Monday, April 11, 2011

Indonesian lawmaker caught watching porn resigns

Indonesian lawmaker caught watching porn resigns

Indonesian lawmaker caught watching porn resigns

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An Indonesian lawmaker who helped pass a tough anti-pornography law resigned on Monday after he got caught watching sexually explicit videos on his computer during a parliamentary debate.


Japan raises nuclear crisis level to 7; worst on global scale, at par with Chernobyl

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Japan nuclear crisis: Japan's nuclear regulators raised the severity level of the crisis at a stricken nuclear plant on Tuesday to rank it at par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, citing the amount of radiation released in the accident.


50 years ago: Man's first flight to space

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First human space flight: On the eve of two prominent space anniversaries, the six humans circling the Earth said on Monday that they will join in the celebrations from the best vantage point of all - orbit. Tuesday marks the 50th anniversary of man's first journey into space and the 30th anniversary of the first space shuttle launch.


Belarus: 2 killed as explosion hits subway station

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An explosion tore through a subway station near the office of the authoritarian president of Belarus during evening rush hour on Monday, killing at least two people and wounding numerous others, according to news agencies.


Egypt blogger convicted for criticising military

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Local and international rights groups say an Egyptian military court has convicted a blogger of insulting the army and sentenced him to three years in prison.


Berlusconi returns to dock, laughs off sex crime trial

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Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi today accused Italy's judges of being out to get him and laughed off his ongoing sex crime trial as he returned to court on fraud charges in a separate trial.


Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo is captured

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Laurent Gbagbo: After a week of heavy fighting, forces backing Ivory Coast's internationally recognized leader on Monday arrested strongman Laurent Gbagbo who had refused to leave the presidency despite losing elections more than four months earlier.


French women wear veils in public to protest ban

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Several women protested in veils in front of Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral, denouncing France's new ban on Islamic face veils or naqabs. Two women wearing the naqab, which has just a slit for the eyes, claimed the ban is an affront to their freedom of expression and religion.


Plutonium as fuel? Japan crisis raises doubts

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On a tract of government land along the Savannah River in South Carolina, an army of workers is building one of the nation's most ambitious nuclear enterprises in decades: a plant that aims to safeguard at least 43 tons of weapons-grade plutonium by mixing it into fuel for commercial power reactors.


Strong aftershock as Japan urges more evacuations

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A strong aftershock struck off the coast of northeast Japan on Monday as the Japanese government said it was preparing to expand the evacuation zone around a crippled nuclear power plant to address concerns over long-term exposure to radiation.


Japan rattled by aftershock on quake anniversary

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A strong earthquake rattled Japan's northeast Monday on the one-month anniversary of the massive temblor and wave that devastated the northeastern coast and unleashed a still-unfolding nuclear crisis.


Female cadet's intimate moments broadcast over Skype

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The Australian government is likely to announce review of its defence force 'culture' over the handling of a complaint by an 18-year-old female cadet whose sexual encounter with a male colleague was broadcast over Skype without her knowledge.


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