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Global News Archive for August 2008:
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Georgians in America watch the violence back home
Khatuna Baghaturia has spent countless hours in the last week on the phone with relatives in her native country and watching the bloodshed on TV. The sight of Russian troops laying waste to Georgia was all the more horrifying because her three children are there now _ on vacation...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Fatal crash 3rd in 3 months for volunteer pilots
A small plane carrying a cancer patient to Boston went into a nosedive and crashed Tuesday in a grocery store parking lot, killing all three people on board, authorities said. It was the third fatal crash in as many months for a network of charities that ferry patients to medical treatment...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Report Iraq contracts have cost billions
The United States has spent $85 billion on military contracts in Iraq...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
3 dead after plane crash in Mass. parking lot
A small plane carrying a cancer patient to Boston went into a nosedive and crashed Tuesday in a grocery store parking lot, killing all three people on board, authorities said. It was the third fatal crash in as many months of a charity flight carrying a patient to medical treatment...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Attendant Osteens wife eyed cockpit after attack
A flight attendant suing the wife of megachurch evangelist Joel Osteen for 10 percent of her net worth told jurors Tuesday the woman attacked her without provocation...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Beckett outpitches Danks as Red Sox beat White Sox
Josh Beckett pitched eight strong innings and the Boston Red Sox beat the Chicago White Sox 5-1 Monday night even though John Danks took a no-hitter into the seventh...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Baby boy born to Mexican actors Luna, Sodi
Mexican actors Diego Luna and Camila Sodi are first-time parents to a baby boy...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Blobtown Movie memories revitalize a community
There is a man. He carries a can, and inside it is a weird, blood-red hunk of goo the size and consistency of a generous bowl of lumpy raspberry Jell-O...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Fabian to be honored by Jimmy Stewart museum
Fabian Forte will be honored by the museum dedicated to actor Jimmy Stewart...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Sheriffs department Hayes likely died of stroke
Authorities in Memphis say Isaac Hayes apparently died of a stroke...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Pelosi, Michelle Obama to kick off Dem Convention
Michelle Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will be the featured first-night speakers at the Democratic National Convention, which also will include a videotaped message from Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Denver wants delegates to see the old and the new
This frontier town turned modern city wants to put its best foot forward for the Democratic National Convention _ just not necessarily one wearing a cowboy boot...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Out of left field Manny goes missing, Dodgers win
The ninth inning was about to start and left field was empty. Manny Ramirez was missing...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Blake, Ramirez lead Dodgers over Phillies
Casey Blake hit a two-run homer and Manny Ramirez doubled home two more during a six-run third inning that carried Derek Lowe and the Los Angeles Dodgers to an 8-6 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday night...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Oil falls below $114 in Asia on stronger dollar
Oil prices fell Tuesday in Asia to a 3-month low as a stronger dollar and weakening crude demand from China weighed on investor sentiment...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
USDA raises corn estimates on ideal weather
Farmers are on pace to produce the second largest corn crop and fourth largest soybean crop in history, which may lead to lower prices for the key grains, the government said Tuesday...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
TJXs 2Q profits triple as shoppers seek bargains
TJX Cos., which operates the T.J. Maxx and Marshalls stores, said Tuesday that its second-quarter profits more than tripled from a year ago when the discount fashion retailer digested a charge for a widely publicized security breach...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
June trade deficit shrinks as exports climb
The U.S. trade deficit unexpectedly fell in June as exports advanced to an all-time high, offsetting another big surge in oil imports...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Recession? Eat, drink, smoke and be merry
As a global recession looms, what better way to cope than to eat, drink and be merry?...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Service honors Skip Caray, voice of Braves club
Skip Caray, the voice of the Braves for more than three decades, was remembered Monday for simple contributions like cracking jokes to players in the clubhouse and his cries of "Braves win!" during the 1995 World Series...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
McCains celebrity taunts are bugging Obama
In a presidential campaign freighted with war, recession and energy woes, a jibe featuring Paris Hilton, of all things, seems to have struck a nerve in Democrat Barack Obama...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Russia opens new front, drives deeper into Georgia
Russian tanks roared deep into Georgia on Monday, launching a new western front in the conflict, and Russian planes staged air raids that sent people screaming and fleeing for cover in some towns...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Service honors Skip Caray, voice of Braves club
Skip Caray, the voice of the Braves for more than three decades, was remembered Monday for simple contributions like cracking jokes to players in the clubhouse and his cries of "Braves win!" during the 1995 World Series...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Michael Phelps wins his 2nd gold of 2008 Olympics
Michael Phelps has his second gold of the Beijing games. It came in the 400-meter freestyle relay and he got the gold because of the performance of teammate Jason Lezak, who swam the anchor leg of the race. When Lezak dove into the pool for the last lap he was second to world-record holder Alain Bernard of France. He was still trailing with about 20 meters to go but from there the American turned on the afterburner. He made up the distance and finished 0.08 seconds ahead of Bernard...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Dalai Lama visits Buddhist institute, pagoda
The Dalai Lama skirted controversy over Tibet at the start of his 12-day trip to France on Tuesday, blessing a Buddhist institute and a temple, and offering a message of goodwill to China as the host of the Olympic Games...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
India security forces kill 13 Kashmiri protesters
Indian forces shot and killed at least 13 Muslim protesters on Tuesday as tens of thousands of people defied a blanket curfew in Indian Kashmir, the bloodiest day in nearly two months of unrest that has rocked this long-troubled Himalayan region...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Security forces kill 13 Kashmir protesters
Government forces fired at Muslim protesters for a second day Tuesday as demonstrators defied a curfew in Indian Kashmir, killing 13, police said...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Iraqi governor escapes injury in suicide blast
