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Canoe.ca Strong Aftershock Causes More Damage in Earthquake-Hit China Voice of America - 4 hours ago By VOA News China's state-run news agency says a strong aftershock has struck near the epicenter of Monday's earthquake, as authorities have increased the official death toll. Aftershocks spark landslides at quake ...
Turkish Press Russia captures 'Georgian spy' Aljazeera.net - 56 minutes ago Russia has said it has captured a Georgian spy allegedly operating in southern Russia to destabilise the region. Georgia immediately rejected the allegations as "absurd" and called it part of a Russian "policy of ...
ABC News Dalai Lama says not seeking independence from China AFP - 59 minutes ago BOCHUM, Germany (AFP) - The Dalai Lama insisted Friday he is not seeking independence for Tibet, as he pressed ahead with a five-country Western tour two months after deadly violence erupted in his homeland. Tibetan temple reopens to public: ...
Letting Iran have nuclear arms "unforgivable": Bush Reuters - 1 hour ago JERUSALEM (Reuters) - President George W. Bush will tell Israel's parliament on Thursday that letting Iran acquire nuclear weapons would be an "unforgivable betrayal of future generations". Video: Bush: Like US, Israel Stands for Peace ...
TVNZ Australia to take Ahmadinejad to court Jewish Telegraphic Agency - 1 hour ago Australia is preparing to take Iran?s president to the International Court of Justice for ?incitement to genocide? and Holocaust denial. Ahmadinejad says Israel doomed The Associated Press Iran's president to offer proposals to ease ...
Razansai Journal In a Kyrgyz Garden, Unburied Soviet Memories New York Times - 7 hours ago By SABRINA TAVERNISE RAZANSAI, Kyrgyzstan - In this remote corner of the former Soviet Union, life has shrunk to the size of the basics: tomatoes; corn; apricot trees; baby goats.
Zimbabwejournalists.com SADC official says Zimbabwe election body must ensure fair run-off Monsters and Critics.com - 1 hour ago Maputo/Harare - A senior Southern African Development Community official on Thursday placed the onus for ensuring a free and fair presidential election run-off in Zimbabwe on the country's maligned ...
Independent-Bangladesh Sharif clear to stand in election BBC News - 58 minutes ago Pakistani electoral authorities have dismissed objections to former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif contesting a parliamentary by-election next month. Pakistan Foreign Currency Rating Lowered to B by S&P (Update2) Bloomberg Sharif asks ...
Malaysia Star Angry and split, Palestinians mark Israel's 60th Reuters - 58 minutes ago By Mohammed Assadi RAMALLAH, West Bank, May 15 (Reuters) - Divided and angry, Palestinians mourned Israel's 60th birthday with protests, sirens and black balloons on Thursday. Palestinians mark 1948 uprooting The Associated Press ...
TopNews Brown Vows to Fight on as UK Leader, Defend Economy (Update2) Bloomberg - 53 minutes ago By Kitty Donaldson and Mark Deen May 15 (Bloomberg) -- Gordon Brown vowed to fight on as prime minister, saying he is the best person to lead Britain through a worsening economic slowdown. Gordon Brown is 'right leader' for ...
Times Online Israel at 60: Hopes that founders' vision can be fulfilled The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - 1 hour ago It is moving to stroll through Tel Aviv's Independence Hall, where 60 years ago David Ben-Gurion declared Israel a state. Close your eyes, listen to the scratchy recording of Ben-Gurion's pronouncement, and ...
Alalam News Network Suicide bomber kills 22 mourners at Iraq funeral Times Online - 2 hours ago A suicide bomber has killed 22 mourners at a funeral west of Baghdad attended by Sunni Arab tribesmen opposed to al-Qaeda. Forty people were left injured by the bombing yesterday in the village of Abu Munasir in Anbar province, once ...
Edmonton Journal Hezbollah 'to restore normality' BBC News - 50 minutes ago The opposition Hezbollah movement says it wants to return Lebanon to the situation it was in before its battles with government supporters last week. Hezbollah ready for dialogue as normality returns to Beirut (Roundup) Monsters and Critics.com ...
Edmonton Journal Food crisis looms in Myanmar International Herald Tribune - 1 hour ago YANGON, Myanmar: Normally, at this time of year, Burmese farmers in the southern delta of Myanmar would be draining their rice paddies, plowing their fields with water buffaloes and preparing to plant new seeds for an autumn harvest. Myanmar ...
Boston Globe China Says Quake Death Toll Could Top 50000 Voice of America - 1 hour ago By VOA News China says nearly 400 dams and reservoirs near the epicenter of Monday's deadly earthquake were damaged, triggering new worries as Chinese officials warned Thursday, that the death toll could top 50000. Earthquake dams pose ...