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  • Jail for life expected for Mumbai conspirator Headley

    Jail for life expected for Mumbai conspirator Headley

    Jordan News.Net

    US citizen David Headley has pleaded guilty to finding the targets for the 2008 attacks on the Indian city of Mumbai.

  • Arrest of Taliban leaders in Pakistan stymies talks

    Arrest of Taliban leaders in Pakistan stymies talks

    Jordan News.Net

    The BBC has reported that the UN's former envoy to Afghanistan, Kai Eide, has made strong criticisms of Pakistan's recent arrest of high-ranking Taliban leaders.

  • General says Srebrenica massacre caused by gay activity in army

    General says Srebrenica massacre caused by gay activity in army

    Jordan News.Net

    A retired US general has said homosexuality in the Dutch armed forces was partly responsible for failing to prevent the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica during the Bosnian war

  • Another appeal likely for Roman Polanski

    Another appeal likely for Roman Polanski

    Jordan News.Net

    Lawyers for film director Roman Polanski have filed an appeal to ask for a special investigation into alleged judicial and prosecutorial misconduct in the fugitive director's 32-year-old sex case.

  • Man gets 80 years for wounding child in the face

    Man gets 80 years for wounding child in the face

    Jordan News.Net

    A man who was convicted of shooting a five-year-old girl in the face has been given a long jail sentence in a court in the US state of Michigan.

  • Australia/Indonesia trip cancelled by Obama

    Australia/Indonesia trip cancelled by Obama

    Jordan News.Net

    US President Barack Obama has cancelled forthcoming trips to Indonesia and Australia so he can stay home to oversee controversial healthcare legislation.

  • Clinton and Lavrov agree nuclear talks are progressing

    Jordan News.Net

    US and Russian negotiations for a strategic arms reduction treaty are said to be going well, with foreign policy chiefs from both countries meeting in Moscow.

  • Zuma trying to persuade Zimbabwean leaders to stop bickering

    Zuma trying to persuade Zimbabwean leaders to stop bickering

    Jordan News.Net

    Zimbabwe's dual leadership has agreed with South African president, Jacob Zuma, that measures will have to be taken in order to save the fragile government.

  • Married couple in jail for boy killings

    Married couple in jail for boy killings

    Jordan News.Net

    A married couple in India has been arrested for allegedly killing five young boys.

  • People crushed and drowned in Nepal bus crash

    People crushed and drowned in Nepal bus crash

    Jordan News.Net

    At least 25 people have been killed in a bus crash in Nepal.

  • Curl: Obama The Innocent Stumps For Health Care

    Washington Times

    Joseph Curl POLITICAL THEATER Political newcomer Barack Obama insisted Friday that he doesn't know "how this plays politically," but he offered one possible outcome for his yearlong push to reform th...

  • Pentagon May Extend Deadline On Bids For New Aerial Refueling Tanker

    RTT News

    (RTTNews) - The Defense Department indicated Friday that it may extend a deadline for bids on a new aerial refueling tanker after European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co., the parent company of Airbu...

  • Serbia To Shun Regional Conference In Kosovo Row

    RadioFreeEurope

    The office of Serbian President Boris Tadic has said that he will not attend the EU-Balkans summit this weekend in Slovenia because of a row over how Kosovo would be represented there. Serbia had said...

  • Yegor Gaidar Foundation To Be Established

    RadioFreeEurope

    MOSCOW -- Friends and colleagues of deceased former Russian Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar say they plan to set up a foundation named after him "to develop a liberal ideology in economy and politics...

  • Pardoned Azerbaijani Journalist Says 'deserved' Freedom

    RadioFreeEurope

    BAKU -- An Azerbaijani opposition journalist released from jail this week has told RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service that he "deserved" to be freed.Qanimat Zahid, the editor in chief of "Aza...

  • Opposition Leader Urges Armenians To Leave Turkey

    RadioFreeEurope

    YEREVAN -- An Armenian opposition leader has urged Armenian immigrants living in Turkey to return home, claiming a threat by Turkey's prime minister to expel them has put their security at risk, RFE/R...