A female suicide bomber blasted an Iraqi convoy north of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing two people but narrowly missing a provincial governor in the second suicide attack by a woman in Diyala province in as many days...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Governor escapes injury in suicide blast
A female suicide bomber blasted an Iraqi convoy north of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing two people but narrowly missing a provincial governor in the second suicide attack by a woman in Diyala province in as many days...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
India yearns for Pakistans Musharraf amid turmoil
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, India misses you...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Taliban Open war in Pakistan as bomb kills 14
The Pakistani Taliban declared "open war" Tuesday in response to military offensives in the northwest, saying it staged a bombing that destroyed an air force truck and killed up to 14 people, including a child...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Warrior with AK-47 becomes cleric with pseudonym
Abu Ali has had enough of war. Nothing, he insists, can change his mind...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Russian soldier recounts Georgian ambush
Nikolai Badry, one of the first Russian soldiers to invade the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali last week, said he watched fellow soldiers fall to their deaths when Georgian artillery bombarded his convoy...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Heavy damage in Tskhinvali, mostly at govt center
Gutted and shrapnel-scarred buildings testify to fierce street battles and heavy rocket and bomb attacks in the separatist capital of South Ossetia. But there is little evidence civilians were specifically targeted by Georgian troops, as Russia claims...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Relief supplies arrive for Georgian, other victims
Relief agencies rushed aid Tuesday to thousands of refugees fleeing the violence in South Ossetia for neighboring Russia or other parts of Georgia, while those left behind cowered in rat-infested cellars or wandered nearly empty cities and villages...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Georgian village bombed as fighting neared an end
Living near a conflict zone has taught 70-year-old Vakhtang Chkhekvadze to sense danger...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
In France, Dalai Lama reaffirms Olympic support
The Dalai Lama sent China a message of good will for the Olympics and skirted the contentious issue of Tibet at the start of his 12-day visit to France on Tuesday...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Sharp 6.2 quake shakes sea floor near Vanuatu
A strong earthquake has struck near the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu, but there were no immediate reports of damage and no tsunami warning was issued...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Georgian conflict shows Russia calling the shots
Russia has made clear it calls the shots in this part of the world, a message other former Soviet bloc countries cannot ignore...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
4 die in shooting outside gelato shop in Germany
Four people were killed in a shooting at an Italian gelato shop in western Germany on Tuesday, police said. Shots rang out around 8 p.m., with one man killed outside the Eis de Rocco cafe in downtown Ruesselheim, southwest of Frankfurt, police said...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Puerto Rican statehood party seeks English ballots
A political party that favors making Puerto Rico the 51st U.S. state said Friday it will demand an English translation of a November ballot...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Gitmo hunger striker claims guards threatened him
A Guantanamo prisoner who has been on a hunger strike for three years claims U.S. guards recently threatened to kill him and took his legal papers, lawyers for the Saudi said Monday...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Venezuela eases price controls on food
Venezuela relaxed price controls on 15 foods ranging from bread to beef and removed controls from other products Tuesday in a bid to ease sporadic shortages in supermarkets...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
German ice-cream murders probed
German police launch a huge manhunt after four people are shot dead at an Italian ice cream parlour in a town near Frankfurt...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Oil price falls on lower demand
The price of oil falls to $113 a barrel after government figures show a sharp slowdown in US demand...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Court backs camp closures in SA
South Africa's high court allows the closure of camps for those displaced in xenophobic violence...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Armed police remain at siege house
Armed police surround a house where a man believed to be armed with knives is holding a young girl hostage...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Homes flooded as storm pump fails
Exceptional rainfall has caused the flooding of two properties in Warrenpoint, County Down, NI Water says...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Penny pinching
How inflation is hitting people across the UK...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Peaches Geldof weds in Las Vegas
Peaches Geldof has married her boyfriend Max Drummey in a Las Vegas ceremony, her publicist confirms...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Pyramids revamp aims to repel peddlers
Egypt's Giza Pyramids are being given a £14m makeover, starting with a state-of-the art fence to stop hawkers harassing tourists...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Cuellar seals £7.8m move to Villa
Aston Villa sign defender Carlos Cuellar for £7.8m from Rangers...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Boy, 13, faces firearms charges
A 13-year-old boy is charged with firearms offences after a converted gun and ammunition is found in south London...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Zimbabwe deal may omit Tsvangirai
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe agrees a power sharing deal without MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai, reports say...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Georgia and Russia agree on truce
Georgia and Russia agree an outline plan to end hostilities, following shuttle diplomacy by French President Nicolas Sarkozy...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Detroit mayor returns to court on 2nd bond issue
Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick returned to court Tuesday for a hearing to decide if he has violated his bail a second time...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Marines borrow hunting skills in combat training
The enemy hides among civilians on the urban battlefield, walking the same dusty streets and in the same crowded markets where Cpl. Derrick Terrell found himself during a yearlong deployment in Iraq...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Top Calif. judge faces backlash over gay marriage
California Chief Justice Ronald George has spent more than half his life cultivating an image of a cautious jurist and earning a reputation as a politically skilled court administrator...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Givenchy to help dress Madonna for her world tour
The upscale French fashion house Givenchy will help dress Madonna for her upcoming "Sticky & Sweet" world tour, a spokeswoman for the label said Tuesday...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Givenchy to dress Madonna in haute couture
French fashion house Givenchy says it is to dress Madonna for her upcoming "Sticky and Sweet" world tour...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
3 die as flight carrying patient crashes in Mass.
