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  • Fed chairman says Obama bank legislation might not be enough

    Fed chairman says Obama bank legislation might not be enough

    Jakarta News.Net

    The head of the US Federal Reserve has partially opposed president Barack Obama's new rules to regulate financial firms.

  • Iran offers to exchange uranium with the West

    Iran offers to exchange uranium with the West

    Jakarta News.Net

    The head of the Iranian atomic energy agency, Ali Akbar Salehi, has told local television the country will make concessions to the West by exchanging Tehran's low-grade uranium for highly enriched uranium that it needs for its medical research

  • Drone attacks target Waziristan militants

    Drone attacks target Waziristan militants

    Jakarta News.Net

    US drone strikes have killed at least 10 militants in Pakistan.

  • Christian TV station shut down by Palestinian government

    Christian TV station shut down by Palestinian government

    Jakarta News.Net

    The Palestinian Authority has closed down the only Christian TV broadcaster in the Territories.

  • Nazi tainted Picasso to be sold by Andrew Lloyd Webber

    Nazi tainted Picasso to be sold by Andrew Lloyd Webber

    Jakarta News.Net

    A painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, which was once withdrawn from sale due to links with Nazis, is to be sold by its current owner, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber.

  • Tools found in Indonesia over one million years old

    Tools found in Indonesia over one million years old

    Jakarta News.Net

    A scientific discovery has shown early humans were living on the Indonesian island of Flores many years before first thought.

  • Nigerian politicians pushed out by acting president

    Nigerian politicians pushed out by acting president

    Jakarta News.Net

    The acting Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has dismissed his Cabinet.

  • Aid goes to Fiji after Cyclone Tomas

    Aid goes to Fiji after Cyclone Tomas

    Jakarta News.Net

    Aid is being sent to the Fiji islands which have been hard hit by Cyclone Tomas.

  • French policeman killed in ETA action

    French policeman killed in ETA action

    Jakarta News.Net

    The French government has blamed the Basque terror organisation ETA for the killing of a French police officer on Tuesday.

  • Airline staff sentenced to jail in Dubai over phone texts

    Airline staff sentenced to jail in Dubai over phone texts

    Jakarta News.Net

    The court said there was not enough evidence to determine whether the man and the woman had actually had an affair, which could have brought a harsher sentence.

  • Man arrested after school meal tampered with

    Man arrested after school meal tampered with

    Jakarta News.Net

    A school kitchen porter in the UK has been arrested over allegations that he poisoned soup which was being served to students and staff.

  • Australian soldiers identified from WWI

    Australian soldiers identified from WWI

    Jakarta News.Net

    The Australian government has announced it has identified the remains of 75 Australian soldiers who fought in the 1916 Battle of Fromelles in France.

  • 'jihad Jane' Due In Court In Philly

    Washington Times

    By ASSOCIATED PRESS PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Whether she was seeking love or vengeance, or just an escape from her dreary, small-town existence, Colleen LaRose searched the Internet and found Muslim extr...

  • Barnes & Noble Names William Lynch Ceo - Update

    RTT News

    News ) announced Thursday the appointment of William Lynch as the chief executive officer of the company, succeeding Stephen Riggio to the position. Riggio will continue as the vice chairman and will ...

  • Eu Official Criticizes Bosnian Serbs In Report To Un

    RadioFreeEurope

    PRAGUE -- European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has accused Bosnia's Serb entity of obstructing the peace process in that Balkan country, RFE/RL's Balkan Service reports.Ashton's critic...

  • In Eu, Frustration With Georgia Now Evident

    RadioFreeEurope

    BRUSSELS -- The European Union has fired a warning shot across Georgia's bow, with the president of the European Commission telling Georgia's visiting prime minister that further democratic reforms ar...

  • Us Rights Group Tells President Bakiev: 'stop This Crackdown.'

    RadioFreeEurope

    HELSINKI COMMISSION CONCERNED ABOUT CRACKDOWN ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN KYRGYZSTAN WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senator Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD), Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Eur...

