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Egypt’s ruler denies army told to shoot protesters

Oct 3, 2011

CAIRO (AP) ― Egypt’s military ruler on Sunday defended his testimony last month in the trial of ousted President Hosni Mubarak, denying that the army was ever ordered to shoot protesters during the uprising earlier this year.Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi testified in Mubarak’s trial on Sept. 24 unde
Nations using power of ‘weiplomacy’ in China

Oct 3, 2011

Foreign embassies, diplomats quick to take up Chinese micro-blogging platform Weibo*Asia News Network is the world’sThe world became a smaller and flatter place thanks to the Internet. But with the emergence of Weibo, the micro blog, cyberspace has again become multidimensional, as Weibo has been ch
Climate change behind storms, flooding, drought, Manila says

Oct 3, 2011

Officials have warned Filipinos to brace against the inconvenient truth of devastating storms, flooding and drought unless policies and projects are put in place to mitigate climate change.Undersecretary Graciano Yumul of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) said that in the next 20 to 50
Wealthy Indonesians start sharing the wealth

Oct 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

Oct 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

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

Oct 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

Oct 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

Oct 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

Oct 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
Tunisian election campaign kicks off

Oct 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

Oct 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

Oct 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

Oct 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

Oct 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