Archive for April 20th, 2008
Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Confidence among Californians in the American economy has dropped to a record-low level, according to a tracking survey released on Saturday.
The poll, conducted by Harris Interactive, showed that only 45.4 percent of California wor ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Crude oil futures rocketed to a new trading record of 117 U.S. dollars a barrel on Friday, capping a week of record highs.
The front-month contract hit 117 dollars a barrel in electronic trading after markets closed. Crude oil for M ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
South Korea's trade balances with China, the United States and Japan worsened in the first three months of this year due to a slowing U.S. economy and Seoul's high dependency on Japanese parts, a report by the Korea Customs Service said on ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in the Ghanaian capital Accra Saturday night to begin a four-nation West African tour, which will also take him Liberia, Burkina Faso and Cote d'Ivoire.
On Sunday, Ban will address the openin ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Palestinian health ministry's ambulances will stop working in Gaza Strip later on Saturday due to lack of fuel, an official said.
"At 6 p.m., no ambulance vehicle will be able to move and they will completely come to a halt," said M ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
A spokesman for Islamic Hamas movement's armed wing, al-Qassam Brigades, vowed on Saturday to carry out more armed attacks against Israel "until breaking the Israeli blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip."
Abu O'baida told a news confe ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Lebanese Army Commander Gen. Michel Suleiman Saturday said the Lebanese people want the constitutional institutions to resume their "effective national role," local Naharnet news website reported.
Such a return to constitutional aut ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
A senior Iranian lawmaker revealed on Saturday that the country will disclose soon its proposal package aiming to resolve its nuclear standoff with the West, the State-run satellite Press TV reported.
Alaeddin Boroujerdi, head of th ...
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