Deutsche Welle The first of Japan's nuclear reactors could come back online in as little as three weeks' time after all of the country's nuclear plants were shut down pending safety checks following last year's...
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Saturday, 16 June 2012
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The Dallas Morning News Why don’t we vote? It’s a question many Latinos have been asking themselves for decades. Well, they may have just been given a huge shot in the arm and reason to vote this year. President Barack...
Jakarta Post Poland is braced for more soccer hooligan violence this weekend between Polish and Russian fans at the European Championship, with the justice minister warning that there's no shortage of "cretins"...
The Star CAIRO: Egyptians vote for a president on Saturday in a runoff election that for many offers only a choice of the lesser of two evils - a military man who served deposed autocrat Hosni Mubarak or a...
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The Independent That Euro 2012 is on terrestrial TV, and neither figure includes the pub audience, is obviously a factor but Sky's previous biggest audience (3.9m) was for an England match nine years ago (v Turkey, away) when they had far fewer than their present...
CNN June 15, 2012 -- Updated 1659 GMT (0059 HKT) Egyptians protest in Tahrir Square on Friday after Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court ruled that Parliament must be dissolved. Editor's note: Isobel Coleman is the author of "Paradise Beneath Her Feet"...
Asia Times True stripes revealed in Myanmar By Francis Wade CHIANG MAI - The timing of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's return to Europe after a 24-year absence could have been better. She leaves her country amid turmoil in its western Rakhine...
Independent online (SA) Khartoum - Sudan said it had agreed to resume talks next week with South Sudan to end hostilities between the arch-foes, state news agency SUNA said on Thursday. The African neighbours came close to war when a border dispute in April saw the worst...
Xinhua BEIJING, June 15 (Xinhua) -- State Councilor Ma Kai met with EU Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response Kristalina...
Huffington Post BEIRUT, June 15 (Reuters) - Government forces have used rape and other sexual violence against men, women and children during the Syrian uprising, Human Rights Watch said on Friday. The U.S.-based group said it had recorded 20 incidents from...
Novosti Kommersant Central Asia Set to Receive U.S. Military Equipment from Afghanistan U.S. and NATO forces are to leave Afghanistan by 2014. After the withdrawal, some U.S. military equipment might remain in various Central Asian states. The U.S....
Voa News Twenty years after the first Earth Summit, Brazil is set to host Rio plus 20, officially known as the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development. Agricultural experts say food security should be at the top of the agenda. De Capua report on...
The Times of India SHARE AND DISCUSSTweet NEW DELHI: In his first official visit after taking over as the Army chief on May 31, General Bikram Singh on Friday began his first-hand assessment of the ground situation...
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