Archive for March 17th, 2008
Monday, March 17th, 2008
Argentina and Brazil are to scrap bilateral commercial transactions in U.S. dollars and start using their own currencies from August, an official in charge of currency settlement at the Argentine Central Bank said here Saturday.
The ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
A policeman was killed and four people were wounded by roadside bomb explosions in Baghdad on Monday morning, an Interior Ministry source said.
"A roadside bomb detonated near a police patrol at about 7:10 a.m. (0410 GMT) in the al- ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
UN police and NATO peacekeepers on Monday raided a UN courthouse in northern Kosovo, retaking the building from Serb demonstrators who had occupied the building for three days, local media reported.
In the dawn operation in the town ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
The inaugural session of Pakistan's National Assembly or the lower house of parliament begins at 11:50 a.m. local time Monday, in which the members-elected will take oath.
The parliament session was originally scheduled at 11 a.m. M ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Eight in 10 Singaporeans have shopped online, with travel-related products such as plane tickets and hotel rooms the most popular buy, local media reported on Monday.
The Straits Times, Singapore's leading English daily newspaper, q ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
A suicide bomber carried out explosion attack against a convoy of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province Monday morning, killing at least three civilians and wounding seven oth ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Forty years after rampaging American soldiers slaughtered her family, Do Thi Tuyet returned to the place where her childhood was shattered.
"Everyone in my family was killed in the My Lai massacre - my mother, my father, my brother and t ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Troops and police cordoned off a smoldering army depot north of the Albanian capital as crews searched yesterday for workers missing following a chain of explosions that killed at least nine people and injured hundreds.
Nine bodies have ...
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