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Page 1/12 Presidential campaign starts in Ukraine between two old rivals
KIEV: Campaigning started yesterday for presidential polls in Ukraine which analysts believe will boil down to a face-off between two old rivals who have long been at the forefront of the country’s politics.
Leading the polls for the January 17 election are Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, seen a [more...]
Posted on:10/20/2009 MPs prepare to defend allowances
LONDON: MPs are preparing a die-in-the-ditch defence of privileges and allowances which they fear will be destroyed by “scorched earth” reforms of Parliament.
Anger is growing over the imminent publication of Sir Christopher Kelly’s blueprint for a clean-up of the discredited expenses system.
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Posted on:10/20/2009 UK urges world leaders to attend UN climate talks
LONDON: Britain urged world leaders yesterday to turn up in person to salvage a UN climate deal in Copenhagen in December, and Australia and India outlined ways to curb their greenhouse gases.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown told representatives of 17 major emitters meeting in London that suc [more...]
Posted on:10/20/2009 Doctor guilty of trying to induce miscarriage
LONDON: A married doctor was found guilty yesterday of twice trying to induce a miscarriage in his pregnant lover by lacing her drinks with a cocktail of prescription drugs.
Dr Edward Erin, 44, tried to poison his hospital secretary when she told him she was carrying his child after a brief aff [more...]
Posted on:10/20/2009 Column on Gately’s death sparks record complaints
LONDON: Britain’s press watchdog said yesterday it had received a record 21,000 complaints about a newspaper column on the death of Boyzone singer Stephen Gately after critics used Twitter to brand the article homophobic and insensitive.
Gately died Oct. 10, aged 33, while vacationing on the Spa [more...]
Posted on:10/20/2009 Letters reveal candid views of UK diplomats
LONDON: It’s not exactly diplomatic — details of what British ambassadors really think about their foreign hosts were disclosed yesterday following the release of a series of frank, and sometimes outright rude, letters to London from embassies around the world.
Nigerians are maddening, Nicaraguan [more...]
Posted on:10/20/2009 Brazil vows to fight drug traffickers
SAO PAULO: Brazil’s president promised yesterday to battle drug traffickers who launched a weekend of bloody chaos that killed 21 people in Rio de Janeiro just two weeks after the city won the 2016 Olympic games.
“We’ll do anything it takes and make all necessary sacrifices so we can clean up the [more...]
Posted on:10/20/2009 Hurricane Rick weakens to Category 3 storm
MEXICO CITY: Hurricane Rick weakened yesterday as it churned up Mexico’s Pacific coast as a downgraded Category Three storm, with US forecasters still calling it “dangerous.”
“Maximum sustained winds have decreased to near 125 miles (205 kilometres) per hour with higher gusts,” the National Hurri [more...]
Posted on:10/20/2009 Honduras govt lifts ban on protests
TEGUCIGALPA: Honduras’ de facto government relaxed restrictions on protests and opposition media yesterday as crisis talks dragged into a third week with no agreement on toppled President Manuel Zelaya’s return to power.
Zelaya, forced out of the country by soldiers in a June 28 coup, slipped bac [more...]
Posted on:10/20/2009 Balloon boy parents ready to surrender, says lawyer
COLORADO: The couple at the center of the runaway balloon hoax that gripped the United States last week is ready to surrender to police, their attorney told US television yesterday.
“I’ve reached out to law enforcement and said, ‘Look, these folks are willing to turn themselves in the minute you [more...]
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