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  • Israel told it must make urgent peace concessions

    Israel told it must make urgent peace concessions

    Nigeria News.Net

    The Israeli prime minister was strongly rebuked on Friday by the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who angrily questioned him on Israel's refusal to back down on settlement expansion.

  • Pakistani helicopters rout Taliban

    Pakistani helicopters rout Taliban

    Nigeria News.Net

    Helicopter gunships belonging to Pakistan have pounded Taliban hideouts in the north-western tribal district, killing at least 13 militants.

  • US Consul workers killed in Juarez Mexico

    US Consul workers killed in Juarez Mexico

    Nigeria News.Net

    Drug violence in Western Mexico has led to the deaths of three people who worked within the walls of the US consulate in Ciudad Juarez.

  • Invasion hoax sends Georgia into a panic

    Invasion hoax sends Georgia into a panic

    Nigeria News.Net

    Georgia’s president, Mikheil Saakashvili, has complimented a local television channel that sparked panic by broadcasting a drama which implied that the country was being invaded.

  • Poor maid burned alive to stop her talking

    Poor maid burned alive to stop her talking

    Nigeria News.Net

    A Christian maid has allegedly been burned alive to prevent her from reporting a rape in the Pakistani province of Punjab.

  • Gubernatorial candidate threatens Elton John

    Gubernatorial candidate threatens Elton John

    Nigeria News.Net

    A candidate for governor in Atlanta, Georgia has been arrested for allegedly threatening singer Elton John.

  • British House of Lords to go

    British House of Lords to go

    Nigeria News.Net

    In a plan being devised by the UK government, the country’s House of Lords could be abolished.

  • Israelis capture Hamas leader

    Israelis capture Hamas leader

    Nigeria News.Net

    Israel has arrested a leader of the Palestinian Hamas movement.

  • Mexico endures another night of drug violence

    Mexico endures another night of drug violence

    Nigeria News.Net

    Drug related violence in Mexico has left another 25 people dead, four of them from decapitation.

  • Canadians dead in snowmobile avalanche

    Canadians dead in snowmobile avalanche

    Nigeria News.Net

    In Canada, three people are dead while others are still buried under piles of snow, after an avalanche hit a snowmobile competition near Revelstoke, British Columbia.

  • Israeli insensitivity questioned by the US administration

    Israeli insensitivity questioned by the US administration

    Nigeria News.Net

    Israel appears surprised by a rebuke from the US administration about its new settlement expansion.

  • Mexico Gunmen Kill U.s. Consulate Staff

    RadioFreeEurope

    CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico; (Reuters) -- Gunmen in the drug war-plagued Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez have killed two Americans and a Mexican linked to the local U.S. consulate, and President Barack...

  • Yemen: Air Raid Kills Al-qaeda Militants

    RadioFreeEurope

    SANAA (Reuters) – A Yemeni security official says an air strike on an Al-Qaeda position in southern Yemen has killed two top militants who were planning attacks. "The raids ... killed two l...

  • How Tea Parties Echo '60s Protests

    New York Post

    The political commentariat doesn't know what to make of those thousands of Americans who've spontaneously thronged to tea parties and town-hall meetings to oppose the big-government programs of the Ob...

  • Memo From Cairo: Political Levers Lock Into Gear In Election Year

    International Herald Tribune

    Muslim Brotherhood , a routine signal that votes will soon be counted. However, what is different this year is that the arrests have begun much earlier than in years past, that they are aimed at a lar...

  • Enter The Salt Police

    New York Post

    make you healthy" crusade has found an ally in Albany -- in the person of Assemblyman Felix Ortiz. The Brooklyn Democrat wants an absolute ban on salt "in any form" in the preparation of food in resta...

  • Fatah Holds Ceremony Naming Square After Terrorist

    Jerusalem Post

    Move comes despite announcement it had postponed inauguration of square named after Dalal Mughrabi, who led 1978 Coastal Road massacre in which 37 Israeli were killed.

