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Global News Archive for December 2007:
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Guyana to Protest Reported Venezuelan Incursion
Guyana plans to lodge a protest at the United Nations, following reports that Venezuelan soldiers destroyed two gold-mining dredges with explosives inside Guyana...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
Twin Bombs Kill Dozens in Algiers
Two car bombs exploded in quick succession near United Nations offices and an Algerian government building...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
Rare Look Inside Baghdad Museum
Four years after being stripped by looters, the vast halls of the Baghdad Museum remain dark and deserted...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
Great beasts peppered from space
Startling evidence is found showing how mammoth and bison from the last ice age were blasted with material that came from space...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
National strategy on play pledged
The government promised to launch a national strategy on play and pledges millions of pounds for playgrounds...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
U-turn over salary rise for Ahern
A controversial pay rise for Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and his ministers is put back for a year...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Olmert says Iran still dangerous
Israel's PM insists Iran's nuclear programme remains dangerous, and calls for unity against it...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
UN climate talks step up a gear
Top officials are gathering in Bali for the UN conference on replacing the Kyoto Protocol on climate change...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Liverpool through with classy win
Liverpool overpower Marseille to reach the last 16 of the Champions League...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Fujimori jailed for abusing power
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to six years in prison for abuse of power...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
US rates reduced for third time
The US Federal Reserve cuts interest rates from 4.5% to 4.25% to steer the US away from recession...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Pressure on Smith over police pay
The home secretary faces pressure from within the government to rethink police pay rises, an ex-minister says...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Algiers blasts kill 10 UN staff
The United Nations confirms 10 of its staff are among the dead in a double car bombing in Algeria's capital, Algiers...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Disputed in Iraq, Blackwater Now Splits California Town
A proposal to build a Blackwater training camp has riven the social fabric of Potrero, Calif., an unincorporated community of 850 near the Mexican border...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
Attacks in Baghdad Kill 9 and Damage a Refinery
A spate of bomb, rocket and mortar attacks Monday came amid an overall lull in violence in Baghdad...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
Divided, France Welcomes and Condemns Qaddafi
Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi?s official visit to France was sharply criticized, even within the ranks of President Nicolas Sarkozy?s government...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
Speech by Dmitri A. Medvedev
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New York Times - December 11, 2007
Tymoshenko Fails in Bid for Ukraine Premiership
Yulia Tymoshenko, leading force in Ukraine?s 2004 ?Orange Revolution,? failed to win backing from parliament to restore her as prime minister today...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
In India, a Rare School Shooting Leaves 14-Year-Old Dead
The police detained two boys, both age 14, in connection with the killing of their classmate, also 14, at Euro International School in Gurgaon, one of India?s flourishing outsourcing hubs...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
Regular Freight Rail Service Starts Between 2 Koreas
The first a regular cargo rail service between the two Koreas in 56 years comes a week before South Korea?s presidential election...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
Tehran Journal: From Iran?s Fiery Leader, a Slightly Tamer Blog
The Iranian president?s blog is less confrontational than his speeches and accepts critical reader comments...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
Destruction of C.I.A. Tapes Cleared by Lawyers
A clandestine branch of the C.I.A. gave advance approval for the destruction of videos of interrogations...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
Israeli Forces Move Into Gaza
At least six Palestinians were killed in Israeli operations today, a day before peace talks are set to begin...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
Global Climate Talks Divided on Emissions Targets
The U.S. and Europe remained deadlocked on whether countries should commit now to specific emissions cuts...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
Twin Bombs Kill at Least 45 in Algiers
Two car bombs exploded in quick succession in the Algerian capital today, targeting United Nations offices and an Algerian government building...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
Putin?s Chosen Successor Would Name Him Premier
A day after President Vladimir V. Putin endorsed Dmitri A. Medvedev as his successor, Mr. Medvedev declared that he wanted to name Mr. Putin as Russia?s prime minister...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
Detention plan 'a charade' - MP
The home secretary faces criticism from MPs for the plan to extend the detention limit for terror suspects...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Crucial stomach services 'unsafe'
Emergency services for patients with gastrointestinal bleeding are seriously wanting, a survey finds...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Boeing confirms Dreamliner plan
