakarta.

  • Aung San Suu Kyi no longer allowed to stand for election

    Aung San Suu Kyi no longer allowed to stand for election

    Rio de Janeiro News.Net

    In Myanmar, a new law may force the National League for Democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, out of the party.

  • Biden objects to Israeli settlement announcement

    Biden objects to Israeli settlement announcement

    Rio de Janeiro News.Net

    US Vice President Joe Biden has told the Israeli prime minister that the US condemns an Israeli plan to build hundreds of homes in disputed east Jerusalem.

  • Gaddafi receives apology from US

    Gaddafi receives apology from US

    Rio de Janeiro News.Net

    The US State Department has apologised over comments made by a State Department official about Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

  • North Korea leases Sea of Japan port to China

    Rio de Janeiro News.Net

    China has been given direct access to the Sea of Japan for the first time since the 19th century, thanks to a lease deal with North Korea.

  • Letterman blackmailer confesses his crime

    Letterman blackmailer confesses his crime

    Rio de Janeiro News.Net

    A former television producer on the David Letterman show has admitted in a New York court that he tried to extract two million dollars from the famous television compere.

  • Rape in Russian prison results in charges against jailers

    Rape in Russian prison results in charges against jailers

    Rio de Janeiro News.Net

    Top prison officials in Saint Petersburg have been charged with the rape of two prisoners, one of whom was awaiting trial.

  • African nation condemns homosexuals

    African nation condemns homosexuals

    Rio de Janeiro News.Net

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  • Unity Government ministers shut out by Mugabe

    Unity Government ministers shut out by Mugabe

    Rio de Janeiro News.Net

    Zimbabwe's Unity Government has suffered what might be a fatal blow at the hands of President Robert Mugabe.

  • Migrants warned of jail if they protest in Thailand

    Migrants warned of jail if they protest in Thailand

    Rio de Janeiro News.Net

    Thailand has warned it will imprison migrant workers who attend anti-government rallies scheduled for this weekend in Bangkok.

  • Votes being counted after Iraq elections

    Votes being counted after Iraq elections

    Rio de Janeiro News.Net

    With vote counting underway in Iraq, officials have said their work is being complicated by the large number of overseas votes coming in.

  • Pakistan police say arrested man is not Gadahn

    Pakistan police say arrested man is not Gadahn

    Rio de Janeiro News.Net

    An American-born al-Qaeda spokesman, Adam Gadahn, who was supposedly captured in Pakistan over the weekend, has escaped an intelligence dragnet after all.

  • Joe Biden goes to Middle East peace talks

    Joe Biden goes to Middle East peace talks

    Rio de Janeiro News.Net

    US Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Israel on Monday to take part in a high-level peace conference.

  • US/Iran envoys agree there could be common ground on drugs

    US/Iran envoys agree there could be common ground on drugs

    Rio de Janeiro News.Net

    At a meeting in Vienna, the United States has told Iran it would be happy to work with the country on a drug eradication program.

  • Thousands of Ugandans relocated because of mudslides

    Thousands of Ugandans relocated because of mudslides

    Rio de Janeiro News.Net

    Uganda has told 300,000 people living on the slopes of Mount Elgon they will be immediately moved because of the risk of mudslides.

  • Man stabbed in Los Angeles cinema

    Man stabbed in Los Angeles cinema

    Rio de Janeiro News.Net

    A man attending a movie in a US cinema has been stabbed after asking a woman to turn off he phone

  • Citigroup Reportedly Agrees To Sell Real Estate Investment Unit To Apollo Global Management - Update

    RTT News

    News ) reportedly agreed Tuesday to sell its real-estate investment business Citi Property Investors under Citi Holdings, to private equity firm Apollo Global Management LLC. The unit has about 65 inv...

  • Main Street Capital Q4 Loss Widens - Update

    RTT News

    News ) reported a net realized loss for the fourth quarter that widened from the year-ago period, hurt by a wider net realized loss from investments and a 7% decline in investment income. The Houston,...

  • U.S. Woman Accused In Terrorist Plot

    RadioFreeEurope

    It was not immediately clear if the case was linked to alleged terrorist threats to kill Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks over his 2007 drawing of the Prophet Muhammad.

  • Biden Condemns Israeli Settlement Plans

    RadioFreeEurope

    Israel announced plans to build 1,600 more homes on land Palestinians claim for a future state during U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's visit to Jerusalem. Biden met March 9 with Israeli Prime Minister ...

  • Group: One-Third Of World’s Jailed Journalists In Iran

    RadioFreeEurope

    Iranian authorities have detained dozens of journalists since unrest broke out over the disputed reelection of President Mahmud Ahmadinejad in June, 2009.

  • Delays on Arms Control Pact Bog Down U.S. Efforts to Reset Relations With Russia

    International Herald Tribune

    Russia last month, he was under the impression that they were finally close to wrapping up a long-delayed arms control treaty that he had originally expected to sign in December.

  • City OKs Berkeley Carroll plan

    New York Post

    The city this week approved the expansionist plans of a Park Slope private school, a controversial scheme that vexed some residents who fear the new building will catalyze the very dissolution of the ...

  • Pennsylvania Woman Tied to Plot on Cartoonist

    International Herald Tribune

    WASHINGTON — A Pennsylvania woman who called herself JihadJane was tied Tuesday to an alleged assassination plot against a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the prophet Muhammad atop the body of a...

  • Farrah Fawcett Oscars memorial omission defended by the Academy

    New York Post

    The Academy Awards row over a perceived snub to Farah Fawcett showed no sign of abating late Tuesday, with an Oscars chief defending the decision to omit the late Charlie's Angels" star from the gala'...