A small plane carrying a patient to Boston for medical treatment crashed Tuesday in a grocery store parking lot, killing all three people on board, authorities said...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Blake, Ramirez lead Dodgers over Phillies
Casey Blake hit a two-run homer and Manny Ramirez doubled home two more during a six-run third inning that carried Derek Lowe and the Los Angeles Dodgers to an 8-6 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday night...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Beckett outpitches Danks as Red Sox beat White Sox
Josh Beckett pitched eight strong innings and the Boston Red Sox beat the Chicago White Sox 5-1 Monday night even though John Danks took a no-hitter into the seventh...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Oil falls to $113 in Asia on stronger dollar
Oil prices fell Tuesday in Asia to a 3-month low as a stronger dollar and weakening crude demand from China weighed on investor sentiment...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
McCains celebrity taunts are bugging Obama
In a presidential campaign freighted with war, recession and energy woes, a jibe featuring Paris Hilton, of all things, seems to have struck a nerve in Democrat Barack Obama...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Oil falls below $114 in Asia on stronger dollar
Oil prices fell Tuesday in Asia to a 3-month low as a stronger dollar and weakening crude demand from China weighed on investor sentiment...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
TJXs 2Q profits triple as shoppers seek bargains
TJX Cos., which operates the T.J. Maxx and Marshalls stores, said Tuesday that its second-quarter profits more than tripled from a year ago when the discount fashion retailer digested a charge for a widely publicized security breach...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Recession? Eat, drink, smoke and be merry
As a global recession looms, what better way to cope than to eat, drink and be merry?...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Michael Phelps wins his 2nd gold of 2008 Olympics
Michael Phelps has his second gold of the Beijing games. It came in the 400-meter freestyle relay and he got the gold because of the performance of teammate Jason Lezak, who swam the anchor leg of the race. When Lezak dove into the pool for the last lap he was second to world-record holder Alain Bernard of France. He was still trailing with about 20 meters to go but from there the American turned on the afterburner. He made up the distance and finished 0.08 seconds ahead of Bernard...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Service honors Skip Caray, voice of Braves club
Skip Caray, the voice of the Braves for more than three decades, was remembered Monday for simple contributions like cracking jokes to players in the clubhouse and his cries of "Braves win!" during the 1995 World Series...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Russia opens new front, drives deeper into Georgia
Russian tanks roared deep into Georgia on Monday, launching a new western front in the conflict, and Russian planes staged air raids that sent people screaming and fleeing for cover in some towns...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Service honors Skip Caray, voice of Braves club
Skip Caray, the voice of the Braves for more than three decades, was remembered Monday for simple contributions like cracking jokes to players in the clubhouse and his cries of "Braves win!" during the 1995 World Series...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Dalai Lama visits French Buddhist site, pagoda
The Dalai Lama, trying to skirt controversy over Tibet during a 12-day trip to France, opened his visit with blessings at a Buddhist institute Tuesday...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Russian president halts military action in Georgia
Russian President Dmitri Medvedev ordered a halt to military action in Georgia Tuesday, saying it had punished Georgia and brought security for civilians and Russian peacekeepers in the breakaway South Ossetia region...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Russias Medvedev halts military action in Georgia
Russian news reports are quoting President Dmitri Medvedev ordering a halt to Russian military action in Georgia...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Diary shows Tojo resisted surrender till end
Japanese World War II leader Hideki Tojo wanted to keep fighting even after U.S. atomic bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, accusing surrender proponents of being "frightened," a newly released diary reveals...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
US mil Suicide bomber kills 2 Iraqis in Baqouba
The U.S. military says two Iraqis have been killed and at least six others wounded when a female suicide bomber struck a convoy carrying senior Iraqi officials in Baqouba...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Security forces kill 13 Kashmir protesters
Government forces fired at Muslim protesters for a second day Tuesday as demonstrators defied a curfew in Indian Kashmir, killing 13, police said...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Russia urges Georgia to pledge not to use force
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has told French President Nicolas Sarkozy that Georgia must pull its troops out of two separatist provinces and pledge not to use force again...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Taliban Open war in Pakistan as bomb kills 14
The Pakistani Taliban declared "open war" Tuesday in response to military offensives in the northwest, saying it staged a bombing that destroyed an air force truck and killed up to 14 people, including a child...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Dalai Lama visits Buddhist institute, pagoda
The Dalai Lama skirted controversy over Tibet at the start of his 12-day trip to France on Tuesday, blessing a Buddhist institute and a temple, and offering a message of goodwill to China as the host of the Olympic Games...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
India security forces kill 13 Kashmiri protesters
Indian forces shot and killed at least 13 Muslim protesters on Tuesday as tens of thousands of people defied a blanket curfew in Indian Kashmir, the bloodiest day in nearly two months of unrest that has rocked this long-troubled Himalayan region...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Spanish police seize 1.4 tons of cocaine, arrest 8
Spanish police acting on a tip-off from U.S. authorities have seized 1.4 tons of cocaine and arrested eight South American suspects, officials said Tuesday...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Dozens of Russian vehicles head toward key gorge
An Associated Press reporter has seen 135 Russian military vehicles, including tanks, driving toward a key gorge held by Georgian forces...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
UN to help offset high food and oil prices
The U.N. will provide $214 million in food assistance to 16 impoverished areas to help ease the effects of high food and oil prices, its food agency said Tuesday...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
