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- Commonwealth re-admits Pakistan after six-month suspension
(AFP)
Mon, 12 May 2008 14:03:33
AFP - The Commonwealth re-admitted Pakistan as a full member on Monday after a six-month suspension triggered by a clampdown by President Pervez Musharraf, the grouping’s secretary general said.
- Serbia in coalition scramble after ambivalent vote
(Reuters)
Mon, 12 May 2008 13:40:16
Reuters - Serbia’s pro-European alliance sought
a coalition deal with smaller parties on Monday to stave off a
challenge from nationalist runners-up who say they too can form
a government after Sunday’s parliamentary election.
- Renault-Nissan, India’s Bajaj announce cheap car project
(AFP)
Mon, 12 May 2008 13:25:20
AFP - Renault-Nissan and India’s Bajaj group said Monday they planned to make a 2,500-dollar car by early 2011, the second effort to make a cheap car for the South Asian nation’s rapidly growing middle class.
- British trade deficit narrows in March
(AFP)
Mon, 12 May 2008 13:24:23
AFP - Britain’s trade-in-goods deficit with the rest of the world fell to 7.4 billion pounds in March from 7.6 billion pounds in February, official data showed Monday.
- Serbia begins postelection talks
(AP)
Mon, 12 May 2008 12:47:54
AP - Serbia’s nationalists brushed aside their pro-Western rivals’ claim of victory in parliamentary elections and held talks Monday to see if they could muster support from other parties to form a government.
- HSBC profits up despite $3.2 bln subprime hit
(AFP)
Mon, 12 May 2008 12:36:31
AFP - Global bank HSBC said Monday that first-quarter profits climbed, despite taking a 3.2-billion-dollar (1.6 billion pound) from its exposure to the US subprime housing market slump.
- Britain urges end to Lebanon unrest
(AFP)
Mon, 12 May 2008 12:35:21
AFP - Britain said Monday that the unrest in Lebanon “must end,” and condemned “external interference” in Lebanese affairs, as fierce fighting broke out again in the country.
- Russia keeps key ministers in Putin new cabinet
(Reuters)
Mon, 12 May 2008 12:33:31
Reuters - Incoming Russian Prime Minister Vladimir
Putin announced his cabinet team on Monday, keeping most key
ministers in their posts and taking powerful Kremlin figures
with him to his new job.
- Centrica warns on profits, price hikes
(AFP)
Mon, 12 May 2008 12:27:25
AFP - British energy group Centrica warned Monday that first-half profits would fall due to soaring wholesale energy costs and signalled that it could hike domestic gas and electricity prices again.
- McCartney marriage ends, two months after divorce
(AFP)
Mon, 12 May 2008 12:11:58
AFP - Paul McCartney’s marriage to ex-model Heather Mills was formally ended Monday as a judge granted them a decree nisi, two months after they struck a high-profile bitter divorce settlement.
- UN food agency says rice prices surging in Myanmar
(AP)
Mon, 12 May 2008 11:25:28
AP - Rice prices in Myanmar’s capital have surged 50 percent since deadly cyclone Nargis, which flooded entire rice-growing areas, a United Nations food agency said Monday. - Human Rights Watch: Persecution after Uzbek violence
(AP)
Mon, 12 May 2008 10:22:12
AP - Three years after gunning down unarmed protesters in the city of Andijan, Uzbek authorities are still persecuting people they believe are linked to the unrest, an international rights group says in a report released Monday. - Polish Holocaust hero Irena Sendler dies at 98
(AP)
Mon, 12 May 2008 10:16:31
AP - Irena Sendler a Polish social worker who helped save some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto and giving them false identities has died. She was 98. - Hundreds strip for naked photo shoot in Austria
(AP)
Sun, 11 May 2008 23:11:38
AP - The man behind the camera had three requests for his subjects: no sunglasses, no smiling, and no underwear. - Main parties in Serbia vote
(AP)
Sun, 11 May 2008 21:55:12
AP - The main parties that participated in early parliamentary elections in Serbia on Sunday: - Facts and figures about Serbia
(AP)
Sun, 11 May 2008 21:53:38
AP - Facts about Serbia, which held parliamentary elections Sunday: - Russian Nizhegorodov breaks race walk world record
(AP)
Sun, 11 May 2008 09:42:15
AP - Denis Nizhegorodov set a world record in the men’s 50-kilometer race walk at a World Cup meet Sunday, shaving 1 minute, 34 seconds off the old mark. - As freedoms wane in ex-Soviet bloc, Ukraine fills the gap
(AP)
Sat, 10 May 2008 18:03:27
AP - A gloomy Vladimir Putin wears a Czarist crown, clutching a bag full of dollars and a miniature television tower. - Tony Blair’s wife publishes autobiography; Iraq war a topic
(AP)
Sat, 10 May 2008 11:30:07
AP - Tony Blair considered not running for a third term as British prime minister but his wife and others persuaded him it would be seen as an admission that he had been wrong about the Iraq war, she says in her newly published autobiography.
- Turkish militarys 19 Kurdish rebels killed
(AP)
Sat, 10 May 2008 06:01:34
AP - Air strikes in the southeast left 19 Kurdish rebels dead in an attack the Turkish military said was retaliation for a rebel raid on a military outpost a day earlier.
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