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- Commission wants to rein in warmongering US presidents
Hong Kong News.Net
Two former U.S. Secretaries of State are recommending that the United States change its procedures for deciding to go to war.
- Condoleezza Rice signs missile deal
Hong Kong News.Net
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has signed a landmark missile defence deal with the Czech Republic.
- Shopping mall in West Bank taken over by troops
Hong Kong News.Net
Israeli troops have stormed a shopping mall in the West Bank city of Nablus, after claiming the centre had been frequented by Hamas members.
- UK lawyers suspicious of anonymous evidence
Hong Kong News.Net
UK lawyers have warned about the broadly based plans to allow anonymous evidence in court cases.
- US and Britain meet resistance over Zimbabwe
Hong Kong News.Net
The US and Britain met strong resistance from within the UN Security Council on Tuesday over proceeding with their proposals to impose sanctions on Zimbabwe and President Robert Mugabe.
- Obama refuses to accept flip-flop description
Hong Kong News.Net
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has rejected charges that he has shifted positions on Iraq and other issues.
- Police close boxer
New Zealand Herald
Police have closed an investigation without making an arrest into WBC and WBO middleweight boxing champion Kelly Pavlik's complaint that a former sponsor threatened to shoot his...
- Rwanda genocide suspect arrested in Europe
Hong Kong News.Net
A genocide suspect from the Rwanda uprising in 1994 has been arrested in Germany.
- Tibetans get out of Nepalese jail
Hong Kong News.Net
Three senior Tibetan refugee officials, recently arrested in Kathmandu, have been ordered to be released.
- Talks to resume between party leaders in Zimbabwe
Hong Kong News.Net
President Robert Mugabe's ruling party and Zimbabwe's Opposition are set to resume talks to resolve the country's political crisis.
- G8 accused of
The Independent
Leaders of the world's richest nations have kept alive hope of a global agreement to combat climate change by agreeing to cut their carbon emissions by at least 50 per cent by 2050. ...
- Israeli army shuts down Palestinian mall
Hong Kong News.Net
A shopping mall housing more than seventy stores has been closed by the Israeli army.
- World oil prices slide for second day - supply worries dissipate and profits taken
New Zealand Herald
Oil futures tumbled more than $5 a barrel on Tuesday in their second big drop this week, hurling crude back to levels not seen since as traders wary about the health of the global economy...
- Iraq needs time to stabilize after fight
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Even in the chin-high piles of roadside rubble, the crumbled cinderblock and the eerily empty streets of this neighborhood in western Mosul, America's top military...
- 46 killed in when truck plunges 650 feet
CNN
Police say at least 46 people were killed when a truck carrying farmers plunged 650 feet (200 meters) into a ravine in Bolivia's southern Andes.
- Oil extends slide into 2nd day, losing over $5
New York Post
Oil tumbled more than $5 a barrel Tuesday in its second big drop this week, hurling crude back to levels not seen since as traders wary about the health of the global economy...
- Rightist MK tries Knesset caucus effort to thwart Israeli Arabs
Haaretz
While the official name of the parliamentary alignment created Tuesday is the Legislative Caucus to Preserve the Jewish Identity of the State of Israel, it could more correctly termed the demographic...
- Howard takes a swipe at Rudd
New Zealand Herald
Former prime minister John Howard has taken a swipe at his successor Kevin Rudd, eight months after Mr Rudd led Labor to victory for the first time in more than a decade.Mr Howard, who has kept a low...
- Divorcing couples unable to sell up
The Herald
SEPARATING couples are being forced to continue living together due to housing and mortgage problems caused by the credit crunch, divorce lawyers said yesterday. Alan Susskind, partner in charge of...
- Panel urges new law on government war powers
Reuters
The president should be forced by law to consult Congress before going to war, a bipartisan panel including several prominent former U.S. officials said on Tuesday.
- US Congress wants to keep shark fins out of restaurant soups
New Zealand Herald
The US House of Representatives took steps Tuesday to keep shark fins out of soups served in pricey Asian restaurants.In a voice vote, the House tightened a 2000 law that bans the...
- Schapelle Corby returned to prison
New Zealand Herald
Corby soap opera - sordid little drama that keeps on giving Australian drug smuggler Schapelle Corby has been returned to her Bali jail after being treated in hospital for two and a half...
- More than 500 Scottish-based Marines are to spearhead the next British deployment to Afghanistan in October.
The Herald
More than 500 Scottish-based Marines are to spearhead the next British deployment to Afghanistan in October, in their third operational tour of Helmand province in six years and the second since last...
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