Archive for March 4th, 2008
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Six people, including two children, were killed and three other children critically wounded in a shooting on Monday in Memphis, Tennessee, authorities said.
Police said all the children were under the age of 12.
The wounded c ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
U.S. congress will examine the decision of U.S. Air Force to pass over aerospace giant Boeing and award a 35-billion-U.S. dollar aircraft contract to Airbus parent EADS and Northrop Grumman, officials said Monday.
"The Air Force's de ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Canada's minority Conservative government easily survived a key confidence vote on its federal budget Monday, the second such vote in less than a week.
The House of Commons, the Canadian parliament's lower house, voted 202 to 7 agai ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
A U.S. judge set a 225,000-U.S.dollar bail on Monday for a 50-year-old man who allegedly threatened to kill President George W. Bush.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Margaret Nagle ordered Charles Anthony Madrid to be confined to his home if ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
An Indonesian Navy officer was among those perished in the Monday's crash of a United Nations helicopter in Nepal, local press said Tuesday.
Lieutenant Colonel Sondang Doddy died in the accident, in which12 people were killed.
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
The United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) confirmed Tuesday three Nepali UN personnel died in Monday's helicopter crash.
In a press release, UNMIN said "Bhim Bahadur Gurung and Rabindra Khaniya were liaison officer and language as ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo Tuesday vowed that she will stay in the office until her term ends in 2010 as her husband attended a probe into allegations of corruption.
Arroyo said she would continue her job and insti ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Police on Monday discovered and destroyed some mines separately planted in two districts of eastern Afghan province of Paktia, said a statement of Interior Ministry of Afghanistan released here on Tuesday.
The statement said those m ...
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