US planemaker Boeing reaffirms the revised schedule for its new 787 Dreamliner aircraft...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Girlfriend's plea to missing man
The girlfriend of a man of 21 makes an emotional appeal for information after he vanished nine days ago...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Ruane faces 11-plus criticism
Education Minister Caitriona Ruane is criticised about plans to reform the way children transfer from primary school...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Teachers defend Standard Grades
Plans to phase out Standard Grade exams as part of a radical education overhaul are criticised by a teaching union...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Man jailed for teenager's murder
A painter and decorator found guilty of murdering an 18-year-old on a night out is jailed for at least 15 years...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
India boys 'shoot classmate dead'
A boy is shot dead by two fellow students at a school near the Indian capital, Delhi, police say...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
CIA boss faces tape interrogation
The director of the CIA is to appear before Congress amid a furore over the destruction of interrogation recordings...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
DR Congo rebels retake key town
Rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo retake territory lost last week in a major setback for the army...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Spacecraft chases highest clouds
Remarkable new images of Earth's highest and most mysterious clouds have been captured by a Nasa spacecraft...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Capello poised for England talks
Italian Fabio Capello, who has coached Real Madrid, Roma, Juventus and AC Milan, is set to meet the FA about the England job...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Mothers in 30s boost population
The UK's population is growing as more women have babies in their thirties, according to experts...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Woman killed after early release
A prisoner released early as part of plans to reduce jail overcrowding went on to murder his girlfriend five days later...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Mortgage costs squeeze owners
Home loans became even more expensive in October, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Diana driver 'did not seem drunk'
Princess Diana's driver Henri Paul did not seem drunk before the fatal car crash, a barman tells her inquest...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
'Dozens killed' in Algeria blasts
Dozens are feared dead as two bombs rock the Algerian capital, hitting a UN building and a bus full of students...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Play and learn 'vision' set out
More playgrounds, support for parents and a review of primary school tests are in a wide-ranging Children's Plan...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
40 Migrants Feared Dead on Boat
Around 40 African migrants were feared dead after their boat got into trouble on the way to Europe, before it managed to return to shore in Senegal, police said...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
Bombing Near Ayad Allawi?s Office
A suicide car bomber targeted offices of Iraq?s former prime minister and a Sunni lawmaker, speeding toward a checkpoint outside the buildings and killing two guards...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
Israeli Bulldozers Move into Gaza
About 30 Israeli tanks and bulldozers moved into the southern Gaza Strip in an operation against Palestinian militants, setting off clashes with Hamas fighters...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
Many Feared Dead in Algiers Bombings
At least 11 people were killed and many others injured in Algeria today after two car bombs exploded in the capital, according to APS, the country?s official new agency...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
Dmitri Medvedev Wants Putin as Prime Minister
Dmitry Medvedev, whose candidacy for Russian leader got President Vladimir Putin?s endorsement, suggested that Putin become prime minister after the election...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
JK Rowling reveals Beedle stories
JK Rowling reads her latest work - a series of fairy tales that will never be published - at an event in London...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Ask rolls out search privacy tool
Ask hopes a tool which erases search history will prove a winner with consumers concerned about privacy...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Post-14 education shake-up call
Big changes will be urged to cut the number of young people in Wales not in education or training...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Human evolution is 'speeding up'
Genetic evidence suggests humans have moved into the evolutionary fast lane and are becoming increasing different...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Body scans 'more harm than good'
Screening tests sold by private health insurers may pose a risk to health, a specialist warns...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
First-time buyers squeezed again
Mortgage affordability worsened again in October, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Brown to miss EU treaty ceremony
Gordon Brown is to miss the official EU treaty signing ceremony, but will travel to Lisbon and sign it later...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Nuclear plant given new lifeline
Hunterston nuclear power station will continue to operate, safeguarding hundreds of jobs...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Arrests in baby knife-threat case
Police make two arrests after a four-week-old girl was threatened with a knife during a burglary...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
100th death on NI roads in 2007
Roads in Northern Ireland claim 100 lives so far this year after a crash in County Armagh...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Thousands of staff details leaked