  • Qanimat Zahid Is Free

    RadioFreeEurope

    "The Post's" Style section highlights the exhibit at the Library of Congress, which showcases some of the thousands of handwritten scrolls and letters sent in by listeners to RFE/RL's Radio Free Afgha...

  • Yes, Russia Today, But What Do You Really Think?

    RadioFreeEurope

    Russia's international English-language broadcaster apparently thought better of a video report on U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit, titled "Hillary Clinton In Moscow To Pay Lip Se...

  • Council Of Europe Wants Armenian Election Reforms By 2011

    RadioFreeEurope

    YEREVAN -- The Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) has agreed to give Armenia until the end of this year to reform its electoral system, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reports.The Armenian go...

  • Chavez Relocates Eastern Europe

    RadioFreeEurope

    from December 2009, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez proudly shows his knowledge of geography to a visiting delegation of Belarusian dignitaries.Chavez effusively tells the visitors, led by Belarusian...

  • Russian Opposition Activists, Journalists On Hunger Strike In Astrakhan

    RadioFreeEurope

    Several opposition politicians and journalists have begun a hunger strike in the Caspian city of Astrakhan to demand a halt to what they say is the persecution of opposition activists in the southern ...

  • Woman: I Was Hoodwinked Into Marrying Gay Man Who Needed Green Card

    New York Post

    It was a match made in speed-dating hell. A Long Island woman claims she was hoodwinked into marrying a Pakistani immigrant -- who tricked her into thinking he was a wealthy computer whiz who shared h...

  • Gaza Rocket Attack Into Israel Kills A Thai Worker

    International Herald Tribune

    European Union ’s top foreign policy official arrived there on a rare visit by such a high-ranking official. The foreign agricultural worker, who was from Thailand, was the first fatality from ...

  • Peres Stresses J'lem Policy To Ashton

    Jerusalem Post

    In an early morning meeting on Thursday with EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Baroness Catherine Ashton, President Shimon Peres reiterated what has been Israel's construc...

  • Uk Boy Reunited With Father After Pakistan Kidnap

    Channel News Asia

    ISLAMABAD : A five-year-old British boy was reunited with his father in Pakistan on Thursday, a British high commission official said following a kidnapping ordeal that saw a ransom paid in Paris. Sah...

  • Obama To Sign Bill To Spur Job Growth

    USA Today

    The bill contains two major provisions. First, it exempts businesses hiring the unemployed from the 6.2% Social Security payroll tax through December. It also gives employers an additional $1,000 cred...

  • Online Postings Warn Of Another Va. Tech Attack

    USA Today

    Guidelines: You share in the USA TODAY community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don't attack other readers personally, and keep your language decent. Use the "Report Abuse" button to m...

  • Israeli Medics: Rocket Fired By Palestinian Militants Kills 1

    USA Today

    Such rocket fire once common but have become rare since the Israeli military's campaign in the Gaza Strip last year, which aimed to bring an end to the attacks.

  • Government Orders Recall Of 1.2m Graco High Chairs

    USA Today

    Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the voluntary recall Thursday involving the product made by Graco Children's Products, Inc., of Atlanta. regulatory agency said "screws holding the front...

  • Mini Porn Shows Lose Tax Exempt Battle

    The Independent

    Sex shops showing films in cubicles lost their battle today to charge the same lower VAT rate as ordinary cinemas. The European Court of Justice ruled that Belgium was right in 2004 to recoup ...

  • Farm Worker Killed In Gaza Rocket Attack

    The Independent

    Palestinian militants killed an Israeli farm worker today in their first rocket attack from Gaza since last year's Israeli offensive. Israel's emergency service said the dead man was from ...

  • Kidnap Boy Sahil Saeed On Way Back To Uk From Pakistan

    The Independent

    The five-year-old boy freed by kidnappers in Pakistan after his family paid a £110,000 ransom is on his way home, sources said today. Sahil Saeed and his father Raja Naqqash Saeed ar...

