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  • Presidential nomination date advanced in Egypt

    Honduras News.Net

    CAIRO - Egypt has decided to advance the election of a new president, giving in to the demands of increasingly violent protesters and raising hopes of a civilian government taking over the task of ...

  • No Israeli decision on Iran Attack: Obama

    Honduras News.Net

    WASHINGTON - Amid an escalated tension threatening a nuclear conflict between the two nations, US President Barack Obama has said he did not believe Israel had decided on an attack on Iran to ...

  • Greater people's say in policy making desirable, says Putin

    Honduras News.Net

    MOSCOW- Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has stressed need for Russia to adopt new democratic mechanisms to move forward and to be able to react swiftly to the interests and desires of large groups in ...

  • Russia, China criticized over veto as more violence flares in Syria

    Honduras News.Net

    DAMASCUS - The West voiced its ire over Russia and China's veto of the UN Security Council resolution on Syria even as more clashes and deaths were reported in the violence-wracked country. The ...

  • Heavy snowfall, cold hits life across Europe

    Honduras News.Net

    LONDON - Heavy snowfall and intense cold this winter, one of the most severe in decades, has taken its toll across Europe, with many rural areas badly affected and several deaths reported. More ...

  • IMF cautions China to be ready with stimulus package

    Honduras News.Net

    NEW YORK - The IMF has warned of lower growth in China in view of the economic slump in Europe, and cut its forecast for the world's second largest economy this year to 8.25 per cent from 9 per ...

  • Greek PM to resume talks on rescue plan

    Honduras News.Net

    ATHENS - Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos has said he would continue intense talks with his coalition partners on austerity measures for a 130 billion-euro EU bailout plan second for ...

  • China asks airlines not to enter into EU carbon scheme

    Honduras News.Net

    BEIJING - China's Monday asked its airlines not to pay a charge on carbon emissions imposed by the European Union (EU). The authorities also asked the airlines not to hike freight or add other ...

  • Doha declaration of Palestinian reconciliation signed

    Honduras News.Net

    Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and chief of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Hamas politbureau Khalid Mashaal signed here Monday the Doha Declaration of the Palestinian reconciliation. The ...

  • Is Al-Qaeda preparing British women bombers?

    Honduras News.Net

    Al-Qaeda is trying to recruit women for carrying out suicide bombings in Britain, parliament members have warned in a report. The terrorist group is using extremist websites to radicalise the ...

  • The Politics Of Crowd Estimates In Russia

    RadioFreeEurope

    Varying Numbers According to police estimates, the pro-Putin demonstration question drew a whopping 138,000 people, more than the estimated 80,000 to 100,000 who reportedly attended the ...

  • EU: Russian Gas Flow Returning To Normal

    RadioFreeEurope

    The European Union says gas flows from Russia have returned to normal levels in six European countries, after deliveries fell amid the European cold snap. The European Commission's ...

  • Spokesman Says Putin Will Win March Vote In First Round

    RadioFreeEurope

    Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's spokesman says the large turnout at a pro-Putin rally in Moscow on February 4 shows Putin will win an outright victory in the first round of the upcoming ...

  • Norway: Breivik Demands To Be Set Free

    RadioFreeEurope

    Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty broadcasts in 28 languages. Most of our programs are available on FM and medium-wave frequencies of local radio stations in the countries of our broadcast area. If ...

  • Obama tightens Iran sanctions over bank 'deception'

    Jerusalem Post

    White House: Stricter sanctions are needed because Iranian banks are concealing transactions, due to "the continuing and unacceptable risk posed to the international financial system by ...

  • US, UK take diplomatic steps over Syria violence

    Jerusalem Post

    The United States announced on Monday it was closing its embassy in Syria, and Britain that is was recalling its ambassador, due to the worsening security situation, further isolating Damascus ...

  • Strike to go ahead unless agreement reached

    Jerusalem Post

    Histadrut Chairman Ofer Eini declared Monday that a general strike would begin Wednesday 6 a.m. unless his labor federation and the Treasury reach an agreement before then on the employment status ...

  • Ecstasy and agony played out on the big stage

    Jerusalem Post

    Describing the respective scenes in the New England Patriots' and New York Giants' locker-rooms following Sunday night's 21-17 Big Blue triumph is a bit like comparing a wedding and a ...

  • Poll: Obama gains over Romney amid better economy

    Jerusalem Post

    WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama - bolstered by a stronger economic outlook and recent job growth - would win in a match-up against the two leading Republican presidential candidates Mitt ...

  • Sights and Insights: A capital city on a hill

    Jerusalem Post

    is an author who has never recovered from his travels in Israel and loves to write about them from his desk in Texas. I stood on the crumblings of an Iron Age acropolis with a valley all around the ...

  • Oz cheers Queen’s 60 years on throne

    IOL

    Australia on Monday congratulated Britain's Queen Elizabeth II on her 60 years on the throne, with Prime Minister Julia Gillard describing the milestone as ';truly ...

  • Syrian forces attack Homs, 15 killed

    IOL

    Beirut - Syrian forces bombarded the city of Homs early on Monday, killing 15 people in a wave of attacks across several districts, activists and residents ...

  • Olive oil glut threatens way of life

    New Zealand Herald

    In the grounds of Granada's Parque de las Ciencias, delighted tourists and students watch a demonstration of olive trees being harvested. It is a timeless image of an industry whose Iberian roots ...

  • Thusha Kamaleswaran, 5, 'died twice' and will never walk again

    Daily Mail

    Paralysed: Little Thusha Kamaleswaran will never walk again after she was shot through the chest while playing in her uncle's shop in Stockwell Road, south ...

