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Friday, 28 January 2011

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Eight killed in Kabul supermarket blast The Independent

A bomb exploded inside a grocery store frequented by foreigners on Friday in Kabul, killing at least eight people and injuring others, police and eyewitnesses said. Three foreigners and a child were...

Egypt protesters clash with police after prayers The News & Observer

CAIRO -- Thousands of Egyptian anti-government protesters clashed Friday with police in Cairo, who fired rubber bullets into the crowds and used tear gas and water cannons to disperse them. Police...

Fire rages in Zamboanga City commercial district Inquirer

DAVAO CITY, Philippines(UPDATE) An explosion ripped through a warehouse containing firecrackers and chemicals in the Canelar district of Zamboanga City Friday afternoon, triggering a fire in several...

Irish PM to dissolve parliament on Tuesday: report Yahoo Daily News

DUBLIN (Reuters) – Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen will dissolve parliament on Tuesday and announce the date of a general election, state broadcaster RTE said on Friday, in which his ruling...

Brazil floods: 8,000 free homes for victims BBC News

Continue reading the main story Related stories Brazil landslide deaths top 800 Heavy rains continue in Brazil Brazil rescue effort stepped up Brazil says it is going to build 8,000 houses to give free to poor people made homeless by floods and...

Ethnic Russian is named as suspect in airport bombing Irish Times

MOSCOW - Security forces are searching for an ethnic Russian member of a North Caucasus Islamist group suspected of involvement in the Moscow airport bombing which killed 35 people on Monday. The suicide attack in the arrivals hall of Domodedovo...

Outrage over planned sell-off of Britain's state-owned forests Irish Times

MARK HENNESSY, London Editor HUNDREDS OF thousands of acres of state-owned British forests are to be sold off by the Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition in a bid to raise money, but the "jewels in the crown", such as the Forest of Dean, Sherwood...

British PM tells Davos: austerity is working Orlando Sentinel

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron will tell fellow leaders at this year's World Economic Forum that austerity measures imposed by his government are already bearing fruit. Cameron's...

Mikati hears demands on cabinet formation Daily Star Lebanon

March 8 calls for reform while March 14 seeks ongoing support for tribunal By The Daily Star Friday, January 28, 2011 - Powered by --> BEIRUT: Parliamentary blocs filed into Nijmeh Square Thursday during day-long meetings with Prime...

Muslim population will grow twice as fast as non-Muslim population: Study The Times of India

WASHINGTON: The world's Muslim population will grow twice as fast as the non-Muslim population in the next 20 years, when Muslims are expected to make up more than a quarter of the global population, a study published on Thursday predicts. Using...

Gates Says Budget Impasse Threatens Readiness The New York Times

OTTAWA — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, escalating his budget battle with Congress, has issued an unusually passionate warning that the impasse over approving this year’s federal spending package threatens the military’s...

Federal Reserve to pump $775b more into US economy as recovery stutters NZ Herald

Federal Reserve policy makers maintained plans to buy US$600 billion ($775 billion) of Treasuries through to June, indicating the recovery still needs stimulus to produce a bigger reduction in unemployment. The expansion is "continuing, though at a...

Berlusconi prostitution probe widens in Italy The Associated Press

ROME (AP) -- A parliamentary committee in Italy examined 200 more pages of documents Thursday assembled by prosecutors investigating Premier Silvio Berlusconi on suspicion he paid for sex with a 17-year-old Moroccan girl. The documents include...

Speculation Over Mandela's Hospitalization The New York Times

JOHANNESBURG — Nelson Mandela, the beloved but increasingly frail hero of South African democracy, remained hospitalized for a second day here Thursday for what his foundation called “routine tests.” As friends and family filed into...

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