Archive for April 6th, 2008
Sunday, April 6th, 2008
Report: Zimbabwe's ruling party calls for elction recount
Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party has called for a recount in last week's presidential election, the state-run Sunday Mail newspaper said.
The Sunday Mail said ZANU-PF had a ...
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
The new Terminal 5 at London's Heathrow airport was hit by new baggage chaos Saturday as a computer glitch forced British Airways to cancel 24 short-haul flights.
"This morning, a software problem has arisen in the baggage system at ...
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
France's medical mission will remain in Bogota, the capital of Colombia, to await a response from Colombia's Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) on allowing treatment for French-Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt, French Foreign Minister Ber ...
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
Ecuador's President Rafael Correa accused the CIA on Saturday of controlling many of his country's spy agencies and passing information to Colombia.
"Many of our intelligence agencies have been taken over by the CIA," the president ...
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
Insurgents have blown up a school, but fortunately hurt no one, in the eastern Afghanistan province of Paktika, said a statement of the U.S.-led Coalition forces released here on Sunday.
"The school was built by Afghan citizens and ...
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
The Nepali Home Ministry has decided to stop transport movement for 24 hours during the April 10 Constituent Assembly election in Nepal.
According to a leading website nepalnews.com Sunday's report, beginning the midnight of April 9 ...
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
Australia's Queensland Attorney-General Kerry Shine said on Sunday that parents who abandon their children to go gambling, drinking or shopping will face up to three years in jail under new Queensland laws.
Shine told ABC radio that ...
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) will start constructing nearly 500 cyclone shelters cum schools in Bangladesh's coastal districts by June this year.
The project is financed by 130 million U.S. dollars IDB received from an anonymo ...
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