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Iran hangs 2 for allegedly aiming to topple state (AP)
Posted on January 28th, 2010 No comments
AP - Iran on Thursday executed two men accused of involvement in an armed anti-government group, as the public prosecutor announced that new death sentences have been issued against opposition activists involved in protests over June’s disputed presidential election.More: continued here
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Venezuelan police fire tear gas at protesters (AP)
Posted on January 28th, 2010 No comments
AP - Police fired tear gas to chase off thousands of students demonstrating in the capital Thursday, a fifth day of protests against President Hugo Chavez for pressuring cable and satellite TV providers to drop an opposition channel.More: continued here
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Stunning recovery: Haitian girl pulled from debris (AP)
Posted on January 27th, 2010 No comments
AP - French rescuers pulled a teenage girl — very dehydrated, with a broken left leg and moments from death — from the rubble of a home near the destroyed St. Gerard University on Wednesday, a stunning recovery 15 days after an earthquake devastated the city.More: continued here
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Social forum activists denounce corporate greed (AP)
Posted on January 26th, 2010 No comments
AP - Leftists in Brazil for a week of protests against capitalism denounced corporate greed on the second day of the World Social Forum, saying Tuesday that big companies humbled by the global meltdown must be prevented from controlling natural resources and harming the environment.More: continued here
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Haitians search quake rubble for dead relatives (AP)
Posted on January 25th, 2010 No comments
AP - In what’s left of one family’s home, in what remains of one destroyed neighborhood, Jean-Rene Lochard has retrieved the bodies of his mother, brother, sister-in-law and nephew, and buried them beside the ruins, one by one and with a priest’s blessing.More: continued here
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Bin Laden endorses failed attempt to bomb US jet (AP)
Posted on January 24th, 2010 No comments
AP - Osama bin Laden endorsed the failed attempt to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day and threatened new attacks against the United States in an audio message released Sunday that appeared aimed at asserting he maintains some direct command over al-Qaida-inspired offshoots.More: continued here
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UK raises its terror threat level to `severe’ (AP)
Posted on January 22nd, 2010 No comments
AP - Britain raised its terror threat alert to the second-highest level Friday, one of several recent moves the country has made to increase vigilance against international terrorists after a Christmas Day bombing attempt on a Europe-U.S. flight.More: continued here
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Survivors flee Haiti capital; buried still saved (AP)
Posted on January 22nd, 2010 No comments
AP - The government and international agencies urgently searched for sites to build tent cities on Port-au-Prince’s outskirts to shelter hundreds of thousands of the homeless staying behind before springtime’s onslaught of floods and hurricanes.More: continued here
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Haiti to resettle 400,000 quake victims to camps (AP)
Posted on January 21st, 2010 No comments
AP - Within days, the government will move 400,000 people made homeless by Haiti’s epic earthquake from their squalid improvised camps throughout the shattered capital to new resettlement areas on the outskirts, a top Haitian official said Thursday.More: continued here
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China teen seen as hero for killing local official (AP)
Posted on January 20th, 2010 No comments
AP - When Li Shiming was stabbed through the heart by a hired assassin, few of his fellow villagers mourned the local Communist Party official many say made their lives hell by seizing land, extorting money and bullying people for years.More: continued here
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