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French workers stage mass protest against pension reform PARIS (AFP) - Hundreds of thousands of French workers took to the streets Tuesday to challenge President Nicolas Sarkozy's plan to raise the retirement age to 62, the centrepiece of his reform agenda. Labour unions called the showdown over the pensions bill, which Sarkozy insists he will push through as an "absolute priority" and which was presented to a stormy session in parliament even as the marches continued. Sarkozy told lawmakers from his majority UMP... Click here for more details. |
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5.1 aftershock shakes Canterbury By Updated 8:17 AM Wednesday Sep 8, 2010 Share Email Print Another big aftershock measuring 5.1 has shaken Canterbury this morning after a sleepless night for many residents with at least 10 tremors. The state of emergency in Christchurch is likely to remain in place today as authorities warn of more to come. Civil Defence has issued a warning that an aftershock of six is possible in the next few days. The latest aftershock was only 6km deep and cut power to some areas of the central city and police are directing traffic in areas where traffic lights have been knocked out. The aftershock struck at 7.49am while Prime Minister John Key was speaking to residents in rural Canterbury. Kaiapoi... Click here for more details. |
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Car bomb kills 20 in Pakistan after Taliban threat KOHAT, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber rammed his car into a police residential complex in Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 20 people, officials said, in another blow for a country grappling with devastating floods. The blast in the northwestern garrison town of Kohat came hours after the Taliban threatened more suicide attacks on a government and security forces already overwhelmed by the worst flooding in Pakistani history. A number of houses collapsed from the force of the blast and rescuers sought to dig out their occupants. Police official Dilawar Khan Bangash said the bomber drove a car laden with about 300 kg (660 lb) of explosives into the... Click here for more details. |
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Pressure mounts in U.S. against Koran-burning plan MIAMI (Reuters) - Civil and military leaders stepped up calls on Tuesday for an obscure U.S. pastor to drop his plans to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, as fears grew it would fan religious hatred. NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen addresses the media in Ankara August 28, 2009. (REUTERS/Umit Bektas/Files) Pastor Terry Jones of the small Gainesville, Florida-based Dove World Outreach Centre church, which has announced the Koran-burning for Saturday, said he was praying about the event but showed no immediate signs of backing down from his plan. The planned public... Click here for more details. |
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Nigeria to hold presidential election on Jan. 22 LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigeria will hold its presidential election in January, giving the oil-rich nation only four months to register voters and untangle its notoriously corrupt electoral system. The Independent National Electoral Commission announced Tuesday that the presidential election would be held Jan. 22, sandwiched between a Jan. 15 election for the National Assembly and a Jan. 29 election for state offices. In the interim, the commission plans create a new registry for an estimated 70 million eligible voters in Africa's most populous nation. However, the commission has yet to even order the computers it plans to use in... Click here for more details. |
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In India the granaries are full but the poor are hungry Bureaucracy and corruption in India's distribution system mean that subsidised stocks of grain have been left to rot instead of reaching families suffering from malnutrition A wholesale shop displays cereals and pulses in gunny bags at the Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) Yard in Bangalore, India. Photograph: Manjunath Kiran/EPA India's grain warehouses are bursting at the seams and sacks of rice and wheat lie rotting in the open for lack of storage space. These government-managed stocks are for offsetting a fall in agricultural production in the event of drought or floods, but are also meant for sale to the poorest segment of the population at subsidised prices.... Click here for more details. |
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ElBaradei urges election boycott The fractured Egyptian opposition is unlikely to agree on ElBaradei's call for a boycott [Reuters] Mohamed ElBaradei, the Egyptian presidential hopeful, has called for a boycott of upcoming elections and threatened "civil disobedience" if the government does not agree to political reforms. ElBaradei spoke to more than 200 activists at an iftar meal on Monday night. He said that parliamentary elections scheduled for November would be marred by fraud, and called for a complete boycott. "A parliament vote is near and the regime has not responded to our demands," ElBaradei said. "Anyone who participates in the vote, either as a candidate or as a voter, goes against the national will." Egypt's... Click here for more details. |
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Planned burning of Qur'an will 'endanger troops': Petraeus By Sardar Ahmad, Agence France-Presse September 7, 2010 7:02 AM In an interview with Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal, Gen. Petraeus said of the plan: “It could endanger troops and it could endanger the overall effort" Photograph by: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque, Reuters/Kevin Lamarque KABUL — The U.S. commander of the Afghan war has warned that troops’ lives will be endangered if a Florida evangelical church goes ahead with a planned burning of the Qur’an on Saturday’s 9/11 anniversary. General David Petraeus said the planned torching of Islam’s holy book would be a propaganda coup for the Taliban in Afghanistan and stoke anti-U.S. sentiment across the Muslim world. Afghanistan, where Gen. Petraeus... Click here for more details. |
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Dogged by taints, Maoists lose Nepal PM poll again KATHMANDU: Reeling under the double whammy of bribery allegations and a lawmaker receiving life term for murder, Nepal's Maoist party lost Tuesday's prime ministerial election, for the seventh time in a row, plunging the country into a deeper political crisis. Maoist chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, who had led a successful 10-year war against the monarchist government and won the prime ministership with a thumping majority just two years ago, could muster only 252 votes for the same post Tuesday. He fell far short of the halfway mark of 300 in the currently 599-member parliament, despite speculation that he would this time be able to break into the Terai vote bank. While 110 MPs voted... Click here for more details. |
