 Turkish president wins international relations prize
(AFP)
 19.03.2010 15:50  0 views  0 comments
Tags: President, House, February, Turkish, British
 AFP - Turkish President Abdullah Gul has won this year's prestigious Chatham House prize for improving international relations, the British foreign policy think-tank announced Friday.
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| 'Lawyer' for US missionaries in Haiti is arrested
(AP)
19.03.2010 15:45 0 views 0 comments
Tags: Haiti, Haitis
AP - A fugitive who once acted as the lawyer for a group of U.S. Baptist missionaries accused of kidnapping 33 Haitian children was arrested on human-trafficking charges, authorities said Friday. Read more »
| Pope's Irish letter faces critical Catholic world
(AP)
19.03.2010 15:32 0 views 0 comments
Tags: Benedict XVI, Pope Benedict, Ireland, Benedict, Catholic, Saturday, FILE, Boston, Post, Park, March, Irish
 AP - Pope Benedict XVI addresses Ireland on Saturday in a letter apologizing for the sex abuse scandal here — a message being watched closely by Catholics from Boston to Berlin to see if it also acknowledges decades of Vatican-approved cover-ups.
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| Google likely to win EU court battle over ads
(AP)
19.03.2010 15:30 0 views 0 comments
Tags: European, Google
AP - Google looks likely to win a European high court battle over how it uses keywords in advertising — but legal experts say the issue is likely to keep rattling the search giant. Read more »
| Air Canada supports pilot caught in dispute
(AP)
19.03.2010 15:24 0 views 0 comments
Tags: Atlantic, Canada
AP - Air Canada is standing by a pilot whose co-workers refused to fly with him, fearing he was suicidal and accusing him of threatening to ditch his aircraft in the Atlantic Ocean. Read more »
| In tight Iraq parliament vote, upsets point to future battles
(McClatchy Newspapers)
19.03.2010 15:18 0 views 0 comments
Tags: McClatchy, McClatchy Newspapers, Newspapers, Muslim, Iran, Kurt, Shiite, Sunil, Iraqi
McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD, Iraq — The count in the Iraqi elections isn't yet over, but tallies released this week reveal upsets in restive provinces that portend a weak and fractious Iraq with battles looming on several fronts: Arab-Kurd rivalries, an internecine Shiite Muslim power struggle and what role Sunni Arabs will play in the next government. Read more »
| Sochi: Russian Olympic Scandals, Short Funds, Strike
(Time.com)
19.03.2010 15:15 0 views 0 comments
Tags: Olympics, Winter, Winter Olympian, Strike, Olympic, Russian, Shows, Russia
Time.com - The Sochi Winter Olympics are still four years away, but Russia is alreadyencountering a host of obstacles, including worker strikes and environmentalcomplaints Read more »
| Why Britain Is Feeling Bleak
(Time.com)
19.03.2010 15:15 0 views 0 comments
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| British Airways strike to go ahead after talks collapse
(AFP)
19.03.2010 15:08 0 views 0 comments
Tags: British, Airways
 AFP - Last-ditch talks aimed at preventing a strike by some 12,000 British Airways (BA) cabin crew collapsed Friday, leaving thousands of travellers facing chaos from midnight (0000 GMT).
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| US says new Darfur truce important step for peace
(AFP)
19.03.2010 15:06 0 views 0 comments
Tags: Darfur, February, North, United States, States, United, President
 AFP - The United States said Friday the Sudanese government's ceasefire with another rebel movement is "a very important step" toward establishing peace in the western Darfur region.
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| China tries to cool yuan dispute with U.S.
(Reuters)
19.03.2010 15:04 0 views 0 comments
Tags: Dalai Lama, Dalek, Last, India, March, Washington, Reuters, China
 Reuters - China on Friday said it was sending an envoy to Washington to try to ease trade frictions as its currency regime comes under fire, warning that threats from U.S. legislators could stifle room for progress.
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| World diplomats urge resumption of Mideast talks
(AP)
19.03.2010 14:50 0 views 0 comments
Tags: Mideast, Middle East, Alexandra, State Hillary, Hillary, Clinton, Secretary, Middle, Palestinian, Israel, State, March, United States, States, United, World, East
 AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested Friday that the United States and Israel have found a way around the worst disagreement the two allies have faced in years while international diplomats set goals for new U.S.-backed peace talks aimed at establishing an independent Palestinian state.
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| Trouble in Sochi: Russia's Mounting Olympic Problems
(Time.com)
19.03.2010 14:20 0 views 0 comments
Tags: Olympics, Winter, Winter Olympian, Olympic, Russia
Time.com - The Sochi Winter Olympics are still four years away, but Russia is alreadyencountering a host of obstacles, including worker strikes and environmentalcomplaints Read more »
| Why Britain Is Feeling Bleak
(Time.com)
19.03.2010 14:20 0 views 0 comments
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| Push on for Mideast talks despite Jerusalem flap
(AP)
19.03.2010 14:19 0 views 0 comments
Tags: Pull, West, Wins, March, Israel, Israeli, Basu, Palestinians, Palestinian, Jerusalem, West Bank, Mideast
 AP - With pressure on from global mediators Friday, Israel and the Palestinians appeared likely to resume American-mediated indirect peace talks despite a flap over east Jerusalem construction.
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| Pakistan denies arrests thwarted Taliban talks
(Reuters)
19.03.2010 14:13 0 views 0 comments
Tags: Reuters, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Afghan, Taliban
Reuters - Pakistan rejected on Friday a suggestion from the former head of the U.N. mission in Afghanistan that the arrest of senior Afghan Taliban members in Pakistan may have disrupted talks with U.N. representatives. Read more »
| Iraq: Key figures since the war began
(AP)
19.03.2010 14:10 0 views 0 comments
Tags: March
AP - March 31, 2003: 90,000. Read more »
| Chile lowers death toll from February quake to 452
(AP)
19.03.2010 14:05 0 views 0 comments
Tags: China, February, Ruby
 AP - Chile is lowering the confirmed death toll from its February earthquake to 452 victims.
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| Heavy rains swamp camps holding Haiti's homeless
(AP)
19.03.2010 13:54 0 views 0 comments
Tags: Haiti, March, Heart
 AP - One of the heaviest rainfalls since Haiti's Jan. 12 earthquake swamped homeless camps Friday, sweeping screaming residents into eddies of water, overflowing latrines and panicking thousands.
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| German tax authorities target Credit Suisse clients
(AFP)
19.03.2010 13:48 0 views 0 comments
Tags: Germans, German, Oven, Swine
 AFP - Over 1,000 rich Germans with accounts at Swiss bank Credit Suisse found themselves under investigation Friday following the purchase by authorities of a CD containing the names of tax dodgers.
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