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  • Israeli insensitivity questioned by the US administration

    Israeli insensitivity questioned by the US administration

    Germany News.Net

    Israel appears surprised by a rebuke from the US administration about its new settlement expansion.

  • Israelis capture Hamas leader

    Israelis capture Hamas leader

    Germany News.Net

    Israel has arrested a leader of the Palestinian Hamas movement.

  • Thais demonstrate against government

    Thais demonstrate against government

    Germany News.Net

    Many backers of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra from all over Thailand are converging on Bangkok.

  • Mexico endures another night of drug violence

    Mexico endures another night of drug violence

    Germany News.Net

    Drug related violence in Mexico has left another 25 people dead, four of them from decapitation.

  • Canadians dead in snowmobile avalanche

    Canadians dead in snowmobile avalanche

    Germany News.Net

    In Canada, three people are dead while others are still buried under piles of snow, after an avalanche hit a snowmobile competition near Revelstoke, British Columbia.

  • Nouri al-Maliki closing in on leadership in Iraq

    Nouri al-Maliki closing in on leadership in Iraq

    Germany News.Net

    In Iraq, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's political coalition has taken the lead after last weekend’s vote.

  • Opposition Internet sites shut down in Iran

    Opposition Internet sites shut down in Iran

    Germany News.Net

    Iran has dismantled several opposition Internet networks it says were backed by the US.

  • Pope weathering paedophile slurs

    Pope weathering paedophile slurs

    Germany News.Net

    The Vatican has denounced attempts to involve the pope in scandals surrounding paedophile activity within the Catholic Church.

  • Prison break could be behind Afghan attacks

    Prison break could be behind Afghan attacks

    Germany News.Net

    Suicide bombers have killed around 30 people in Kandahar City, Afghanistan.

  • Obama education plan to be set for US

    Obama education plan to be set for US

    Germany News.Net

    President Barack Obama of the US is now pushing for education reform.

  • Pakistani Jets Pound Taliban Hide-outs

    Washington Times

    By ASSOCIATED PRESS PARACHINAR, Pakistan -- Pakistani fighter jets pounded a series of Taliban hide-outs near the Afghan border Sunday, killing nine insurgents, a local official said. The hide-out...

  • Axelrod: Israel Construction Plan An 'insult'

    Washington Times

    By ASSOCIATED PRESS The White House isn't relenting in its strong criticism of Israel for plans to build 1,600 new apartments for Jews in east Jerusalem, which Palestinians are seeking as their futur...

  • Gun In Pentagon Case Came From Tenn. Police

    Washington Times

    By Devlin Barrett ASSOCIATED PRESS Two guns used in high-profile shootings this year at the Pentagon and a Las Vegas courthouse both came from the same unlikely place: the police and court system of ...

  • Kandahar Governor Wants More Security

    Washington Times

    By Noor Khan ASSOCIATED PRESS KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- The governor of Kandahar province demanded more security around Afghanistan's largest southern city Sunday after a series of explosions killed d...

  • Whip: Too Few 'yeas' To Pass Health Bill Now

    Washington Times

    By ASSOCIATED PRESS The majority whip in the House of Representatives said Sunday that right now there aren't enough votes to pass President Obama's health care overhaul. Meanwhile, President Obama's...

  • Storm Leaves Northeast Soggy, Windblown

    Washington Times

    By Bruce Shipkowski ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- Utility crews pushed through fallen trees and windblown debris to reach downed power lines Sunday, working to restore electricity to hundre...

  • Kadyrov Seeks To Expel Illegal Migrants And Russian Police

    RadioFreeEurope

    to reduce to a minimum the number of non-Chechens in Chechnya. And as part of his project to transform Chechnya into an Islamic state, he has also issued instructions to leading Muslim clerics to impr...

  • Fake Russian Coup Report Sparks Outrage In Georgia

    RadioFreeEurope

    widespread panic and outrage. The report was aired at prime time on March 13 by the pro-government Georgian television channel Imedi. The footage is not available on the channel's

  • A Ferrari 1-2 Victory In Bahrain

    International Herald Tribune

    Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso of Spain won the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix. SAKHIR, Bahrain — The first race of the Formula One season delivered just about everything it was hoped it would, as ...

  • What Health-care Bill Means For New Yorkers

    New York Post

    It’s zero hour for the controversial health-care bill, as the Obama administration readies for a vote this week.Democrats spent last week in a frenzy of strategy sessions for the delicate operat...

  • City Does Nada As Stores Flout 'eyesore' Law With Signs

    New York Post

    With a view like this, they might as well be living in Times Square. Upper East Side residents are fuming that "sign pollution" is turning their posh neighborhood into an urban eyesore. On a stretch o...

  • Israelis Nab Senior Hamas Leader

    CNN

    Jerusalem (CNN) -- Israeli forces have arrested a senior Hamas operative they say is responsible for killing more than 70 Israelis in various terrorist attacks, the Israel Defense Forces said Sunday.

  • Alonso Triumphs As Vettel Fades

    BBC

    Fernando Alonso led Felipe Massa to a stunning Ferrari one-two after the Red Bull of Sebastian Vettel hit trouble at the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix.Alonso trailed the German from the start but ...

  • Service For Ex-england Goalkeeper

    BBC

    Former England goalkeeper and long-serving Birmingham City player Gil Merrick has been remembered by fans at a memorial service.Supporters gathered at the club's St Andrew's stadium in the stand named...

  • Selection Row Mp Fights Concerns

    BBC

    A Labour MP caught up in a reselection dispute is fighting claims from local party members she is not up to the job.Activists are attempting to have Anne Moffat deselected as Labour's candidate in Eas...