US military Suicide bomber kills 2 in Baqouba
The U.S. military says two Iraqis have been killed and at least six others wounded when a female suicide bomber struck a convoy carrying senior Iraqi officials in Baqouba...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Warrior with AK-47 becomes cleric with pseudonym
Abu Ali has had enough of war. Nothing, he insists, can change his mind...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Georgia sues Russia for alleged ethnic cleansing
The Georgian security council says it has filed a lawsuit in the International Court of Justice for alleged ethnic cleansing...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Mummy fails to scare off Batman
Adventure film The Mummy is thwarted in its bid to become the UK's number one film by The Dark Knight...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Brown urges lasting Georgia peace
Gordon Brown calls for a lasting ceasefire in Georgia and a permanent solution to its dispute with Russia...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Dalai Lama begins visit to France
The Dalai Lama blesses a Buddhist institute as he begins a 12-day visit to France, due to last for most of the Olympics...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
BP shuts down Georgia pipelines
Energy giant BP says it has shut an oil and a gas pipeline that run through Georgia as a precautionary measure...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Mugabe honours head of elections
President Robert Mugabe awards a medal to Zimbabwe's election chief as power-sharing talks enter a third day...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Nasa Moonship flight target slips
Nasa has pushed back by a year its internal target date for flying the successor to the shuttle with the aim for a crewed mission now September 2014...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Israel 'proposes West Bank deal'
Israel offers the Palestinians a deal that would annex 7.3% of the West Bank and all of East Jerusalem, reports say...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
£2k sofa and TVs among AM claims
A £2,000 sofa down to a £2 bowl are among a list of expenses claims revealed by Welsh assembly members...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
'No foreigners' advert condemned
A sign advertising a house on the rental market as being "not available to foreigners" is condemned...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
In pictures
The greatest hits of former BBC chief Sir Bill Cotton...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Canoeist wife launches appeal bid
The wife of back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin is to appeal against her conviction and sentence...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Life for 'brutal' teenage killer
A teenager found guilty of murdering a man in a brutal attack in North Lanarkshire is jailed for life...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Battle for justice
Rape victim talks about her fight to get compensation...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Stark beauty
Images from readers' most moving memorials...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Man City boss calms Thaksin fears
Manchester City's executive chairman Gary Cook says the uncertainty around owner Thaksin Shinawatra does not pose any threat to the club's stability...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Here to stay?
The BBC's Hugh Pym analyses the rise in inflation...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Pound suffers as dollar rebounds
The dollar has hit a six-month high against the euro and its highest in almost two years against the pound...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Gnome with wanderlust returns home after world tour
A kidnapped garden gnome is returned to its owner with a photo album picturing him on a world trip...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Surgery ends Donald's Ryder hopes
Luke Donald will miss the Ryder Cup and the rest of the year's action after undergoing wrist surgery...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Jail term for 130mph motorcyclist
A biker who reached speeds of up to 130mph on an A-road through Wiltshire is sent to prison for 15 months...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Olympic ceremony star mimed
A girl who won national fame singing at the Olympics opening ceremony mimed while another girl sang, officials confirm...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
UK soldier dies in Afghan attack
A UK soldier is killed and two more are injured in a suicide bomb attack on a convoy in Afghanistan...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Torture theory in double murder
A Chinese man, stabbed to death along with his girlfriend in Newcastle, may have been tortured before he died...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Marines learn to hunt
The enemy hides among civilians on the urban battlefield, walking the same dusty streets and in the same crowded markets where Cpl. Derrick Terrell found himself during a yearlong deployment in Iraq...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Boston man remembers Calif. couple who vanished
Blaming a faulty memory, the man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller has repeatedly denied allegations of an alias-filled past and any link to a Southern California couple who disappeared 23 years ago...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Gay marriage ruling secures chief justices legacy
California Chief Justice Ronald George has spent more than half his life cultivating an image of a cautious jurist and earning a reputation as a politically skilled court administrator...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Mental disability groups protest Tropic Thunder
"Tropic Thunder" is pushing the envelope too far for groups representing the mentally disabled...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Creditor sues Ed McMahon, wife, over $250,000 loan
Ed McMahon is being sued by another creditor. Westmoore Lending of Huntington Beach, Calif., sued McMahon for more than $275,000 it says the pitchman and former "Tonight Show" sidekick owes from a 2006 loan...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Blake, Ramirez lead Dodgers over Phillies
Casey Blake hit a two-run homer and Manny Ramirez doubled home two more during a six-run third inning that carried Derek Lowe and the Los Angeles Dodgers to an 8-6 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday night...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Beckett outpitches Danks as Red Sox beat White Sox
Josh Beckett pitched eight strong innings and the Boston Red Sox beat the Chicago White Sox 5-1 Monday night even though John Danks took a no-hitter into the seventh...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Myers, Rollins lead Phillies past Pirates, 4-2
Brett Myers pitched 7 2-3 sharp innings, Jimmy Rollins had four hits and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-2 on Saturday night...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Oil falls to $113 in Asia on stronger dollar
