Heavy fighting rocks eastern Syria - residents |
- Heavy fighting rocks eastern Syria - residents
- Armenia hopes for calm election, democratic result
- Website connects female diners who eat alone
- Hardline Myanmar vice president resigns, says report
- France drops sex harassment law, angers feminists
- Italy local vote provides test for Monti austerity
- Voting starts in France, Sarkozy headed for defeat
- Angry Greeks vote in cliffhanger election
- The ultimate babysitter? iPads for infants stir debate
- Angry Greeks vote in cliffhanger election
- South Korean karaoke bar fire kills nine, injures 25
- Accused 9/11 plotters defiant at Guantanamo arraignment
- VIDEO: Greeks go to the polls
- Accused 9/11 plotters defiant at Guantanamo arraignment
- VIDEO: 13 die after Nepal burst river bank
- Explosions in two Syrian cities kill at least three
- VIDEO: Cow fighting in Mont Blanc
- 9/11 suspects defiant at Guantanamo arraignment
- FBI investigating Arizona Neo-Nazi before shooting
- Angry Greeks vote in cliffhanger election
| Heavy fighting rocks eastern Syria - residents Posted: 06 May 2012 12:37 AM PDT AMMAN (Reuters) - Heavy fighting between rebels and government troops erupted overnight in the capital of an oil producing province in eastern Syria, residents and activists said on Sunday, the latest escalation of violence in a tribal area bordering Iraq. 
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| Armenia hopes for calm election, democratic result Posted: 05 May 2012 11:47 PM PDT YEREVAN (Reuters) - Armenian voters headed to the polls on Sunday for a parliamentary election its leaders hope will bolster stability and be free of the fraud and violence that marred the South Caucasus country's last national election. 
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| Website connects female diners who eat alone Posted: 06 May 2012 12:15 AM PDT A new website for solo, female diners has been launched to help alleviate the embarrassment of having to ask for a table for one.
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| Hardline Myanmar vice president resigns, says report Posted: 05 May 2012 08:39 PM PDT YANGON, May 6 ― A former top general close to Myanmar's retired dictator Than Shwe has resigned as vice-president, Burmese media reported, ending the hardliner's role in the reformist government. Tin Aung Myint Oo, 61, submitted his resignation on May 3 for health reasons after returning from Singapore for medical treatment, the Myanmar language ... 
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| France drops sex harassment law, angers feminists Posted: 05 May 2012 07:56 PM PDT PARIS, May 6 ― France repealed a sexual harassment law on Friday on the grounds that the definition of the crime was too vague, sparking renewed debate of an issue put into the spotlight by the arrest of one-time presidential hopeful Dominique Strauss-Kahn last year. Some women's groups said the decision, by France's highest constitutional body, ... 
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| Italy local vote provides test for Monti austerity Posted: 05 May 2012 11:31 PM PDT ROME (Reuters) - Italians went to the polls on Sunday in local elections that will provide the first test of voter resistance to Prime Minister Mario Monti's increasingly unpopular austerity policies since his appointment last year. 
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| Voting starts in France, Sarkozy headed for defeat Posted: 05 May 2012 11:10 PM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - Voting started in mainland France on Sunday in an election that could make Nicolas Sarkozy the 11th European leader to be swept from office by the economic crisis and crown Francois Hollande as France's first Socialist president in 17 years. 
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| Angry Greeks vote in cliffhanger election Posted: 05 May 2012 10:47 PM PDT ATHENS (Reuters) - Angry Greek voters headed to the polls on Sunday for an election shrouded in uncertainty that could reignite Europe's debt crisis and renew doubts about the country's future in the euro zone. 
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| The ultimate babysitter? iPads for infants stir debate Posted: 05 May 2012 10:44 PM PDT (PARIS-AFP) - From musical instruments to colouring books, the range of apps aimed at young children has boomed in the past two years. But psychologists and parents are divided on putting smartphones and tablets into such young hands, considering how pivotal the first couple of years are to child development. Copyright (AFP RELAXNEWS/ AFPTV), 2012.
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| Angry Greeks vote in cliffhanger election Posted: 05 May 2012 09:18 PM PDT ATHENS (Reuters) - Angry Greek voters headed to the polls on Sunday for an election shrouded in uncertainty that could reignite Europe's debt crisis and renew doubts about the country's future in the euro zone. 
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| South Korean karaoke bar fire kills nine, injures 25 Posted: 05 May 2012 09:16 PM PDT SEOUL (Reuters) - Nine people were people were killed, including three migrant workers, and 25 others injured when a fire swept through a karaoke bar in South Korea's southern port city of Busan, police said on Sunday. 
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| Accused 9/11 plotters defiant at Guantanamo arraignment Posted: 05 May 2012 08:51 PM PDT GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - Five Guantanamo prisoners accused of plotting the September 11 attacks refused to answer a U.S. military judge's questions on Saturday in a chaotic court hearing in which defence lawyers sought to cast the war crimes tribunal as unfair. 
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| Posted: 05 May 2012 09:29 PM PDT The people of Greece, where the eurozone crisis first erupted, have begun voting in parliamentary elections.
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| Accused 9/11 plotters defiant at Guantanamo arraignment Posted: 05 May 2012 07:14 PM PDT GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - Five Guantanamo prisoners accused of plotting the September 11 attacks refused to answer a U.S. military judge's questions on Saturday in a chaotic court hearing in which defence lawyers sought to cast the war crimes tribunal as unfair. 
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| VIDEO: 13 die after Nepal burst river bank Posted: 05 May 2012 07:14 PM PDT Police in western Nepal say a river has burst its banks, killing at least 13 people near Mount Annapurna, an area popular with tourists.
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| Explosions in two Syrian cities kill at least three Posted: 05 May 2012 04:48 PM PDT DAMASCUS, May 6 ― An explosion killed several people in Aleppo and two blasts hit a Damascus highway yesterday in further signs that rebels fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad are shifting tactics towards homemade explosives.Syria's state news agency said three people had been killed, one of them a child, and 21 wounded by a ... 
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| VIDEO: Cow fighting in Mont Blanc Posted: 05 May 2012 06:21 PM PDT Animals from a number of countries compete to be "Queen of Mont Blanc".
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| 9/11 suspects defiant at Guantanamo arraignment Posted: 05 May 2012 05:49 PM PDT GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - Five Guantanamo prisoners accused of plotting the September 11 attacks defiantly refused to answer a U.S. military judge's questions on Saturday in a chaotic court hearing where they deferred entering pleas. 
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| FBI investigating Arizona Neo-Nazi before shooting Posted: 05 May 2012 05:10 PM PDT PHOENIX (Reuters) - The neo-Nazi founder of an anti-immigrant border militia was already the subject of an FBI domestic terrorism probe before he went on a shooting rampage and killed four people, officials and news reports said on Saturday. 
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| Angry Greeks vote in cliffhanger election Posted: 05 May 2012 04:26 PM PDT ATHENS (Reuters) - Angry Greek voters head to the polls on Sunday for an election shrouded in uncertainty that could reignite Europe's debt crisis and renew doubts about the country's future in the euro zone. 
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