  • Election Years Boost Lawmaking

    USA Today

    Number of laws passed annually by Congress in the past 20 years and examples of major legislation passed in election years: Major legislation 1990:

  • Activist Cindy Sheehan Revives Anti-war Efforts

    USA Today

    "Obama said there'd be one combat battalion coming home per month, and that has not happened," Sheehan says. "We still have significant troops in Iraq, and he's ramped up in Afghanistan.

  • Unneeded Prison In Nevada Eludes Budget Ax

    USA Today

    The governor wants to close it. The Department of Corrections wants to close it. A business advisory group said to shut down the prison as soon as possible.

  • States Streamline, Reorganize Amid Fiscal Crisis

    USA Today

    "The budget crisis is so severe that it's now possible to do some things that everyone knew were smart but couldn't get done because of political considerations," says John Thomasian, director of the ...

  • Absence Of U.s. Flag In Haiti Sparks Controversy

    USA Today

    A Cuban flag marks an operating tent at a makeshift medical center in Croix des Bouquets, Haiti. The U.S. flag isn't flying in Haiti, rankling some veterans and servicemembers.

  • U.s. Struggles To Track Arms In Afghanistan

    USA Today

    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Before stepping inside the underground bunker at the Afghan National Police headquarters in this southern city last week, U.S. troops were warned that there might be some ...

  • U.s. Regains Huge Weapons Cache Lost By Afghans

    USA Today

    Marine 1st Lt. Jon Farrar, left, and Army Lt. Col. Michael Rayburn check whether weapons seized from insurgents were originally bought by Americans. By Alan Gomez, USA TODAY

  • Whistle-blowers' Rights Get Second Look

    USA Today

    Now, members of Congress want to give federal whistle-blowers better safeguards against retaliation when they report waste, fraud and abuse. Bills in the

  • Undecided Democrats Hold Power Over Health Bill

    USA Today

    if Democrats had enough votes, he replied: "No, we don't have them as of this morning." White House aides David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs predicted lawmakers will approve the 10-year, $950 billion bil...

  • Sen. Harry Reid's Wife Released From Va. Hospital

    USA Today

    RENO, Nevada (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife has been released from a Virginia hospital, where she was taken after being seriously injured in a traffic accident.

  • Northeast U.s. Ravaged By Brutal Storms

    C News

    EGG HARBOR CITY, N.J. - Last month, the U.S. Northeast was smothered by blizzards. Now, it's waterlogged by torrential rains. The region mopped up Sunday following a bout with high wind and heavy...

  • Ba Strike Flights To Be Revealed

    BBC

    British Airways is expected to announce which of its flights may be cancelled because of a strike planned by cabin crew for next weekend.The dispute is over reduced staffing levels and pay at the airl...

  • Students Die In India Bus Crash

    BBC

    Twenty-six students have died after a bus they were on plunged into a river in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan, police say.Some 34 were injured when the bus, returning to Sawai Madhopur distric...

  • Quake-hit Chile Plunged Into Darkness

    Sky News

    A massive power failure plunged nearly the entire Chilean population into darkness, rattling a country already anxious after last month's 8.8-magnitude quake.

  • Doubts Persist On Runaway Prius Story

    CBS News

    In Full: Prius Driver's 9-1-1 Call Listen to the 9-1-1 call of the Prius driver whose car sped out of control on a San Diego highway before coming to a stop.

  • Aig Reportedly Set To Pay $46 Mln In Retention Bonuses; Holds Back $21 Mln - Update

    RTT News

    News ) is reportedly set to pay about $46 million in retention bonuses on Monday to current and former employees, while also holding back $21 million in bonuses to the employees. The holding back of s...

  • Contractors Tied To Effort To Track And Kill Militants

    International Herald Tribune

    From left: Michael D. Furlong, the official who was said to have hired private contractors to track militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan; Robert Young Pelton, a contractor; Duane Clarridge, a former ...