  • 'Extraordinarily dangerous' radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada will be freed within days after judge grants him bail

    Daily Mail

    Qatada, 51, once described as 'Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe', is free to continue fighting his deportation to Jordan - where he's wanted on suspicion of a ...

  • Skating on thin ice, Dave? Cameron wobbles his way across the rink during school fundraiser

    Daily Mail

    The Prime Minister put on his skates and took to the ice during the coldest weekend of the winter for a 30 minute skating session on a synthetic ...

  • Good Samaritan saved after leaping into freezing River Wansbeck to rescue dog

    Daily Mail

    An unidentified good Samaritan jumped into freezing temperatures to save a stranger's dog from the icy waters of the River Wansbeck in Morpeth, Northumberland on the ...

  • Brazen thieves use TRACTOR to tear cash machine out of NatWest bank in Bingham

    Daily Mail

    Probe: A scene of crimes officer gathers evidence outside a NatWest bank in the small Market Town of Bingham, Nottinghamshire, following the raid in the early hours of ...

  • Somali pirate 'Six Toe Joe' captured by Royal Navy sailors

    Daily Mail

    Had the pirate, who was handed to Seychelles police last week, lived in the West then he could have undergone a simple operation to remove his four extra ...

  • Waitangi pub crawl appals Londoners

    New Zealand Herald

    The antics of some Kiwis on a Waitangi Day pub crawl through London have disgusted a fellow expat, who has complained to the Prime Minister and High Commissioner and says the misbehaviour has shamed ...

  • Signs voters inching back to Gillard

    New Zealand Herald

    Prime Minister Julia Gillard may be starting her parliamentary year today bruised and battered from media mauling, but for the first time in months there are signs that voters may be inching their ...

  • Billionaire digs deep to keep warring brood in line

    New Zealand Herald

    Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart has launched a flank attack on her wilful children, threatening to cut off their insurance against ransom if they do not agree to keep family disputes secret. ...

  • Boys die in Dad's final inferno

    New Zealand Herald

    Josh Powell's note was simple and short, a farewell to the world after two years of media scrutiny and investigation by police, judges and social workers since the day his wife vanished. Just ...

  • Fears grow of strike on Iran

    New Zealand Herald

    For the first time in nearly two decades of escalating tensions over Iran's nuclear programme, world leaders are genuinely concerned that an Israeli military attack on the Islamic Republic could be ...

  • Record purchase causes seismic shift in art world

    New Zealand Herald

    It is a painting of startling simplicity. Two farm labourers contemplate their cards above an empty table, their expressions as blank as the austere background against which they are posed, little ...

  • Book opened on Sarkozy's extravagant' presidency

    New Zealand Herald

    France may recently have suffered a credit agency downgrade, but President Nicolas Sarkozy's triple-A lifestyle in the Elysee Palace has been skewered in a new book. L'Argent de l'Etat by Rene ...

  • China stops its airlines paying EU carbon tax

    New Zealand Herald

    China has banned its airlines from paying charges on carbon emissions imposed by the European Union. The charges that took effect last month are aimed at curbing emissions of climate-changing gases ...

  • Micron chooses new CEO after plane crash

    Business Journal

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  • US closes embassy in Syria

    The Independent

    Officials say Ambassador Robert Ford and other diplomats left Syria on Monday. It is the most dramatic US move so far after 11 months of a violent crackdown on dissent by President Bashar ...

  • Woman charged after obese sister found rotting in chair

    C News

    (Shutterstock) An Indiana woman is accused of leaving her obese sister in a chair for three weeks, to decompose and die. Vickie Holdcraft, 58, a worker for the county health department, was ...

  • Obama's grandmother OK after car crash

    C News

    Sarah Obama sustained minor injuries in a car crash in Kenya on the weekend. (NTV Kenya Screengrab) President Barack Obama's grandmother sustained minor injuries in a car crash in Kenya on the ...

  • Norway mass killer decries 'cultural destruction'

    C News

    Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people, arrives at a court hearing in Oslo on February 6, 2012. Breivik admitted to detonating a bomb at a government building in Oslo that killed ...

  • Sixty years of Queen Elizabeth II

    C News

    Queen Elizabeth attends a tree planting ceremony in the Diamond Jubilee Wood on her Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, eastern England February 3, 2012. The Queen marks her 60th year on the throne in ...

  • U.K. judge orders radical preacher released on bail

    USA Today

    After six years in custody, Abu Qatada could be freed within days for three months under stringent conditions , a judge at the Special Immigration Appeals Commission in London said. Abu Qatada has ...

  • Secret Memos Reveal Assad Regime Tactics

    Sky News

    The Syrian government's computer system has reportedly been hacked, to reveal private memos, documents and emails apparently advising President Bashar al Assad on how to tackle reactions to his ...

  • Somare, O'Neill set for court showdown

    The Australian

    Open the Google Chrome browser Click Tools icon>Options>Under the Hood>Content Settings Check Allow local data to be set Uncheck Block third-party cookies from being set Uncheck Clear ...

  • Obama gains over Romney amid better economy: poll

    Reuters

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama - bolstered by a stronger economic outlook and recent job growth - would win in a match-up against the two leading Republican presidential candidates ...

  • U.S. closes embassy in Damascus due to Syria violence

    Reuters

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States announced on Monday it was closing its embassy in Syria due to the worsening security situation, further isolating Damascus over its bloody crackdown on ...

  • State faces scrutiny in Powell boys' death

    CBS News

    (AP) SEATTLE - State authorities can expect tough questions about whether more might have been done to protect a missing Utah woman's two children, who died along with their father after ...

  • Egypt names 19 Americans facing trial

    CBS News

    Sam LaHood, left, is pictured in this Jan. 2009 file photo as his father Ray is sworn in as Transportation Secretary in Washington. Sam LaHood is one of 19 American NGO employees indicted by the ...