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 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
 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...
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...
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...
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
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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 ...
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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