Sunday, April 10, 2011

UN, French fire on Gbagbo residence in Ivory Coast

UN, French fire on Gbagbo residence in Ivory Coast

UN, French fire on Gbagbo residence in Ivory Coast

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United Nations and French helicopters fired rockets on strongman Laurent Gbagbo's residence on Sunday in an assault the U.N. said was to retaliate for attacks by his forces on U.N. headquarters and civilians.


Libya: Missing Indian award-winning photographer located

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An award-winning Associated Press photographer covering the conflict in Libya was located Sunday after being missing for more than a day, the news agency said.


France officially bans the burqa

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France - home to Europe's biggest Muslim population - on Monday officially banned women from wearing full-face veils in public places.


France to enforce burqa ban from Monday, women oppose

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A day before France becomes the first European country to enforce the burqa ban, one of the country's Muslim women, Kenza Drider, has decided to defy the law. She says in a secular society people should decide what they want to wear.


Egypt's ex-President Mubarak denies abuse of power

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In the first remarks since his ouster, former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak denied he abused his authority to amass wealth and property in a pre-recorded speech broadcast on Sunday.


Next on the agenda for Washington: Fight over debt

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The down-to-the-wire partisan struggle over cuts to this year's federal budget has intensified concern in Washington, on Wall Street and among economists about the more consequential clash coming over increasing the government's borrowing limit.


Japan: New video shows Fukushima nuclear plant was hit by 48-feet-high wave

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A wall of water that slammed into Japan's Fukushima Daiichi power plant in the massive tsunami on March 11 was as high as 48 feet higher than normal sea levels, a brief video clip shot by a plant worker shows.


Musharraf abandons plans to return to Pakistan

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Former President Pervez Musharraf has abandoned plans to return to Pakistan from self-exile in Britain after the military leadership here "cold-shouldered" his demands for extra security to counter multiple threats to his life from militant outfits like al-Qaeda and Taliban.


Syria forces killed 28 protesters: rights activist

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Syrian security forces have killed a total of 28 people, human rights activists said on Sunday.


Young Gaddafi 'hated British, drank water from a finger bowl'

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Muammar Gaddafi hated the "ugly British" since his youth and was so "unworldly" that he drank water from a finger bowl during a state occasion as he did not know what it was for, according to a university dissertation.


Brazil school shootout: Two detained for supplying gun

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Two men have confessed to illegally supplying a gun to a man who entered a Rio de Janeiro school, opened fire and killed at least 12 children before taking his own life, a police official said Saturday.


Libya: Two rebel helicopters downed near Brega

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Two rebel helicopters violating the no-fly zone over Libya were shot down by the Gaddafi regime in the Brega region in the east, deputy foreign minister Khaled Kaaim has said.


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