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People seen over a debris of a police outpost on the outskirt of Peshawar, Pakistan on Thursday, Jan. 1, 2009. a bomb destroyed the small police outpost on the outskirts of the northwest city of Peshawar, killing one policeman, said local police official Noor Illahi Kh

Suspected U.S. Missile Strike Kills Three in Pakistan

Wall Street Journal

Associated Press DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan -- A suspected U.S. missile strike by a drone aircraft destroyed a vehicle in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least three foreign militants, said intelligence officials. At least one local militant was wounded in the...

photo: AP / Mohammad Sajjad

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Opinion Worldwide

2009 is a make or break year for the EU and Turkey

Daily Star Lebanon

By Hugh Pope Commentary by Thursday, January 01, 2009 - Powered by...

Russia's economic downturn pushes Putinism into crisis

Daily Star Lebanon

By Irina Yasina Commentary by Thursday, January 01, 2009...

Obama: a new page in US Middle East policy - or just the next one?

Daily Star Lebanon

By The Daily Star Thursday, January 01, 2009 - Powered by...

Japan leader vows to pull Japan out of recession

Japan's new Prime Minister Taro Aso leaves following his first news conference as the nation's leader at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008. Outspoken conservative Taro Aso took power as Japan's prime minister on Wednesday after he overcame opposition forces in the split parliament, tasked with rejuvenating the ailing ruling party ahead of election

Houston Chronicle

TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso vowed to turn around the ailing economy Thursday, promising to make his nation the world's first to emerge from the global recession. "The government will do its utmost to ease people's worries about the...

photo: AP / Itsuo Inouy

North Korea issues New Year denuclearization pledge

In this photo released by U.S. researchers who visited North Korea, researcher Siegfried Hecker examines machining lathes that were used for machining uranium metal fuel rods and are now stored in monitored storage locations in the fuel fabrication facility at the Yongbyon Nuclear Center in North Korea Thursday Feb. 14, 2008. North Korean officials said they slowed the removal of fuel rods from the country's Yongbyon reactor because the United States and other nations have fallen behind in supplying aid under an Oct. 3 disarmament pact, said Siegfried Hecker, a Stanford University physicist, and Joel Wit, a former State Department expert on the North, after a visit to the complex this

The Boston Globe

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea greeted the New Year by repeating its pledge to rid the peninsula of nuclear weapons and hinting it could work with Barack Obama when he becomes the U.S. president, editorials said on Thursday. The communist North, which...

photo: AP / W.K. Luse/HO

New Norway law bans buying of sex

Cards are seen inside a phone box advertising sex and personal favors, in London, Tuesday Nov. 18, 2008. Britain plans to make it illegal to pay for sex and will embark on a "name and shame" campaign for people who visit prostitutes, changes that some say will only make sex workers more vulnerable, and put more women at risk. "Basically, if it means fewer people are able to go out and pay for sex, I think that would be a good thing," Britain's Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has said ahead of the announcement expected on Wednesday Nov. 1

BBC News

A new law has come into force in Norway making the purchase of sex illegal. Norwegian citizens caught paying for prostitutes at home or abroad could face a hefty fine or a six-month prison sentence,...

photo: AP / Matt Dunham

General Motors gets first tranche of US loan

GMC Envoys sit on the lot at Capitol City AutoMart in Berlin, Vt., Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008.

The Times of India

Text: DETROIT: General Motors Corp received its first multibillion dollar loan installment from the US Treasury Department Wednesday night, right in time to avert a financial disaster in which the...

photo: AP / Toby Talbot

Leap year bug zaps Zune music players

Two of three new Microsoft Corp. Zune portable media players that were announced Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2007, are shown in their docking stations at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Wash. The large model at left is an 80-gigabyte, hard-drive based model, and the model at right is a flash-memory model that is available in 4GB and 8GB si

Inquirer

WASHINGTON--It wasn't a very Happy New Year for some owners of Microsoft's Zune. Thousands of the MP3 music players froze on New Year's Eve around the world due to what Microsoft described as a bug in the device's internal clock. The bug only...

photo: AP / Ted S. Warren

Wall Street looks to '09 with relief after terrible '08

Warren Meyers, left, works with fellow traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday Sept. 30, 2008. Stocks staged a partial rebound early Tuesday after their biggest sell-off in years, though financial markets remained troubled a day after lawmakers rejected a $700 billion rescue plan for the financial sector.

The Star

NEW YORK (AP) - The last trading day of 2008 on Wall Street provided a merciful end to an abysmal year _ the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930s, wiping out $6.9 trillion in stock market wealth. Six years of stock gains disappeared as the...

photo: AP / Richard Drew