  • Fargo A Fortress Of Sandbags

    CNN

    (CNN) -- The city of Fargo, North Dakota, largely completed flood preparations early Thursday as a surging Red River rose nearly 3 feet in 24 hours. The waterway was well beyond its banks along the No...

  • Kidnapped Uk Boy Back With Dad

    CNN

    Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- The father of a 5-year-old British boy kidnapped by gunmen while on vacation in Pakistan said he was "completely overjoyed" at being reunited with his son after ...

  • Abramovich In Libel Case Victory

    BBC

    Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich has accepted substantial libel damages over false newspaper allegations that he had a serious gambling problem.The Russian billionaire also accepted a public apology at ...

  • Can Catholic Church Overcome Child Abuse Scandals?

    BBC

    Cardinal Sean Brady, the leader of the Church in Ireland, has apologised for failing to alert police about one of the country's worst paedophile priests. But he's said he won't resign. What's your rea...

  • Darfur Rebel Alliance Makes Peace

    BBC

    Sudan has signed a ceasefire with a major Darfur rebel group, the second deal in recent weeks, leaving just one band of rebels in open conflict.The Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM) - a newly form...

  • Israel: Man Killed Following Rocket Attack

    Sky News

    The dead man was a farm worker from Thailand who was working on the Netiv Ha'assera kibbutz, near the border, an Israeli emergency services official said. It is the first such death in Israel since t...

  • Dresden Wwii Toll Put At 25,000

    BBC

    Up to 25,000 people died in the Allied bombing of Dresden during World War II - fewer than often estimated, an official German report has concluded.The Dresden Historians' Commission published its rep...

  • Clinton In Moscow For Nuclear Reduction Talks

    Sky News

    Tony Blair , to discuss bringing Israel and the Palestinians back to peace talks. The Middle East Quartet which includes the US, Russia, the EU and the UN will start official talks tomorrow.

  • Last-ditch Bid To End Ba Dispute

    BBC

    British Airways' chief executive and the joint leader of the Unite union, Tony Woodley, have held face-to-face talks to avert this weekend's strike.Sources at the Unite union told the BBC that contact...

  • 'hobbit' Island's Deeper History

    BBC

    Long before a 'hobbit' species of human lived on Indonesia's Flores island, other human-like creatures colonised the area. That much was clear.But scientists have now been able to date their presence ...

  • Spammers Survive Botnet Shutdowns

    BBC

    Spam levels have not been dented by a series of strikes against controllers of networks of hijacked computers.Early 2010 has seen four such networks, or botnets, tackled via arrests, net access cutoff...

  • Fraudster Bernard Madoff 'attacked' In Jail

    Sky News

    Butner jail in North Carolina for running a fraud scheme that cost investors billions of dollars. The attack reportedly happened in December and Madoff was transferred to the prison's low-security me...

  • Qaeda-labelled Group Claims Fatal Gaza Rocket

    IOL

    A previously unknown group in the Gaza Strip calling itself Ansar al-Sunna (Followers of the Sunnis) send out an SMS message to media claiming to have fired a rocket that killed a man in Israel on Thu...

  • Search For Poker Heist Suspect Goes Global

    IOL

    The search for two suspects in a spectacular heist at a poker tournament in Berlin took on an international dimension on Thursday, as police revealed they could have fled abroad. The men, aged 19 a...

  • Plane Makes Emergency Landing On Frozen Lake

    IOL

    A transport plane made an emergency landing on Thursday on a frozen lake close to the Estonian capital, Tallinn, according to news reports. The Antonov-26 aircraft, operated by Polish company Exin,...

  • Condom Requirement In Porn To Be Considered

    IOL

    By Shaya Tayefe Mohajer Condoms might be the only thing porn actors are required to wear if the state's workplace safety board approves a petition mandating their use. In a hearing Thursday, the...

  • Greek Pm Fears Debt Cost Spiral

    Reuters

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