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Insurgents bombed a polling station and lobbed grenades at voters Sunday, killing 36 people in attacks aimed at intimidating those taking part in an election that will determine whether the country can overcome the sectarian divisions that have plagued it since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
Premier Wu Den-yi reaffirmed yesterday the government s determination to reduce the unemployment rate to below 5 percent this year, declaring this year job promotion year.
A skeptical Palestinian leadership agreed Sunday to hold U.S.-mediated peace talks with Israel for four months, effectively ending a 14-month breakdown in communications between the two sides.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai heard a litany of complaints Sunday from residents of Marjah, the southern town that thousands of U.S., NATO and Afghan troops just seized from the Taliban.
US singer Stevie Wonder performs on stage during the 25th Victoires de la Musique yearly French music awards ceremony at Zenith de Paris on March 6, 2010 in Paris, France.
The big day is here. Anticipation for the Academy Awards has been building all week, and finally, it’s time.
Legislative watchdog Citizen Congress Watch yesterday released its evaluation of lawmakers performance in the past legislative session, with 10 Democratic Progressive Party legislators and 14 Chinese Nationalist Party lawmakers commended for their good work.
Premier Wu Den-yih yesterday defended the government s plan to grant women one-year pregnancy leave, saying the measure was a symbol of progress for a nation.
Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda apologized personally and repeatedly Wednesday to the United States and millions of American Toyota owners for safety lapses that have led to deaths and widespread recalls.
The Senate voted Wednesday to extend for a year key provisions of the nation’s counterterrorism surveillance law that are scheduled to expire at the end of the month.
Toyota Motor Corp chief Akio Toyoda stepped to center stage in a sprawling U.S. investigation of the Japanese automaker’s safety crisis, apologizing to consumers and pledging reforms to skeptical lawmakers.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that U.S. diplomacy has moved China closer to the American view that Iran’s continuing refusal to come clean on its nuclear program demands tough new U.N. sanctions.
This June 10, 2006 photo shows a 1996 Camry driven by Koua Fong Lee that crashed into the back of an Oldsmobile Ciera in St.
The Obama administration will work with Congress in developing a plan for sending astronauts to Mars and will release it in the a oecoming months,a the head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said today.
House Communications Subcommittee member Greg Walden , a former broadcaster and one of the industry’s strongest champions on the House Energy & Commerce Committee, is taking a leave of absence to push for House reforms as leader of the GOP Congressional Transparency Initiative.
More than 160,000 tourists from home and overseas visited florid red lantern-decorated temple fairs held in public parks in Beijing in the first two days of China’s lunar New Year, starting Sunday.
Three more Afghan civilians have been killed in the assault on a southern Taliban stronghold, NATO forces said Tuesday, highlighting the toll on the population from an offensive aimed at making them safer.
You are here > > Home > > Defense & Security News > > US, Pakistan capture Taliban’s top commander: report US, Pakistan capture Taliban’s top commander: report Defense & Security News - By Agence France-Presse on February 16, 2010 at 6:35 am Loading … NEW YORK: The United States and Pakistani intelligence forces captured the Taliban’s top military …
June Irene Grange Bratby Age 77, Greenfield, died Saturday, February 13, 2010, at home.
Good thing for Canada, his mother nudged him into skiing instead. Thus on Monday, the headline in one of Vancouver’s dailies was “Alexandre the Great,” and the 22-year-old Quebecker was suddenly a household name across the nation.
The former legal adviser to a group of American missionaries jailed in Haiti on child kidnapping charges is now the focus of a manhunt in the Dominican Republic.
The Talibana s top military commander has been captured in a joint raid by Pakistani and U.S. spy agencies.
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Indonesians pray in a temple in Jakarta, Indonesia on the 2010 Chinese New Year’s Day.
Haiti’s creaky, quake-damaged electrical system apparently delayed on Monday a judge’s decision on whether to release 10 Americans charged with child kidnapping.
Bharti Airtel, the largest Indian mobile phone company by subscribers, confirmed on Monday that it is in talks to buy the African assets of the Kuwaiti telecom company Zain for about $10.7 billion.
Finance ministers in the euro zone are expected to recommend Vitor Manuel Ribeiro Constancio, the governor of the Bank of Portugal, as the next vice president of the European Central Bank on Monday.
If the German government wants to buy account data stolen from Swiss banks, then the Swiss accounts of German officials and other public figures should also be exposed, according to the head of an influential lobby that represents the interests of Swiss taxpayers.
The Bert Wasserman department of economics and finance in the Zicklin School of Business is enabling students to develop newly demanded skills in the banking industry through intense courses offered in a range of topics in finance.
Abu Dhabi: Nissan has the potential to double its market share in the Middle East but needs to offer the consumer more smaller and cheaper cars, Renault-Nissan president and CEO Carlos Ghosn said yesterday.
DUBAI: Dubai denied yesterday a Dow Jones report that it is mulling a two-part deal, including one that may repay lenders 60 percent over seven years.
DUBAI: The UAE’s Minerals Energy Commodities Holding is in talks with Indonesia to lease around 100,000 hectares of farmland, the firm’s vice chairman said yesterday.
RIYADH: Saudi-based National Agricultural Development Co said yesterday it has completed procedures to obtain a 42,000-hectare farmland in Sudan.
Toyota will recall 437,000 hybrid cars globally to fix faulty braking systems on four models, including the Prius, adding to almost 8 million vehicles the company is repairing for separate defects.
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Retail sales in the 16 countries that use the euro were flat in December from the previous month, official figures showed Wednesday - a further sign that consumers in the eurozone remain reluctant to spend despite the end of the recession.
A judge in Los Angeles is sending the troubled son of Ryan O’Neal and the late Farrah Fawcett back to rehab after more than a month in jail.The judge placed Redmond O’Neal back on probation and sentenced to an intense residential rehab program during a brief hearing Thursday.
D.C. officials say major roads in the city are ready for the morning rush after a storm dumped snow on the region overnight.
The security officials said around 90 people were wounded in the blast that took place Wednesday morning.
Sometimes a president sends a message by what he doesn’t say. Some in the Middle East have concluded that President Obama did just that in his State of the Union speech earlier this week — in which he failed to mention Israel, the Palestinians or the Middle East peace process, which was one of his most high-profile diplomatic initiatives during …
Homes on the Lizard will soon have all their electricity generated by the wind thanks to a major overhaul of turbines at Goonhilly Wind Farm.
BLACKLANDS residents in Kilwinning have hit out at North Ayrshire Council’s lack of gritting during the big freeze.
A nurse administers an H1N1 vaccination in Hefei, China in a file photo. Photograph by: STR, AFP/Getty Images OTTAWA a ‘ The federal government will announce Thursday that Canada is donating five million doses of its excess H1N1 vaccine to the World Health Organization, Canwest News Service has learned.
Shoppers in Asda Penryn were faced with a fleet of ships as they entered the supermarket on Friday as members of a model boat club were raising money for the RNLI.
IPSWICH: Health officials today revealed there has been a FOURTH Ipswich death in the meningitis scare which gripped the town in December and January.
Firefighters were called out to a chimney fire at a home on Higher Pumpfield Row in Pool at 2pm this afternoon. A crew from Camborne used chimney rods, stirrup pumps, extension ladder and a thermal imaging camera to extinghuish the flames.
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Scotland’s first man found guilty of being an Islamist terrorist suffered a miscarriage of justice, appeal court judges have ruled.
Georgia’s President Mikhail Saakashvili says he has proposed to the United States that his country become a logistics hub for the expanding U.S.-led war in Afghanistan.
