AFP – Tamil Tiger rebels on Tuesday staged daring air strikes on a power plant in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo and an army camp in the north, their first such attacks in six weeks, the defence ministry said.
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AP – Leftist lawmakers stormed the podium in the lower house of Congress on Tuesday in a bid to block passage of an oil reform bill aimed at reversing sagging production in Mexico, the third-biggest crude supplier to the United States.
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AP – Freshly evaluated soil and air samples from a Syrian site bombed by Israel on suspicion it was a covert nuclear reactor provide enough evidence to push ahead with a U.N probe, diplomats said Tuesday.
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AP – Chile’s Health Minister is resigning amid an uproar over the government’s failure to notify people who had tested positive for AIDS.
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AFP – Tamil Tiger rebels on Tuesday used aircraft to bomb a power plant in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo and an army camp in the north, their first air strikes in six weeks, the defence ministry said.
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AP – Rebels vowing to take Congo’s eastern provincial capital advanced toward Goma on Tuesday, sending tens of thousands fleeing. The top U.N. envoy said government soldiers had fired on civilians and foreign aid workers trying to escape the region.
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AFP – Prime Minister Gordon Brown weighed in Tuesday on a row over offensive on-air comments by two top BBC presenters which has escalated into a media and political storm.
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AP – With Iceland, Pakistan, Hungary and Ukraine already clamoring for mountains of cash aid, the $250 billion set aside by the International Monetary Fund to help struggling nations through the economic crisis is beginning to look puny.
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AP – The son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor conducted a brutal campaign of torture and killings as chief of a notorious security unit known in the war-torn west African nation as the “Demon Forces,” a prosecutor said Tuesday in closing arguments of the son’s U.S. trial.
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Reuters – Congolese Tutsi rebels overran the eastern town of Rutshuru on Tuesday, a rebel spokesman said, in an offensive that has forced tens of thousands of people to flee for their lives.
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