Oil prices fell Tuesday in Asia to a 3-month low as a stronger dollar and weakening crude demand from China weighed on investor sentiment...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Oil falls below $114 in Asia on stronger dollar
Oil prices fell Tuesday in Asia to a 3-month low as a stronger dollar and weakening crude demand from China weighed on investor sentiment...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Michael Phelps wins his 2nd gold of 2008 Olympics
Michael Phelps has his second gold of the Beijing games. It came in the 400-meter freestyle relay and he got the gold because of the performance of teammate Jason Lezak, who swam the anchor leg of the race. When Lezak dove into the pool for the last lap he was second to world-record holder Alain Bernard of France. He was still trailing with about 20 meters to go but from there the American turned on the afterburner. He made up the distance and finished 0.08 seconds ahead of Bernard...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Service honors Skip Caray, voice of Braves club
Skip Caray, the voice of the Braves for more than three decades, was remembered Monday for simple contributions like cracking jokes to players in the clubhouse and his cries of "Braves win!" during the 1995 World Series...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
McCains celebrity taunts are bugging Obama
In a presidential campaign freighted with war, recession and energy woes, a jibe featuring Paris Hilton, of all things, seems to have struck a nerve in Democrat Barack Obama...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Russia opens new front, drives deeper into Georgia
Russian tanks roared deep into Georgia on Monday, launching a new western front in the conflict, and Russian planes staged air raids that sent people screaming and fleeing for cover in some towns...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Service honors Skip Caray, voice of Braves club
Skip Caray, the voice of the Braves for more than three decades, was remembered Monday for simple contributions like cracking jokes to players in the clubhouse and his cries of "Braves win!" during the 1995 World Series...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
4 killed in Kashmir Muslim protest over roadblock
Security forces fired bullets and tear gas Monday trying to stop marches by Kashmir Muslims protesting a road blockade by Hindus, leaving four people dead, including the leader of an alliance of nonviolent separatist groups...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Gazans line up outside banks as cash runs out
A severe cash shortage gripped the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Monday as tens of thousands of people were unable to withdraw money from banks in the poverty-stricken Palestinian territory...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Georgian exit leaves vacuum near Iranian border
The departure of 2,000 Georgian soldiers from Iraq leaves a question mark over the future of a series of checkpoints along smuggling routes near the Iranian border, forcing the U.S. to shuffle units to fill the vacuum...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Poland fires missile defense negotiator
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk dismissed the official leading talks with Washington on placing part of a U.S. missile defense system in the country, saying Monday his performance was not satisfactory...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Filipino rebels vow to leave occupied villages
Muslim rebels said they were pulling back from a dozen of occupied southern Philippine villages Tuesday after government forces began retaking them amid fierce fighting that has forced nearly 160,000 civilians from their homes...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Russia opens new front, drives deeper into Georgia
Russian tanks roared deep into Georgia on Monday, launching a new western front in the conflict, and Russian planes staged air raids that sent people screaming and fleeing for cover in some towns...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Russias Medvedev halts military action in Georgia
Russian news reports are quoting President Dmitri Medvedev ordering a halt to Russian military action in Georgia...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Bomb hits Pakistan military truck, up to 14 dead
A roadside bomb hit a Pakistan air force truck in a northwestern city Tuesday, killing as many as 14 people including a 5-year-old girl, as the military pounded insurgent positions in a nearby tribal region...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Bomb hits Pakistan air force vehicle, 14 dead
A roadside bomb hit a Pakistan air force truck in a northwestern city Tuesday, killing 14 people as the military pounded insurgent positions in a nearby tribal region...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Philippine rebels begin to leave occupied villages
Muslim guerrillas began withdrawing from several occupied southern Philippine villages Tuesday following fierce fighting with government troops that has displaced nearly 160,000 civilians during harvest time, officials said...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
NZ pie bakery fined for serving up metal shaving
A New Zealand bakery was ordered to pay more than 11,000 New Zealand dollars ($7,700) for selling a pie with a dangerous filling _ metal slivers...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Dalai Lama visits French Buddhist site, pagoda
The Dalai Lama, trying to skirt controversy over Tibet during a 12-day trip to France, opened his visit with blessings at a Buddhist institute Tuesday...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Russian president halts military action in Georgia
Russian President Dmitri Medvedev ordered a halt to military action in Georgia Tuesday, saying it had punished Georgia and brought security for civilians and Russian peacekeepers in the breakaway South Ossetia region...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
US mil Suicide bomber kills 2 Iraqis in Baqouba
The U.S. military says two Iraqis have been killed and at least six others wounded when a female suicide bomber struck a convoy carrying senior Iraqi officials in Baqouba...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
US military Suicide bomber kills 2 in Baqouba
The U.S. military says two Iraqis have been killed and at least six others wounded when a female suicide bomber struck a convoy carrying senior Iraqi officials in Baqouba...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Russia urges Georgia to pledge not to use force
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has told French President Nicolas Sarkozy that Georgia must pull its troops out of two separatist provinces and pledge not to use force again...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Campaign to silence dissent in West Bank, Gaza
