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Reuters – AbitibiBowater Inc has reached a tentative labor deal affecting about 4,000 workers, bringing the newsprint maker closer to emerging from bankruptcy protection, the company and union said on Sunday.
Read More: AbitibiBowater gets tentative deal with union
(Reuters)
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AP – Preparations have begun for a crucial campaign to assert Afghan government control over Kandahar, spiritual home of the Taliban, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan said Monday.
Read More: Gates meeting with military, political leaders
(AP)
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AP – A strong, pre-dawn earthquake knocked down stone and mud-brick houses, barns and minarets in eastern Turkey on Monday, killing 51 people in five villages, the government said.
Read More: Strong earthquake slams eastern Turkey, kills 51
(AP)
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AP – Early estimates from a range of Iraqi parties predict a coalition led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will take the lead in the parliamentary race.
Read More: Iraqi PM's coalition seen leading vote
(AP)
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AP – The South African president’s office has announced the nomination of its tourism minister for the United Nations’ top climate post.
Read More: South African minister is nominated for UN post
(AP)
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AP – Lawyers for six former Guantanamo detainees on Monday appealed a ruling that the British government can use secret evidence to fight a claim that it was complicit in their abuse.
Read More: UK justices hear detainees' torture appeal
(AP)
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AFP – An elephant calf has died during days of labour at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo, where its mother was a part of a programme to breed endangered Asian elephants, officials said Monday.
Read More: Elephant calf dies during labour at Sydney's zoo
(AFP)
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AP – Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday that an action plan to reintegrate low- to mid-level insurgent fighters into society and negotiate with the Taliban’s top echelon will be crafted at a springtime peace conference aimed at ending the war.
Read More: Afghan president to host April peace conference
(AP)
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McClatchy Newspapers – ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani officials Sunday said they’d arrested the American face of al Qaida, a key militant propagandist, which if it’s confirmed would be the first high-profile capture of a leader of the terrorist group since Pakistan’s civilian government was elected in February 2008.
Read More: Pakistanis say they arrested al Qaida's American mouthpiece
(McClatchy Newspapers)
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Read More: Nigeria violence in Jos: Q&A – BBC News
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Read More: Suicide Blast Rocks Lahore – Voice of America
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Medieval admiral Zheng He has become a potent symbol for modern China
Read More: Searching for Zheng: China's Ming-Era Voyager
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Two decades ago, a Thai gardener climbed into the palace of a Saudi prince and stole some 200 pounds of jewelry. The caper cost Thailand billions, left several dead and put an Elvis-impersonating Thai official on death row
Read More: Thailand's Blue Diamond Heist: Still a Sore Point
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UBS agreed to give up the names of alleged American tax cheats — but for Switzerland, giving up secrecy is a hard thing to do
Read More: Switzerland Keeping the Secrets of Alleged Tax Evaders
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France has become the first nation in the world to drop transsexualism fromits list of mental disorders. But transsexuals say the country still has aways to go
Read More: France Drops Transsexualism from List of Mental Disorders
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Chile’s legacy of military dictatorship and its new pride in its economic development may have tripped up its response to the earthquake catastrophe
Read More: Chile Earthquake: Government Needs to Build Social Trust
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For the past two decades, China’s rapid economic growth has been twinedwith an even more rapid increase in military spending. Is that changing?
Read More: Why Is China Slowing its Military Spending?
Posted under World on Saturday, March 6th, 2010 at 9:24 pm
AP – Ariel has ambitions of becoming a city, and already boasts 19,000 people, a college, a $10 million sports complex, and a four-lane highway leading to it.
Read More: Settlement deep in West Bank seen as peace spoiler
(AP)
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Time.com – UBS agreed to give up the names of alleged American tax cheats — but for Switzerland, giving up secrecy is a hard thing to do
Read More: Switzerland Keeping the Secrets of Alleged Tax Evaders
(Time.com)