  • Anna Nicole Smith's Estate Denied Any Of Late Husband's Fortune

    New York Post

    SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court says Anna Nicole Smith's estate will receive none of the more than $300 million that she claimed her late billionaire husband had promised her.The 9th U.S. Cir...

  • Brittany Murphy Was An 'accident' Waiting To Happen: Report

    New York Post

    Actress Brittany Murphy was cut off by a Los Angeles pharmacist just months before her death because he though there "was going to be an accident."Eddie Bubar, owner of Eddie's Pharmacy in Los Angeles...

  • Corrupt Politics As Usual Enough To Make You Sick

    New York Post

    03/19/2010 4:48 PM Actually it's the DO-NOTHING, OBSTRUCTIONIST Repugs, who have NO ideas, who make you sick! And their being in bed with the SICKNESS INDUSTRY -- Big Insurance and Big Pharma -- will...

  • Key Democrats Still In Play As Health Vote Approaches

    International Herald Tribune

    Medicare payments rates created a new complication on Friday for House Democratic leaders in their drive for major health care legislation, as crucial votes remained in play in both directions with ba...

  • The Saturday Profile: Early Backer Of War, Finally Within Grasp Of Power

    International Herald Tribune

    Ahmad Chalabi , sitting in the dark next to his empty swimming pool. Soon the American troops that did so will be gone. Mr. Chalabi, as perplexing and contentious as he was in the run-up to the war, ...

  • 'gestures - Yes, But Not In J'lem'

    Jerusalem Post

    Israel is willing to be flexible towards the United States following a crisis that erupted between the two countries during Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel earlier this month, but will no...

  • Neda's Fiance: Iran Will Be Free

    Jerusalem Post

    Makan said he hoped for an Iran “where no man comes against his fellow man, with no more executions, no more war, no more murder.” Asked what he would tell Neda if he knew she could hear him, ...

  • Senators To Clinton: Solve Crisis

    Jerusalem Post

    WASHINGTON – Two prominent US senators call on the US administration to resolve differences with Israel “amicably and in a manner that befits longstanding strategic allies” in the preamble to a ...

  • Weekend Forecast: Mild On Both Coasts, But Messy In The Middle

    USA Today

    While both coasts enjoy a mostly mild, dry weekend, much of the central USA will cope with a wild weather potpourri of snow, rain, severe thunderstorms, chilly temperatures and floods. Spring begins w...

  • Criminals Halt Mexico Troop Movements

    CNN

    Mexico City, Mexico (CNN) -- Five presumed drug gang members and one soldier were killed in shootouts Thursday and Friday after criminals blocked thoroughfares in two northern Mexico states to prevent...

  • Argentina State Oks Chemical Castration

    CNN

    Buenos Aires, Argentina (CNN) -- Officials in Argentina's Mendoza province have authorized chemical castration for rapists after a significant increase in sexual assaults last year.

  • Adviser To Haiti Missionaries Arrested

    CNN

    Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (CNN) -- A man who provided legal advice to 10 American Baptists accused of kidnapping 33 Haitian children after the earthquake there was arrested Thursday night in t...

  • Anna Nicole Estate Loses $300m Fight

    CNN

    CNN) -- Anna Nicole Smith's estate is not entitled to $300 million the deceased actress had claimed was intended as a gift from her oil tycoon husband, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.

  • Obama's Final Push For Healthcare Reform

    Sky News

    There was more than a hint of the campaign trail as Mr Obama called for a final push on an issue which has defeated American presidents for generations. The

  • Pakistan Denies Arrests Thwarted Taliban Talks

    Reuters

    (Reuters) - Pakistan rejected on Friday a suggestion from the former head of the U.N. mission in Afghanistan that the arrest of senior Afghan Taliban members in Pakistan may have disrupted talks with ...

  • Mexican Police Ask Spirits To Guard Them In Drug War

    Reuters

    TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - Police running scared from drug gangs in one of Mexico's deadliest cities are using bizarre rituals involving animal sacrifice and spirit tattoos to seek protection from ra...

