Friday, June 3, 2011

Ex-US presidential candidate John Edwards indicted

Ex-US presidential candidate John Edwards indicted

Ex-US presidential candidate John Edwards indicted

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Fallen Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards was charged on Friday with using US $900,000 in campaign funds to cover up an affair with a film producer with whom he had a baby girl.


Pak hikes defence budget to Rs 495 billion

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The Pakistan government has hiked the allocation for defence in its budget for fiscal 2011-12 to Rs 495 billion (about US $5.75 billion), marking an increase of nearly 12 per cent over the outlay for the current fiscal.


Notices to Pak channels for 'provoking anti-national sentiments'

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The Pakistan government's media regulator has issued notices to four TV news channels, including Geo News and Dawn News, for "being irresponsible" and "provoking anti-national sentiments" among viewers.


Assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian dies at age 83

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Jack Kevorkian, the audacious, fearless doctor who spurred on the national right-to-die debate with a homemade suicide machine that helped end the lives of dozens of ailing people, died Friday at a Detroit-area hospital after a brief illness. He was 83.


Romney dubs Obama 'failure', announces Presidential bid

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Casting President Barack Obama as a failure who has tanked the United States' economy, Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney seized on Friday's jobs report as he pitched himself as an alternative with the experience to turn around the struggling economy.


Suicide bombing at Sunni mosque in Iraq kills 16

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A suicide bomber struck a Sunni mosque packed with local officials during Friday prayers, killing 16 people, including a police commander and a judge in Saddam Hussein's hometown, officials said.


Defiant Mladic calls genocide charges 'obnoxious'

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Ratko Mladic, frail but defiant after 16 years on the run, made his first appearance before UN judges and his victims on Friday, dismissing a long list of charges of genocide, mass murder and persecution as "obnoxious" and "monstrous words" that had nothing to do with what he called the defence of his nation.


Yemen President wounded in rocket strike at his palace

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Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was wounded when opposition tribesmen determined to topple him hammered his palace with rockets on Friday in a major escalation of nearly two weeks of fighting with government forces. At least four guards were killed and seven top officials were also wounded, an official said.


Foreign media on Baba Ramdev's proposed fast

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For more than 40 years, reformers and other agitators have tried in vain to cleanse India of corruption. They have staged demonstrations, candlelight vigils and protest marches for naught. In Parliament, efforts to create an independent anticorruption agency began in 1968. It still does not exist.


Life term for couple that kidnapped, abused girl for 18 years

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Phillip Craig Garrido has been sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison for kidnapping and raping a California girl and holding her captive for 18 years while fathering her two children. A judge on Thursday imposed the maximum possible sentence of 431 years to life on 60-year-old Garrido, calling the defendant's treatment of victim Jaycee Dugard evil and reprehensible.


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