Cameron and Suu Kyi want sanctions suspended |
- Cameron and Suu Kyi want sanctions suspended
- Fans of Bo Xilai rally to ousted chief in China
- Ocampo to withdraw from World Bank race: sources
- Cameron and Suu Kyi want sanctions suspended
- Hate charges in Tulsa shootings
- News Analysis: Coming Soon: ‘Taxmageddon’
- Iran Resumes Talks Over Its Nuclear Program
- Mammoth Lakes, Calif., Faces Bankruptcy
- Islamists Protest in Cairo
- Canadian Police Search SNC-Lavalin's Headquarters
- In Egypt, Islamists protest Mubarak-era officials seeking presidency
- In French campaign, Sarkozy remains the challenger
- India arrests professor over political cartoon
- Iran, powers set for high-stakes nuclear talks
- U.S. urged at summit to turn toward Latin America
- Girl, 4, joins Mensa with 159 IQ
- Obama 'paid 20.5% in tax' in 2011
- VIDEO: N Korea 'quiet' as rocket fails
- Pyongyang Admits Failure of Launch
- West Sets Sights Low in Iran Talks
| Cameron and Suu Kyi want sanctions suspended Posted: 13 Apr 2012 01:04 PM PDT British PM, along with Myanmar's opposition leader, calls for suspension of economic sanctions during visit to country.
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| Fans of Bo Xilai rally to ousted chief in China Posted: 13 Apr 2012 12:28 PM PDT HONG KONG — With China's propaganda apparatus in overdrive as the Communist Party demolishes the reputation of one of its former stars, a few defiant and angry fans are sticking to their guns. "We support the Chongqing Model and Bo Xilai," declared a call to arms posted on the Web site of the Progress Society, a pugnacious "new left" fraternity that trumpets the ousted Chongqing Party boss as a hero. Its logo features a panda wearing a Mao cap and clutching a rifle in front of a Chinese flag. Read full article >>   
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| Ocampo to withdraw from World Bank race: sources Posted: 13 Apr 2012 12:39 PM PDT WASHINGTON/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Former Colombian finance minister Jose Antonio Ocampo is set to withdraw his nomination for the World Bank presidency on Friday as developing nations try to coalesce around one nominee to challenge the United States for the job, three sources said.
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| Cameron and Suu Kyi want sanctions suspended Posted: 13 Apr 2012 01:04 PM PDT British PM, along with Myanmar's opposition leader, calls for suspension of economic sanctions during visit to country.
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| Hate charges in Tulsa shootings Posted: 13 Apr 2012 12:01 PM PDT Two men accused of shooting five black people, three fatally, in the Oklahoma city of Tulsa are charged with murder and hate crimes.
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| News Analysis: Coming Soon: ‘Taxmageddon’ Posted: 13 Apr 2012 12:51 PM PDT After this year's election, major tax increases and spending cuts will come into effect — unless a lame-duck Congress and President Obama can agree on an alternative.
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| Iran Resumes Talks Over Its Nuclear Program Posted: 13 Apr 2012 12:26 PM PDT Iran agreed to resume talks with six major world powers, raising hopes that it might be ready to strike a deal.
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| Mammoth Lakes, Calif., Faces Bankruptcy Posted: 13 Apr 2012 08:33 AM PDT The town is considering bankruptcy because of its inability to pay a $43 million legal judgment in a development dispute dating back to 1997.
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| Posted: 13 Apr 2012 12:20 PM PDT Thousands of mostly Islamist protesters flooded into Egypt's capital Friday in a show of force aimed at pushing Egypt's military leaders to block presidential candidates who held leading positions in the country's ousted regime.
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| Canadian Police Search SNC-Lavalin's Headquarters Posted: 13 Apr 2012 11:44 AM PDT SNC-Lavalin said the Royal Canadian Mounted Police executed a search warrant at its Montreal headquarters in connection with individuals "who are not or are no longer employed" by the engineering company.
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| In Egypt, Islamists protest Mubarak-era officials seeking presidency Posted: 13 Apr 2012 11:23 AM PDT CAIRO — Thousands of Islamists flooded into Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday to protest the candidacies of Mubarak-era officials in an upcoming presidential election and to press their demand that the ousted president's former intelligence chief and others be barred from running. Read full article >>
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| In French campaign, Sarkozy remains the challenger Posted: 13 Apr 2012 10:02 AM PDT PARIS — In a cloud of backbiting and barbs, France has rounded into the home stretch of a neck-and-neck election campaign that is largely a referendum on President Nicolas Sarkozy's handling of the European economic crisis but that also hangs on the conservative leader's often abrasive style. Read full article >>
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| India arrests professor over political cartoon Posted: 13 Apr 2012 09:51 AM PDT NEW DELHI — Sharing funny, satirical cartoons over the Internet can land you in court and even in jail these days in the world's largest democracy. A chemistry professor, Ambikesh Mahapatra, from the Jadavpur University in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, forwarded a cheeky cartoon strip to his friends that made fun of the state's mercurial chief minister Mamata Banerjee. Late Thursday, the professor was beaten up by angry political workers of Banerjee's party, Trinamool Congress, and later arrested by the state police. Read full article >>
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| Iran, powers set for high-stakes nuclear talks Posted: 13 Apr 2012 12:09 PM PDT ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Iran and six world powers prepared on Friday for rare talks aimed at easing fears that a deepening dispute over the Islamic Republic's nuclear program could plunge the Middle East into a new war.
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| U.S. urged at summit to turn toward Latin America Posted: 13 Apr 2012 12:03 PM PDT CARTAGENA, Colombia (Reuters) - Americas Summit host President Juan Manuel Santos welcomed businessmen and fellow leaders to Colombia on Friday with a call to bury political differences and advice for the United States to turn its attention back to Latin America.
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| Girl, 4, joins Mensa with 159 IQ Posted: 13 Apr 2012 04:54 AM PDT A four-year-old girl from Hampshire is accepted into Mensa with an IQ just one point below Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
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| Obama 'paid 20.5% in tax' in 2011 Posted: 13 Apr 2012 11:34 AM PDT US President Barack Obama releases his tax return for 2011, as he seeks to make taxation a key election issue with Republican foes.
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| VIDEO: N Korea 'quiet' as rocket fails Posted: 13 Apr 2012 11:26 AM PDT There has been international condemnation after North Korea launched a long range rocket this morning amid claims it was a cover for testing missile technology.
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| Pyongyang Admits Failure of Launch Posted: 13 Apr 2012 12:51 PM PDT The big change in North Korea's latest attempt to fire off a long-range rocket: This time it admitted failure.
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| West Sets Sights Low in Iran Talks Posted: 13 Apr 2012 12:47 PM PDT American and European diplomats are setting a low bar for their first direct negotiations with Iran on its nuclear program in more than a year, saying an agreement to hold a second round is likely to be the most substantive outcome.
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