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Page 1/13 EU warns against complacency over spread of swine flu
GENEVA: The European Union warned yesterday against complacency over the spread of swine flu and urged people to get vaccinated even though the potentially deadly disease has not hit as hard as first feared.
“Even if the pandemic situation isn’t so dramatic in Europe right now, we have to listen [more...]
Posted on:10/12/2009 US seeks more power for Belfast
DUBLIN: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Britain yesterday to give Northern Ireland authority over its justice system to complete a peace process that got a boost when a paramilitary group said it would end violence.
Clinton, who met with Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen in Dublin and [more...]
Posted on:10/12/2009 Clinton hails special ties between Britain, US
LONDON: Hillary Clinton hailed the historic special relationship between Britain and America today as she flew into London on a whirlwind visit to consult on the war in Afghanistan and the Iranian nuclear threat and to lend her support to the peace process in Northern Ireland.
Clinton arrived o [more...]
Posted on:10/12/2009 Environment activists occupy Parliament roof
LONDON: Greenpeace environmental campaigners stormed the roof of Britain’s Houses of Parliament yesterday to protest about climate change.
At least 30 activists occupied the roof of the famous Palace of Westminster in central London, unfurling banners reading: “Change the politics, save the clim [more...]
Posted on:10/12/2009 Brown may be asked to pay back expenses as part of investigation
LONDON: Gordon Brown is expected to be asked to pay back some money as part of the investigation into MPs’ expenses claims.
The scandal will be reignited tomorrow when MPs receive letters from Sir Thomas Legg, a QC and former civil servant who was appointed by the Commons to examine forensicall [more...]
Posted on:10/12/2009 Boyzone singer Gately dies in Mallorca island
LONDON: Boyzone singer Stephen Gately, 33, who caused a sensation in the pop world 10 years ago by announcing he was gay, died while on holiday in Mallorca, Spain, the Irish pop group’s official website said yesterday. “Stephen tragically died whilst on holiday in Mallorca yesterday,” the announcem [more...]
Posted on:10/12/2009 Republican backs climate-change bill
WASHINGTON: Prospects for climate-change legislation in Congress improved yesterday when a Republican senator broke ranks with his party to outline a compromise with a leading Democrat on the issue.
Republican Senator Lindsay Graham and Democratic Senator John Kerry wrote in an opinion piece in T [more...]
Posted on:10/12/2009 Honduras talks to resume tomorrow
Tegucigalpa: Deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and the interim government have agreed to create a joint cabinet and ditch an amnesty for coup leaders, one of the negotiators announced.
But the de facto government imposed new restrictions on the media aimed at controlling the flow of inform [more...]
Posted on:10/12/2009 Student accused of slashing classmate behaved oddly: Professor
LOS ANGELES: A University of California, Los Angeles, professor who taught the student accused of slashing a female classmate’s throat on Thursday said on Saturday that he had told a university administrator 10 months ago that he had concerns about the student’s mental health, but strict federal pri [more...]
Posted on:10/12/2009 Obama did nothing to deserve Nobel: Chavez
CARACAS: Venezuela’s socialist leader Hugo Chavez said yesterday that US President Barack Obama had done nothing beyond wishful thinking to earn the Nobel Peace Prize.
Chavez, who has mixed praise for Obama personally with criticism of his government’s “imperialist” policies, said he thought it w [more...]
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