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90% Credible

Russia vote 'not fair,' say Europeans / Observer groups decry 'merging' of state and party

WORLD / NEWS Tue Dec 4, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform
SF Gate -- Russia's parliamentary elections, which the pro-Kremlin United Russia party won handsomely, were "not fair" and failed to meet international democratic standards, according to observers from two leading European organizations. The groups' scathing asse.. Read More
+8
Interesting
70% Credible

N Korea closes more nuclear sites

WORLD / NEWS Wed Jul 18, 2007 @ 4:49am neoform
BBC News -- North Korea has shut down all five nuclear facilities at its main Yongbyon complex, International Atomic Energy Agency head Mohamed ElBaradei says. IAEA monitors in North Korea had verified the four new closures, Mr ElBaradei told journalists in Malays.. Read More
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100% Credible

Heathrow flights canceled after alert

Heathrow airport
WORLD / NEWS Tue Jul 3, 2007 @ 4:42pm neoform
CNN -- London's Heathrow airport has reopened a busy, international terminal after a security scare led to the cancellation of more than 100 flights. Thousands of passengers were evacuated from Terminal 4 Tuesday after a suspect bag was found shortly before midd.. Read More
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Shocking
100% Credible

Vatican urges end to Amnesty aid

Pope
WORLD / NEWS Thu Jun 14, 2007 @ 12:16am neoform
BBC News -- The Vatican has urged all Catholics to stop donating money to Amnesty International, accusing the human rights group of promoting abortion. The Vatican also said it was suspending all financial aid to Amnesty over what it said was the group's recent ch.. Read More
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Interesting
100% Credible

Putin calls for alternative to WTO

Putin
WORLD / NEWS Mon Jun 11, 2007 @ 12:39am neoform
CNN -- Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday criticized international economic institutions for protecting the interests of a select few developed countries and called for a new global economic order that would give rapidly growing developing economies a bi.. Read More
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Human rights 'eroded worldwide'

WORLD / NEWS Wed May 23, 2007 @ 10:43am neoform
BBC News -- Powerful governments and armed groups have been deliberately fomenting fear to erode human rights worldwide, a report by Amnesty International says. The group's annual report on human rights says policies like those linked to the "war on terror" are cr.. Read More
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Funny
70% Credible

Condoms 'too big' for Indian men

WORLD / NEWS Fri Dec 8, 2006 @ 11:10am mrmdc
BBC News -- A survey of more than 1,000 men in India has concluded that condoms made according to international sizes are too large for a majority of Indian men... Read More
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Under Rated

Al Jazeera, wide angle

WORLD / NEWS Wed Nov 15, 2006 @ 12:32am neoform
Los Angeles Times -- Al Jazeera, praised for confronting the Middle East's oft-coddled ruling regimes and criticized for bringing viewers regular updates from Osama bin Laden's cave, says it is launching its new English-language international network today... Read More
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Al-Jazeera to start English channel

WORLD / NEWS Wed Nov 1, 2006 @ 8:05am neoform
Yahoo News -- Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television announced Tuesday that it would launch its long-awaited English language channel Al-Jazeera International on Nov. 15... Read More
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100% Credible

US is only country to oppose UN arms trade treaty

WORLD / NEWS Fri Oct 27, 2006 @ 2:07pm mrmdc
Telegraph -- America is the only country to have voted against a proposed United Nations treaty aimed at controlling international arms sales... Read More
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International Ships Loaded with Aid Leave Burma

WORLD / NEWS Wed Jun 18, 2008 @ 11:23am thirdlife
www.4burma.org -- The ruling junta refused the international help, and the ships were forced to came back... Read More
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World 'failing on human rights'

WORLD / NEWS Wed May 28, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform
BBC News -- World leaders are failing to tackle human rights abuses around the globe, Amnesty International says. In an annual report, the group says people are still being tortured or ill-treated in at least 81 countries. In at least 54 states they face unfair.. Read More
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Defiant Iran expands nuclear operation

WORLD / NEWS Tue Apr 8, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform
CNN -- Iran has begun installing 6,000 new centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant in Natanz, state television quoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying Tuesday. The U.S. immediately criticized the announcement as an example of Iran's continued defiance.. Read More
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Abkhazia in independence appeal

WORLD / NEWS Fri Mar 7, 2008 @ 8:25am neoform
BBC News -- The breakaway Abkhazia region in Georgia has called on the UN and other international bodies to recognise it as independent. The appeal was made by the separatist Abkhaz parliament on Friday, a day after Russia said it was lifting trade restrictions on.. Read More
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Death sentence for Afghan reporter

WORLD / NEWS Wed Jan 23, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform
CNN -- A student journalist sentenced to death in northern Afghanistan for allegedly blaspheming Islam may actually be paying the price for investigative pieces that his brother wrote, an international media group said Wednesday. Those articles exposed human rig.. Read More
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Russia makes 1st nuke-fuel delivery to Iran

WORLD / NEWS Mon Dec 17, 2007 @ 8:29am neoform
MSNBC -- Russia has made its first shipment of nuclear fuel to Iran's Bushehr plant, which is at the center of the international tensions over Tehran's nuclear program, the Foreign Ministry said Monday. Iran contends the nuclear power plant operation in Bushehr.. Read More
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Iranian spared from execution

WORLD / NEWS Fri Nov 16, 2007 @ 8:24am neoform
MSNBC -- Amid international criticism ignited by a crusading journalist, Iran’s chief justice has spared the life of a young man who had been sentenced to be executed as the result of a cousin’s accusations of homosexual acts years earlier. Ayatollah Seyed.. Read More
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Nato urged to end Afghan transfer

WORLD / NEWS Tue Nov 13, 2007 @ 8:23am neoform
BBC News -- Nato countries risk turning a blind eye to torture by continuing to transfer detainees to Afghan prisons, according to a report from Amnesty International. The report cites what it calls "consistent" incidences of torture and other abuse by Afghanistan.. Read More
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Balkans wars: 18,000 still missing

WORLD / NEWS Thu Aug 30, 2007 @ 8:12am neoform
CNN -- Nearly 18,000 people are still missing from the ethnic wars fought in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday. About 13,500 of those missing are from the 1992-95 war in Bosnia, while 2,386 are from th.. Read More
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Brazil offered help on air space

WORLD / NEWS Tue Jul 24, 2007 @ 3:53am neoform
BBC News -- Brazil has been urged to accept foreign help to control its air space by the International Air Traffic Controllers Federation (Ifatca). The head of Ifatca, Marc Baumgartner, said Brazil was trying to save face after 199 people were killed last week in.. Read More
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