AFP – An Indonesian Islamist website bearing a photo of the body of one of the executed Bali bombers has been shut down after being overloaded by visitors, website administrators said Tuesday.
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AFP – Five Muslim extremists planned terrorist acts in Australia in pursuit of “violent jihad” because they believed Islam was under attack worldwide, a court heard as their trial began Tuesday.
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AP – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says his former consul in Houston has been stripped of his post for moving the consulate in that city without permission.
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Reuters – Goldman Sachs Group Inc has cut about 10 percent of its investment bankers in Tokyo, including one of Japan’s top women bankers, as part of global efforts to cut its workforce, people familiar with the matter said.
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AP – An American tourist was shot and killed, and a friend wounded, in an apparent robbery attempt aboard a sailboat on Venezuela’s Caribbean coast, police said Monday.
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AFP – Switzerland is likely to come under further pressure from the United States over its prized system of banking secrecy after the election last week of Barack Obama, key sector players predicted.
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AFP – Pets — and vets — are feeling the pinch as South Korea’s economy slows, a report said Tuesday.
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AP – Germany’s top Nazi hunter on Monday asked Munich prosecutors to request the extradition of an 88-year-old Ohio man accused of bearing responsibility for the deaths of 29,000 Jews at a concentration camp in Poland.
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AP – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said passage of a law clearing the way for provincial elections in Iraq was “a milestone” in the process of national reconciliation, but he warned of the possibility of election violence.
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AP – As of Monday, Nov. 10, 2008, at least 4,193 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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