A weeks-old clampdown on political opponents by the Islamic militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip and its rival Fatah in the West Bank has increased allegations of human rights abuses by security forces...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Dutch journalist killed in Russian bombing of Gori
The Dutch ambassador in Georgia says a Dutch TV correspondent was killed when Russians bombed the Georgian city of Gori overnight...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Tributes paid to BBC TV's Cotton
Sir Bill Cotton, the TV executive who oversaw some of the BBC's most popular shows in the 1970s, dies aged 80...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Ministers have 'frozen' housing
David Cameron condemns the government's "completely reckless" briefing that stamp duty could be temporarily axed...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Israel 'proposes West Bank deal'
Israel offers a deal which would give the Palestinians 93% of the West Bank, not including East Jerusalem, reports say...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Renewed violence in west China
Three security staff are stabbed to death in the latest violent incident in China's western-most region of Xinjiang...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
UBS in revamp as losses rack up
Swiss bank UBS says it will reorganise itself into three units, after announcing another set of sub-prime losses...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Protesters shot dead in Kashmir
At least seven people die after security forces open fire on thousands of Muslim protesters in Indian-administered Kashmir...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Death penalty after couple murder
The murders of a honeymoon couple prompt tougher planned sentences in Antigua for weapon crime...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Firebombs left in north of city
The Army is examining three incendiary devices which were discovered in north Belfast early on Tuesday...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Probe into S Africa drugs recall
South Africa launches an investigation after two TB drugs were withdrawn days after an Aids drug recall...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Harvest of death
Doctors struggle as millions die in remote DR Congo...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Sir Bill Cotton
The executive responsible for a 'golden age' of TV...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Feeling the pinch?
Our panel responds to the latest economic news...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Radio hogs
Tagging an iconic British mammal to learn its secrets...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Myth of counting
The dark arts of seeing how we're doing...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Thaksin could face League probe
Premier League chief Richard Scudamore insists he would be willing to subject Thaksin Shinawatra to the fit and proper person test...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
NHS neglects elderly depression
Close to two million older people may be denied treatment because depression is wrongly seen as a natural part of getting older, says a charity...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Hard-up anti-immigration firebrand Le Pen sells French HQ to Chinese
The French far-right National Front party is selling its party headquarters to a Chinese university, to pay off debts...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Delay 'likely' for school tables
As Key Stage 3 test results in England come out, a minister says marking delays are likely to delay publication of league tables...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
UK inflation up to 4.4% in July
The UK's inflation rate jumped to 4.4% in July, up from 3.8% in June and more than twice the government's target of 2%...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Russia 'ends Georgia operation'
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev orders an end to Russian operations against Georgia, the Kremlin says...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
GB's Florence claims canoe silver
David Florence secures Britain's first silver medal of the Beijing Olympics, their fourth overall, in the men's slalom canoe...
BBC News - August 12, 2008
Gay marriage ruling secures chief justices legacy
California Chief Justice Ronald George has spent more than half his life cultivating an image of a cautious jurist and earning a reputation as a politically skilled court administrator...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Feds say Stevens trial shouldnt move to Alaska
Two Alaska politicians facing federal indictments for their ties to a defunct oil field services company were subjects of court proceedings nearly 3,500 miles apart Monday...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Service honors Skip Caray, voice of Braves club
Skip Caray, the voice of the Braves for more than three decades, was remembered Monday for simple contributions like cracking jokes to players in the clubhouse and his cries of "Braves win!" during the 1995 World Series...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Laptop with traveler info likely stolen, returned
A laptop computer containing personal information from 33,000 travelers who applied to a program for bypassing airport security lines was probably stolen and returned, not just misplaced, investigators said Monday...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Blake, Ramirez lead Dodgers over Phillies
Casey Blake hit a two-run homer and Manny Ramirez doubled home two more during a six-run third inning that carried Derek Lowe and the Los Angeles Dodgers to an 8-6 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday night...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Beckett outpitches Danks as Red Sox beat White Sox
Josh Beckett pitched eight strong innings and the Boston Red Sox beat the Chicago White Sox 5-1 Monday night even though John Danks took a no-hitter into the seventh...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Creditor sues Ed McMahon, wife, over $250,000 loan
Ed McMahon is being sued by another creditor. Westmoore Lending of Huntington Beach, Calif., sued McMahon for more than $275,000 it says the pitchman and former "Tonight Show" sidekick owes from a 2006 loan...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Oil falls below $114 in Asia on stronger dollar
Oil prices fell Tuesday in Asia to a 3-month low as a stronger dollar and weakening crude demand from China weighed on investor sentiment...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Michael Phelps wins his 2nd gold of 2008 Olympics
Michael Phelps has his second gold of the Beijing games. It came in the 400-meter freestyle relay and he got the gold because of the performance of teammate Jason Lezak, who swam the anchor leg of the race. When Lezak dove into the pool for the last lap he was second to world-record holder Alain Bernard of France. He was still trailing with about 20 meters to go but from there the American turned on the afterburner. He made up the distance and finished 0.08 seconds ahead of Bernard...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
