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  • Biden objects to Israeli settlement announcement

    Biden objects to Israeli settlement announcement

    The Nashville News.Net

    US Vice President Joe Biden has told the Israeli prime minister that the US condemns an Israeli plan to build hundreds of homes in disputed east Jerusalem.

  • Javanese terror suspects killed

    Javanese terror suspects killed

    The Nashville News.Net

    Indonesian police have confirmed the deaths of three terrorists in raids outside the capital, Jakarta.

  • Gaddafi receives apology from US

    Gaddafi receives apology from US

    The Nashville News.Net

    The US State Department has apologised over comments made by a State Department official about Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

  • Letterman blackmailer confesses his crime

    Letterman blackmailer confesses his crime

    The Nashville News.Net

    A former television producer on the David Letterman show has admitted in a New York court that he tried to extract two million dollars from the famous television compere.

  • Rape in Russian prison results in charges against jailers

    Rape in Russian prison results in charges against jailers

    The Nashville News.Net

    Top prison officials in Saint Petersburg have been charged with the rape of two prisoners, one of whom was awaiting trial.

  • African nation condemns homosexuals

    African nation condemns homosexuals

    The Nashville News.Net

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  • Unity Government ministers shut out by Mugabe

    Unity Government ministers shut out by Mugabe

    The Nashville News.Net

    Zimbabwe's Unity Government has suffered what might be a fatal blow at the hands of President Robert Mugabe.

  • Migrants warned of jail if they protest in Thailand

    Migrants warned of jail if they protest in Thailand

    The Nashville News.Net

    Thailand has warned it will imprison migrant workers who attend anti-government rallies scheduled for this weekend in Bangkok.

  • Votes being counted after Iraq elections

    Votes being counted after Iraq elections

    The Nashville News.Net

    With vote counting underway in Iraq, officials have said their work is being complicated by the large number of overseas votes coming in.

  • Pakistan police say arrested man is not Gadahn

    Pakistan police say arrested man is not Gadahn

    The Nashville News.Net

    An American-born al-Qaeda spokesman, Adam Gadahn, who was supposedly captured in Pakistan over the weekend, has escaped an intelligence dragnet after all.

  • Joe Biden goes to Middle East peace talks

    Joe Biden goes to Middle East peace talks

    The Nashville News.Net

    US Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Israel on Monday to take part in a high-level peace conference.

  • US/Iran envoys agree there could be common ground on drugs

    US/Iran envoys agree there could be common ground on drugs

    The Nashville News.Net

    At a meeting in Vienna, the United States has told Iran it would be happy to work with the country on a drug eradication program.

  • Thousands of Ugandans relocated because of mudslides

    Thousands of Ugandans relocated because of mudslides

    The Nashville News.Net

    Uganda has told 300,000 people living on the slopes of Mount Elgon they will be immediately moved because of the risk of mudslides.

  • Deaths recorded in Turkey earthquake

    Deaths recorded in Turkey earthquake

    The Nashville News.Net

    Eastern Turkey was struck by a 6.0-magnitude quake on Monday, killing 51 people.

  • Gay life of US senator revealed

    Gay life of US senator revealed

    The Nashville News.Net

    A California state senator has come out as a homosexual after many years as a staunch opponent of gay rights.

  • Man stabbed in Los Angeles cinema

    Man stabbed in Los Angeles cinema

    The Nashville News.Net

    A man attending a movie in a US cinema has been stabbed after asking a woman to turn off he phone

  • Massa denies he sexually groped staffer

    New York Post

    Former New York Congressman Eric Massa, who resigned from Congress amid sexual harassment allegations, acknowledged Tuesday groping a staffer but denied it was sexual."It doesn't make any difference w...

  • Unholy accident: Woman killed outside church

    New York Post

    Congregants at a small Gravesend church are still reeling from the harrowing accident that followed Sunday services — a motorist’s simple mistake that led to one worshipper’s death a...

  • Impending reforestation for Fresh Creek Preserve

    New York Post

    Change is coming soon to the Fresh Creek Nature Preserve.The New York City Department of Parks & Recreation will kick off a reforestation project at the preserve this spring, with the goal of rest...

  • Few clues in Bklyn hit and run

    New York Post

    Three days after she was left to die in the street, investigators have few clues about the motorist now being sought for running down a 37-year-old Dyker Heights resident as she crossed Fort Hamilton ...

  • Guild president honored by CB 10

    New York Post

    For many Ridgites, the Guild for Exceptional Children is the face of developmental disability in the community.The organization -founded over half a century ago by a group of parents who wanted to mak...

  • Molotov menace hits local home

    New York Post

    Home firebombedSome gang payback and a few bottles of booze led to a dangerous conflagration at a local home this week.Officials said that three people threw Molotov cocktails — liquor bottles w...

  • Snowbound outer boroughs should be treated differently, says legislator

    New York Post

    With snow removal treated vastly differently in Manhattan and the outer boroughs, one local legislator has a modest proposal for the city administration: Delay the return of alternate side parking in ...

  • CAI buckles up in Coney Island

    New York Post

    Get ready to ride, Brooklyn. In just a few short weeks, new thrill machines from Italian manufacturer Zamperla will start appearing in Coney Island.Central Amusements International (CAI), an off-shoot...

  • Four 76th Precinct cops receive high praise, awards

    New York Post

    On Jan. 11, officers Damien Clarke and Jesse Zhong were on routine patrol when they heard a crash in the vicinity of 276 Van Brunt Street. The cops, according to Captain Kenneth Corey, the commanding ...

  • Man who caused Newark airport security breach pleads guilty

    New York Post

    NEWARK — A graduate student from China who slipped under a rope barrier at Newark Liberty International Airport to say goodbye to his girlfriend, prompting a security breach and leading to world...

