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Wealthy Indonesians start sharing the wealth

World NewsOct 3, 2011

Assitance: A youth spends his time in the middle of the road in Jakarta. Yani Rodyat, vice-chairman of Medco Energi is trying to spread education to Jakarta’s street children by paying the school fees for hundreds of underprivileged children.There are few places in the word where such vast contrasts
Liu Xiaobo’s wife still silenced

World NewsOct 3, 2011

BEIJING (AP) ― In a quiet, leafy neighborhood of Beijing, a woman has been living in enforced isolation in her book-lined, fifth-floor apartment. Her apparent misdeed: being married to a Nobel Peace Prize winner the Chinese government calls a criminal.In the year since jailed democracy campaigner Li
Anger flares at Kenya kidnapping response

World NewsOct 3, 2011
Al-Qaida deaths hurt attack plans: Panetta

World NewsOct 3, 2011

ON BOARD A MILITARY AIRCRAFT (AP) ― Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Monday that the deaths of several top al-Qaida leaders in Pakistan and Yemen in recent months will make it much more difficult for the terror group and its affiliates to plan and launch large-scale attacks abroad, including agai
Nigeria shies on Palestinian U.N. bid

World NewsOct 3, 2011

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) ― Nigeria is refusing to say how it will vote when the United Nations Security Council decides on the Palestinians’ request for U.N. membership, as increasing diplomatic pressure mounts on the oil-rich West African nation.Nigeria appears to be a crucial vote as Palestinians try t
Scientists say Arctic has record ozone loss

World NewsOct 3, 2011

PARIS (AFP) ― An ozone hole five times the size of California opened over the Arctic this spring, matching ozone loss over Antarctica for the first time on record, scientists said Sunday.Formed by a deep chill over the North Pole, the unprecedented hole at one point shifted over eastern Europe, Russ
Wall Street protesters: We're in for the long haul

World NewsOct 3, 2011

NEW YORK (AP) -- The protesters who have been camping out in Manhattan's Financial District for more than two weeks eat donated food and keep their laptops running with a portable gas-powered generator. They have a newspaper _ the Occupied Wall Street Journal _ and a makeshift hospital. Police make
IBM tops MS for first time in 15 years

World BusinessOct 2, 2011

International Business Machines Corp. passed Microsoft Corp. to become the world’s second-most valuable technology company, a reflection of industry changes including the shift away from the personal computer. IBM’s market value rose to $214 billion Friday, while Microsoft’s fell to $213.2 billion.
Alibaba ‘interested’ in buying Yahoo

World BusinessOct 2, 2011

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Chairman Jack Ma said he’s “very interested” in buying Yahoo! Inc., the U.S. Web portal that ousted its chief executive officer last month amid stagnant growth and shrinking market share.Ma said he’s had discussions with Yahoo, as well as other potential buyers, without id
Sarkozy says to meet Merkel on eurozone bailout

World BusinessOct 2, 2011

PARIS (AFP) ― France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy promised on Friday to push Germany over his plan to more closely integrate eurozone economies after meeting Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou in Paris.Sarkozy said he had been convinced by Papandreou’s promise to cut Greece’s debts and deficit, a
Tunisian election campaign kicks off

World NewsOct 2, 2011

TUNIS (AP) ― The campaign for the first elections born of the revolts that swept the Middle East began in Tunisia on Saturday, featuring 81 political parties in a country where more than 90 percent of the vote used to be awarded to just one.Tunisians are electing a constitutional assembly after over
West Germany wanted to buy reunification

World NewsOct 2, 2011

BERLIN (AFP) -- West Germany was prepared to pay the Soviet Union billions of marks in the 1960s to buy reunification, according to the weekly Der Spiegel, which went on sale Saturday.The then-chancellor Christian-Democrat Ludwig Erhard (1963-1966) hoped to obtain Germany’s reunification in return f
U.S. warns of revenge attacks from al-Qaida

World NewsOct 2, 2011

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― The United States issued a worldwide travel alert Saturday warning its nationals of the “potential for retaliation” after two key al-Qaida figures were killed in an air raid in Yemen.The State Department notice came one day after the killing of U.S.-born Islamic cleric Anwar al-Aw
Suh: Korean-Americans bridge builders between two nations

World NewsOct 2, 2011

WASHINGTON (Yonhap News) ― Making her first trip to South Korea in a decade, Rhea S. Suh, who handles a $12 billion budget at the Department of the Interior, says she is bringing a message of hope for ethnic Koreans in foreign nations.“I am going to focus on basically my personal experience as a Kor
Denmark levies world's first fat tax

World NewsOct 2, 2011

COPENHAGEN, Oct 1, 2011 (AFP) -- Denmark Saturday became the first country in the world to impose a fat tax after a week in which consumers hoarded butter, pizza, meat and milk to avoid the immediate effects."We have had to stock up with tonnes of butter and margarine in order to be able to supply o