McCains celebrity taunts are bugging Obama
In a presidential campaign freighted with war, recession and energy woes, a jibe featuring Paris Hilton, of all things, seems to have struck a nerve in Democrat Barack Obama...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Myers, Rollins lead Phillies past Pirates, 4-2
Brett Myers pitched 7 2-3 sharp innings, Jimmy Rollins had four hits and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-2 on Saturday night...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Russia opens new front, drives deeper into Georgia
Russian tanks roared deep into Georgia on Monday, launching a new western front in the conflict, and Russian planes staged air raids that sent people screaming and fleeing for cover in some towns...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Service honors Skip Caray, voice of Braves club
Skip Caray, the voice of the Braves for more than three decades, was remembered Monday for simple contributions like cracking jokes to players in the clubhouse and his cries of "Braves win!" during the 1995 World Series...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Kabul bomb kills 3 civilians, wounds NATO soldiers
A suicide bomber rammed his car into a NATO convoy in Kabul on Monday, killing three civilians and wounding at least a dozen, officials said. Clashes and an airstrike in the south killed 25 militants and eight civilians held hostage by insurgents...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Philippine troops press assault on Muslim rebels
Philippine troops, backed by helicopter gunships, regained control of two southern villages from Muslim rebels Monday and pressed ahead with a massive assault to clear 13 others, officials said...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Poland fires missile defense negotiator
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk dismissed the official leading talks with Washington on placing part of a U.S. missile defense system in the country, saying Monday his performance was not satisfactory...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Russians seize key city, open second Georgia front
Russia captured the central city of Gori and its armored vehicles rolled deep into western Georgia on Monday, seizing a military base and several towns and opening a second front of fighting. Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said the Russian forces had effectively cut his country in half...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Bombing spree exposes ethnic divisions in China
Donkeys pulled melon-laden carts through the streets and women sold bowls of yogurt Monday in the market of this mostly Muslim city in a remote corner of China, the day after militant bombings left a dozen people dead...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Ousted Thai ex-PM heads back into Britain
Ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra returned to exile in London, jumping bail and saying Monday he could not expect a fair trial in his homeland on the corruption charges he faces...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Russia opens new front, drives deeper into Georgia
Russian tanks roared deep into Georgia on Monday, launching a new western front in the conflict, and Russian planes staged air raids that sent people screaming and fleeing for cover in some towns...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
4 killed in Kashmir Muslim protest over roadblock
Security forces fired bullets and tear gas Monday trying to stop marches by Kashmir Muslims protesting a road blockade by Hindus, leaving four people dead, including the leader of an alliance of nonviolent separatist groups...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Gazans line up outside banks as cash runs out
A severe cash shortage gripped the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Monday as tens of thousands of people were unable to withdraw money from banks in the poverty-stricken Palestinian territory...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Georgian exit leaves vacuum near Iranian border
The departure of 2,000 Georgian soldiers from Iraq leaves a question mark over the future of a series of checkpoints along smuggling routes near the Iranian border, forcing the U.S. to shuffle units to fill the vacuum...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Mexico announces anti-kidnapping reforms
Stung by the kidnap-killing of a 14-year-old boy, the Mexico City government on Monday announced a program of anti-crime reforms, including more citizen involvement...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Uribe backers submit re-election vote signatures
Supporters of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe delivered more than 5 million signatures, hauled in three trucks, to election authorities Monday calling for a referendum on whether he should be allowed to run for a third consecutive term...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Philippine rebels begin to leave occupied villages
Muslim guerrillas began withdrawing from several occupied southern Philippine villages Tuesday following fierce fighting with government troops that has displaced nearly 160,000 civilians during harvest time, officials said...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Filipino rebels vow to leave occupied villages
Muslim rebels said they were pulling back from a dozen of occupied southern Philippine villages Tuesday after government forces began retaking them amid fierce fighting that has forced nearly 160,000 civilians from their homes...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Bermuda Toxic materials erroneously sent to US
Bermuda is investigating why two containers filled with asbestos and radioactive material were accidentally shipped to New Jersey, a government official said Friday...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
US human rights envoy cancels SKorea trip
An American human rights envoy will not visit South Korea as planned this week, the U.S. Embassy said Tuesday after North Korea refused him permission to cross into a border city to inspect a joint-Korean industrial complex he has criticized for possible worker exploitation...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Detained Chinese activist says he escaped
A prominent Chinese Christian activist, detained while heading to a church service attended by President Bush during his Olympics visit, escaped from police and is in hiding, a rights group and his brother said Tuesday...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Bomb hits Pakistan air force vehicle, 11 dead
A roadside bomb hit a Pakistan air force bus in a northwestern city Tuesday, killing at least 11 military personnel and wounding 10, police said...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
NZ pie bakery fined for serving up metal shaving
A New Zealand bakery was ordered to pay more than 11,000 New Zealand dollars ($7,700) for selling a pie with a dangerous filling _ metal slivers...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Gay marriage ruling secures chief justices legacy