  • Michelle Obama still seething at Frenemies

    New York Post

    You’d think Michelle Obama’s pals would be just a tad more grateful after sponging up all the best ducats and party invites for Barack Obama’s historic inauguration.But apparently so...

  • Robert Halderman's statment in pleading guilty to extorting David Letterman

    New York Post

    "In September of 2009, I attempted to extort two million dollars from David Letterman by threatening to disclose personal and private information about him, whether true or false."On the morning of Se...

  • Half of Food Aid to Somalia Is Diverted, Report Says

    International Herald Tribune

    United Nations staff, according to a new Security Council report. The report, which has not yet been made public but was shown to The New York Times, outlines a host of problems so grave that it reco...

  • RIGHTS: "Famine Marriages" Just One Byproduct of Climate Change

    IPS

    UNITED NATIONS, Mar 9, 2010 (IPS/TerraViva) - The negative fallout from climate change is having a devastatingly lopsided impact on women compared to men, from higher death rates during natural disast...

  • Kiwi family stunned about expulsion

    New Zealand Herald

    Shrink A New Zealand family kicked out of Morocco for teaching Christianity to Muslim orphans are safe on their way to Spain, their family says. Aucklanders Chris and Tina Broadbent and their two you...

  • Nigerian slaughter shatters fragile balance

    New Zealand Herald

    Shrink LAGOS - Soldiers were out in force in the troubled Nigerian city of Jos where aid workers were still counting the dead after a sectarian massacre in which hundreds of villagers were hacked to d...

  • Authorities crack down on finch-fighting rings

    USA Today

    Twice in recent months, authorities have raided operations where finches were kept to attack each other for onlookers who bet on which birds would survive the matches.

  • 2 U.S. soldiers die in accident in Iraq

    USA Today

    The deaths raise to at least 4,382 the number of U.S. military personnel who have died in Iraq since the war began in March 2003. That's according to an Associated Press count.

  • Scholar Diane Ravitch: 'We've lost sight' of schools' goal

    USA Today

    Diane Ravitch can pinpoint the day when she realized public schools in the USA were racing down a perilous road, one that promised long-sought reforms but would never deliver — and probably make...

  • U.S. condemns new Israel housing units

    CNN

    Jerusalem (CNN) -- Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday that the United States condemns Israel's decision to build 1,600 housing units in a Jerusalem neighborhood, calling it "a step that underm...

  • Obama meets leader of ailing Greece

    CNN

    Washington (CNN) -- Global financial reform topped the agenda Tuesday as President Obama huddled with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, whose country is at the center of Europe's debt crisis.

  • US attacks East Jerusalem plans

    BBC

    US Vice-President Joe Biden has condemned Israel's approval of 1,600 new homes for ultra-Orthodox Jews in East Jerusalem.Mr Biden, in Israel as part of US attempts to kick-start the peace process, sai...

  • US apology for Gaddafi comments

    BBC

    The US State Department has apologised for comments made about Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's call for jihad, or holy war, against Switzerland.Department spokesman PJ Crowley, who made the dismissive...

  • TV Producer Admits Blackmailing Letterman

    Sky News

    Appearing in front of the New York State Supreme Court, he faced up to 15 years in prison if had he gone to trial and been convicted. He is due to be formally sentenced in May. Halderman was indicte...

  • British poll date firms as May 6

    The Australian

    GORDON BROWN will settle today on March 24 as the day for the pre-election budget as the campaign accelerates towards a May 6 showdown.

  • Obama adviser Emanuel in 'naked rant'

    The Australian

    BARACK Obama's troubled effort to reform the US health industry took a bizarre twist yesterday when a Democrat congressman said he was lambasted over the issue by a naked Rahm Emanuel, the White ...

  • Pope's brother admits hitting choirboys

    The Australian

    THE Pope's brother has given a rare insight into a pervasive culture of violence at Roman Catholic institutions, admitting that he hit children while he was choirmaster at a German boarding schoo...

  • Biden attacks Israel over settlements

    The Australian

    JOE BIDEN has condemned Israel's plans to build 1600 new settlement homes in east Jerusalem, a move announced as the US vice-president met Israeli leaders to revive peace efforts.

  • Faith not enough for kids

    The Australian

    OREGON CITY: A US judge who sentenced a couple to prison for the death of their son says members of their church must stop relying on faith healing when their children's lives are at stake.

  • Eric Massa Says he Groped Staffer -- Non Sexually

    CBS News

    Updated 6:00 p.m. Eastern TimeEric Massa, the New York Democrat who resigned from the House in the wake of a House ethics inquiry into charges that he behaved inappropriately with male staffers, told ...

  • "JihadJane" Charged With Terror Recruiting

    CBS News

    A suburban Philadelphia woman "desperate to do something" to help suffering Muslims has been charged with using the Internet to recruit jihadist fighters and help terrorists overseas, even agreeing to...

  • Toyota's Prius Recall Coming "Soon"

    CBS News

    Driver's Perilous Prius Experience A Calif. Prius Driver explains his predicament when his car's accelerator pedal was stuck moving the car to 94 mph. The disgruntled driver refuses to drive his car a...

  • Judge Considers Sending Ex-Edwards Aide To Jail

    CBS News

    Andrew Young, former aide to former Senator John Edwards, and his wife Cheri Young listen to the prosecutions' arguments during a hearing at the Chatham County Superior Court House in Pittsboro, N.C.,...

  • Missing Oil Exec's Body Found in River

    CBS News

    The body of Douglas Schantz, president of Houston-based Sequent Energy Management, is wheel down a ramp to a waiting van, in New Orleans Tuesday, March 9, 2010.