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WORLD / NEWS Wed May 28, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

BBC News -- Nepal is due to become a republic and end 240 years of royal rule. A newly-elected assembly is to meet in the capital, Kathmandu, to abolish the monarchy but its key vote has been postponed for a few hours. As the assembly was being sworn in on Tues.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Mar 13, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

CNN -- The government of Chad issued a communique Thursday that said rebels from Sudan had crossed into Chad. The communique, sent out from the capital N'Djamena, does not offer any other details. Chad is still recovering from a failed attempt last month by rebe.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Oct 10, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

BBC News -- Europe is marking its first anti-death penalty day, despite moves from Poland to block the event, calling for it also to condemn abortion and euthanasia. The day was organised by the Council of Europe, a human rights body, after Poland's veto threatene.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Oct 4, 2007 @ 8:25am neoform

BBC News -- A plane has crashed in the east of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials say. The Antonov 26 cargo plane owned by the Congolese airline, Africa 1, came down in the Kingasani residential area near Ndili airport around 1030.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Aug 25, 2007 @ 11:15am neoform

USA Today -- Forest fires that have taken at least 44 lives rage uncontrolled across vast areas of southern Greece, the fire department says. The skies around Athens are red and ashes fall in the center of the capital as wind drives the flames across the parched lands.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Jun 13, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

BBC News -- Thousands of Pakistani lawyers and supporters are heading to Islamabad to demand the government reinstate judges fired by President Musharraf last year. Crowds along the route cheered the motorcade of several hundred vehicles, which is due to arrive la.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Apr 10, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- It is a familiar refrain to hear the earth and its resources being described as precious and that climate change is, and will, prove extremely costly. But historically, no one has attempted to put a market value on nature's eco-systems and the services th.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Dec 4, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

BBC News -- Somalia's interim President Abdullahi Yusuf has been taken to hospital in the Kenyan capital, the BBC has learnt. His condition is said to be "serious" but there are no further details. He had a liver transplant in the 1990s. He was named president.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Oct 4, 2007 @ 8:23am neoform

MSNBC -- A Russian-made cargo plane with 17 people on board crashed and exploded on Thursday in a teeming neighborhood of Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital Kinshasa, killing many people, officials and witnesses said. Airport officer Appo Ilunga said the.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Aug 25, 2007 @ 11:21am neoform

MSNBC -- Forest fires that have taken at least 44 lives rage uncontrolled across vast areas of southern Greece, the fire department says. The skies around Athens are red and ashes fall in the center of the capital as wind drives the flames across the parched lands.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Aug 8, 2007 @ 12:59pm neoform

CNN -- A moderate earthquake shook the Chilean capital, Santiago, on Wednesday, causing tall buildings in the city center to sway. The magnitude-5.0 quake occurred at 10:14 a.m. just off the Pacific coast of Chile, 47 miles (75 kilometers) from the port city.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Jul 10, 2007 @ 9:21am neoform

Associated Press -- Thousands of Argentines cheered and threw snowballs in the streets of Buenos Aires on Monday as the capital's first major snowfall since 1918 spread a thin white mantle across the region. Wet snow fell for hours in the Argentine capital, accumulating i.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Jul 6, 2007 @ 9:16am neoform

BBC News -- Five children who were playing with a landmine in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, were killed when the device exploded, witnesses say. The children between the ages of six and 12 were playing football before they found it. One of them picked it up and th.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Jun 7, 2007 @ 12:20pm neoform

BBC News -- Moscow city authorities are planning to reduce the number of migrants working in the Russian capital. Mayor Yury Luzhkov says the demands for foreign labour should be lowered in favour of "our own workers". Rights groups argue few Russians would cho.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Jun 7, 2007 @ 12:20pm neoform

BBC News -- Residents near the capital of Indonesia's Aceh province have disabled a tsunami warning system. The residents cut the power to the siren on a tsunami warning tower by throwing rocks at it. They were angered by a false alarm that sent thousands of pe.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Jun 7, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

BBC News -- Police in Sri Lanka have forced hundreds of the minority Tamil community out of the capital Colombo for what they say are security reasons. They launched overnight raids in Tamil areas of the city and forced guests staying in budget hotels onto buses... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Mar 31, 2007 @ 8:57pm neoform

BBC News -- A power struggle inside the government in Ukraine has brought tens of thousands of demonstrators out on to the streets of the capital, Kiev. Amid a sea of flags, rival supporters - some supporting the president, others the PM - gathered in the city cen.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Feb 6, 2007 @ 8:24am neoform

BBC News -- The Vietnamese authorities have approved plans to build a $33bn (£15bn) rail link between the capital, Hanoi, to Ho Chi Minh City in the south... Read More