California Chief Justice Ronald George has spent more than half his life cultivating an image of a cautious jurist and earning a reputation as a politically skilled court administrator...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Feds say Stevens trial shouldnt move to Alaska
Two Alaska politicians facing federal indictments for their ties to a defunct oil field services company were subjects of court proceedings nearly 3,500 miles apart Monday...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Service honors Skip Caray, voice of Braves club
Skip Caray, the voice of the Braves for more than three decades, was remembered Monday for simple contributions like cracking jokes to players in the clubhouse and his cries of "Braves win!" during the 1995 World Series...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Laptop with traveler info likely stolen, returned
A laptop computer containing personal information from 33,000 travelers who applied to a program for bypassing airport security lines was probably stolen and returned, not just misplaced, investigators said Monday...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Beckett outpitches Danks as Red Sox beat White Sox
Josh Beckett pitched eight strong innings and the Boston Red Sox beat the Chicago White Sox 5-1 Monday night even though John Danks took a no-hitter into the seventh...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Creditor sues Ed McMahon, wife, over $250,000 loan
Ed McMahon is being sued by another creditor. Westmoore Lending of Huntington Beach, Calif., sued McMahon for more than $275,000 it says the pitchman and former "Tonight Show" sidekick owes from a 2006 loan...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Blake, Ramirez lead Dodgers over Phillies
Casey Blake hit a two-run homer and Manny Ramirez doubled home two more during a six-run third inning that carried Derek Lowe and the Los Angeles Dodgers to an 8-6 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday night...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
McCains celebrity taunts are bugging Obama
In a presidential campaign freighted with war, recession and energy woes, a jibe featuring Paris Hilton, of all things, seems to have struck a nerve in Democrat Barack Obama...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Myers, Rollins lead Phillies past Pirates, 4-2
Brett Myers pitched 7 2-3 sharp innings, Jimmy Rollins had four hits and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-2 on Saturday night...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Oil falls below $114 in Asia on stronger dollar
Oil prices fell Tuesday in Asia to a 3-month low as a stronger dollar and weakening crude demand from China weighed on investor sentiment...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Service honors Skip Caray, voice of Braves club
Skip Caray, the voice of the Braves for more than three decades, was remembered Monday for simple contributions like cracking jokes to players in the clubhouse and his cries of "Braves win!" during the 1995 World Series...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Michael Phelps wins his 2nd gold of 2008 Olympics
Michael Phelps has his second gold of the Beijing games. It came in the 400-meter freestyle relay and he got the gold because of the performance of teammate Jason Lezak, who swam the anchor leg of the race. When Lezak dove into the pool for the last lap he was second to world-record holder Alain Bernard of France. He was still trailing with about 20 meters to go but from there the American turned on the afterburner. He made up the distance and finished 0.08 seconds ahead of Bernard...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Kabul bomb kills 3 civilians, wounds NATO soldiers
A suicide bomber rammed his car into a NATO convoy in Kabul on Monday, killing three civilians and wounding at least a dozen, officials said. Clashes and an airstrike in the south killed 25 militants and eight civilians held hostage by insurgents...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Philippine troops press assault on Muslim rebels
Philippine troops, backed by helicopter gunships, regained control of two southern villages from Muslim rebels Monday and pressed ahead with a massive assault to clear 13 others, officials said...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Russia opens new front, drives deeper into Georgia
Russian tanks roared deep into Georgia on Monday, launching a new western front in the conflict, and Russian planes staged air raids that sent people screaming and fleeing for cover in some towns...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Russians seize key city, open second Georgia front
Russia captured the central city of Gori and its armored vehicles rolled deep into western Georgia on Monday, seizing a military base and several towns and opening a second front of fighting. Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said the Russian forces had effectively cut his country in half...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Bombing spree exposes ethnic divisions in China
Donkeys pulled melon-laden carts through the streets and women sold bowls of yogurt Monday in the market of this mostly Muslim city in a remote corner of China, the day after militant bombings left a dozen people dead...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Ousted Thai ex-PM heads back into Britain
Ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra returned to exile in London, jumping bail and saying Monday he could not expect a fair trial in his homeland on the corruption charges he faces...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Russia opens new front, drives deeper into Georgia
Russian tanks roared deep into Georgia on Monday, launching a new western front in the conflict, and Russian planes staged air raids that sent people screaming and fleeing for cover in some towns...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
4 killed in Kashmir Muslim protest over roadblock
Security forces fired bullets and tear gas Monday trying to stop marches by Kashmir Muslims protesting a road blockade by Hindus, leaving four people dead, including the leader of an alliance of nonviolent separatist groups...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Gazans line up outside banks as cash runs out
A severe cash shortage gripped the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Monday as tens of thousands of people were unable to withdraw money from banks in the poverty-stricken Palestinian territory...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Georgian exit leaves vacuum near Iranian border
The departure of 2,000 Georgian soldiers from Iraq leaves a question mark over the future of a series of checkpoints along smuggling routes near the Iranian border, forcing the U.S. to shuffle units to fill the vacuum...
Southern Ledger - August 12, 2008
Poland fires missile defense negotiator
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk dismissed the official leading talks with Washington on placing part of a U.S. missile defense system in the country, saying Monday his performance was not satisfactory...
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