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Australia braces for Cyclone Ingrid (AFP) AFP - Australia's north-eastern tip battened down for the arrival of Cyclone Ingrid, which despite weakening over the previous 24 hours remained potentially the worst storm to threaten ...
Onlookers gasp in horror as man sets himself ablaze outside Ont. legislature (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - TORONTO (CP) - Police pulled a man whose body was engulfed in flames from a van Wednesday in a dramatic standoff that unfolded in front of television news cameras at the ...
Rice to make first Asia trip as secretary of state (Reuters) Reuters - Condoleezza Rice will make her first trip to Asia as U.S. secretary of state next week to discuss with the Chinese and others how to resume talks on North Korea's nuclear ...
South Africans Exhume Bodies (AP) AP - Relatives of two missing anti-apartheid fighters broke down in sobs Wednesday as investigators working with brushes and trowels slowly uncovered two skeletons from dark red earth.
Castro to Distribute Pressure Cookers (AP) AP - Pressure cookers and rice steamers, essential tools of the Cuban kitchen, are the new weapons in Fidel Castro's latest battle to reassert control over the nation's economy.
Schroeder Invites Leaders to Summit (AP) AP - German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has invited conservative opposition leaders to a summit next week on ways to lower the country's record unemployment rate, a government ...
Slain Catholic's sisters lead firestorm against IRA (Chicago Tribune) Chicago Tribune - The $50 million robbery of Belfast's Northern Bank a week before Christmas, the biggest heist in the annals of British crime, was the kind of audacious Robin Hood ...
IRA Must Disband, Demand Britain and U.S. (Reuters) Reuters - Outraged by an IRA offer to shoot a
group of suspected murderers, Britain and the United States
said Wednesday the guerrilla group must disband and called on
its political ally ...
Lebanon Parliament Renominates Karami as New PM (Reuters) Reuters - Lebanon's parliament nominated
pro-Syrian Omar Karami as prime minister Wednesday, a decision
sure to anger the anti-Syrian opposition that pressured him to
resign in the ...
Haiti's Aristide Says Will Return, Praises UN JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (Reuters) - Ousted Haitian leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide said Wednesday he expected to return to his country as president, but added he did not know when and ...
S.African Miners Trapped After 'Exceptional' Quake JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - At least 42 South African miners were trapped in collapsed shafts and hundreds of others awaited evacuation Wednesday after an earthquake hit a gold mining ...
Bolivia Indian Groups Vow to 'Battle' President LA PAZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - Bolivian Indians blocked roads with boulders on Wednesday and vowed a "face-to-face battle" against President Carlos Mesa, whose quickly withdrawn ...
High winds overnight cause power outages throughout Maritimes (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - HALIFAX (CP) - Thousands of people were without electricity Wednesday after winds gusting to more than 100 kilometres an hour overnight downed power lines in parts of the ...
Cathay Pacific Sees 2nd Highest Profit Ever (AP) AP - Hong Kong's biggest airline Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. on Wednesday reported its second-highest ever profit thanks to stronger passenger and cargo traffic, although surging oil ...
Nigeria Told to Stop Repaying Foreign Debt (AP) AP - The parliament in Africa's most-indebted nation has passed a nonbinding resolution demanding Nigeria stop repaying its $35 billion foreign debt.
Security Forces Find 41 Corpses in Iraq (AP) AP - Iraqi officials said Wednesday that 41 bodies some bullet-riddled, others beheaded have been found at two separate sites, and they believe some of the corpses are Iraqi ...
Kosovo's Ex-Premier Flies to the Hague (AP) AP - Kosovo's former prime minister surrendered to the U.N. war crimes tribunal Wednesday, a day after the ethnic Albanian resigned to face charges stemming from the province's ...
Kosovo Leader Flies to Hague for War Crimes Trial (Reuters) Reuters - Kosovo's former Prime Minister Ramush
Haradinaj surrendered to The Hague tribunal on Wednesday to
face war crimes charges, a day after stepping down and winning
praise for ...
Iraq Police Find 41 Bodies; Minister Attacked (Reuters) Reuters - Police found the bodies of 41 Iraqis
beheaded or shot by insurgents at two locations in the Sunni
heartland, the latest in a series of mass killings by guerrilla
groups, officials ...
Spanish Serial Killer Gets 142 Years MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish serial killer, nicknamed the "playing card assassin" because he left a card at the scene of each murder, received jail sentences totaling 142 years ...
S.Africa Quake Traps Miners, Injures Dozens JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (Reuters) - An earthquake measuring around 5.0 on the Richter scale hit a gold mining area of South Africa Wednesday, injuring dozens of people and trapping ...
Terror Laws Hand Blair Pre-Election Battle LONDON (Reuters) - The British government made new concessions Wednesday to speed through parliament contentious new anti-terrorism laws that have turned into a bruising pre-election ...
Pro-Assad Rally Draws Tens of Thousands of Syrians DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Syrians marched through Damascus Wednesday to show support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who is facing international pressure over ...
BHP Billiton chief says more bids for WMC possible (AFP) AFP - Anglo-Australian resources giant BHP Billiton warned that its friendly 7.3 billion US dollar (3.8 billion pound) bid for WMC Resources was not a done deal and predators could still ...
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