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3 rescued U.S. hostages arrive in Tex.Thu, 3 Jul 2008 07:02:23 GMT
Three American hostages rescued from leftist guerillas in Colombia arrived safely in Texas late Wednesday and were taken to a hospital, where they were expected to reunite with their families and undergo tests.
| Charges brought in 2000 Concorde crashThu, 3 Jul 2008 10:09:47 GMT A French judge has ordered Continental Airlines and five people to stand trial for manslaughter in connection with the 2000 crash of a Concorde jet that killed 113 people. |
Body could be missing Vt. girlWed, 2 Jul 2008 23:34:11 GMT A teenage girl admitted helping the uncle of a missing 12-year-old get her to his home where he planned to have sex with her, according to affidavit details released Wednesday. |
Alex Rodriguez reportedly splits from wifeThu, 3 Jul 2008 05:38:12 GMT Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez and his wife have split less than three months after the birth of the couple’s second daughter, according to a report in the New York Daily News. |
| NYT: McCain orders campaign shake-upThu, 3 Jul 2008 04:00:43 GMT Responding to Republican concerns, John McCain placed a veteran of President Bush’s 2004 re-election in charge of day-to-day operations. |
Police said to foil Indonesia attackThu, 3 Jul 2008 09:22:17 GMT Anti-terror police arrested 10 suspected Muslim militants and seized a large cache of high-powered bombs, foiling a major attack targeting Westerners in the Indonesian capital, police and media reports said Thursday. |
| Sex abuser jailed for 4,060 yearsThu, 3 Jul 2008 09:01:51 GMT A Texas man was sentenced to more than 4,000 years in prison Wednesday for sexually assaulting three teenage girls. |
| Are we what we Google?Thu, 3 Jul 2008 10:30:55 GMT Enter Google Trends. It’s a Google tool that graphically displays the day’s most popular search terms. Theoretically, it’s a direct line to our innermost thoughts and desires. But, is it really? |
| U.S. condoned Kurdish oil dealThu, 3 Jul 2008 08:20:03 GMT U.S. officials condoned Hunt Oil Co. efforts to obtain an exploration deal with Iraq’s Kurdish regional government, contrary to public statements discouraging it, according to documents cited by a congressional committee. |
Fire evacuations ordered for Big SurThu, 3 Jul 2008 00:30:58 GMT
Authorities ordered most of the remaining residents of this scenic coastal community to leave Wednesday because an out-of-control wildfire had jumped a fire line.
Hollywood heavyweights Robert De Niro and Al Pacino reunited on the red carpet in New York Wednesday night for the premiere of their new crime thriller “Righteous Kill” — their first film together since making 1995’s “Heat.”
The movie also stars
The Pakistani Army has been given orders to retaliate against any unilateral strike by the Afghanistan-based US troops inside the country.
Army Spokesman Maj Gen Athar Abbas confirmed the orders in a brief interview with Geo News on late Thursday night.
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says he will not accept military action or new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear activities.
“We should not take any unilateral steps. It is not acceptable to opt for a military scenario. It would be dangerous,”
As the world marks the seventh anniversary of 9/11, some European experts say security improvements in the US have been undercut by fairly basic mistakes. Among the remedies is more trust in America’s laws and allies.
Seven years after the attacks
David Miliband has allegedly come in for a rather undiplomatic tongue-lashing from his Russian counterpart.
The Foreign Secretary was apparently given a furious dressing down by Sergei Lavrov over the telephone.
Mr Miliband’s criticism of Russia’s recent incursion into Georgia is believed
PIETERMARITZBURG, South Africa - A South African judge ruled Friday that prosecutors were wrong to charge ANC President Jacob Zuma with corruption, effectively clearing way for the 66-year-old former freedom fighter to become the country’s next president.
Judge Chris Nicholson’s ruling
Thailand’s political turmoil deepened Friday when the ruling coalition failed to turn up to parliament to reelect leader Samak Sundaravej as prime minister.
Lawmakers from the six-party coalition did not attend an emergency session of parliament called to choose a prime minister, three days after a court stripped Samak of power for accepting payments for hosting
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