To protest against the Japan's sovereignty claim South Korean President Lee Myung-bak expressed deep disappointment and regret and recalled its envoy to Japan. " South Korea says it is to recall its envoy to Japan in the latest flare-up of tensions over disputed islands. ...
Ailing Democratic senator Edward Kennedy returned to the U.S. Congress today to vote in support of a bill that protects Medicare against spending cuts. "The cancer-stricken Democratic senator Edward Kennedy made a...
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Alcohol is available for sale once more in Baghdad. The sale of alcoholic beverages has not been allowed since early 2006, but now drink stores and cafes are starting to reopen again. Two years ago, al-Qa'ida...
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Two men campaigning for father's rights have again scaled the home of the Labour deputy leader to bring attention to their calls for more rights for fathers in custody cases."Two protestors from Fathers 4 Justice...
Two Order of Canada medals have already been returned since abortion-rights activist Henry Morgentaler received his just over a week ago. Both medal denyers are Catholics who oppose Dr. Morgentaler's pro-abortion work.The medals represent the highest Canadian honour and are...
End of an era! "HOUSTON - NASA has tentatively set the final space shuttle mission for May 31, 2010, four months before the shuttle fleet retires. NASA has 10 missions remaining for the shuttle fleet, which...
Head of a waxwork of Adolf Hitler's has been restored and it will be reinstalled at the Germany's Madame Tussauds . "A waxwork of Adolf Hitler will return to Berlin's new Madame Tussauds as soon as experts have restored the head ripped off by a demonstrator on its...
"Two weeks ago in Houston, two Katrina evacuees hauled the final boxes out of their apartments. But even as their landlords prepared to change their locks, Gina Martin and Samantha Egana couldn't go home to New Orleans, because their Section 8 vouchers were stalled by the...
I'm glad to hear the intensity of the fires did not reach the "pyro" levels anticipated. It will be interesting to read the reports that are filed by some of the scientists who went to Saskatchewan to observe. ...
"DEAD BODYGUARDS Maj. Gen. William Robertson,Deputy Commanding General, V Corps, Europe Col William Densberger,V Corps Chief of Operations and Plans Col. Robert Kelly,V Corps Chief of Intelligence Spec. Gary Rhodes, Crew Chief died: 2/23/93 - All were killed when...
Hundreds of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip have stormed the gate at the Rafah crossing and have clashed heavily with security forces."Palestinian youth on Wednesday threw rocks at Egyptian soldiers, who responded in kind, keeping the crowd at bay with water cannons. ...
OpinionBarry Artiste, now Public ContributorIsraels swap of a Lebanese Man, Samir Kanter who crushed the head of a 4 year old girl to death with a rifle butt in exchange for the bodies of two dead soldiers,...
Well this is a little odd. After all the press hullabaloo over whether Jay-Z would satisfy the guitar-loving Glastonbury crowd, and after Jay-Z's performance yesterday appears to have quelled all the doubters,...
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Business people should not have sensitive company info on their laptops which can be kept on line. You can refuse to give your password by taking the 5th ammendment."Returning from a vacation to Germany in February,...
British cycling has been somewhat resurgent in the past few years -- maybe a peripheral effect of the Lance Armstrong era. I don't know much about the British scene other than the fact that Malcom Elliott is still...
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