  • Amira Hass / Idf Troops Brutalize Palestinian Shepherd At Settlers' Behest

    Haaretz

    Masab and one of his brothers had taken their sheep to graze on land in the wadi directly below their home on that Thursday. There are olive trees in the wadi and a few small plots for growing. Betwee...

  • Iraqi Pm Holds Slim Lead In Partial Election Tally

    Jerusalem Post

    Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki edged ahead Sunday in a tight race in the country's parliamentary elections after partial results from all of Iraq's 18 provinces showed his bloc leading in seven — tw...

  • Us Consular Worker In Mexico Killed By Juarez Cartel Hitmen

    Channel News Asia

    CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico: Hitmen working for Mexico's Juarez drug cartel were believed to be behind the assassination of three people including a US consular employee here, the government of Chihuahua st...

  • Hollywood A-lister: 'as Long As Camp Is Here, We'll Stay'

    New Zealand Herald

    Shrink PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Look closely at the foreigners buzzing around a hospital tent above one of Haiti's biggest earthquake-refugee camps and a face stands out: There, carrying the box of sup...

  • Drug War In Mexico Shoots Down Hunting

    USA Today

    Billy Prine of Mobile, Ala., hunts near Los Mochis, Mexico, in February. "We've been coming here for years and haven't had any problems," Prine says. By Chris Hawley, USA TODAY

  • Sleep Lessons Could Cheer Up Grumpy Teenagers Say Experts

    BBC

    Pupils at schools in Glasgow are being given lessons in how to sleep.The sessions, run by the charity Sleep Scotland, aim to teach pupils tips such as the importance of a bed-time routine and avoiding...

  • Live - Bangladesh V England

    BBC

    From Roger in Vietnam, TMS inbox: "Can't get any cricket here either, suspect they do not know the game. England to have a good time at the crease, nothing to lose. Bangladesh to give a spirited ...

  • Whale Of A Crime?

    BBC

    Clashes between Japanese whaling vessels and activists from the Sea Shepherd anti-whaling group have received global attention, but do not go down well in Japan, where whale meat is still considered a...

  • Thousands Flee As Tomas Batters Fiji

    The Australian

    A POWERFUL cyclone is battering Fiji's northern islands, damaging homes and crops as thousands of people fled to evacuation centres.

  • Rb Ladanian Tomlinson Signs With Jets

    CBS News

    Running back LaDainian Tomlinson (21) is seen playing for the San Diego Chargers' in this December, 2006 file photo. The New York Jets signed Tomlinson March 14, 2010 weeks after he was cut by the Cha...

  • Cleanup Continues After Record Rains

    Philadelphia Daily News

    Utility crews are dealing with yet another clean up, this time from record rainfall that cut power to hundreds of thousands of customers in eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey this weekend and closed ...

  • Actor Peter Graves Dies At 83

    Philadelphia Daily News

    LOS ANGELES - Peter Graves, the tall, stalwart actor likely best known for his portrayal of Jim Phelps, leader of a gang of special agents who battled evil conspirators in the long-running television ...

  • Vatican Denies Celibacy Rule Led To Sex Scandal

    Philadelphia Daily News

    VATICAN CITY - The Vatican on Sunday denied that its celibacy requirement for priests was the root cause of the clerical sex abuse scandal convulsing the church in Europe and again defended the pope's...

  • Proponents Pressure Specter On I-80 Tolls

    Philadelphia Daily News

    SEPTA, local labor leaders, and other proponents of I-80 tolls are putting Sen. Arlen Specter (D., Pa.) in the hot seat, demanding that he push Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to approve the tolls...

  • For A Philippine Political Family, Land Issue Hits Home

    International Herald Tribune

    Workers loaded sugar for delivery last month at Hacienda Luisita, a Philippine plantation that is owned by the family of former President Corazon C. Aquino.

  • Injured Beckham Likely Out For World Cup

    International Herald Tribune

    after apparently tearing his Achilles’ tendon while playing for A.C. Milan on Sunday. Beckham pulled up unchallenged in the center circle, hopped on his right leg, then fell to the turf with on...