Germany urges Portugal to find savings after court setback

Germany urges Portugal to find savings after court setback


Germany urges Portugal to find savings after court setback

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 12:18 AM PDT

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Monday Portugal will have to find new savings after its constitutional court rejected some of the austerity measures introduced as a condition of an international bailout.
    


North Korea may be preparing new nuclear test - Seoul

Posted: 07 Apr 2013 11:17 PM PDT

SEOUL/BEIJING (Reuters) - Movement around an atomic test site in North Korea indicates the reclusive state may stage another nuclear test, a South Korean minister said on Monday, an act that would further drive up tensions on the Korean peninsula.
    


China's bird flu outbreak not cause for panic - WHO

Posted: 07 Apr 2013 11:05 PM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - A strain of bird flu that has been found in humans for the first time in eastern China is not a cause for panic, the World Health Organization said on Monday, as the number of people infected rose to 21, with six deaths.
    


Australian resort owner killed in Philippines

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 12:41 AM PDT

An Australian has died after being shot in the head at point-blank range at a beach resort he managed in the Philippines, police said Monday.

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Bali court upholds death sentence for British grandmother

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 12:39 AM PDT

An Indonesian court on Monday rejected the appeal of a 56-year-old British grandmother sentenced to death for trafficking cocaine into the resort island of Bali.

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Two siblings shot by unknown assailant in serious condition

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 12:28 AM PDT

Two siblings were seriously injured when an unknown assailant fired randomly at a family of five who were having a discussion in their house at Taman Bayu Mutiara, here, last night.

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Desert nomads marvel at water purifying device

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 12:23 AM PDT

Omar Razzouki gazes intently at the wooden box, marvelling at what might be the solution to the perennial water woes that he and other nomads like him across the Sahara desert face daily.

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Dirty elevator habits cause a stink in Singapore: report

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 12:10 AM PDT

Elevators in Singapore public-housing blocks are still sometimes being used as toilets, infuriating residents despite a long government campaign to eradicate the dirty habit, a report said Sunday.

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Man uses balloons to fly from Mandela jail to Cape Town

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 12:09 AM PDT

A South African man on Saturday successfully flew across the sea from Nelson Mandela's apartheid island prison using helium-filled giant party balloons.

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If Kit Siang meets Abdul Ghani

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 12:06 AM PDT

If Abdul Ghani really contests in Gelang Patah, I am worried that the voting tendencies of Chinese and Malay voters will be more polarised, forming a situation in which the Chinese support the rocket, Malays support the scales while Indians are caught in the middle.

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Russia needs active civil society, Merkel tells Putin

Posted: 07 Apr 2013 11:43 PM PDT

HANOVER, Germany, April 8 — Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Germany yesterday to protests over his human rights and democracy record and a warning from German Chancellor Angela Merkel that Russia needed an active civil society to flourish. Putin's visit to Germany and the Netherlands, Moscow's biggest trade partners in Europe, was ...
    


Wan Azizah's lawyer seeks to withdraw from Felda defamation case

Posted: 07 Apr 2013 11:11 PM PDT

The lawyer representing Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) president Datuk Seri Wan Azizah Wan Ismail in a defamation suit brought by the Federal Land Development Authority (Felda) has applied to withdraw from the case.

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Manifesto competition

Posted: 07 Apr 2013 11:09 PM PDT

Pakatan Rakyat wants to provide allowances to vulnerable groups and BN, of course, increases the amount of BR1M; Pakatan Rakyat wants to abolish excise duty and the BN reduces car prices by 30%; Pakatan Rakyat wants to abolish toll charges and the BN...well, it is a little difficult, so it reduces toll stations.

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North Korea may be preparing new nuclear test: Seoul

Posted: 07 Apr 2013 10:42 PM PDT

SEOUL/BEIJING (Reuters) - Movement around an atomic test site in North Korea indicates the reclusive state may stage another nuclear test, a South Korean minister said on Monday, an act that would further drive up tensions on the Korean peninsula.
    


VIDEO: Female wrestlers fighting prejudice

Posted: 07 Apr 2013 10:41 PM PDT

The ricefields festival in Senegal's Diembereng is a rare opportunity for women to try their hand at wrestling, but those who do still face prejudice.

Five dead, 53 hurt in Thai bus cliff plunge

Posted: 07 Apr 2013 10:44 PM PDT

Five people died, including a seven-month-old baby and a Belgian woman, and 53 were injured when a Thai tour bus plummeted off a hillside in northern Thailand after its brakes failed, police said Monday.

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Khoon Seng ready to defer retirement if needed to contest in GE13

Posted: 07 Apr 2013 10:21 PM PDT

Three-term Stampin MP Datuk Yong Khoon Seng is prepared to hold back his retirement plan should the Barisan Nasional decide to nominate him to contest in the 13th General Election (13GE).

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SK Tanjung Labian and SK Lok Buani reopened today

Posted: 07 Apr 2013 10:21 PM PDT

Sekolah Kebangsaan (SK) Tanjung Labian and SK Lok Buani, which were closed for more than one month following the intrusion by Sulu militants, were reopened today.

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Saifuddin Nasution among four new faces contesting for PKR in Kedah

Posted: 07 Apr 2013 10:20 PM PDT

Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) has listed four new faces and an incumbent to defend its five parliamentary seats in Kedah in the 13th general election (GE13).

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A free press – or a two-party press system?

Posted: 07 Apr 2013 10:17 PM PDT

Everyone loves the idea of a free press, that's practically a given. The point really is: what kind of a free press will the politicians allow us to have?

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