VIDEO: Tide turns against tourists in Venice |
- VIDEO: Tide turns against tourists in Venice
- VIDEO: LA bank robbery prompts bomb alert
- Indonesian police find explosives, probe terror link
- Women directors take rightful place at Venice film fest
- Not many date options are left
- Govt to spend on development while keeping debt manageable
- Nearly half of Indonesia's environment damaged: minister
- Clinton seeks to boost democracy in Asia's newest country
- Russia - no sign Iran developing nuclear arms: Ifax
- Russia says attacking Iran would be "disastrous" - Ifax
- Blast at Turkish ammunition dump kills 25 soldiers
- Lonmin, unions sign South Africa mine peace deal
- Analysis - Clinton shows he is Obama's most valuable weapon
- Blast at Turkish ammunition dump kills 25 soldiers
- VIDEO: ECB poised to take eurozone action
- Singapore gives VIP welcome to Chinese pandas
- Human rights group alleges US waterboarded Gaddafi opponents
- Pentagon maps Japan radiation, says US personnel safe
- Lonmin, miners sign deal to return to work
- Judge upholds Arizona "show-your-papers" measure in mixed ruling
| VIDEO: Tide turns against tourists in Venice Posted: 06 Sep 2012 12:02 AM PDT It is estimated that every year around 20 million visitors come to Venice, but some say that is too many.
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| VIDEO: LA bank robbery prompts bomb alert Posted: 05 Sep 2012 11:46 PM PDT Police in Los Angeles are searching for two men who robbed a branch of Bank of America after kidnapping the bank's manager and strapping a device to her body.
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| Indonesian police find explosives, probe terror link Posted: 06 Sep 2012 12:14 AM PDT Indonesian authorities launched a manhunt and were investigating possible links to terrorism after finding explosive materials at a house in the suburbs of Jakarta, police said Thursday.
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| Women directors take rightful place at Venice film fest Posted: 06 Sep 2012 12:11 AM PDT With women directing 21 of the 52 films being shown at this year's Venice film festival, organisers said the time for international recognition of women's contribution to cinema has finally come.
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| Not many date options are left Posted: 05 Sep 2012 11:29 PM PDT Najib is very likely to announce another round of the RM500 BR1M aid distribution or other people-friendly measures. The aid can be issued the earliest in December and the timing will be nice if the election is held in early next year.
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| Govt to spend on development while keeping debt manageable Posted: 05 Sep 2012 11:28 PM PDT The government will have to continue spending on development while at the same time keeping national debt at a nmanageable level, says Deputy Finance Minister Datuk Donald Lim Siang Chai.
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| Nearly half of Indonesia's environment damaged: minister Posted: 05 Sep 2012 11:08 PM PDT Environment Minister Balthasar Kambuaya says about 50 percent of Indonesia's environment has been damaged on a national scale.
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| Clinton seeks to boost democracy in Asia's newest country Posted: 05 Sep 2012 11:54 PM PDT DILI (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a short visit to East Timor on Thursday, throwing her considerable diplomatic weight behind a fledgling government trying to bring Asia's newest country closer to its booming Southeast Asian neighbours. 
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| Russia - no sign Iran developing nuclear arms: Ifax Posted: 05 Sep 2012 11:47 PM PDT MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia sees no evidence that Iran's nuclear programme is aimed at developing weapons, the Interfax news agency quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying on Thursday. 
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| Russia says attacking Iran would be "disastrous" - Ifax Posted: 05 Sep 2012 11:45 PM PDT MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia warned Israel and other nations not to attack Iran over its nuclear programme, saying the use of force would be disastrous for the Middle East and have consequences far beyond the region, the Interfax news agency reported on Thursday. 
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| Blast at Turkish ammunition dump kills 25 soldiers Posted: 05 Sep 2012 11:43 PM PDT ISTANBUL (Reuters) - An explosion at an ammunition store in western Turkey during a routine inventory check has killed 25 soldiers and wounded four, government officials said on Thursday. 
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| Lonmin, unions sign South Africa mine peace deal Posted: 05 Sep 2012 11:41 PM PDT JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Lonmin and unions representing mineworkers at the strike-hit Marikana platinum mine in South Africa have signed an accord for a return to work, but a militant breakaway union was not part of the deal, union officials said on Thursday. 
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| Analysis - Clinton shows he is Obama's most valuable weapon Posted: 05 Sep 2012 11:21 PM PDT CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton made a more comprehensive case for President Barack Obama's re-election in 49 minutes on Wednesday than the rest of the speakers at the Democratic Convention could muster in the 11-1/2 hours that preceded him. 
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| Blast at Turkish ammunition dump kills 25 soldiers Posted: 05 Sep 2012 10:54 PM PDT ISTANBUL (Reuters) - An explosion at an ammunition store in western Turkey has killed 25 soldiers and wounded four others, the Turkish military said on Thursday. 
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| VIDEO: ECB poised to take eurozone action Posted: 05 Sep 2012 11:29 PM PDT The European Central Bank is to meet on Thursday to consider how to help struggling eurozone governments keep their borrowing costs down.
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| Singapore gives VIP welcome to Chinese pandas Posted: 05 Sep 2012 10:51 PM PDT Singapore on Thursday gave a VIP welcome to a pair of giant pandas loaned by China for 10 years to mark two decades of close diplomatic relations.
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| Human rights group alleges US waterboarded Gaddafi opponents Posted: 05 Sep 2012 09:28 PM PDT WASHINGTON, Sept 6 — A human rights organization says it has collected evidence of two previously unreported cases in which US agents used waterboarding or a similar harsh interrogation technique on Libyan militants held by American forces in Afghanistan. In a report released today, Human Rights Watch also says it acquired new evidence of the ... 
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| Pentagon maps Japan radiation, says US personnel safe Posted: 05 Sep 2012 08:13 PM PDT WASHINGTON, Sept 6 — The Pentagon yesterday posted a website mapping the amount of radiation to which the tens of thousands of Americans in Japan at the time of last year's earthquake and nuclear disaster were exposed and said none of the doses posed health risks. The 9.0 magnitude March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami devastated the Fukushima ... 
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| Lonmin, miners sign deal to return to work Posted: 05 Sep 2012 10:44 PM PDT JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Lonmin has signed a peace accord with some unions representing striking miners but the more militant Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) was not part of the deal, the head of labour union COSATU said on Thursday. 
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| Judge upholds Arizona "show-your-papers" measure in mixed ruling Posted: 05 Sep 2012 10:18 PM PDT PHOENIX (Reuters) - A U.S. judge ruled on Wednesday that a controversial Arizona "show-your-papers" immigration provision that has been upheld by the Supreme Court may go into effect, but in a split ruling blocked another measure making it a crime to harbor illegal immigrants. 
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