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Pakistan retaliation leaves NATO drivers in limbo
Sat,26 Nov 2011 11:09 PM PST
AP -  Pakistani truck drivers carrying supplies to NATO troops in Afghanistan say they are worried about militant attacks after their country closed its border crossings in retaliation for coalition airstrikes that allegedly killed 24 Pakistani troops.
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After centuries, Bethlehem church to get new roof
Sat,26 Nov 2011 10:59 PM PST
AP -  Preparations for a long-needed renovation of the 1,500-year-old Church of the Nativity are moving ahead in Bethlehem, the town of Jesus' birth, in the face of political and religious conflicts that have kept one of Christendom's holiest sites in a state of decay for centuries.
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Black Friday sales up 7 pct; retailers look ahead
Sat,26 Nov 2011 03:05 PM PST
AP -  The holiday shopping season got off to a strong start on Black Friday, with retail sales up 7 percent over last year, according to the most recent survey. Now stores just have to keep buyers coming back without the promise of door-buster savings.
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Tentative deal moves the NBA lockout closer to end
Sat,26 Nov 2011 06:19 PM PST
AP -  With a Christmas Day tripleheader on everyone's wish list and a tentative labor agreement in place, NBA owners and union officials went back to work Saturday, relaying details of the deal with hopes of cementing it quickly.
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Egypt's ElBaradei turns up heat on ruling generals
Sat,26 Nov 2011 03:20 PM PST
Reuters -  CAIRO (Reuters) - Presidential candidate Mohamed ElBaradei has offered to lead a government of national unity, raising the pressure on Egypt's ruling generals amid protests demanding an immediate end to army rule. Activists are calling on citizens to converge again in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday, a day before the start of a parliamentary election overshadowed by political turmoil and the threat of violence. The interim government led by Essam Sharaf resigned last week as protests against army rule intensified in Cairo and other cities. The violence has left 42 people dead. ...
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Germany, France plan quick new Stability Pact: report
Sat,26 Nov 2011 04:11 PM PST
Reuters -  BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy are planning more drastic means - including a quick new Stability Pact - to fight the euro zone sovereign debt crisis, Welt am Sonntag reported on Sunday. The Sunday newspaper reported in an advance before publication that if necessary Germany and France were ready to join a number of countries in agreeing to tough budget discipline. ...
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Retailers look to keep Black Friday momentum going
Sat,26 Nov 2011 03:56 PM PST
Reuters -  (Reuters) - U.S. retailers moved from the frenzied start of the holiday shopping season to the next phase on Saturday, hoping to avoid a drop after Black Friday and keep the momentum going during a fitful economic recovery. After featuring the usual deep discounts on Thanksgiving on Thursday and on Friday, retailers were still offering bargains on Saturday as holiday spending is expected to show only about half the growth of last year. ...
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Greece may miss 2012 selloff target due to EU crisis
Sat,26 Nov 2011 11:58 AM PST
Reuters -  ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece may miss its target for privatization revenues next year because of the worsening economic climate in Europe, the head of the agency responsible for selling state assets said in an interview to be published on Sunday. Greece's repeated failure to meet budget targets including for privatization revenues has angered international lenders, raising questions about whether they will continue indefinitely to keep the country afloat with bailout loans. ...
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Police ban Congo election rallies, at least 2 dead
Sat,26 Nov 2011 04:15 PM PST
Reuters -  KINSHASA (Reuters) - Police in Congo blocked President Joseph Kabila's main rival at an airport in Kinshasa on Saturday to stop him staging an election rally after at least two died in violence across the central African state's capital city. Two days before presidential and parliamentary elections, rival factions hurled rocks at each other and gunfire was heard across town. A Reuters reporter saw one lifeless body on the road to the airport while a U.N. source reported another death elsewhere in town. ...
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Arab states plan to cut commercial ties with Syria
Sat,26 Nov 2011 02:22 PM PST
Reuters -  CAIRO (Reuters) - Arab states plan to cut commercial ties with President Bashar al-Assad's government and freeze its assets in response to violence in Syria, where activists said 42 civilians and soldiers died on Saturday. The sanctions, which would plunge Syria deeper into economic crisis and regional isolation, were drawn up by an Arab League economic committee in Cairo on Saturday and need to be ratified by foreign ministers meeting on Sunday before coming into force. ...
