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Global News Archive for January 2007:
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Study Finds Pregnant Women Can Take Anti-AIDS Drug
Women can take nevirapine without endangering their ability to undergo antiretroviral treatment later on...
New York Times - January 10, 2007
Insurgents Battle Somali Forces in Capital
Mogadishu exploded in violence this morning after insurgents attacked a government barracks overnight...
New York Times - January 10, 2007
Starting New Term, Chávez Defends Recent Moves
At the ceremony, President Hugo Chávez defended his decision this week to nationalize two key industries...
New York Times - January 10, 2007
Bush to Tie Troop Increase to U.S. Fate in Iraq
President Bush will announce tonight that he is sending more than 21,000 troops to Iraq, while conceding that he provided neither enough troops nor enough resources to control the chaos last year...
New York Times - January 10, 2007
Democrats Skeptical About Bush?s New Iraq Plan
Hours before President Bush?s speech on Iraq, Democrats carried out what amounted to a pre-emptive strike...
New York Times - January 10, 2007
$100 laptop could sell to public
The backers of the One Laptop Per Child project are looking at the possibility of selling the machine to the public...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Magellanic Clouds 'just passing'
Two nearby galaxies, thought to be true companions of the Milky Way, may just be drifters, say astronomers...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Blair plays down UK troops boost
Tony Blair implies that no extra UK troops will be sent to Iraq, as the US is expected to increase its numbers...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Interest rates set to stay at 5%
UK interest rates are expected to be kept on hold at 5% following the latest meeting of the Bank of England...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
NCR workers fear 800 job losses
Staff at the NCR factory in Dundee are called to a meeting, amid fears for the safety of up to 800 jobs...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Woman and children found dead
Police investigate the discovery of the bodies of a woman and two children at a house in east London...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Germany in nuclear power rethink
German government members call for a rethink of the country's pledge to phase out nuclear energy...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
China 'reassures' Olmert on Iran
Israeli PM Ehud Olmert says China has made it clear that it is against Iran developing nuclear weapons...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Wycombe hold Chelsea in first leg
Jermaine Easter's goal gives Wycombe a shock draw against Chelsea in the first leg of their Carling Cup semi-final...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Composer in civil partnership row
Composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies abandons plans for a civil partnership ceremony on the Orkney island of Sanday...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Killer in baby appeal 'must wait'
A convicted murderer is told he must wait to discover if Europe's highest court will allow him to father a child...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Calf reopens clone debate
A calf grown from an embryo taken from a cloned cow is born on a British farm for the first time...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Clarke slams PM's foreign policy
Charles Clarke criticises Tony Blair, saying his foreign policy good intentions have "turned to dust"...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Star may have four magnetic poles
The neutron star inside the Crab Nebula may have as many as four magnetic poles, researchers say...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Unsigned band set to crash charts
A rock group is on course to make chart history by becoming the first unsigned band to score a top 40 hit...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
PM backs ministers' NHS protests
Tony Blair says ministers, such as party chairman Hazel Blears, have a right to protest against local NHS reforms...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Exam board tags exam papers
Edexcel plans to bug bundles of A-level and GCSE papers to stop cheats getting a preview of exam questions...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Misdiagnosis led to malaria death
The death of a Cardiff University student from malaria, could have been prevented, an inquest hears...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Omagh witnesses are investigated
The Police Ombudsman launches an inquiry into the conduct of two key witnesses in the Omagh bomb case...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Fears for 800 jobs at NCR plant
A union expresses concern for the future of 800 manufacturing jobs at cash machine firm NCR in Dundee...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Murderers abscond from open jail
Police hunt two convicted murderers who absconded from an open prison in Derbyshire...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Punjab probe over child murders
Indian police investigate the murders of four children, whose decomposed bodies were found in Punjab state...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Belarus ditches oil transit tax
Belarus has cancelled the transit tax it had imposed on Russian oil shipments, the country's prime minister says...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Talabani seeks executions delay
Iraqi president urges delay in execution of two of Saddam Hussein's co-accused amid controversy over his hanging...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez sworn in
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is sworn in for a third term following his December election landslide...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
US denies southern Somali attacks
Air strikes targeting Islamist militias in southern Somalia continue, but the US denies responsibility...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Football: Smith is Rangers boss
Walter Smith leaves his role as Scotland coach to become the new manager of Rangers...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Beckham's Madrid future undecided
David Beckham's future is unclear after reports claimed Real Madrid would not offer him a new contract...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Pop singer Michael denies charge
Singer George Michael pleads not guilty to a charge of being unfit to drive, at a magistrates' court in London...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Chrysler queries climate change
The chief economist of US car firm Chrysler attacks the "quasi-hysterical" European attitude to global warming...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Prisoners will abscond - minister
It is impossible to stop inmates walking out of open prisons, the minister responsible tells MPs...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Commons clash over foreign crimes
John Reid has clashed with the Conservatives over reports of ignored files on offences by Britons abroad...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
One dead as helicopters collide
Two military helicopters from RAF Shawbury collide in Shropshire with one person killed and two others injured...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
UK crop science gets £13m boost
