Friday 30 September 2011

Rights group calls on Libya to stop prisoner abuse

TRIPOLI, Libya—Human Rights Watch called on Libya's new rulers to stop armed groups from rounding up suspected Moammar Gadhafi supporters and abusing them, saying Friday that some detainees reporting beatings and electric shocks had the scars to prove it. The treatment of prisoners has become a ...


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French, Greek leaders meet on debt crisis - AP

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Thursday 29 September 2011

Threat of nationalisation rippling through all industries

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17 officials in southern India convicted of gang raping tribal villagers

NEW DELHI - Seventeen Indian police and forest officials have been convicted of gang raping a group of tribal villagers in the southern state of Tamil Nadu in 1992. Press Trust of India says another 100 officials were found guilty Thursday of brutally beating dozens of people from the village of ...


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PITTSBURGH—South Florida's national showcase turned into Ray Graham's coming out party. The Pittsburgh running back rushed for 226 yards and two touchdowns as the Panthers dominated the 16th-ranked Bulls 44-14 on Thursday night. Graham's 13-yard touchdown gave Pitt (3-2, 1-0 Big East) the lead for ...


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Shares in luxury cosmetics makers L'Oreal and LVMH fall 3 percent after rival Clarins tells Reuters in an interview it has seen a slowdown since June in Western Europe, a major market for the industry. This is "negative comment for L'Oreal which derives around 40 percent of sales in Europe," one ...


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LOS ANGELES -- UCLA freshman guard Norman Powell sustained a concussion at a workout this week and received three staples in his forehead to close a small cut. A team spokesman said Thursday that the injury occurred on Tuesday when Powell was driving the lane and was accidentally elbowed by a ...


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BAGHDAD -- The U.S. military says an American solider has been killed in northern Iraq by indirect fire as he was preparing to go out on an operation. A statement released by U.S. forces in Iraq said the soldier was killed Thursday, but gave no other details. The soldier was not identified, pending ...


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Wednesday 28 September 2011

Multistate Outbreak of Listeriosis

CDC officials now say as many as 16 people have died after eating tainted cantaloupe, making this outbreak one of the deadliest in 10 years. More than 70 people have been sickened and 13 have died after eating cantaloupe contaminated with listeria. The CDC is investigating three more deaths in New ...


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Debris from a defunct six-tonne NASA science satellite that crashed to Earth on Saturday fell harmlessly in a remote area of the South Pacific Ocean, NASA said on Tuesday. Experts estimated that as much as 1,100 pounds of debris survived the bus-sized satellite's fiery plunge through the atmosphere ...


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is once again allowing shutdown politics to bring the federal government to the brink of closing. For the second time in nine months, lawmakers are bickering and posturing over spending plans. The difference this time is that everyone agrees on the massive barrel of ...


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Roving art show brings Picasso to Cuban masses

PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba (AP) -- A traveling exhibition of art donated by a U.S. philanthropist is giving Cubans outside the capital a rare chance to see works from masters such as Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol that would normally hang in world-class galleries instead of sleepy provincial cities ...


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MAKHACHKALA, Russia (Reuters) - One policeman and five civilians were killed when a car bomb exploded in Russia's violence-plagued Muslim North Caucasus province of Dagestan on Wednesday, authorities said. The attack comes after three car bombs killed six people and gunmen killed four more ...


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Sunday 25 September 2011

Bank of America activists get theatrical

Hub activists have begun protesting Bank of America foreclosures using “street theater,” from leaving a vacant home’s trash on an executive’s doorstep to sneaking into a business breakfast to hand out anti-B of A muffins. “We feel this is a fun way to raise our issues while using some ...


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WASHINGTON - It's as big as a bus and weighs 6 tons, but officials probably will never be able to pinpoint exactly where a massive NASA satellite plummeted to Earth. NASA space-junk scientists believe that all - or nearly all - of the parts of their 20-year-old dead satellite safely plunged into the ...


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Saturday 24 September 2011

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