Greece's
conservative Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis has claimed victory in
the country's parliamentary elections. With nearly all the votes
counted, his New Democracy party has 42% of the vote - a...
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Microsoft has lost its appeal against a record 497m euro (£343m; $690m) fine imposed by the European Commission in a long-running competition dispute.The European Court of First Instance upheld the ruling that...
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Global
warming is making its impact in the Arctic, with a fabled sea route
from Europe to Asia now fully cleared of ice for the first time since
records began. Scientists have raised the prospect that the...
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Tens of thousands of protesters marched in Washington against the Iraq War, and at least 160 people were arrested when they jumped over a barricade.Many of the protesters were arrested without a struggle after...
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The political movement loyal to radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr has withdrawn from Iraq's governing Shia alliance.The move deprives Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's coalition of 30 votes - leaving it in control of...
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REPORT SHOWS HALF IRAQ BENCHMARKS NOT METUS Defense Secretary Robert Gates has flagged the possibility that troop levels in Iraq can be further reduced within months. But, he says, it depends on continued progress...
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Religous expert Desmond Cahill Professor of Intercultural Studies, Says that the removal of Saudi Arabia from the list has more to do with Geopolitics than facts. see video 1 min.Religious freedom has deteriorated...
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Two attacks in Iraq and Pakistan have been timed to coincide with John Negroponte’s visit to Pakistan and George Bush’s visit to Iraq A suicide bomb attack at a Pakistani army base has killed 15 elite...
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When a rocket carrying a weather satellite blasted into orbit last
weekend it did more than restore confidence in Japan's battered space
programme - it ignited talk of a space race with the country's old
rival,...
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This video shows how thousands of people cross the Rio Grande everyday to earn money in the USA to take back, or send back to their homes in far away countries. As the Political debate rages in the USA over...
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MosNews is reporting that a serial killer has been detained in Moscow after
confessing to killing 61 people. The killer had planned to murder a total of
64 people, one for each of the squares...
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There has been a huge Quake in Sumatra 7.9 and it lasted for 15 minutes. No more detail at prresent.UPDATE This Quake has been upgraded to 8.2. Sources as far away as Singapore have said they felt it there. Pedang...
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe offered his resignation Wednesday, less than a month after he reshuffled the Cabinet following a crushing defeat in parliamentary election. "I made my...
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A major security operation has been launched at a US military airport in Germany, after a bomb threat.
The scare, at Spangdahlem, near Trier, comes less than a week after
three men were arrested on suspicion...
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John Howard has held talks in Canberra with his Canadian counterpart, Stephen Harper, who also addressed a joint sitting of Parliament.It was a historic occasion for two countries. It's the first time a Canadian prime minister has addressed a joint sitting of Australia's...