UK crop scientists are given a £13.3m funding boost for projects aimed at benefiting farmers and consumers...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Pirates storms public film awards
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is named favourite movie at Hollywood's People's Choice Awards...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Public can purchase $100 laptop
The backers of the One Laptop Per Child project plan to release the machine on general sale next year...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
School computer test scrapped
A compulsory computer test for teenagers in England is abolished, ministers confirm...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Man held over woman's US death
An American man is charged with the murder of a Scottish woman found dead in her home in Florida...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Protest over road-widening plans
People living near the Queensferry bypass plan a demo as expansion proposals go on show - with the road seven lanes-wide in places...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
WH Smith to close pension scheme
WH Smith is planning to close its final-salary pension scheme in a move that would affect close to 2,000 workers...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Killer serving life 'wants baby'
A convicted murderer appeals to Europe's highest court to be allowed to father a child by artificial insemination...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Blair sets out MI5's future role
Tony Blair makes a Commons statement to reassure nationalists about MI5's future role in Northern Ireland...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Italian film producer Ponti dies
Italian film producer Carlo Ponti, the husband of actress Sophia Loren, dies in Geneva at the age of 94...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Gaza chief brands Hamas murderers
Fatah's strongman in Gaza, Muhammad Dahlan, escalates a war of words with the ruling Hamas movement...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Indian suspects' remand extended
A court in India extends the remand period of two men accused of killing 17 women and children...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
S Koreans seized in Niger Delta
Nine South Korean oil workers are taken hostage by gunmen in southern Nigeria, officials say...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Thai coup leaders target Thaksin
Ousted Thai PM Thaksin has his diplomatic passport cancelled as local media are told not to report his words...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Tennis: Murray gains revenge
Andy Murray defeats Ivan Ljubicic in straight sets at the Kooyong Classic in Melbourne...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Football: Smith poised for return
Scotland manager Walter Smith is expected to be unveiled as the new Rangers boss on Wednesday...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Police seize 19 pit bull terriers
Nineteen pit bull terriers are seized by police on Merseyside under the Dangerous Dogs Act...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Misbah mother drops custody plea
The mother of Misbah Rana is offering to drop her claim for full custody of her daughter, a court in Pakistan hears...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Government closes 551 websites
Hundreds of government websites are to be shut as part of moves to focus on BBC website-style "supersites"...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
New attacks in southern Somalia
Air strikes targeting Islamist militias in southern Somalia resume as the UN mulls sending peacekeepers...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
EU plans 'industrial revolution'
The EU unveils a new energy strategy, calling on member states to cut emissions of greenhouse gases...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Many 'excluded from social care'
Elderly and disabled people are increasingly relying on family and friends to care for them, inspectors warn...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Inquiry into new Home Office row
A senior civil servant will investigate claims that details of crimes by Britons overseas were ignored...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
In Poland, New Wave of Charges Against Clerics
New allegations of secret-police collaborators among Poland?s clergy members have further sullied an institution considered spotless in the fight against Communism...
New York Times - January 10, 2007
Democrats Plan Symbolic Votes Against Bush?s Iraq Troop Plan
Democrats hope to isolate the president politically over his handling of the war by forcing Republicans to take a stand on the issue...
New York Times - January 10, 2007
Airstrike Rekindles Somalis? Anger at the U.S.
Most of the dead were Islamist leaders fleeing in armed pick-up trucks, according to Somali officials...
New York Times - January 10, 2007
U.S. and Iraqis Hit Insurgents in All-Day Fight
The battle in downtown Baghdad was one of the most dramatic operations in the capital since the invasion nearly four years ago...
New York Times - January 10, 2007
Gonorrhoea 'raises cancer risk'
A study has confirmed the link between gonorrhoea, a sexually transmitted infection, and higher risks of bladder cancer in men...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Pupils get home internet access
The government is to set up a taskforce to ensure all children have access to the internet outside of school...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Warning over risks to porpoises
More harbour porpoises are starving to death in the North Sea because of climate change, it is claimed...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Blair set for grilling on Saddam
Tony Blair is expected to face a grilling over the manner of Saddam Hussein's execution when he faces MPs...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
India duo in court over killings
Two men accused of killing 17 young women and children in a Delhi suburb are due in court in a few hours...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Peru slams ruling on rebel rights
Peru's president says he will challenge an international court ruling over killings of Shining Path rebels...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
US issues Burma resolution to UN
The United States presents a draft resolution to the UN Security Council, calling on Burma to ease repression...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Misbah legal case back in court
The father of a Scottish girl will learn if he can appeal a decision ordering her back to the UK from Pakistan...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Bush set to reveal Iraq strategy
The US president prepares to deliver his strategy for Iraq, as Democrats oppose any troop increase...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Killer serving life in IVF fight
A convicted murderer appeals to Europe's highest court to be allowed to father a child by IVF...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
Reid orders crime reports meeting
Home Secretary John Reid orders urgent talks over claims that criminals' overseas offences were ignored...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
New EU path on climate and energy
The European Commission will propose measures to combat climate change while securing consumer energy supplies...
BBC News - January 10, 2007
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