Thousands of staff have their personal details leaked after a Merseyside Primary Care Trust "accidentally" sent them out...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Egypt 'fabricated terror group'
Human Rights Watch says Egypt used torture to fabricate a high-profile terrorism case...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Karzai seeks more Afghan forces
Afghan President Hamid Karzai seeks more foreign help to build up his country's armed forces...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Cuba makes human rights promise
Cuba says it will sign key UN human rights agreements, as opposition activists are shouted down in Havana...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Medvedev says Putin should be PM
Russia's President Putin should become prime minister next year, his chosen successor Dmitry Medvedev says...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Sudan rebels 'attack oil field'
A Darfur rebel group says it has attacked and taken over a Chinese-run oil field in central Sudan...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Jayawardene puts Sri Lanka on top
Skipper Mahela Jayawardene hits an unbeaten 167 as Sri Lanka move 28 runs ahead of England after three days of the second Test...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Football: Bangura to be deported
Watford midfielder Al Bangura is set to be deported after losing his case at an immigration tribunal...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Teddy row leads to travel review
The Foreign Office will review its advice on travel to Muslim states after the jailing of a UK teacher in Sudan...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Tories oppose nationalising Rock
David Cameron says moves to nationalise troubled bank Northern Rock would be "a monumental failure"...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
UK pastor killed in Philippines
A British Baptist minister has been murdered in the Philippines, local press reports say...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Canoeist's wife held in custody
The wife of "missing" canoeist John Darwin is remanded in custody until 14 December on deception charges...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
MPs grill Smith on terror plans
Proposals to extend the limit on holding terrorism suspects without charge are being examined by MPs...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Thousands of driver details lost
Northern Ireland's Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency loses the details of more than 6,000 people on two discs...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Dozens killed in Algeria bombings
At least 47 people are killed as two bombs rock the Algerian capital, Algiers, hitting a UN building...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
World Briefing | Africa: Somalia: Islamists Take Town
Bule Burte, a strategic town in central Somalia, has fallen out of government hands, residents said, and a militia allied to the Islamist movement is in control. The militia forced out government troops after a clan-related dispute. Somalia?s Islamist movement was defeated a year ago by Ethiopian troops but has been making a resurgence recently. Somalia?s 72-year-old president, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, left a hospital in Kenya on Sunday for treatment in London...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
World Briefing | The Americas: Peru: Trial Opens; Fujimori Asserts Innocence
Former President Alberto K. Fujimori shouted his innocence on the first day of his trial in Lima on charges of using a death squad to kill leftist guerrillas and collaborators. ?I received a country almost in collapse, exhausted by hyperinflation, international financial isolation and widespread terrorism,? he said. ?My government rescued the human rights of 25 million Peruvians with no exceptions. If any detestable acts were committed, I condemn them, but they were not done on my orders. I reject the charges totally.?...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Greece: Nationwide Strike Today
Flights will be grounded, public services will shut down and urban transport is expected to come to a standstill today as Greek workers stage a nationwide strike against government-proposed changes to the social security system...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
World Briefing | The Americas: El Salvador: Iraq Mission Renewed
President Elías Antonio Saca said El Salvador would send a 10th contingent of 280 soldiers to Iraq next year to help with aid and reconstruction efforts there, according to The Associated Press...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
World Briefing | Middle East: Lebanon: Presidential Vote Enters Overtime
The Parliament speaker, Nabih Berri, announced the eighth postponement in the parliamentary election of a new president...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Britain: ?Missing? Man?s Wife Charged
John Darwin, the 57-year-old man who walked into a London police station this month claiming amnesia, more than five years after he was presumed to have drowned in a kayaking accident in the North Sea, appeared in court on fraud charges and was remanded into custody...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Dozens Die as Migrant Boat Sinks in Aegean
At least 51 would-be migrants drowned trying to cross from Turkey to Greece and the European Union when their boat sank in rough weather early Sunday, officials said...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
World Briefing | The Americas: Canada: Ottawa Mayor Charged
The police filed criminal charges against Mayor Larry O?Brien of Ottawa. Mr. O?Brien, a multimillionaire, is accused of offering an opponent cash and help with a federal appointment if he dropped out of the 2006 election. Legal scholars said Mr. O?Brien appeared to be the first mayor in modern Canadian history to face criminal charges related to his office...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