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London gridlock as transport strike brings chaos LONDON (Reuters) – Millions of commuters across the British capital struggled to get to work on Tuesday as a 24-hour strike by workers on London's underground rail system crippled much of the network, hurting the city's convalescent economy. Passengers took to bikes, buses, walked, or made use of extra boat services on the River Thames that runs through the city in a bid to beat the stoppage, called in protest at 800 job cuts driven by austerity... Click here for more details. |
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Economic recovery 'gathering pace' Economic recovery is gathering pace in the European Union and growth this year will be higher than initially forecast, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said... Click here for more details. |
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Turning Back Thousands of Pages on the U.S.-Iraq War Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. In crediting then-President George W. Bush and his 2007 troop surge strategy for helping to win the U.S.-Iraq War, along with calling him a true patriot, President Barack Obama was not only turning a page in history, but thousands of pages. Only in this case, President Obama was turning back the pages of history to the days of ancient Egypt and Ramses the II. Because of Amosis, who embarked on a great imperialist and expansionist campaign, a new image and role of "pharaoh" emerged in Egypt. Amosis' victories on the battlefield, including his harsh treatment towards the vanquished, created a cultic, national hero and divine warrior-god(1)... Click here for more details. |
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Australian PM wins crucial support Julia Gillard, the Australian prime minister, is set to form a minority government after winning the support of two independent politicians. The politicians, Tony Windsor and Robb Oakeshott, dubbed the "kingmakers", declared their support for Gillard on Tuesday, giving her Australian Labor Party a one-seat majority and, thus, control of 76 seats in the 150-seat House of Representatives. The August 21 general elections had failed to deliver a clear winner. The conservative opposition controls 74 seats in parliament. "I will ... give confidence and supply to government, and in effect that means confidence and supply in Julia Gillard unless, and I emphasise unless,... Click here for more details. |
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Sharp series of aftershocks strike New Zealand CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand -- A sharp series of about 20 aftershocks rattled New Zealand's earthquake-hit city of Christchurch overnight, and earthquake experts warned Tuesday that another powerful temblor might hammer the region in coming days. The weekend's powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake smashed buildings and homes, wrecked roads and disrupted the central city, though nobody was killed and only two people were seriously injured - which authorities attributed to good building codes and the quake's early-morning timing. "It... Click here for more details. |
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Guatemala resumes flood rescue work Rescue efforts have resumed in flood-stricken Guatemala, while forecasters predict more rain which officials say may hamper search and rescue operations. A brief window of good weather on Monday allowed the search for victims and surviors of the worst flooding the country has seen in 60 years. At least 44 people have been killed, and 16 others were still missing after a series of landslides, mudslides and wall collapses that followed weeks of heavy rain in the impoverished and mountainous Central American nation. There are "43,043 people at risk, 11,495 have been evacuated, 9,160 are in shelters and 56 people have been injured," according to a statement... Click here for more details. |
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Greek finance minister survives cabinet reshuffle Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has reshuffled his cabinet but left the key post of finance minister unchanged. Analysts say the changes are intended to boost economic and social policy areas... Click here for more details. |
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Obama in Infrastructure Push By GARY FIELDS President Barack Obama proposed spending $50 billion next year on highways, airport and railway construction, the latest attempt to boost the economy, although the White House message on the speed of the impact was mixed and the plan ran into immediate opposition from Republican lawmakers. European Pressphoto Agency President Barack Obama on Monday after speaking in Milwaukee about his plan for construction spending. Republicans condemned the proposal. More Full text of Obama's Speech at Labor Rally Obama to Link Tax Plan, Hiring Political Wisdom: Labor Day Politics More: Capital Journal | Washington Wire Obama Vows to Help 'Great American Middle Class' Economists Grapple Over... Click here for more details. |
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Climate shifts 'not to blame' for African civil wars By Mark Kinver Science and environment reporter, BBC News Continue reading the main story The Darfur conflict in Sudan was linked to climate shifts Climate 'drives African conflict' Climate change is not responsible for civil wars in Africa, a study suggests. It challenges previous assumptions that environmental disasters, such as drought and prolonged heat waves, had played a part in triggering unrest. Instead, it says, traditional factors - such as poverty and social tensions - were often the main factors behind the outbreak of conflicts. The findings have been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in the United States. "Climate variability in Africa does... Click here for more details. |
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South Africa Unions' Strike Suspended PRETORIA, South Africa — South Africa’s trade unions Monday suspended a three-week-old strike by hundreds of thousands of government workers that had shuttered schools and hamstrung ambitious new efforts to expand urgently needed medical services in the region’s richest but most inequitable economy. As rowdy striking teachers chanted just outside A news conference, labor leaders here said they had not yet accepted the government’s offer, but would consult their members over the coming weeks and continue negotiating. The government has proposed a 7.5 percent pay raise that is double the rate of inflation, but short of the 8.6 percent unions had demanded. “We are... Click here for more details. |
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Iran boosts nuclear work, bomb fears remain - IAEA report VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran is pushing ahead with its atomic work in defiance of tougher sanctions and the UN nuclear watchdog is concerned about Teh-ran's objections to some of its inspectors, an IAEA report shows. The confidential report, obtained by Reuters on Monday, also says the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) remains concerned about possible activity in the Islamic Republic to develop a nuclear payload for a missile. It calls on Iran, which denies accusations it is seeking to build nuclear... Click here for more details. |
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