Archive for April 1st, 2008
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
A New Zealand man has been sentenced to community service after telling police he had been raped by a wombat and the experience had caused him to start speaking "Australian."
Arthur Cradock, a 48-year-old orchard worker from Motueka ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani, the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Qatar, arrived here on Tuesday to pay an official visit to Cambodia.
The Qatar Prime Minister's two-day visit will focus on investment ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Two earthquakes rocked the Philippines' northernmost province of Batanes on Tuesday morning, state seismologists said.
No earthquake-related damages have so far been reported, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and S ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Chief of United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) Ian Martin has said all Nepali political parties should respect the electoral Code of Conduct, The Kathmandu Post reported on Tuesday.
Speaking at a press meeting in Biratnagar in eas ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Construction of one more sectional highway, which is included in the East-West Economic Corridor and covered by the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Economic Cooperation Program, has begun, the local Voice news journal reported Tuesday.
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
An Australian judge will investigate the country's worst naval tragedy following the discovery this month of the HMAS Sydney, 66 years after it was attacked and sunk by a German ship.
All 645 crew aboard the Sydney were killed after the ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Eight members of a gang have been sentenced to 50 years in jail for the 1997 kidnapping of the son of popular Mexican singer Vicente Fernandez, the nation's attorney general said Monday.
Vicente Fernandez reportedly paid a ransom of ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
High-profile FARC hostage Ingrid Betancourt's husband, Juan Carlos Lecompte, has appealed tothe Brazilian president to intervene in negotiations to free his wife.
French-Colombian citizen Betancourt was kidnapped by Colombia'slarges ...
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