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Croatian parliament approves PM Sanader's cabinet (Reuters)
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 3:16pm EST
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Reuters - Croatia's new parliament approved on Saturday a centre-right coalition cabinet proposed by Prime Minister-designate Ivo Sanader and dominated by his conservative Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ). -
Soldiers find front line at Iraq house (AP)
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 3:14pm EST
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AP - Barely out of a four-day battle, the soldiers scanned palm-dotted farmland from the roof of a small house, kneeling to avoid a sniper's bullet. A pair of Apache gunships hovered above and the occasional thud of artillery shells shook the ground.
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Iraq to reinstate Saddam party followers (AP)
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 3:12pm EST
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AP - Iraq's parliament passed a benchmark law Saturday allowing lower-ranking former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party to reclaim government jobs, the first major piece of U.S.-backed legislation it has adopted.
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Pakistan expels writer for NY Times (AP)
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 2:21pm EST
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AP - Pakistan has expelled an American journalist who wrote in The New York Times Magazine about the rise of pro-Taliban militants in this key U.S. ally, a media rights group said Saturday. -
With nuke rebirth come new worries (AP)
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 2:02pm EST
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AP - Global warming and rocketing oil prices are making nuclear power fashionable, drawing a once demonized industry out of the shadows of the Chernobyl disaster as a potential shining knight of clean energy. -
Gorilla sanctuary is Congo war front (AP)
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 1:19pm EST
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AP - Not far from a hillside where several mountain gorillas shot dead last summer lie buried, park ranger Innocent Mburanumwe peers across a primordial canopy of treetops into what may be the most dangerous game reserve on earth.
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Opposition wins big in Taiwan poll (AP)
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 1:06pm EST
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AP - Taiwan's opposition Nationalist Party won a landslide victory in legislative elections Saturday, giving a big boost to its policy of closer engagement with China two months before a presidential poll it now seems poised to win.
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Greenpeace says located, chasing Japanese whalers (AFP)
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 2:45am EST
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AFP - A Greenpeace protest ship located Japan's whaling fleet in Antarctic waters and is pursuing it to stop the hunt for the giant sea creatures, the environmental group said Saturday.
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Greenpeace finds Japan's whalers (AP)
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 2:25am EST
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AP - A Greenpeace ship on Saturday confronted a Japanese whaling fleet that had initially planned to hunt protected humpbacks, the environmentalists said setting off the latest round of cat-and-mouse in a sometimes dangerous feature of the hunting debate.
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Pentagon releases video of Iran clash (AP)
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 2:19am EST
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AP - Recent clashes between Iranian and U.S. Navy forces in the Persian Gulf reflect Iran's shifted military strategy to use its Revolutionary Guard's fast boats more aggressively in the region, the top U.S. military officer said Friday.
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Bush visits biblical holy sites (AP)
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 1:54am EST
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AP - Immersed for two days in the intense and arcane world of Mideast peacemaking, President Bush looked relieved Friday to see something of the landscape that all the fighting is about. Obviously moved, he even giggled, too.
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In Kuwait, Bush turns focus to Iraq war (AP)
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 1:50am EST
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AP - President Bush said Saturday he is open to the possibility of slowing or stopping plans to bring home more U.S. troops from Iraq, defying domestic demands to speed the withdrawals. Updated on war developments, Bush said the U.S. presence in Iraq will outlast his presidency.