Wednesday, 30 December 2009
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Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah urged Muslims to be vigilant against "borderless Israeli greed and brutality," it should have...
TOKYO - Japan's Prime Minister, faced with fading support as the country struggles to maintain its fledgling economic recovery, Wednesday outlined a new set of measures to spur growth over the next...
Iran is attempting to reach a deal to secretly import 1,350 tons of purified uranium ore from Kazakhstan, according to an intelligence report obtained by The Associated Press news agency. The report,...
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Many of Detainees Still Held in Terror Prison Camp from al Qaeda-Plagued Nation; Can We Send Them Home? Font size Print E-mail Share 1 Comment In this photo, reviewed by the U.S. Military, a guard stands near the shadow of a detainee at Guantanamo's...
By Rob Broomby BBC News A former British prisoner of war who helped a Jewish inmate survive Auschwitz is being considered for a major honour, the BBC has learned. Denis Avey, 91, who lives in Derbyshire, helped save Ernst Lobethall, a German Jew from...
MARTHA MENDOZA Associated Press Writers= PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) â It's 8 a.m. and Dr. Theresa Rossouw is already drowning behind a cluttered desk of handwritten HIV charts â new, perplexing cases of patients whose lifesaving drugs have...
Britain despatched an undercover diplomat on a covert mission to the Bahamas to convince the deposed Shah of Iran not to seek to settle in the UK. The revelation comes in official archive documents made public 30 years after they were written. The...
Hundreds of al-Qaeda fighters may be operating inside Yemen and could be plotting further attacks following the botched attempt to bomb a US airliner, the Yemeni foreign minister has said. Abu Bakr Al-Qirbi called for Western countries to give more...
By MATT MOFFETT and MATTHEW COWLEY BUENOS AIRES -- Argentina's opposition sought a court injunction to block the government's plan to earmark some central-bank reserves to service the national debt. The dispute over President Cristina Kirchner's...
* Nikkei hits 4-month high, but JAL fall weighs * JAL tumbles to record low of 60 yen on bankruptcy worries * But "Golden Cross" may point to further gains - analyst By Elaine Lies TOKYO, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei stock average edged down 0.2...
In an interview with al-Jazeera, Democratic Congressman Baird admitted that little if nothing had changed with the humanitarian crisis in Gaza a year after the Israeli attack....
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has written a personal letter to Burma's detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. In the letter, Mr Brown praises Ms Suu Kyi's selflessness and courage, saying that his government...
Rights campaigners were last night celebrating the end of "Apartheid Road" after Israel's supreme court ordered the military to open up a major highway that cuts through the West Bank to Palestinians, rather than reserving it exclusively for...