  • Flu Shots in Children Can Help Community

    International Herald Tribune

    flu shots to schoolchildren protects a whole community from the disease. Although previous studies have demonstrated what scientists call “herd

  • POLITICS: U.S. Lifts Restrictions on Web Services

    IPS

    WASHINGTON, Mar 9, 2010 (IPS) - After U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's January address on the role of internet freedom in U.S. foreign policy, the Barack Obama administration appears to be ta...

  • Haitians wary of US military reduction

    Channel News Asia

    PORT-AU-PRINCE: A US Navy hospital ship was recalled from Haiti Tuesday as the US military cut its emergency deployment to the quake-hit nation, where aid efforts are now turning to reconstruction. Th...

  • Red tape in Kabul hinders success

    USA Today

    Kabul ," says the report, released last week. The embassy "faces serious challenges in meeting the administration's deadline for 'success' in Afghanistan," it adds.

  • Iraqi parties both claim lead in election

    USA Today

    BAGHDAD (AP) — The Iraqi prime minister's coalition and its main secular rival both claimed to be ahead in the vote count Monday, a day after historic parliamentary elections that the top U.S. co...

  • Toyota faced with 2 more cases of runaway Priuses

    USA Today

    Toyota sought to contain the fallout from a California sudden-acceleration case involving a Prius, another driver's out-of-control Prius slammed into a stone wall in New York on Tuesday.

  • Law bars Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi from election

    USA Today

    The Political Parties Registration Law, published in official newspapers, excludes anyone convicted by a court of law from participating in the elections.

  • Health care ad cyclorama to clog airwaves

    USA Today

    WASHINGTON — It's not quite election season, but President Obama is on the stump, pushing his health care bill. Now, millions of dollars in political ads aimed at swaying Congress are hitting the...

  • China may ban eating dogs, cats

    CNN

    Guangzhou, China (CNN) -- Dogs bark and whine behind high chain-link fences, some of them gnawing the wire so hard they bleed at the mouths while cats packed into crowded cages cower in fear if anyone...

  • Opinion: Gays have right to privacy, too

    CNN

    Supreme Court was not so hands-off in gay-marriage-related cases. Twice, the court intervened in cases in which active opponents of gay marriage, in California and Washington, have claimed that their ...

  • Leaping off the page - Belgian paper prints '3D edition'

    BBC

    A Belgian French-language daily has issued what is thought to be Europe's first 3D newspaper - complete with cardboard viewing glasses.All the photos and ads in La Derniere Heure's (DH) special editio...

  • Formal Suu Kyi ban in Burma poll

    BBC

    Burma's military rulers have issued a law which will bar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from participating in planned elections.The new law prohibits anyone with a a criminal conviction from ta...

  • More schools likely to be failed

    BBC

    More schools are being judged inadequate under a new inspection regime, figures from England's schools watchdog are expected to show.Ofsted introduced a new framework in September 2009 which requires ...

  • Ring may be giant 'impact crater'

    BBC

    Deforestation has revealed what could be a giant impact crater in Central Africa, scientists say.The 36-46km-wide feature, identified in DR Congo, may be one of the largest such structures discovered ...

  • Britain protests to US over Falklands

    The Australian

    BRITISH diplomats have expressed serious concerns to the US State Department at least three times over Washington's response to the latest dispute over the Falkland Islands.

  • Toyota, U.S. officials investigate runaway Prius

    Reuters

    LOS ANGELES/DETROIT (Reuters) - U.S. safety regulators and Toyota dispatched teams on Tuesday to inspect a Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway a day earlier, as the automaker strugg...

  • Obama backs bipartisan crackdown on healthcare cheats

    Reuters

    President Barack Obama welcomes El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes (not shown) to the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, March 8, 2010.

  • J. Roberts: State of the Union "Troubling"

    CBS News

    President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address Jan. 27, 2010. In a question-and-answer session with law students March 9, 2010 Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts called Obama's s...

  • Insurance icon 'Flo' all smiles

    Philadelphia Daily News

    You might not recognize Stephanie Courtney even if you were riding in a cramped elevator with her. This despite the fact that she's on TV more than Neil Patrick Harris and Ellen DeGeneres combined. T...

  • Marlin Jackson Visits, Could Be Your FS

    Philadelphia Daily News

    As I mentioned in the paper today (buy one, it's an incredible value), Jason Avant's agents also handle Marlin Jackson, the Colts CB/safety who will visit NovaCare after stopping by Baltimore today. J...

  • Massa denies sexually groping male staffer

    Washington Times

    By Andrew Miga ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Eric Massa, who resigned from Congress amid sexual harassment allegations, acknowledged Tuesday groping a staffer but denied it was sexu...

  • Rolling thunder: Motorcyclist makes big noise in robbery

    New York Post

    The victim told police that he had just come home after eating dinner and had parked his car on East 95th Street between avenues L and M at 9:15 p.m. on February 26 when the three unidentified males a...

  • Judge gets tossed from 44th District City Council race

    New York Post

    Amid alleged dirty politics, Republican candidate Jonathan Judge was thrown off the ballot Tuesday for the special 44th District City Council election.State Supreme Court Judge Larry Martin ruled that...

  • Angered by U.S. Security, Pakistanis Return as Heroes

    International Herald Tribune

    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A tour of the United States arranged by the State Department to improve ties to Pakistani legislators ended in a public relations fiasco when the members of the group refus...

  • Butcher shop shooting solved

    New York Post

    Butcher shooter bustedInvestigators have arrested one of the men allegedly responsible for last year’s shooting at Romeo Brothers Meats and Foods.Prosecutors said that 36-year-old Andrew Gibson ...