Archive for April 13th, 2008
Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Walter Veltroni, a former mayor of Rome, is challenging 71-year-old conservative Silvio Berlusconi for Italy's premiership as voters go to polls Sunday and Monday.
Born in Rome in July 1955, Veltroni is the leader of the new centre ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Silvio Berlusconi is seeking a third term as Italy's prime minister as voters go to polls Sunday and Monday to decide who will lead their country during the next five years.
Born in Milan on Sept. 29, 1936, Berlusconi is not only a ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Queensland's governor Quentin Bryce was appointed on Sunday to be the first female governor-general in Australia to succeed the current Governor-General Major General Michael Jeffery.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said in a statement t ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Defense authorities said here Sunday that a daily curfew in the northern Jaffna peninsula will not be imposed in view of the Sunday's traditional New Year celebrated by the residents in the district.
"The curfew will not be imposed ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Sri Lanka suffered an island wide power outage Sunday as the country was celebrating the traditional New Year.
DR Pulleperuma, General Manager of the Ceylon Electricity Board(CEB), the state power authority said that it was caused b ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Two explosions rocked a church and a bank in the southern Philippine port city of Zamboanga early Sunday morning, without causing any casualty, reported the local television network ABS-CBN News.
The first explosion occurred at the ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
New Zealand Labor Party' deputy leader Michae Cullen ended the party's election year Congress on Sunday, warning that Labor has a steep mountain to climb to win the election.
Cullen, the deputy prime minister and finance minister, ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
A group of Taliban militants ambushed and clashed with local policemen Saturday night in Gereshk district of southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, leaving at least four policemen dead and seven others injured, an official said on Sunday. ...
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