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Iran's supreme leader says efforts by opposition futile - Summary
Tehran - The Iranian supreme leader said Wednesday that efforts by the opposition to change the country's political status quo were futile. Those who are deceived by a smile or applause by the enemy and try to confront the establishment and constitu...

[Posted on : 2009-11-25 ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

Large doping trade network busted in Austria
Vienna - Austrian police have uncovered what was likely one of the biggest international networks peddling illegal growth hormones for athletes, the police authority of Lower Austria province said Wednesday. Investigators found some 2 tons of illicit...

[Posted on : 2009-11-25 ] Category : [ Australasia (World) ]

Rights group: Settlers who harm Palestinian olive crops unpunished
Jerusalem - Israel has failed to act against Jewish settlers who vandalize Palestinian olive crops in the West Bank, Israeli rights group Yesh Din charged Wednesday. Over the past four years, Israeli police investigated 69 incidents in which settlers...

[Posted on : 2009-11-25 ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

Ukrainian killed in pirate attack on German ship off Benin - Summary
Hamburg - A shipboard battle with pirates off the West African coast left a Ukrainian officer dead before the pirates fled with their booty, the vessel's German owners said Wednesday. The crew of the tanker Cancale Star managed to take one of the pir...

[Posted on : 2009-11-25 ] Category : [ Africa (World) ]

France to tighten laws against domestic violence
Paris - The French government is drawing up a law that will sharpen punishment for those found guilty of domestic violence, Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Wednesday. The new law will include penalties for psychological violence and will make f...

[Posted on : 2009-11-25 ] Category : [ Europe (World) ]

US tricking Tehran with nuclear deal, parliament chief says
Tehran - Iran's parliament speaker Wednesday accused the United States of trying to trick Tehran with a deal to exchange enriched uranium for nuclear fuel, the official news agency IRNA reported. Evaluating the deal and the US part in it, we realize...

[Posted on : 2009-11-25 ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

Pakistan charges seven suspects in Mumbai terror attack
Islamabad - A Pakistani court on Wednesday indicted seven people suspected of involvement in the terrorist attacks in India's financial hub of Mumbai one year ago. Prosecutor Malik Rab Nawaz said the suspects had been indicted for planning, financin...

[Posted on : 2009-11-25 ] Category : [ India (World) ]

Southern Sudanese president narrowly avoids plane crash death
Kampala - The president of Southern Sudan on Wednesday narrowly avoided becoming the second successive leader of the autonomous region to die in an air crash when a tyre burst on his plane just before take-off at an northern Ugandan airfield. Salva K...

[Posted on : 2009-11-25 ] Category : [ Africa (World) ]

Convicted rapist hanged in Iran
Tehran - A convicted rapist was hanged Wednesday at a prison in the Iranian city of Karaj, west of the capital Tehran, ISNA news agency reported. The 25-year-old convict was executed after his death sentence was confirmed by the Supreme Court, ISNA s...

[Posted on : 2009-11-25 ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

Death toll in Philippine political massacre at 57 - Summary
Manila - Philippine security forces Wednesday dug up three vehicles and 10 more bodies from the site of a massacre linked to a political rivalry in the country's troubled south, bringing the death toll to 57. Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Ponce, a regi...

[Posted on : 2009-11-25 ] Category : [ Asia (World) ]

 

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