Thousands Of Anti-government Protesters Converge On Thai Capital Font size Print E-mail Share (AP) BANGKOK (AP) - Thousands of red-shirted, anti-government demonstrators converged on the Thai capital from the north and northeast Saturday, vowing to oust the government in a mass, do-or-die display of...
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Police have released three of the seven Muslims arrested in the Irish Republic over an alleged plot to murder a Swedish cartoonist. They were freed without charge after three-and-a-half days of questioning. The trio were held on suspicion of...
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A New York judge has approved a settlement worth $657.5m for rescue and recovery workers who responded to the attacks at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, New York city officials and lawyers say. Thousands who worked at "Ground Zero" in the ruins of the World Trade Center...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday his government sent a "deeply negative signal" by taking steps that undermined renewed Middle East peace talks. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem February...
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MAKINE, Pakistan — From a forward base in the bare brown foothills of the soaring mountains of South Waziristan, Pakistani soldiers fired artillery at insurgents sheltering in scrub across the valley. Smoke blotted the sky as they set ablaze houses once used by the Taliban to hide caches of...
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LONDON, March 12 (Reuters) - British Conservative leader David Cameron told French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday he would be an "active and energetic" participant in the European Union if he became prime minister after a forthcoming election. The Conservatives, who are hostile to closer...
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Posted | Comment | Recommend | | | JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has sealed off the for 48 hours, preventing Palestinians from entering Israel because of fears of unrest. There have been clashes after Friday prayers at mosques in and elsewhere in recent weeks, sparked by...
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BEIJING: China on Saturday announced a sharp increase in the number of Internet users. The timing of the announcement suggests Beijing is trying to persuade Google to stay and give up plans to pull out its Chinese version from the country. "There is no sense blowing things out of proportion and...
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