AP - Suspected Muslim insurgents exploded a bomb that left at least 27 people injured in a southern Thai market Tuesday, officials said, a day after rebels ambushed a military patrol and killed eight soldiers.
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Thai soldier beheaded, 7 others killed (AP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 9:52pm EST
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Take That lead Brit award nominations (AFP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 9:38pm EST
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AFP - Pop group Take That's comeback hit another high note on Tuesday as they jointly led the nominations for the Brit Awards, the annual music prizes organised by the British Phonographic Industry.
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Bush seeks stronger ties with arms deal (AP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 9:00pm EST
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AP - President Bush delivered a sophisticated weapons sale for Saudi Arabia on Monday, trying to bolster defenses against threats from U.S. adversary Iran and muster support in this oil-rich kingdom for a long-stalled Mideast peace agreement.
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Attack on Kabul luxury hotel kills 6 (AP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 7:22pm EST
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AP - Militants stormed Kabul's most popular luxury hotel Monday, killing at least six people as they hunted down Westerners who cowered in a gym a coordinated assault that could signal a new era of brazen Taliban attacks.
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Guatemala swears in new president (AP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 6:21pm EST
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AP - Alvaro Colom was sworn on Monday in as Guatemala's first leftist president in more than 50 years, promising to fight poverty in a nation where half the people live on less than $1 a day.
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Gunmen storm Darfur prison, freeing 90 (AP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 5:41pm EST
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AP - Gunmen stormed a Darfur prison, setting free at least 90 detainees, officials and local media said Monday as sporadic violence continued to erupt throughout the western Sudanese region.
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Colombian boy's childhood of anguish (AP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 4:54pm EST
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AP - On April 16, 2004, an urbane lawyer being held hostage in a guerrilla camp deep in the Colombian jungle gave birth to a boy. The child was delivered by Caesarean section performed with a kitchen knife.
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Mideast peace negotiations inch forward (AP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 2:17pm EST
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AP - Palestinian and Israeli negotiators sat down Monday to address their toughest disputes, honoring promises made to President Bush during his visit last week.
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Saudi public leery of Bush (AP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 1:35pm EST
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AP - Saudi Arabia's warm official welcome for President Bush, the scion of a family with close ties to the kingdom's ruling family, masks his deep unpopularity among ordinary Saudis.
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Motorbike bomb kills 9 in Pakistani city (AP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 12:23pm EST
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AP - A bomb planted on a parked motorbike killed at least nine people and wounded 35 others Monday evening in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, police said. -
Andorra first up for Capello's England (AFP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 12:21pm EST
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AFP - Fabio Capello's first competitive match as England coach will be at Andorra in September after the fixtures were announced for their 2010 World Cup qualifying campaign on Monday.
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British defies order to shut NGO offices (AP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 11:54am EST
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AP - A British cultural organization reopened offices in two Russian cities Monday in defiance of an order to close, drawing an angry response from Russia, which called the decision a "deliberate provocation" and promised punitive measures.
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Sunni judge assassinated in Baghdad (AP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 11:38am EST
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AP - Gunmen assassinated a Sunni judge as he headed to work in Baghdad on Monday, while to the north, a booby-trapped house exploded as Iraqi police searched the building, killing at least two officers and trapping five beneath the rubble, authorities said.
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2 dead in attack on luxury Kabul hotel (AP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 11:35am EST
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AP - Militants with suicide vests, grenades and AK-47 rifles attacked Kabul's most popular luxury hotel Monday evening, killing at least two people in a coordinated assault rarely seen in the Afghan capital, witnesses and a Taliban spokesman said.
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Sudan "bombs" Darfur rebels as violence hampers aid (Reuters)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 11:28am EST
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Reuters - Sudanese government planes bombed rebel positions in Darfur, rebels and international sources said on Monday of the latest violence that has turned parts of West Darfur into a "no go" zone for aid workers. -
Gulf prankster possible message source (AP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 10:12am EST
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AP - A threatening radio message at the end of a video showing Iranian patrol boats swarming near U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf may have come from a prankster rather than from the Iranian vessels, the Navy Times newspaper has reported.
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Israel won't accept nuke weapons in Iran (AP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 8:12am EST
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AP - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told a powerful parliamentary panel on Monday that Israel rejects "no options" to block Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, a meeting participant said.
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Apple, China Mobile call off iPhone launch talks (Reuters)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 3:56am EST
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Reuters - Apple Inc and China Mobile
(0941.HK) have called off talks to launch the U.S. firm's
popular iPhones in China, dashing speculation the device will
hit the country's store shelves soon.
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Tsonga dumps Murray out of Australian Open (AFP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 3:48am EST
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AFP - Britain's great tennis hope Andy Murray became the first major casualty of the Australian Open Monday, crashing out in the first round to Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
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Bush gets flavor of Dubai (AP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 3:33am EST
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AP - President Bush, on his first visit to this oil-rich kingdom, delivered a major arms sale Monday to a major ally in a region where the U.S. casts neighboring Iran as a menace to stability.
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Activists threaten to ram Japanese whalers (AFP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 3:27am EST
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AFP - The militant environmental group Sea Shepherd said Monday that it had located the Japanese whaling fleet near Antarctica and threatened to ram them if they resumed slaughtering the giant sea creatures.
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Iraqi appeals court judge killed (AP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 3:26am EST
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AP - Gunmen killed an appeals court judge as he headed to work in the western Baghdad district of Mansour on Monday, police and the deputy justice minister said.
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China says democracy hurts Kenya (AP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 3:22am EST
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AP - The election-related violence that has killed hundreds in Kenya is proof that Western-style democracy is a bad fit for Africa, said China, which has been under fire for its friendly relations with authoritarian leaders on the continent. -
US envoy meets former Taliban commander (AP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 3:08am EST
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AP - The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan flew to a town previously held by the Taliban in the heart of the world's largest poppy-growing region and told the ex-militant commander now in charge there that Afghans must stop "producing poison."