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FARC rebels execute 4 military hostages: Colombia
Sat,26 Nov 2011 04:41 PM PST
Reuters -  BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian FARC rebels executed four members of the security forces during a botched mission to free them from a decade as hostages, the most violent act by the group since troops killed its leader Alfonso Cano this month. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, which has a policy of killing hostages if troops approach their camps, shot three of the captives in the head and the fourth in the back, President Juan Manuel Santos said. The bodies were found in chains, he said. "These heroes of Colombia sacrificed their lives trying to bring peace to Colombia," Santos said. ...
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Yemen presidential election set for February 21
Sat,26 Nov 2011 02:20 PM PST
Reuters -  SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen's vice president called presidential elections for February 21 on Saturday under a deal aimed at ending months of protests against President Ali Abdullah Saleh that have brought the country to the edge of civil war. If the agreement goes according to plan, Saleh will become the fourth Arab ruler brought down by mass demonstrations that have reshaped the political landscape of the Middle East. ...
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NASA rover launched to seek out life clues on Mars
Sat,26 Nov 2011 12:36 PM PST
Reuters -  CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - An unmanned Atlas 5 rocket blasted off from Florida on Saturday, launching a $2.5 billion nuclear-powered NASA rover toward Mars to look for clues on what could sustain life on the Red Planet. The 20-story-tall booster built by United Launch Alliance lifted off from its seaside launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 10:02 a.m. EST (3:02 p.m. GMT). It soared through partly cloudy skies into space, carrying NASA's Mars Science Laboratory on a 354-million mile (556 million km), nearly nine-month journey to the planet. ...
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Pakistan stops NATO supplies after deadly raid
Sat,26 Nov 2011 03:33 PM PST
Reuters -  YAKKAGHUND, Pakistan (Reuters) - NATO helicopters and fighter jets attacked two military outposts in northwest Pakistan Saturday, killing as many as 28 troops and plunging U.S.-Pakistan relations deeper into crisis. Pakistan shut down NATO supply routes into Afghanistan - used for sending in nearly half of the alliance's land shipments - in retaliation for the worst such incident since Islamabad uneasily allied itself with Washington following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. ...
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FARC rebels execute 4 military hostages: Colombia
Sat,26 Nov 2011 01:31 PM PST
Reuters - BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian FARC rebels executed four members of the armed forces during a botched mission to free them from a decade as hostages, the most violent act by the group since troops killed its leader Alfonso Cano this month. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, which has a policy of killing hostages if troops approach their camps, shot three of the captives in the head and the fourth in the back, President Juan Manuel Santos said. The bodies were found in chains, he said. "These heroes of Colombia sacrificed their lives trying to bring peace to Colombia," Santos said. ...
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Police ban Congo election rallies, at least 2 dead
Sat,26 Nov 2011 02:56 PM PST
Reuters -  KINSHASA (Reuters) - Police in Congo blocked President Joseph Kabila's main rival at an airport in Kinshasa on Saturday to stop him staging an election rally after at least two died in violence across the central African state's capital city. Two days before presidential and parliamentary elections, rival factions hurled rocks at each other and gunfire was heard across town. A Reuters reporter saw one lifeless body on the road to the airport while a U.N. source reported another death elsewhere in town. ...
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New NBA season likely to begin on Christmas Day
Sat,26 Nov 2011 04:26 AM PST
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters) - The National Basketball Association (NBA) and its players have reached a tentative deal on a new collective bargaining agreement which paves the way for a 66-game season starting on Christmas Day.
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Multiple Baghdad blasts kill at least 13 people
Sat,26 Nov 2011 04:28 AM PST
Reuters - BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three bombs exploded in a commercial Baghdad district and another blast hit the city's western outskirts on Saturday, killing at least 13 people, police and hospital sources said. The first blast hit Baghdad's central Bab al-Sharji district followed by two other explosions in a street nearby, in attacks highlighting the fact that violence is still troubling Iraq as the last U.S. troops prepare to withdraw at the end of the year. A police source said the explosions killed at least seven people and wounded 29 others. ... Full Story | Top |
France's ruling party denies role in DSK downfall
Sat,26 Nov 2011 07:13 AM PST
Reuters -  PARIS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy's ruling UMP party dismissed allegations on Saturday of a political plot to bring down disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, following an investigative report by a U.S. journalist. The article by Edward Jay Epstein, published in the New York Review of Books, raised the question of whether a Blackberry phone belonging to Strauss-Kahn was being tapped by his political opponents at the time of his arrest in May on charges of sexually assaulting a hotel maid. ...
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