  • Market Abuse 'unacceptably High'

    BBC

    Market abuse in the UK's financial services sector is at an "unacceptably high level", the head of the City watchdog has said.Hector Sants, the chief executive of the Financial Services Auth...

  • Fake Invasion Report Sparks Georgia Panic

    The Australian

    OUTRAGED Georgians yesterday slammed a local television channel that sparked panic by broadcasting a faked report announcing that Russia had launched an invasion and the country's president was d...

  • We Must Make The Running With Indonesia

    The Australian

    As it happens, Barack Obama is due here soon, although the visit has been put back and shortened because he needs to sort out the US health system.But he will be here. And by then we'll have filed the...

  • Red-shirts Take To The Streets

    The Australian

    The historic heart of Bangkok became a sea of colour as huge crowds of red-shirted anti-government protesters - estimated at more than 100,000 - from all over Thailand surged into the capital calling ...

  • Hollywood Switches Off Green Monster

    The Australian

    WHEN Harrison Ford arrived at the Oscars with his sweetheart Calista Flockhart in a Prius eight years ago, the green car became Hollywood's most chic and politically correct transport accessory.

  • Alaska Jogger Killed By Wolves

    The Australian

    ALASKAN hunters were yesterday searching a remote peninsula for a pack of up to four wolves believed to have killed a 32-year-old jogger in what is described as the first fatal wolf attack in the US f...

  • Tamils Now Look To Self-rule

    The Australian

    The Tamil National Alliance, which backed the rebels in a 26-year civil war, said in its platform for April 8 parliamentary elections that it would accept a "federal structure" in the north ...

  • Food Factory Cuisine Unsavoury To French

    The Australian

    IT was a proud day for French cuisine when the authorities announced plans to distinguish chefs who upheld tradition by designating them as "master restaurateurs".

  • Pm's Nuclear Shift Angers Japan

    The Australian

    DIPLOMATIC tensions between Australia and Japan are spreading beyond the emotional issue of whale hunting in the Antarctic, as Japanese resentment grows at Kevin Rudd's decision not to attend a n...

  • Fourth Muslim Freed Over Cartoon Kill Plot

    The Australian

    A fourth Muslim arrested over an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist who drew the Prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog has been released without charge.

  • Healthcare Overhaul Will Pass: Axelrod

    Reuters

    (Reuters) - A senior White House adviser said on Sunday that President Barack Obama would get the votes necessary to pass a sweeping overhaul of the healthcare system.

  • Greek Bailout Tops Eu Finance Ministers' Agenda

    Reuters

    BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Finance ministers from countries using the euro hope to agree on Monday on a way of providing heavily indebted Greece with financial aid, despite French doubts that a deal will be...

  • Student Eaton Breaks Heptathlon World Record

    Reuters

    Eaton, a 22-year-old student at the University of Oregon, scored 6,499 points in the seven-event competition at the NCAA championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas on Saturday, breaking 1996 Olympic gold...

  • Kendrick Learns His Lesson

    Philadelphia Daily News

    CLEARWATER, Fla. - Riding on a late-night bus from Rochester or Scranton or some other International League town last summer, Kyle Kendrick finally began to understand what Jamie Moyer, Rich Dubee, an...

  • Crews Work On 32,000 Power Outages In Philly Area

    Philadelphia Daily News

    PHILADELPHIA - Utility crews are working to restore power to thousands of suburban Philadelphia customers left without power by a weekend storm. PECO spokesman Fred Maher says about 32,000 customers ...

  • Pa.'s 'tea Party' Finding Strength In Independence

    Philadelphia Daily News

    HARRISBURG, Pa. - Some day it might be remembered as the Tea Party primary. The newly forming activist groups that identify heartily with calls for cutting taxes, red tape and government programs are...

  • Social Security To Start Cashing Uncle Sam's Ious

    Philadelphia Daily News

    PARKERSBURG, W.Va. - The retirement nest egg of an entire generation is stashed away in this small town along the Ohio River: $2.5 trillion in IOUs from the federal government, payable to the Social S...

  • The Backlash From Iverson Report

    Philadelphia Daily News

    Once upon a time it was hard to decipher what was more difficult to stomach: the foolish, detrimental behavior of a professional athlete or the apologists disguised as their inner circle, eager to exc...

  • Va. House, Senate Reach Budget Deal

    Washington Times

    By Bob Lewis ASSOCIATED PRESS RICHMOND -- Legislative budget negotiators finally came to terms on a new bare-bones budget for the cash-strapped state government early Sunday. The two sides shook h...

  • Iraqi Pm Leads Vote In Basra

    RadioFreeEurope

    BAGHDAD (Reuters) -- A list led by Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had a wide lead in early results from the southern oil hub of Basra a week after Iraq's parliamentary election, the country's e...

  • French Fm: Iran Resolution Months Away

    RadioFreeEurope

    SAARISELKA, Finland (Reuters) -- A U.N. resolution on new sanctions against Iran may not be ready until June and if a vote on it fails, European states could take unilateral measures instead, French a...

  • Afghan Blast Kills Pakistani National

    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 Afghan Service.

  • Georgians Outraged By 'invasion' Report

    RadioFreeEurope

    Georgia's political opposition has denounced a mock television report of a Russian invasion as Georgian government-sponsored propaganda which they said had traumatized many people.The mock report, whi...

  • '$$ Fray' City Rollers

    New York Post

    They should be rollin' in dough, but they're not. Three of the Bay City Rollers, who shimmied to fame with the 1970s hit "Saturday Night," have filed suit against the rest of the former band members, ...

  • Outrage In Georgia Over Fake Russian Invasion Report

    Channel News Asia

    TBILISI, Georgia : Outraged Georgians on Sunday slammed a local television channel that sparked panic by broadcasting a faked report announcing that Russia had launched an invasion and the country's p...