Israel reviewing Gaza blockade format - minister |
- Israel reviewing Gaza blockade format - minister
- Australia announces new sanctions on Iran
- Irish PM Cowen says will win confidence vote
- Iran nuclear fuel swap deal 'still alive:' Ahmadinejad
- Barack Obama calls for clean-energy push
- New Japan PM says he won't visit Tokyo war shrine
- Australian ministers stand by besieged PM
- The Jewel of Muscat in Penang
- Landslides kill at least 46 in Bangladesh
- Queen Elizabeth honours Malaysian businessman
- Kyrgyz refugee numbers may exceed 100,000 - U.N. envoy
- Kazakh president declared Leader of the Nation
- Japan PM: Won't go to shrine criticised by China
- BP faces grilling in Congress, Obama to speak on TV
- Germany, France present united front on policy
- Q+A - Could Gillard become Australia's first woman PM?
- U.S. needs tougher N.Korea nuclear strategy - report
- UN warns rival Koreas against escalating tension
- Ten Mexican cops killed in ambush
- DPM leaves it to police to investigate JI attempts to recruit students
| Israel reviewing Gaza blockade format - minister Posted: 15 Jun 2010 01:42 AM PDT JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel is examining ways to ease its Gaza blockade, a cabinet minister said on Tuesday, calling the current policy counterproductive and confirming remarks by Middle East envoy Tony Blair that change was likely.
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| Australia announces new sanctions on Iran Posted: 14 Jun 2010 04:30 PM PDT SYDNEY: Australia said today it would impose new sanctions on Iran as part of ramped-up international efforts to encourage Tehran to curb its nuclear ambitions. The United Nations Security Council last week placed its fourth set of sanctions on Iran, while EU foreign ministers have proposed new restrictions which go even further. Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said the latest Australian sanctions would apply to a bank and a shipping company, as well as a man connected to a construction firm owned by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard. "These new measures put Australia at the forefront of efforts to persuade Iran to reverse its current path of confrontation with the international community," he said in a statement. Smith said the new sanctions would apply to Bank Mellat, which had facilitated transactions involving Iranian nuclear and missile entities, and the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Line (IRISL), which had transported goods for Tehran's nuclear and missile programmes. They would also apply to General Rostam Qasemi, who Smith said was the commander of the Khatem ol-Anbiya Construction Organisation, a firm owned by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. New measures Australia, which has imposed its own sanctions against some 40 other Iranian individuals and organisations, already supports all UN Security Council resolutions against the Islamic republic. The new measures mean that the firms identified will be unable to do business in Australia while General Qasemi will be banned from entering the country without the permission of the foreign minister. "Australia is taking these additional measures to demonstrate our real concern about Iran's nuclear programme," Smith said. Smith said the opportunity for dialogue with Iran was not over, but noted it posed "potentially with the most difficult peace and security issue the international community will be confronted with over the next 12 to 18 months". "Australia again calls on Iran to conduct itself in accordance of its international legal obligations and to seek to resolve this matter through a change of policy as quickly as possible," he told parliament. New UN sanctions announced last week authorise high-seas inspections of boats believed to be carrying banned items to Iran and increase the number of people and groups subject to travel restrictions and financial sanctions. - AFP
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| Irish PM Cowen says will win confidence vote Posted: 15 Jun 2010 01:15 AM PDT DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen has said he is confident his government will win a confidence vote on Tuesday, his second in just over a year.
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| Iran nuclear fuel swap deal 'still alive:' Ahmadinejad Posted: 14 Jun 2010 11:48 PM PDT TEHRAN -President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran's nuclear fuel swap deal brokered by Brazil and Turkey last month was "still alive," state television reported on its website on Tuesday.
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| Barack Obama calls for clean-energy push Posted: 15 Jun 2010 12:19 AM PDT US President Barack Obama has called on his party and supporters to back a "new future" of clean energy.
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| New Japan PM says he won't visit Tokyo war shrine Posted: 15 Jun 2010 12:58 AM PDT TOKYO, Tuesday 15 June 2010 (AFP) - Japan's new Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Tuesday he would stay away from a controversial war shrine in Tokyo seen as a symbol of the country's past military aggression by its Asian neighbours.
