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 Iran offers to exchange uranium with the West
Ireland News.Net
The head of the Iranian atomic energy agency, Ali Akbar Salehi, has told local television the country will make concessions to the West by exchanging Tehran's low-grade uranium for highly enriched uranium that it needs for its medical research
 Australian soldiers identified from WWI
Ireland News.Net
The Australian government has announced it has identified the remains of 75 Australian soldiers who fought in the 1916 Battle of Fromelles in France.
First-time Jobless Claims Drop Slightly
Washington Times
By Christopher S. Rugaber ASSOCIATED PRESS The number of newly laid-off workers requesting jobless benefits fell slightly last week for the third straight time, But initial claims remain above levels...
Idaho Signs Anti-health-insurance Law
Washington Times
By John Miller ASSOCIATED PRESS BOISE, Idaho -- Idaho is leading the charge in a states'-rights push to defeat a proposal in Congress that would require people to buy health insurance, a key reform p...
A.p. Pharma Shares Gain Ground Ahead Of Fda Decision
RTT News
News ) are currently trading over 10% at $1.72 ahead of the FDA decision on the company's lead product candidate APF530 for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting. The FDA is scheduled to announce i...
Armenia Says Turk Expulsion Threat Rings Of 1915
RadioFreeEurope
YEREVAN (Reuters) -- Armenia has compared a threat by Turkey's prime minister to expel thousands of illegal Armenian immigrants to the language that preceded the World War I mass killings of Armenians...
Afghan Children 'face World's Worst Conditions'
RadioFreeEurope
HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) -- Afghanistan is the hardest place in the world to be a child, the South Asia regional director for UNICEF said, with high child mortality rates, poor levels of nutrition...
A Turkish Role Model For Iran?
RadioFreeEurope
"It's so pleasant here in Turkey," says Kaveh, a 40-year-old Iranian from Tehran who's visiting Istanbul, just as he has many times over the last 20 years. "You feel free leaving Iran f...
Ngo Uniting Ethnic Ukrainians In Russia Under Pressure
RadioFreeEurope
A nongovernmental group in Russia that unites ethnic Ukrainians is under threat of closure, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports. Last month, the Russian Justice Ministry officially asked the Supreme Co...
Truck Pushes Car Down Highway At 60 Mph
New York Post
Amazing footage of a truck careening at 60 mph along a British freeway with a car trapped sideways on its front bumper emerged Thursday, sparked an investigation.Video shows a trucker thundering along...
Wide Hunt Led To Freedom For Young Hostage
International Herald Tribune
Pakistan ’s Punjab Province to the streets of Paris and, finally, to a suitcase stuffed with used bills in an apartment house near Barcelona, Spain. The remarkable trail led police to arrest th...
Elyashiv: Don't Budge Barzilai Bones
Jerusalem Post
Plans to build a rocket- and missile-proof new emergency room at Ashkelon’s Barzilai Medical Center were dealt a blow on Thursday when Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, the top rabbinic authority for t...
Red River Area Waits For Flood
USA Today
Volunteers form an assembly line to pass sandbags while building a dike up to 40-feet around a south Moorhead, Minn., home on March 17. Schoolchildren, parents and hundreds of residents have spent day...
Psg Fan Dies After Attack By Own Fans
The Independent
A Paris St Germain fan attacked by supporters of his own club has died after weeks in a coma. The 38-year-old unnamed man passed away late last night after being involved in street clashes be...
Dentist Accused Of Performing Paper-clip Root Canals
C News
A Massachusetts dentist has been indicted by a grand jury on charges of illegally prescribing drugs and using paper-clips in his patients' root canals, the state attorney general office announced Wedn...
Three Jailed For Auschwitz Theft
BBC
A Polish court has convicted three men for stealing the infamous "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign from the former Auschwitz death camp last December.The trio were given jail sentences ranging up to ...
Ex-detective Jailed For Drug Plot
BBC
A former Metropolitan Police detective has been jailed for 22 years for his part in a £200m cocaine-smuggling plot.Michael Daly, 49, who is already serving eight years behind bars for a similar ...
Lorry Filmed Pushing Car On M-way
BBC
Dramatic footage has emerged of a lorry apparently pushing a car sideways along a motorway in Yorkshire.The footage, which was posted on YouTube, shows the truck travelling along the A1(M) near Wether...
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BBC
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Meps Hear Torture Exports Claims
BBC
Euro MPs have heard claims that EU companies are exporting equipment used for torture despite legislation aimed at preventing such trade.Amnesty International has published a report detailing the clai...
Soap Star 'tried To End It All'
BBC
Gordon Hennell, prosecuting "It is important to have in your minds at all times that you are trying the defendant as an individual and not the character of Les Battersby, some of whose attrib...
Body Of Missing Teen 'found In Church Roof'
Sky News
The disappearance of 16-year-old Elisa Claps has gripped Italy for almost two decades, with no trace of her ever found. The mystery even reached England - with the prime suspect in the case now livin...
Corey Haim Death: Arrest Made Over Drug Ring
Sky News
The crime gang were using stolen doctors' identities to order prescription pads and then selling them to drug addicts and dealers on the street. During an investigation in San Diego police found an u...
Acting Leader Purges Nigeria's Cabinet
The Australian
ABUJA: Nigerian Acting President Goodluck Jonathan dissolved the country's cabinet yesterday, purging top officials loyal to the nation's ill President in his first major act since taking ov...
Revised Death Count Refuels Dresden Debate
The Australian
DRESDEN: A furious debate about one of the most controversial episodes of World War II has ignited after an official German report found fewer people were killed in the Allied bombing of Dresden than ...
Genocide Vote May Destabilise Region
The Australian
BEWARE the law of unintended consequences. The US congressional panel's resolution on Armenian genocide may right a historical wrong but, in doing so, it may also jeopardise a peaceful future in ...
Europe's Carbon Trade In Crisis
The Australian
Two carbon exchanges were forced to suspend trading yesterday as panic hit investors fearful they had bought invalid permits.BlueNext and Nord Pool, the French and Nordic exchanges, suspended trading ...
Netanyahu, Aides In Desperate Effort To Appease Us
The Australian
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has held marathon meetings with the six most powerful ministers to come up with a course of action that will satisfy the US, particularly Secretary of State H...
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