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  • Nouri al-Maliki closing in on leadership in Iraq

    Nouri al-Maliki closing in on leadership in Iraq

    South East Asia News.Net

    In Iraq, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's political coalition has taken the lead after last weekend’s vote.

  • Opposition Internet sites shut down in Iran

    Opposition Internet sites shut down in Iran

    South East Asia News.Net

    Iran has dismantled several opposition Internet networks it says were backed by the US.

  • Pope weathering paedophile slurs

    Pope weathering paedophile slurs

    South East Asia News.Net

    The Vatican has denounced attempts to involve the pope in scandals surrounding paedophile activity within the Catholic Church.

  • Prison break could be behind Afghan attacks

    Prison break could be behind Afghan attacks

    South East Asia News.Net

    Suicide bombers have killed around 30 people in Kandahar City, Afghanistan.

  • Obama education plan to be set for US

    Obama education plan to be set for US

    South East Asia News.Net

    President Barack Obama of the US is now pushing for education reform.

  • Thais demonstrates against government

    Thais demonstrates against government

    South East Asia News.Net

    Many backers of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra from all over Thailand are converging on Bangkok.

  • Death toll climbs as Pakistan suffers triple terrorist attacks

    Death toll climbs as Pakistan suffers triple terrorist attacks

    South East Asia News.Net

    In the third terrorist attack in two days, a Pakistani court has been targeted by a suicide bomber leaving at least ten dead.

  • At Least 3 Snowmobilers Dead In Canadian Avalanche

    Seattle Post-Intelligencer

    Royal Canadian Mounted Police direct traffic at the staging area for avalanche search & rescue operations near Revelstoke, B.C. on Saturday March 13, 2010. Rescuers were scouring Boulder Mountain in t...

  • Manny Pacquiao Retains W.b.o. Welterweight Title

    International Herald Tribune

    Manny Pacquiao, right, dissected and destructed his latest overmatched opponent, Joshua Clottey, pummeling Clottey’s ribs and midsection for most of the fight.

  • Israel Nabs Hamas Leader Behind 2003 Terror Attacks

    Haaretz

    Israel Defense Forces soldiers late Saturday arrested a top Hamas official in Ramallah, suspected of leading military cells responsible for the murder of more than 70 Israelis over the course of the s...

  • Jumblatt Formally Apologizes To Assad

    Jerusalem Post

    After years of alliances with Western-leaning politicians and fierce anti-Syrian rhetoric, Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt has issued a formal apology to Syrian President Bashar Assad for controv...

  • Top Hamas Terrorist Arrested In Ramallah

    Jerusalem Post

    In a joint operation combining the forces of the IDF, Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and police, member of the Hamas military wing Maher Ouda was arrested overnight Saturday in Ramallah.According t...

  • Paul Holmes: A President Under Attack

    New Zealand Herald

    Despite his difficulties, President Barack Obama still rates highly as a tremendous communicator. US News has just asked Americans in a poll: who do you think has been the greatest modern presidential...

  • Colombia Set For Legislative Poll

    BBC

    Colombians are to vote in legislative elections, seen as a barometer for the presidential election on 30 May.President Alvaro Uribe cannot run for a third term and a court last month closed any possib...

  • Chinese Pm Rejects Yuan Criticism

    BBC

    Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has rejected criticism that China is keeping its currency undervalued in order to boost exports.He said keeping the yuan stable was "an important contribution" to ...

  • Runaway Prius Probe Can't Verify Story

    CBS News

    In Full: Prius Driver's 9-1-1 Call Listen to the 9-1-1 call of the Prius driver whose car sped out of control on a San Diego highway before coming to a stop.

  • Storm Leaves Half Million Without Power

    CBS News

    (AP) Strong winds and heavy rain pounded parts of the Northeast on Saturday, knocking out power to more than a half-million homes and businesses and stranding about 500 passengers on a New York-bound ...

  • Queen Rania: We Need More Educated Girls

    CBS News

    Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan and Katie Couric Saturday at the Women in the World summit, sponsored by The Daily Beast, in New York, March 13, 2010.

  • China Alleges Diplomatic Snub At Copenhagen Summit

    Seattle Post-Intelligencer

    Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao reacts as he sits down for his press conference after the closing of the National People's Congress held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Sunday, March 14,...

  • China's Wen Says External Pressure On Yuan Not Helpful

    RadioFreeEurope

    Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao says Beijing will keep "the yuan basically stable" and said "external pressure" to let it rise in value "is not helpful." Many U.S. lawmakers c...

  • No Pain, All Gain

    Jerusalem Post

    The possibility of a longer-term local anesthetic that works only on pain is being hailed as one of the most important medical discoveries of all time.

  • Graffiti Group To Bring Solidarity Message To Sderot

    Jerusalem Post

    BOMBIN ’, became something of a forum for pro-Israel views.However unlikely, the graffiti community, touched by 9/11 and smarting from increased police cameras that stopped them from freely painting...

  • From Israel, A Radical Way To Boost Organ Donation

    New Zealand Herald

    Israel is launching a potentially trailblazing experiment in organ donation: Sign a donor card, and you and your family move up in line for a transplant if one is needed. The new law is the first of ...

  • Storms Knock Out Power In Northeast

    CNN

    (CNN) -- Heavy rains and hurricane-force winds that surpassed 70 miles per hour in places toppled trees, left more than a half-million people without power and suspended travel throughout much of the ...

  • Study: 9/11 Workers Show Heart Trouble

    CNN

    The study revealed that police officers who worked at the World Trade Center site in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks had unusually high occurrences of abnormal left and right v...

