Sunday, March 27, 2011

Zoo owner jailed for selling dead tigers

Zoo owner jailed for selling dead tigers


Zoo owner jailed for selling dead tigers

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A court in southern Vietnam has sentenced a zoo owner to three years in prison for selling the carcasses of five endangered tigers.


Afflicted Japan has new obsession: Self-Restraint

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Even in a country whose people are known for walking in lockstep, a national consensus on the proper code of behavior has emerged with startling speed. Consider post-tsunami Japan as the age of voluntary self-restraint, or jishuku, the antipode of the Japan of the "bubble" era that celebrated excess.


Libya says woman claiming rape is now free

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The Libyan government says a woman who stormed into a Tripoli hotel to tell foreign reporters that government troops raped her is now with her family.


Libya: Airstrikes hit Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte

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Libya unrest: Libyan state television reports that international airstrikes are targeting Moammar Gaddafi's hometown and stronghold of Sirte for the first time.


Libya: NATO takes military charge

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Libya unrest: NATO jets on Sunday began enforcing the no-fly zone in Libya, Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen announced. Diplomats said the full transfer of authority would take several days.


Germany: Merkel's party suffers loss in key polls first time in 60 years

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German chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives have suffered a historic defeat in a state ballot after almost six decades in power there; preliminary results have showed, in an election that amounted to a referendum on the party's stance on nuclear power.


6.5-magnitude earthquake hits eastern Japan

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Japan quake: A magnitude-6.5 earthquake shook eastern Japan off the quake-ravaged coast on Monday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, prompting Japan to issue a tsunami alert which was lifted soon after.


NATO to assume command of Libya operations

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NATO will assume command of all aerial operations — including ground attacks — in Libya from the U.S.-led force that has been conducting air strikes against Moammar Gaddafi's forces, officials said Sunday.


Syrian govt says 12 killed in seaside city

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Syria's government said Sunday that unknown gunmen firing from rooftops and prowling the streets of the Mediterranean city of Latakia are to blame for two days of violence that killed 12 people.


Libyan rebels reclaim 2 oil centres in sweep west

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Libyan rebels seized back two key oil complexes and pushed west toward Tripoli on Sunday, gaining momentum after international airstrikes that tipped the balance away from Moammar Gaddafi's military. The U.S. defense secretary said the air campaign could last months.


Taliban claims to have kidnapped 50 Afghan policemen

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The Taliban claimed Sunday that it kidnapped 50 Afghan policemen in northeastern Afghanistan — part of the insurgents' murder and intimidation campaign against anyone affiliated with the U.S.-backed government.


More obstacles impede crews in Japan N-crisis

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Mounting problems, including incorrect radiation figures and a shortage of storage tanks, stymied emergency workers Sunday as they tried to nudge Japan's stricken nuclear complex back from the edge of disaster.


Over 200,000 in Germany protest nuclear power

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Tens of thousands of people on Saturday turned out in Germany's largest cities to protest the use of nuclear power in the wake of Japan's Fukushima reactor disaster, police and organizers said.


Radiation inside Japan nuclear plant rises sharply

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Japan nuclear crisis: Japanese officials continued to battle a spreading contamination problem at the Fukushima nuclear complex on Sunday, saying that water pooling inside one of its reactors and the seawater just outside the plant were showing sharply increased levels of radiation.


Now, a one-hour operation to change heart valve

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An Indian-origin surgeon-led team in Britain has come up with a one-hour keyhole operation to replace heart valve, a breakthrough which offers hope to cardiac patients too sick to undergo an open-heart surgery.


US: 100-yr-old man marries 93-yr-old girlfriend

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A 100-year-old man and a 93-year-old woman in the US are said to have become the world's oldest couple to tie the knot following a 28-year courtship.


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