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  • Biden objects to Israeli settlement announcement

    Biden objects to Israeli settlement announcement

    Pittsburgh 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.

  • Javanese terror suspects killed

    Javanese terror suspects killed

    Pittsburgh News.Net

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

  • Gaddafi receives apology from US

    Gaddafi receives apology from US

    Pittsburgh News.Net

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

  • Letterman blackmailer confesses his crime

    Letterman blackmailer confesses his crime

    Pittsburgh 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

    Pittsburgh 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

    Pittsburgh News.Net

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  • Unity Government ministers shut out by Mugabe

    Unity Government ministers shut out by Mugabe

    Pittsburgh 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

    Pittsburgh 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

    Pittsburgh 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

    Pittsburgh 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

    Pittsburgh 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

    Pittsburgh 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

    Pittsburgh 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.

  • Deaths recorded in Turkey earthquake

    Deaths recorded in Turkey earthquake

    Pittsburgh News.Net

    Eastern Turkey was struck by a 6.0-magnitude quake on Monday, killing 51 people.

  • Gay life of US senator revealed

    Gay life of US senator revealed

    Pittsburgh News.Net

    A California state senator has come out as a homosexual after many years as a staunch opponent of gay rights.

  • Man stabbed in Los Angeles cinema

    Man stabbed in Los Angeles cinema

    Pittsburgh News.Net

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

  • 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 ...

  • Jerusalem Journal: Palestinian Family’s Eviction Stirs Old Ghosts in a Contested City

    International Herald Tribune

    Palestinian Ghawi family have been sheltering this winter in a tent on the sidewalk opposite their home of more than five decades in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah.

  • Powell vs Towns, take three

    New York Post

    Is three times the charm for Powell?Political activist, writer and entertainer Kevin Powell will make a third attempt to unseat 24-year incumbent Rep. Edolphus Towns in Brooklyn’s 10th Congressi...

  • US slams new J'lem homes approval

    Jerusalem Post

    The decision by an Interior Ministry committee to announce approval of plans for some 1,600 housing units in northeast Jerusalem’s Ramat Shlomo neighborhood cast a pall Tuesday night over the visit ...

  • Arms stolen from police facility

    Jerusalem Post

    Police were reeling on Tuesday from an embarrassing break-in targeting a police facility in the North, in which a number of weapons were stolen overnight Monday by unidentified thieves.A few details o...

  • 'No to cash for draconian moratorium’

    Jerusalem Post

    A Knesset panel dealt a blow to the freeze on new settler homes on Tuesday, when it rejected a funding request by the Defense Ministry for extra manpower to enforce the decree.Defense Minister Ehud Ba...

  • Biden reassures Israel on Teheran

    Jerusalem Post

    The US is determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, Vice President Joe Biden said in Jerusalem on Tuesday, stressing that when it came to Israel’s security, there was “no space be...

  • FINANCE: Self-Policing of Extractive Industries a "Dismal" Failure

    IPS

    WASHINGTON, Mar 9, 2010 (IPS) - An international initiative that seeks to reform how governments profit from their natural resources should not reduce its existing standards of membership solely becau...

  • Elephant calf alive, despite fears

    New Zealand Herald

    The calf of an elephant at Sydney's Taronga Zoo, believed to have died in labour, has been delivered alive. Porntip gave birth to the calf this morning, zoo spokesman Mark Williams told AAP. On Mond...

  • Shooting at US university

    New Zealand Herald

    COLUMBUS, Ohio - A university janitor who was about to lose his job walked into a maintenance building for his early morning shift today and shot two supervisors, killing one of them and fatally shoot...

  • Doctor killed wife with cyanide

    New Zealand Herald

    An Ohio judge has handed down a life prison term for a doctor convicted of killing his wife with cyanide. Relatives of the victim sobbed and held each other as Yazeed Essa, 41, was sentenced today in...

  • Audacious thief a man of many faces

    New Zealand Herald

    In a case reminiscent of the character in the Leonardo diCaprio film Catch me if you can, an audacious thief is using a variety of identities to boldly walk into well-protected locations and steal tho...

