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Suicide attackers hit Afghan city; at least 30 die
(AP)
Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:27:43 GMT
AP - A suicide squad detonated bombs at a newly fortified prison, police headquarters and two other locations late Saturday, killing at least 30 people in the largest city of the southern Taliban heartland.
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Child abuse claims sweep Catholic Church in Europe
(AP)
Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:18:15 GMT
AP - It often starts as a voice in the wilderness, but can swell into an entire nation's demand for truth. From Ireland to Germany, Europe's many victims of child abuse in the Roman Catholic church are finally breaking social taboos and confronting the clergy to face its demons.
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Irish police free 4 in alleged artist murder plot
(AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:41:12 GMT AP - Four people, including an American woman, arrested over an alleged plot to assassinate Swedish artist Lars Vilks have been freed without charge, but three others remain in custody, Irish police said Saturday. |
Iraqi vote signals shift from religious leaders
(AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:32:48 GMT
AP - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's political coalition took an early vote lead Saturday in the election's all-important battleground of Baghdad, pulling away from its two closest rivals in the latest indication that Iraqis want a moderate government instead of Shiite religious hard-liners leading the postwar nation.
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New border violence erupts with Mexico cartel rift
(AP)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:30:32 GMT AP - This border city and others near the eastern end of the U.S. border escaped the worst of Mexico's bloody drug war for years, but now the bodies are piling up, several journalists are reportedly missing or dead and once-busy streets are empty after dark. |
When Humanitarian Aid Winds Up in the Wrong Hands
(Time.com)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:15:00 GMT Time.com - A BBC report alleging that Ethiopian rebels diverted humanitarian aid meant for famine victims in the 1980s has raised new questions about the efficacy of giving aid in times of war |
Vatican officials defend pope on abuse
(AP)
Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:32:04 GMT
AP - The Vatican on Saturday denounced what it called aggressive attempts to drag Pope Benedict XVI into the spreading scandals of pedophile priests in his German homeland. It also insisted that church confidentiality doesn't prevent bishops from reporting abuse to police.
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Al-Qaida suspect from US tricked his Yemeni guard
(AP)
Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:27:48 GMT
AP - An American al-Qaida suspect detained in Yemen fooled his hospital guards into unshackling him by asking to join them for prayers, security officials said Saturday. He then killed a guard who laid down his weapon as he went ahead at prayer time.
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24 killed in western Mexico; 11 in one shootout
(AP)
Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:44:31 GMT
AP - A series of shootings killed 24 people Saturday in a Pacific coast state plagued by drug gang violence. Nearly half died in one shootout between soldiers and armed men.
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Central African government says coup plot foiled
(AFP)
Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:21:16 GMT
AFP - The Central African Republic's government has said it had foiled a plan to launch a coup d'etat next week, with intelligence implicating former president Ange Felix Patasse who strongly denied any involvement.
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Powerful quake hits Indonesia: seismologists
(AFP)
Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:23:36 GMT
AFP - A powerful quake with a magnitude of 7.0 hit off the eastern Indonesian island of Maluku on Sunday, seismologists said, but no tsunami warning was issued.
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Budget fails to boost Conservatives
(Reuters)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:23:06 GMT Reuters - A federal budget last week did little to boost the fortunes the Conservatives, who still only have a slight lead in public support, according to a poll released on Thursday. |
Obama delays Pacific trip for healthcare
(Reuters)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:54:49 GMT Reuters - President Barack Obama is delaying his trip to Indonesia and Australia next week to stay home and focus on his final push for a healthcare overhaul, White House officials said on Friday. |
Burmese refugees face starvation in Bangladesh
(McClatchy Newspapers)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:15:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON _Thousands of Burmese Muslim refugees at an unofficial refugee camp in Bangladesh are facing starvation and acute malnutrition as the government continues to block international humanitarian aid, according to Physicians for Human Rights, a humanitarian watchdog group. |
Korea OLEV concept vehicle sees the future, and it's magnets
(The Christian Science Monitor)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:01:07 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - There once was a time when horseless carriages were jeered on city streets. Suh Nam-pyo, president of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), invokes that image as he introduces another technological breakthrough: a motor vehicle that consumes no fuel, gets electrical charges while in motion without plugging in -- and then goes âanywhere.â |
The Falklands: For Argentina, Oil Reopens Old Wounds
(Time.com)
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:15:00 GMT Time.com - Almost three decades after they launched a disastrous war to reclaim the territory they call 'Las Malvinas', Argentina's leaders are again pushing their claims against Britain |
Arab Americans Organize to Get Counted in Census
(OneWorld.net)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:11:59 GMT OneWorld.net - SAN FRANCISCO, Mar 11 (New America Media) - A coalition of Arab-American cultural organizations in
the San Francisco Bay Area have launched a grassroots organizing
campaign designed to send a clear message to Washington: that they,
along with every other Arab in America, are in fact Arab, and not white. |

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| Word of the day |
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for March 13, 2010 is:
acronym \AK-ruh-nim\ noun
: a word formed from the beginning letter or letters of each or most of the parts of a compound term; also : an abbreviation formed from initial letters
Example sentence:
The new committee spent a fair amount of time choosing a name that would lend itself to an appealing acronym.
Did you know?
"Acronym" was created by combining "acr-" ("beginning") with "-onym," ("name" or "word"). You may recognize "-onym" in other familiar English words such as "pseudonym" and "synonym." English speakers borrowed "-onym" directly from the Greek (it derives from "onyma," the Greek word for "name"). "Acr-" is also from Greek, but it made a side trip through Middle French on its way to English. When "acronym" first entered English, some usage commentators decreed that it should refer to combinations of initial letters that were pronounced as if they were whole words (such as "radar" or "scuba"), differentiated from an "initialism," which is spoken by pronouncing the component letters (as "FBI" and "CEO"). These days, however, that distinction is largely lost, and "acronym" is a common label for both types of abbreviation.
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