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Posted in: World News by Izabela Toth | September 13th 2010 | no comments
ROME – Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has surprised again with its uncommon remarks - recommending young women to pursue the money when searching for a partner, declaring women love him and "I'm loaded."
Berlusconi, who was involved in a sex scandal in 2009 and is famous for his faux pas, also caused disturbed looks with a joke about Hitler's followers advising him to come back [...]
Posted in: World News by Izabela Toth | September 13th 2010 | no comments
SRINAGAR, India – According to police official, Indian services killed 13 dissenters and injured many others Monday in conflicts all over Kashmir generated partly by a report that a Quran was dishonored in the United States. A policeman was also slain.
The aggression, the most awful since nationalist strikes went off in June, came as Indian authorities argued whether to lessen [...]
Posted in: World News by Izabela Toth | September 11th 2010 | no comments
BRUSSELS – The ex- Belgian bishop who quit in April after admitting he sexually molested a nephew for years said Friday he would go into defeat to consider his future, in spite of calls for him to leave the church right away.
Roger Vangheluwe said in a declaration he would without delay leave an abbey in his bishoprics of Bruges, where he has been living since his April 23 [...]
Posted in: World News by Izabela Toth | September 11th 2010 | no comments
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – 25 people were killed by gunmen in a sequence of drug-cartel assaults in Ciudad Juarez, symbolizing the deadliest day in over two years for the Mexican frontier city. Farther east on the boundary, 85 prisoners climbed over the walls of a prison and ran away Friday in Mexico's greatest jailbreak in recent history.
In spite of the aggression, President Felipe [...]
Posted in: World News by Izabela Toth | September 10th 2010 | no comments
MADRID (AFP) – NATO leader Anders Fogh Rasmussen Friday demanded members of the coalition in Afghanistan to supply more troops competent to instruct Afghans, and guarantee a swifter retreat of alien services.
Rasmussen said on a combined conference with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero that on troop pledges, they have somehow succeeded in the creation of new [...]
Posted in: World News by Izabela Toth | September 10th 2010 | no comments
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Following the protests of thousands of Afghans against a small Florida church's intention to burn the Muslim sacred book, the church's minister decided he won't go on with his plan of the burning if he can get together Saturday with the organizers behind a mosque planned close to ground zero in New York.
At least 11 people were wounded Friday in protests in [...]
Posted in: World News by Izabela Toth | September 9th 2010 | no comments
LONDON – The Bank of England maintained its main lending rate at a record low level of 0.50% for the 18th month running on Thursday, as data revealed Britain's mending from depression is delaying.
In spite of boosted signs that British production progress is reducing speed after a strong 2nd quarter, the central bank also decided not to pump more billions in to the [...]
Posted in: World News by Izabela Toth | September 9th 2010 | no comments
MOGADISHU – A Mogadishu local related that at least 8 people were killed, including African Union pacifists, when to explosions hit Mogadishu's airport on Thursday.
They stated that a suicide bomber crashed a car into an AU peacekeepers office outside the airport and that they heard a second blast inside the complex soon afterwards.
Witnesses reported a gun battle following the [...]
Posted in: World News by Izabela Toth | September 9th 2010 | no comments
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia – At least 15 people were killed and more than 1000 were wounded Thursday when a suicide car bomber hit the central market of a major city in Russia's North Caucasus in one of the most awful terror attacks in the unstable province in years, according to authorities’ declarations.
According to the Emergency Situations Ministry, the assailant detonated his [...]
Posted in: World News by Izabela Toth | September 8th 2010 | no comments
ISLAMABAD (AFP) – Angelina Jolie is one of the Hollywood stars to urge people to forget corruption worries and make a contribution to aid Pakistan's 21 million inundation victims. She ended Wednesday a tour of areas overcome by floods.
Pakistan's government has received severe critics at home and out of the country over supposed corruption, which many ascribe to the sluggish tempo [...]
Posted in: World News by Izabela Toth | September 8th 2010 | no comments
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican on Wednesday condemned as "outrageous and grave" intensions by a Christian cleric in Florida to burn down copies of the Quran as a symbol for the Sept. 11 anniversary.
The Vatican headquarters in charge of relations with Islam made a firm assertion saying every religion has the right to assume that its holy books, places of worship and symbols will be [...]
Posted in: World News by Izabela Toth | September 8th 2010 | no comments
BAGHDAD – An Iraqi TV journalist was killed by a gunmen on Wednesday, the second to be massacred in Iraq in as many days, stressing the perils media workers keep on facing in the state 7 years after the U.S.-led incursion.
According to a Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based media supervisory body, while a number of outlandish correspondents were slaughtered in the years directly [...]
Posted in: World News by Izabela Toth | September 8th 2010 | no comments
KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghan voting authorities said Wednesday that a number of supplementary polling stations will have to stay congested during the Sept. 18 parliamentary election because of the worsening security circumstances in the state.
The state electoral board declared 81 of the 458 balloting stations projected in Nangarhar region would keep closed during the Sept. 18 [...]
Posted in: World News by Izabela Toth | September 7th 2010 | no comments
Paris, France (CNN) -- A one-day strike is staged Tuesday by thousands of workers all over France in order to protest against government plans to elevate the retirement age.
More than 200 remonstrations were planned all through the state Tuesday to match with the strike.
Workers from both the public and private sectors were on walkout, including those in media, transportation, [...]
Posted in: World News by Izabela Toth | September 7th 2010 | no comments
KABUL, Afghanistan – U.S. services in Afghanistan and Americans all over the world were put on alert Tuesday by the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan that an American church's warning to burn up replicas of the Muslim holy book could endanger them.
In the meantime, NATO reported an American military member was killed in an insurrectionary assault in southern Afghanistan on [...]
Posted in: World News by Izabela Toth | September 7th 2010 | no comments
TANAH KARO, Indonesia – An Indonesian volcano shot black dust 3 miles (5,000 meters) into the air early Tuesday — its strongest eruption since coming back to life after four hundred years of dormancy.
The power of Mount Sinabung's eruption could be felt 5 miles (8 kilometers) away.
30 years old Anissa Siregar said that this explosion was truly frightening, as soon as she and [...]
Posted in: World News by Izabela Toth | September 7th 2010 | no comments
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico – Mexican officials insisted on people to move to refuges while authorities in Texas shared out sandbags and alarmed of rush inundations as Tropical Storm Hermine grew stronger and moved toward the northwestern Gulf shore on Monday.
Hermine will most likely produce landfall all-around midnight just south of the U.S.-Mexico frontier, menacing to carry as much as [...]
Posted in: U.S. News, World News by Izabela Toth | September 6th 2010 | no comments
BRUSSELS – An official declared Monday that NATO might set out 2,000 additional troops to Afghanistan to meet the 140,000-powerful international units already there.
Gen. David Petraeus, top U.S. and NATO commander, requested supplementary troops, almost half of whom will be instructors for the quickly increasing Afghan security services, related the official, who asked for [...]
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