  • 'Sweatshop' claim halts World Cup toy production

    New Zealand Herald

    CAPE TOWN - A Chinese factory has halted production of World Cup 2010 mascot toys after an investigation into alleged sweatshop conditions, the merchandise company for world football body FIFA said to...

  • Runaway Prius sparks investigation

    New Zealand Herald

    EL CAJON, California - Federal officials are sending two investigators to California to determine what caused a Toyota Prius to race out of control on a San Diego-area freeway. A spokeswoman for the ...

  • China wages war on growing corruption

    USA Today

    China 's northwest, is accused of taking a half-million dollars in bribes over the years from businessmen who needed his approval for their projects.

  • 2nd ex-New Orleans cop charged in Katrina coverup

    USA Today

    NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A second ex-New Orleans officer charged in an alleged conspiracy to cover up a deadly police shooting of unarmed residents after Hurricane Katrina is expected to plead guilty, ...

  • Hospital ship USNS Comfort sailing home from Haiti

    USA Today

    Lt. Jerri Gram, from Huntsville, Ala., shares a smile with a baby girl during an examination on the USNS Comfort off the coast of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The infant was accompanied by her mother and wa...

  • Ex-MI5 head: US hid torture tactics from UK

    The Independent

    A former head of MI5 has accused intelligence services in the US of deliberately hiding the mistreatment of terror suspects from their British allies. Baroness Manningham-Buller, giving a lecture in ...

  • Greece pleads with US to stop the speculators

    The Independent

    Search the news archive for more stories The solution, he insists, lies in tougher joint measures to clamp down on such activities, especially the credit default swaps that played a big role in aggr...

  • 800-year-old shipwreck found in Baltic Sea

    The Independent

    A dozen shipwrecks that date back centuries – some of them unusually well preserved – have been found in the Baltic Sea by a gas company building an underwater pipeline between Russia an...

  • Man found guilty of blackmailing model Crawford

    The Independent

    A German man who tried to blackmail supermodel Cindy Crawford using a photo of her bound and gagged 7-year-old daughter was sentenced to two years in jail yesterday. Edis Kayalar, 26, surrend...

  • Somali leader welcomes US military support

    The Independent

    Somalia's president yesterday welcomed any US military involvement in a long-awaited offensive in his country aimed at driving Islamist rebels from the capital. During a visit to London, President Sh...

  • Two charged over death of British teenager in Goa

    The Independent

    Two men have been charged with killing a British teenager who was found dead on a beach in India. The semi-naked body of 15-year-old Scarlett Keeling, from Bideford, was discovered on a beach...

  • Stolen body of former Cypriot leader found in wrong grave

    The Independent

    Three months after it was stolen, the corpse of Cyprus's former president was found buried in another grave, and police said they had arrested three men. The right-wing Greek Cypriot hardliner's bo...

  • Le Pen infuriates Algeria by draping France with its flag

    The Independent

    The French far right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen may be a veteran provocateur but to infuriate both the Algerians and the Swiss with one poster takes genuine talent. The Algerian government has formally...

  • Where Australia's sharks go to stay looking sharp

    The Independent

    A pampering session at the beauty salon always works wonders for morale – not just for humans, but also for sharks and manta ray fish. Australian scientists have discovered that these large mari...

  • Historic step for women in India as parliament gives them third of seats

    The Independent

    Indian politicians took an important step on the path to making history when they overwhelmingly voted to reserve a third of all legislative seats across the country for women. In what Prime Minister...

  • Irish arrests over 'plot to kill cartoonist'

    The Independent

    Seven people were arrested in the Republic of Ireland yesterday as part of an international investigation into a conspiracy to murder a Swedish cartoonist whose work has led to death threats from Musl...

  • Gallantry awards to mark brutality of Afghan combat

    The Independent

    The greatest number of gallantry awards in recent times is expected to be announced next week in recognition of last summer's brutal fighting in Afghanistan. More bravery awards will be posthumous ...

  • Woman soldier was 'unlawfully killed after inadequate training'

    The Independent

    The first British woman soldier to be killed in Afghanistan was inadequately trained and lacked vital equipment, a coroner ruled yesterday. At the end of an inquest into the deaths of Corporal Sarah ...