  • Israel Extends West Bank Closure

    CNN

    Jerusalem (CNN) -- Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has extended the closure of the West Bank, initially scheduled to end Saturday night, for three more days, Israeli officials said Saturday.

  • Huge Opposition Rally In Thailand

    BBC

    In Thaksin's 'red-shirted' country Many were gathered in front of a stage at the rally site to hear their leaders make the demands signalling the official beginning of the protest, says our corr...

  • Venezuela's Chavez Calls For Internet Controls

    Reuters

    (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, who is criticized by media freedom groups, called on Saturday for regulation of the Internet and singled out a website that he said falsely reported the ...

  • The Girl Who Knew Too Much

    CBS News

    Web Extra: Witness Talks Erin Moriarty talks to Tom "Dallas" Butler about what he saw in the early morning hours of Nov. 8, 1992. Butler believes that he may have seen, and talked to, the person who k...

  • These Phillies Prospects Bear Watching

    Philadelphia Daily News

    CLEARWATER, Fla. - Eight Grapefruit League games into March, the Phillies are just now getting into evaluation mode. At some point in the next few days, the club is expected to announce its first roun...

  • Obama, Medvedev Encouraged On Arms Talks Accord

    RadioFreeEurope

    U.S. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev have held what the White House calls "encouraging" talks on a treaty to succeed the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Trea...

  • At Least 30 Killed In Kandahar Bombings

    RadioFreeEurope

    At least 30 people have been killed and 50 wounded in a series of suicide bombings in Kandahar in southern Afghanistan. Afghan officials say a prison appeared to be the main target, but no prisoners h...

  • Russian Regional Vote Is Mid-term Test For Medvedev

    RadioFreeEurope

    Russia's holds regional elections today. Around 32 million of Russia's 110 million registered voters are eligible to vote in polls, which include elections for eight regional parliaments. The election...

  • Film: Ben Stiller: There’s Something About Mortification

    International Herald Tribune

    Ben Stiller , who has appeared in nine movies that have earned more than $100 million in domestic grosses, served as honorary chairman of Film Independent’s Spirit Awards. The incongruity was no...

  • High Court Rejects Petition To Stop Building In West Bank Outpost

    Haaretz

    The Supreme Court took an unusual step this weekend in rejecting a petition to stop illegal construction at a settlement outpost near Ramallah. Justice Neal Hendel denied the request despite the fact ...

  • Protesters Surge Into Bangkok, Call For Election

    New Zealand Herald

    Shrink BANGKOK - Tens of thousands of red-shirted protesters from Thailand's rural areas swarmed the Thai capital today for protests aimed at forcing the government to dissolve Parliament and call ne...

  • Iran Arrests 30 In Alleged U.s. Cyber War

    CNN

    (CNN) -- Iran has arrested 30 people for waging what it called an organized, U.S.-backed cyber war against the nation, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported Saturday.

  • Healing Hands Makes Difference In Haiti

    C News

    PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- Eight-year-old Banave Ulisse sat shyly in a chair, staring at his new left leg. Two months ago, almost to the day, the earthquake that pulverized huge patches of the capital s...

  • Clegg Bids To Cool Coalition Talk

    BBC

    Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg is due to deny he is the "kingmaker", amid speculation about his party's possible role in a coalition government."The 45 million voters are the kingma...

  • Us And Russia 'near' Nuclear Deal

    BBC

    Russia and the US have both said it should soon be possible to conclude a new nuclear disarmament treaty.Officials in Moscow and Washington said US President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry ...

  • Live - Bangladesh V England

    BBC

    Former Surrey and England batsman Mark Butcher on TMS: "Graeme Swann is a thinking bowler and very rarely bowls any rubbish, which may be why he so often takes a wicket in his first over"

  • Afghanistan Eases Ban On News Coverage Of Raids

    Reuters

    KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan rowed back on Saturday from a total ban on media broadcasts of "disturbing" images from insurgent attacks or live pictures of security operations.

  • Thousands Of Protesters Gather In Bangkok, Seek Elections

    Reuters

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  • Irish Police Release Three Over Cartoonist Plot

    Reuters

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  • Breaking Poverty Cycle Two Wheels At A Time

    CBS News

    Re-Cycling Hope Two young Americans are helping others all over the world by giving bikes away to the less fortunate. As Jeff Glor reports, 88Bikes is spreading smiles, two wheels at a time.

  • Pelosi: Confident House Will Pass Health Care

    Washington Times

    By Sudhin Thanawala ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Saturday she's confident the House will pass health care legislation and dismissed Republican criticism that...

  • Obama Tells Netanyahu: Show Us You're Serious About Peace

    Haaretz

    A widely predicted crisis between Israel and the United States upon Benjamin Netanyahu taking office as prime minister finally erupted this weekend. U.S. President Barack Obama did not hold back in co...

  • When The Shooters Came To Starbucks

    The Herald

    The “open-carry” movement first came to national attention when armed men began turning up at presidential events last summer, wearing their pistols in full view.

  • Irish Police Free Fourth Suspect In Cartoonist Plot Probe

    Channel News Asia

    DUBLIN : A fourth Muslim arrested over an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist who drew the Prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog has been released without charge, Irish police said Saturday. T...

  • Suicide Bombers Hit Afghan City - At Least 30 Dead

    New Zealand Herald

    Shrink KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A suicide squad detonated bombs at a newly fortified prison, police headquarters and two other locations, killing at least 30 people in the largest city of the southern...