U.S. Joins Overseas Adoption Overhaul Plan
The Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption will establish, for the first time, federal oversight of adoption policies overseas...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
World Briefing | Asia: First Train Since 1951 Crosses Korean Border
The first regular train service between South and North Korea for more than 50 years crossed the heavily fortified border this morning, the South?s Unification Ministry said...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
World Briefing | The Americas: Cuba: U.N. Rights Pacts to Be Signed
Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque said Cuba would sign the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, in force since 1976...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
Man in the News: A Young Technocrat of the Post-Communist Era
The 42-year-old former academic from St. Petersburg endorsed by President Vladimir V. Putin as his successor is poised to become Russia?s youngest leader since Czar Nicholas II in 1894...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
Prosecutor Says Serbia Blocked Arrests in Killings
The two suspected leaders of a violent campaign of ethnic expulsions and killings, including the 1995 massacre of Muslims in the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica are still fugitives...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
Australia Shocked by Case of Raped Indigenous Girl
By Tim Johnston...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
Roles Swap in Argentina?s Palace as First Lady Takes Over
Néstor Kirchner, Argentina?s most popular president in decades, draped the light-blue-and-white sash over the shoulder of his wife, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
After 8 Years in Limbo, Frustrated Kosovo Awaits Its Future
Several thousand protesters took to the streets of this war-ravaged capital, waving Albanian and American flags and chanting, ?Independence now!?...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
Children Hurt in Pakistan Bombing
A suicide bomber drove a car full of explosives into a truck near an air force base. Five of the wounded were children...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
Gazans? Passage to Mecca Seen as an Insult to Abbas
Egypt and Saudi Arabia?s cooperation with Hamas to allow 2,000 people to leave Gaza last week for a pilgrimage to Mecca is causing local and international friction...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
Bloodshed in ?02 Shadows Indian Politician in Race That Tests Nationalist Party
Five years after more than 1,000 Muslims died during riots in the Indian state of Gujarat, the man who failed to stop the violence is struggling to keep his job as the state?s chief minister...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
Lawyers Cleared Destroying Tapes
A clandestine branch of the C.I.A. gave written approval in advance to the destruction in 2005 of hundreds of hours of videotapes documenting interrogations...
New York Times - December 11, 2007
Call for major education shake-up
Ministers are being urged to undertake a radical shake-up of Scottish education, BBC Scotland has learned...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Obesity 'raises gum disease risk'
The rise in obesity may be going hand-in-hand with increases in severe gum disease, research suggests...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Black jailed for six-and-a-half years
Ex-media mogul Conrad Black is sentenced to 78 months in prison for fraud and obstructing justice...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Indian flash-point goes to polls
India's western state of Gujarat holds its second elections since devastating riots in 2002...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Putin sees Medvedev as successor
Vladimir Putin backs First Deputy PM Dmitry Medvedev to replace him as Russia's president...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Rail link reconnects two Koreas
The first regular rail service for more than 50 years begins operating between North and South Korea...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Amazon contract rolls forward
Plans for a hydro-electric dam in the Amazon rain forest take a major step forward despite angry protests...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Mars robot unearths microbe clue
Nasa says its robot rover Spirit has made one of its most significant discoveries on the surface of Mars...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Live - Sri Lanka v England
Michael Vandort hits a century as Sri Lanka dominate on day three of the second Test against England...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Cuba in human rights promise
As Cuba agrees to sign up to key UN agreements on human rights, activists are shouted down in Havana...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
CIA man defends 'water torture'
A retired CIA agent tells ABC News that a top al-Qaeda suspect was subjected to "water-boarding"...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Scientists angry over funding gap
Leading UK physicists express anger over an £80m shortfall in funding for research over the next three years...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Police link Colorado gun attacks
US police investigating fatal shootings at two religious sites in Colorado believe the incidents are linked...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Canoeist's wife due before court
The wife of "missing canoeist" John Darwin is to appear in court charged with two counts of deception...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Plan for children being unveiled
Schools in England will be asked to offer more services to parents, under a 10-year government Children's Plan...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
Ambulance shake-up 'poses risks'
Fears are raised over a shake-up which will see more 999 ambulance calls answered by solo-response vehicles...
BBC News - December 11, 2007
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