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US defends human rights record before UN body
Nov 5th
GENEVA: The US stood accused Friday of human rights violations ranging from racial discrimination to prison overcrowding and abuses by its troops, as friends and foes lined up to chide Washington in a UN forum the US has pledged to be an equal member of rather than shun, as the past administration did. US Assistant [...]
Yemen charges US-born radical cleric al-Awlaki
Nov 3rd
SAN’A: Faced with mounting US pressure to do more in the fight against al-Qaida after the thwarted mail bombs plot, Yemen on Tuesday took the surprise move of putting on trial a fugitive US-born radical Islamic cleric wanted for his part in terror attacks on American soil. The move is largely symbolic, since Anwar al-Awlaki [...]
Greek police intercepts parcel bomb addressed to Sarkozy
Nov 1st
ATHENS: Greek police said it had intercepted on Monday a booby-trapped parcel addressed to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, after another package exploded at a courier company in Athens. “One of the explosive devices that the suspects were carrying was addressed to the President of the French Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy,” a police spokesman told Reuters. He [...]
American teen crowned Miss World 2010
Oct 31st
SANYA: Blonde, blue-eyed American teenager Alexandria Mills won the Miss World crown for 2010 on Saturday, defeating more than 100 other hopefuls at a glittering ceremony in southern China. Mills, an 18-year-old from the southern US state of Kentucky, wept as outgoing Miss World Kaiane Aldorino of Gibraltar placed the tiara on her head and [...]
Maradona turns 50 with Argentina on his mind
Oct 30th
BUENOS AIRES: Diego Maradona turns 50 on Saturday, an anniversary some feared he might never reach, and after defying death he will not let the small matter of a sacking stand in the way of his next big goal. Argentina’s greatest player will spend his birthday far from the two things that have dominated his [...]
Seven Mexican police killed in ambush
Oct 29th
GUADALAJARA: Seven Mexican police officers were shot and killed Thursday in a highway ambush in eastern Jalisco state, a local official said. “There are seven police officers killed” in Jilotlan de los Dolores, 250 kilometers (155 miles) south of Jalisco”s capital Guadalajara, a Public Security Agency official told media.
Gunmen storm party, kill 15 youths in Mexico
Oct 24th
CIUDAD JUAREZ: Gunmen burst into a party early Saturday and shot to death 15 young people and wounded at least 10 others in this Mexican border city''s third massacre this year, police said.
“The victims were in the back yard of the house …
18 dead in fiery Mexico bus crash
Oct 18th
MEXICO CITY: At least 18 people were killed Monday when a passenger bus flipped over and burst into flames in central Mexico, burning to death many of the passengers inside, local authorities said. “A passenger bus overturned over and 18 people burned to death in the municipality of Marques,” said an official from the public security secretariat of Queretaro state. The bus had departed Mexico City bound for the state of Zacatecas, about 600 kilometers (375 miles) to the north.
Russia to build nuke power plant in Venezuela
Oct 16th
MOSCOW: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez clinched a host of deals Friday to boost a burgeoning relationship with Russia, including an accord to build the first nuclear power plant in his country.
As well as the accord for Russia to build and operate t…
Hurricane Paula menaces Mexico, Cuba next
Oct 14th
CANCUN: Mexico evacuated tourists and residents from islands off the Yucatan peninsula on Tuesday as Hurricane Paula, a Category 2 storm, was on track to sideswipe Mexico''s Caribbean resorts before heading towards Cuba.
Packing winds of 100 m…