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| Australian ministers stand by besieged PM Posted: 15 Jun 2010 12:57 AM PDT SYDNEY, Tuesday 15 June 2010 (AFP) - Senior figures in Australia's ruling Labor Party Tuesday rallied behind embattled leader Kevin Rudd amid speculation of a challenge from his female deputy.
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| Posted: 15 Jun 2010 12:53 AM PDT The Jewel of Muscat, an ancient seafaring ship which was made without a single nail in the 9th century, impressed the people recently when it arrived at Penang.
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| Landslides kill at least 46 in Bangladesh Posted: 15 Jun 2010 12:32 AM PDT DHAKA, June 15 — Landslides triggered by heavy rain in southeast Bangladesh buried dozens of houses and killed at least 46 people today, officials said. The landslides hit villages in the Cox's Bazar hill and resort district, where officials said they recorded 25cm of rainfall in 24 hours to 9am today. "The death toll may go up as rescuers are ...
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| Queen Elizabeth honours Malaysian businessman Posted: 15 Jun 2010 12:26 AM PDT A Malaysian businessman and community leader was honoured by Britain's Queen Elizabeth in her birthday honours list on Monday.
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| Kyrgyz refugee numbers may exceed 100,000 - U.N. envoy Posted: 15 Jun 2010 12:44 AM PDT BISHKEK (Reuters) - The number of refugees fleeing ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan for neighbouring Uzbekistan may soon rise to 100,000 or more, United Nations Special Envoy Miroslav Jenca said on Tuesday.
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| Kazakh president declared Leader of the Nation Posted: 15 Jun 2010 12:44 AM PDT ASTANA (Reuters) - President Nursultan Nazarbayev was declared Kazakhstan's Leader of the Nation on Tuesday, which could signal the start of his gradual departure from the political scene in the oil-producing Central Asian nation.
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| Japan PM: Won't go to shrine criticised by China Posted: 15 Jun 2010 12:21 AM PDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said on Tuesday he would not visit the Yasukuni Shrine for the war dead while in office, in a sign he wants to maintain good ties with China.
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| BP faces grilling in Congress, Obama to speak on TV Posted: 15 Jun 2010 12:21 AM PDT WASHINGTON/HOUSTON (Reuters) - BP Plc's U.S. chief faces accusations in Congress on Tuesday that the energy giant caused the worst oil spill in U.S. history with a calculated strategy to cut costs, hours before President Barack Obama uses a televised address to defend his handling of the disaster.
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| Germany, France present united front on policy Posted: 15 Jun 2010 12:21 AM PDT BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany and France on Monday moved to mend fences on policy splits, agreeing the European Union needs economic governance by all 27 member states, not just euro zone nations, as Paris had previously proposed.
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| Q+A - Could Gillard become Australia's first woman PM? Posted: 15 Jun 2010 12:21 AM PDT CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard would become the first woman to lead the country if she replaces Kevin Rudd as prime minister.
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| U.S. needs tougher N.Korea nuclear strategy - report Posted: 15 Jun 2010 12:21 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States should employ more aggressive sticks and carrots to try to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear programs, according to an independent U.S. think tank report released on Tuesday.
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| UN warns rival Koreas against escalating tension Posted: 14 Jun 2010 06:24 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS - The UN Security Council has warned South and North Korea against escalating regional tension after hearing briefings by both sides on the sinking of a South Korean warship which Seoul blames on the North.
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| Ten Mexican cops killed in ambush Posted: 14 Jun 2010 11:58 AM PDT MORELIA, Mexico -Gunmen ambushed police Monday in Mexico's crime-infested western state of Michoacan, killing 10 officers and wounding several others, authorities said.
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| DPM leaves it to police to investigate JI attempts to recruit students Posted: 14 Jun 2010 11:34 PM PDT Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said today he isv leaving it to the police to further investigate attempts by the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) to recruit undergraduates and the local youth.
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