AFP - England hopeful Danny Cipriani admits he is on a steep learning curve as he tries to oust Jonny Wilkinson from the number ten jersey for the Six Nations opener against Wales on February 2.
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England rugby hopeful Cipriani on a steep learning curve (AFP)
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 11:38pm EST
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France says new Iran resolution imminent (AP)
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 11:08pm EST
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AP - The U.N. Security Council's five permanent members and Germany are expected to agree Tuesday on a new resolution to pressure Iran over its nuclear program, a French diplomat said. But a U.S. official said differences over the issue remain.
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Support for new Australian PM grows: survey (AFP)
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 10:41pm EST
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AFP - The popularity of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has grown since the Labor leader's election late last year, according to a new poll published Tuesday.
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Paraguay nominates first woman candidate (AP)
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 10:33pm EST
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AP - Paraguay's ruling party nominated a woman as its presidential candidate on Monday, a first for the South American nation, but the candidacy of Education Minister Blanca Ovelar still faces a court challenge.
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New Zealand says farewell to Hillary (AP)
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 10:07pm EST
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AP - Sherpas laid prayer scarves on Sir Edmund Hillary's coffin as thousands across New Zealand bid farewell to the Mount Everest conqueror Tuesday. An honor guard held ice axes aloft as his casket was carried through their lines.
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UN envoy applauds cut in Iraq violence (AP)
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 8:37pm EST
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AP - The top U.N. envoy in Iraq on Monday welcomed recent improvements in security and tentative steps towards national reconciliation, urging all parties to maintain the positive momentum.
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Congo government, rebels in peace accord (AP)
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 5:26pm EST
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AP - Government negotiators and rebel groups reached a deal to end fighting in the vast country's restive east, where some 800,000 people had to flee their homes over the last year, officials said Monday.
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Probe: Iraqi teen bomber sent by family (AP)
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 4:18pm EST
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AP - His father was a senior member of al-Qaida in Iraq. His mother promised him they would meet again in paradise.
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Israel to ease Gaza blockade for a day (AP)
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 3:47pm EST
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AP - Israel said Monday it will ease a blockade of Gaza imposed in retaliation for militant rocket attacks, allowing some food and fuel in for one day. The announcement followed a U.N. warning that international food aid to the impoverished territory may have to be suspended by the weekend.
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Chinese insurer Ping An to raise $22B (AP)
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 5:25am EST
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AP - A major Chinese insurer has announced plans to raise up to $22 billion (euro15.0 billion) for acquisitions at a time when U.S. and European banks, battered by mortgage losses, want infusions of Asian capital to replenish their balance sheets.
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British PM calls for radical world reforms to reflect rise of Asia (AFP)
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 5:16am EST
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AFP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called Monday for the radical reform of world institutions to help meet the new challenges of the 21st century, and take more account of the rise of Asia.
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British soldier killed in Afghan blast (AP)
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 5:03am EST
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AP - An explosion struck a NATO patrol vehicle outside a former Taliban town in southern Afghanistan, killing one British soldier and wounding five others, officials said Monday.
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3-way standoff fuels Mideast violence (AP)
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 5:00am EST
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AP - Israel looks powerless to stop the barrage of rockets from Hamas-ruled Gaza. The Islamic militants, choked by a blockade of their territory, find it increasingly difficult to hold on to power. And moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is facing growing pressure to suspend peace talks because of Israel's strikes in Gaza.
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Kenyans hacked to death with machetes (AP)
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 4:14am EST
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AP - Several people were beaten and hacked to death with machetes in a Nairobi slum Sunday in renewed ethnic fighting over Kenya's disputed election, residents said.
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US: Armor-piercing bomb attacks down (AP)
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 4:09am EST
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AP - A suicide bomber apparently targeting a senior security official blew himself up inside a funeral tent Monday, killing 18 people in the latest of a series of deadly attacks chipping away at the notion of a calmer Iraq.
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Liberian ex-rebel confesses to killings (AP)
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 3:31am EST
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AP - One of Liberia's most notorious rebel commanders, known as Gen. Butt Naked, has returned to the nation his troops terrorized to confess, saying he is responsible for 20,000 deaths. -
Daughter of Scottish dynasty on sex charge in Australia (AFP)
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 2:58am EST
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AFP - A young woman descended from a Scottish dynasty granted the Cocos Islands by Britain's Queen Victoria went on trial in Australia Monday charged with sexually assaulting her soldier lover.
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Bomb destroys car in Beirut (AP)
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 1:25am EST
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AP - A grenade explosion set ablaze a parked car belonging to the wife of Lebanon's assistant military prosecutor and damaged several other vehicles in Beirut early Monday but caused no injuries, police said.