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- Mumbai Jews found to have been tortured
Mexico City News.Net
Jewish people, who were murdered by terrorists in Mumbai last week, were tortured before they were killed.
- Money flowed into presidential campaign like never before
Mexico City News.Net
Over US$100 million was gathered by the Barack Obama campaign team in the weeks before Election Day.
- Vladimir Putin makes positive noises toward US
Mexico City News.Net
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said the United States will feel a positive change in attitude from Moscow if President-elect Barack Obama is more friendly with Russia.
- UAE captures alleged human traffickers
Mexico City News.Net
Police in the United Arab Emirates have arrested eight nationals in connection with alleged prostitution and human trafficking.
- Aid institutions pleased with Zimbabwe decision
Mexico City News.Net
The international aid community has welcomed Zimbabwe's call for urgent financial aid to deal with a major cholera epidemic.
- Iraq gives final go-ahead for US withdrawal
Mexico City News.Net
A security pact with the United States that paves the way for a complete US troop pullout, has been approved by Iraq's Presidency Council.
- India tense as airports threatened
Mexico City News.Net
India has been on full terror alert with Chennai International Airport, one of the major airports in the country, under especially heightened security.
- Thai king unable to appear for birthday speech
Mexico City News.Net
On the 81st birthday of their beloved King, the Thai people have become concerned over his health, after he failed to make his usual birthday speech.
- Gun clubbers prosecuted over child death
Mexico City News.Net
In the US, three men, including a local police chief, have been charged with involuntary manslaughter, after an 8-year-old boy shot himself at a gun-club fair.
- Violence takes over in West Bank housing dispute
Mexico City News.Net
Violence has flared in the West Bank after Israeli forces ordered Jewish settlers and their supporters from a building.
- Canadian parliament ordered to take a break
Mexico City News.Net
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has managed to have parliament suspended.
- Climate change money sought by coastal nations
Mexico City News.Net
Climate change is already drowning homes of people in coastal areas, especially in the developing world.
- Top Indian official admits
USA Today
MUMBAI, India India's top law enforcement official admitted Friday there were government "lapses" in last week's terror attack on Mumbai, amid a public uproar over security and...
- Head of Russian Orthodox Church dies
Channel News Asia
MOSCOW : Alexy II, the conservative Orthodox patriarch who oversaw a post-Soviet renaissance of the Russian Church yet was steadily criticised as subservient to the Kremlin, died on Friday, the...
- Gorilla states in poaching pledge
BBC
Countries that are home to gorillas have pledged to monitor how laws against harming the animals are being implemented on the ground. Most gorilla range states have laws against poaching, but...
- Canadian leader provokes anger by closing Parliament
International Herald Tribune
OTTAWA : Canada's parliamentary opposition reacted with outrage after Prime Minister Stephen Harper shut down the Legislature until Jan. 26, seeking to forestall a no-confidence vote that he was...
- U.S. says time for Mugabe to go
Reuters
Nobel laureate and South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu said on Thursday that Mugabe must step down or be removed by force and that the Zimbabwean leader faced indictment for war crimes in the...
- U.S. job losses awaited
Reuters
Figures due on Friday were expected to show the sharpest U.S. job losses in 26 years, underlining the severity of a downturn caused by the worst financial crisis since the 1930s.
- Understanding but no consensus on auto bailout
Reuters
There is broad understanding of distress but no consensus yet in Congress to rescue U.S. automakers as industry chiefs hope on Friday to advance their case in a second...
- A man has been charged in connection with the deaths of 18 baby seals found on a Shetland beach.
The Herald
A man has been charged in connection with the deaths of 18 baby seals found on a Shetland beach. The 47-year-old was arrested after workers from Scottish Natural Heritage found the dead pups as they...
- US foundations giving record amounts globally
C News
U.S. charitable foundations gave money to international causes at record levels in 2007 and their contributions are likely to increase again this year, says a report by an organization that...
- Boy George guilty of handcuff crime
The Australian
The former Culture Club frontman was at Snaresbrook Crown Court in east London to hear the verdict, which came at the end of a two-week trial. He will be sentenced later. The 47-year-old, tried under...
- IDF bolsters forces across West Bank in wake of Hebron house eviction
Haaretz
Israel placed military and police forces on alert Friday to head off settler violence after the evacuation of a disputed West Bank building brought tensions between the government and extremist...
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