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 Gay life of US senator revealed
Nepal News.Net
A California state senator has come out as a homosexual after many years as a staunch opponent of gay rights. Stupak: Health bill abortion fray resolvable
Washington Times
By John Flesher ASSOCIATED PRESS TAWAS CITY, Mich. -- Prospects are good for resolving a dispute over abortion that has led some House Democrats to threaten to withhold support of President Obama's h... Court sentences German royal to pay high fine
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
FILE - In this June 15, 2009 file photo German Prince Ernst August of Hanover waits for the start of his trial at a court in Hildesheim, Germany. A German judge has sentenced Princess Caroline of Mona... RFE/RL's Dragan Štavljanin Receives Critical Acclaim
RadioFreeEurope
Radio Slobodna Evropa. The book is drawing enormous attention in the region with dozens of interviews, reviews, and presentations in Bosnia, Serbia and Montenegro. Neven Kazazovic, one of the region&r... Lawyer Denies Former President Barred From Leaving Iran
RadioFreeEurope
, which allegedly has ties to the powerful Revolutionary Guard, has quoted an unnamed intelligence official as saying that Mohammad Khatami was barred from leaving the country. But Khatami's lawyer ha... Japan Drops Denial of Cold War ‘Treaties’
International Herald Tribune
Japan ended decades of denials on Tuesday by confirming the existence of secret cold-war-era agreements with Washington that, among other things, had allowed American nuclear-armed warships to sail in... Uproar in India Over Quota for Female Lawmakers
International Herald Tribune
India ’s parliament passed a bill Tuesday that would amend the constitution to reserve one third of the seats in India’s national and state legislatures for women after two days of politic... Seagate identity thieves nabbed for murder
New York Post
Swiping Irina Malezhik and Viktor Alekseyev’s identities wasn’t enough.Dimitry and Julia Yakovlev had to take their lives as well, federal prosecutors announced last week when they filed m... Ohio State shooting leaves 1 worker dead, 2 wounded
New York Post
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State University says an overnight shooting at a campus maintenance building left one of its employees dead and two others wounded.The shooting was first reported at 3:30 a... 'Israel accepts Ankara as mediator'
Jerusalem Post
A source from the Prime Minister's Office on Tuesday afternoon reportedly denied a news report quoting the Turkish prime minister as saying Israel has accepted that Turkey will again mediate talks wit... RIGHTS: Fewer Jobs, Less Money, Same Old Story
IPS
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 9, 2010 (IPS) - "What do I get from them? Nothing but bullsh*t," says Nupur Acharya, reflecting about how she is treated by her husband and two grown sons on daily basis.The 50-yea... Soldier who threw back hand grenade tells story
The Independent
A soldier described how he picked up a Taliban hand grenade which landed at his feet and threw it back towards the enemy. Rifleman James McKie saved the lives of two of his comrades by throwin... Cyprus police confirm corpse is ex-leader
The Independent
A body discovered in a Nicosia cemetery is the stolen corpse of Cyprus' ex-president Tassos Papadopoulos, police said Tuesday. DNA results obtained early Tuesday positively identify the corpse... Robert Fisk: Living proof of the Armenian genocide
The Independent
It's only a small grave, a rectangle of cheap concrete marking it out, blessed by a flourish of wild yellow lilies. Inside are the powdered bones and skulls and bits of femur of up to 300 children, Ar... Deputy speaker Heal standing down
BBC
Sylvia Heal, MP for Halesowen and Rowley Regis and a Commons deputy speaker, is standing down at the general election.The Labour MP said she did not want another five years of working 12 to 14 hour da... Third of EU emissions 'imported'
BBC
Rich countries including several EU nations are "importing" about a third of their CO2 emissions, says a study.US-based researchers used a global trade database to track goods and services, ... SBY cool on Rudd's Asia plan
The Australian
The Prime Minister discussed the community plan when he telephoned Dr Yudhoyono in Jakarta on Sunday night.Dr Yudhoyono told Mr Rudd the community was an "intriguing idea to explore" but sai... Junta to pick election officials
The Australian
RANGOON: Burma's military junta will pick all members of the country's new election commission, state media said yesterday as the regime revealed the first details of long-awaited laws for p... Anger at beef import delay
The Australian
THE US and the European Union have reacted with concern and surprise to the Rudd government's decision to delay for at least two years the importation of beef from countries exposed to mad cow di... Fourth Aussie in Dubai passport rort
The Australian
THE father of a fourth Australian caught up in the murder of a Hamas leader in Dubai says it was glaringly obvious that the photograph on the passport used by one of the assassins was not his son. US ignores Olmert's concessions
The Australian
Reports last night said US special envoy for the Middle East, George Mitchell, told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that the understandings ... Health reform the priority, not politics: Obama
The Australian
BARACK Obama has urged nervous colleagues from his Democratic Party in congress to stop worrying about getting re-elected in November and make passing health reform their priority. Japan 'lied' on secret US nuke deal
The Australian
JAPANESE governments lied to their people for more than 30 years about a "tacit" secret agreement allowing nuclear-armed US vessels to use their ports, a special Foreign Ministry panel repor... Mutilated children among Nigerian dead
The Australian
DOGO NAHAWA: On the dusty streets of three Christian villages in northern Nigeria, dozens of bodies lined the streets. Other victims of the weekend's Muslim fury jammed a local morgue, the limbs ... Middle East 'respects UK for Iraq action'
The Australian
LONDON: Britain's decision to back the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 earned it respect in the Middle East and it must not be scared of similar action in the future, says Foreign Secretary David... Three clergy abused me - claim
IOL
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IOL
Jakarta - Indonesian counter-terrorism forces killed a man believed to have been one of the masterminds of the 2002 Bali bombings on Tuesday during a raid in the capital Jakarta, police and reports sa... Toyota Lawsuit Costs May Exceed $3 Billion
CBS News
Toyota Tackles Critics Engineers from Toyota have spoken out against critics of the automaker with an intricate demonstration designed to disprove claims of faulty electronics systems. Dean Reynolds r... Turkey Quake Reveals Shoddy Construction
CBS News
Turkish Quake Survivors Cold, Homeless (AP) Homes in eastern areas of Turkey prone to earthquakes must be better built to withstand jolts like the magnitude 6 temblor that toppled village houses and k... Splitsville for Sarkozy and Carla Bruni?
CBS News
French President Nicolas Sarkozy with first Lady Carla Bruni Sarkozy stand to welcome Emir Of Qatar Sheik Hamed Bin Khalifa Al Thani and his wife Sheika Muza Bint Nasser Al Misnad arrive for the state...
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