  • Two Women Critically Hurt In Bee Attack

    CBS News

    (CBS) A swarm of bees attacked at least four people in Phoenix Thursday, stinging two women more than a 100 times each and leaving them in critical condition, reports

  • Report: Palin Wants $1m Per Reality Show Episode

    CBS News

    Former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is asking for between $1 million and $1.5 million an episode to star in the reality television show she is developing,

  • New Toothbrush Among Tilikum Safety Moves

    CBS News

    Dawn Brancheau with killer while Tilikum, seen in an amateur video, before the deadly attack. SeaWorld's cameras recorded the death, and the tapes were voluntarily turned over to law enforcement.

  • Amateur Pilot Guided By Hero Controllers

    CBS News

    Air Traffic Controller Hands Reins to Kids (CBS) There are some 14,000 air traffic controllers guiding the 5,000 planes that are in the skies over the United States at any given time. When one of tho...

  • 48 Hours Preview: In Too Deep

    CBS News

    Sneak Peek: "48 Hours Mystery" An early look at this week's show: A college student is accused of being involved in a gruesome crime. Was she an accomplice or a lost soul in over her head? The mystery...

  • 60 Minutes Preview: Bryan Brothers

    CBS News

    Excerpt: Tennis Twins Lesley Stahl profiles Bob and Mike Bryan, twins who dominate the world of tennis doubles. 60 Minutes, Sunday, March 21, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

  • 60 Minutes Preview: Rahm Emanuel

    CBS News

    Betty Nguyen previews an upcoming "60 Minutes" report where White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel speaks to Katie Couric about the campaign to pass President Obama's health care bill.

  • Interboro Student Found Hanged In Chester

    Philadelphia Daily News

    Authorities in Delaware County are investigating the death of an Interboro High School student found hanged Wednesday night in an old mill in Chester City. Dominic Marchesani, 18, of Prospect Park, w...

  • Pa. Couple Thinks Aruba Photo Shows Human Remains

    Philadelphia Daily News

    Are these the remains of student Natalee Holloway, who disappeared in Aruba nearly five years ago? This underwater photo was taken off the island's coast in October 2009 by Patti Muldowney of Manheim,...

  • Angry Parents Erupt At Day-care Trial

    Philadelphia Daily News

    The sobbing defendant was on the witness stand, blurting out an apology to the parents of the toddler whose death she caused. But Lyudmila Slutsky shook her head as she heard the words of former day-...

  • Environmentalists In Irkutsk File Baikal Lawsuit

    RadioFreeEurope

    IRKUTSK, Russia -- The opposition Solidarity movement's branch in Irkutsk and local environmentalists have filed a lawsuit against the Russian government with the Supreme Court, RFE/RL's Russian Servi...

  • Moscow Authorities Deny Permission For Opposition Gathering

    RadioFreeEurope

    MOSCOW -- Moscow authorities have turned down an application by opposition and rights groups for permission to hold a public gathering on March 31 in Moscow's central Triumfalnaya (Triumph) Square, RF...

  • Belarus, Poland Discuss Dispute Over Polish Group

    RadioFreeEurope

    MINSK -- Belarus and Poland are holding talks in Minsk on resolving the conflict over a Polish cultural organization, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reported. The dispute centers on Minsk's clampdown on the...

  • Armenian Parliament Gives Nod To 'libel' Amendments

    RadioFreeEurope

    YEREVAN -- Armenia's parliament has given initial approval to a package of amendments that critics fear may be used stifle independent media, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reports.The amendments, passed i...

  • Eastern Kazakhstan Flood Evacuations Continue

    RadioFreeEurope

    OSKEMEN, Kazakhstan -- More people are being evacuated from villages in eastern Kazakhstan due to the danger of flooding, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports. A further 4,220 people have been evacuated fr...

  • Clinton Ends Trip With U.s., Russia Closer On Iran, Start

    RadioFreeEurope

    The Quartet on the Middle East (left to right: special envoy Tony Blair, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and EU forei...

  • 'a Government That's Afraid Of Gravestones'

    RadioFreeEurope

    " also writes that whenever someone would get close to Neda's grave to pray for her, security agents would use force and insult them and force them to leave. The blogger says the Iranian governme...

  • Iran Releases Opposition Leaders, Rights Advocates Say

    International Herald Tribune

    In recent weeks, the Iranian authorities have released dozens of high-profile opposition figures who were arrested after the disputed presidential elections in June, rights advocates said on Friday. ...