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Global News Archive for Octomber 2007:
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US, Iraqi Forces Detain Militia Fighters
BAGHDAD (AP) -- U.S. and Iraqi forces, backed by Polish army helicopters, swept through Shiite militia strongholds south of Baghdad on Saturday, rounding up dozens of militants and killing two. The prime minister met the provincial governor, who called for reinforcements to root out ''the criminals.''...
New York Times - October 20, 2007
Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese Architect Who Pioneered Organic Structures, Dies at 73
Mr. Kurokawa, one of the youngest founding members of Japan?s Metabolist movement, died on Oct. 12 in Tokyo...
New York Times - October 20, 2007
Wired Youth Aim to Stir Peers and Sway Poland?s Vote
A text message spread between cell phones imploring Polish youths to steal their grandmothers? IDs highlights the power conservative older women have at the polls...
New York Times - October 20, 2007
Divided Korea Paralyzes Families Torn Apart Long Ago
Thousands of South Korean families are still waiting to hear from loved ones taken to North Korea as prisoners during the Korean War over a century ago...
New York Times - October 20, 2007
Two Killed in Gaza Fight Between Clan and Hamas
A 13-year-old boy was one of two people killed in fighting between the Hamas police and a Gaza clan aligned with the Fatah movement. In addition, 20 were wounded...
New York Times - October 20, 2007
Investigations Test Olmert?s Power
A swarm of investigations has raised questions about Prime Minister Ehud Olmert?s leadership and integrity...
New York Times - October 20, 2007
Iran?s Nuclear Envoy Resigns; Talks in Doubt
The chief negotiator?s resignation signaled that Iran may have closed the door to a possible negotiated settlement...
New York Times - October 20, 2007
News Analysis: In Pakistan Quandary, U.S. Reviews Stance
A political meltdown in Pakistan, where Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and nuclear weapons are all in play, could be a disaster for the Bush administration...
New York Times - October 20, 2007
In Myanmar, Fear Is a Constant Companion
Beneath the ominous calm that has settled since the recent uprising is anger, uncertainty and hopelessness...
New York Times - October 20, 2007
McGuinness will meet IRA victims
Deputy First Minister, Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness, is to meet people injured or bereaved by IRA violence...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
Football: Rangers win derby
Nacho Novo fires a brace for Rangers as they ease to a deserved victory in the first Old Firm game of the season at Ibrox...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
Thousands flee amid Congo clashes
Thousands of people flee fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo amid fears of a humanitarian crisis...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
Hamilton starts second in Brazil
Britain's Lewis Hamilton starts second in Sunday's Brazilian Grand Prix, Felipe Massa takes pole...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
Football: Arsenal maintain record
Kolo Toure and Tomas Rosicky score the goals as Arsenal stay top of the Premier League with a win against Bolton...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
Mass protest in Italy over rights
Tens of thousands of people from across Italy march in Rome to demand work and pension reforms...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
England defeated in World Cup final
South Africa end England's reign as rugby union world champions with a controlled 15-6 victory in Paris...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
Roadside Bomb Kills 3 Shiites in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A roadside bomb exploded near a minibus full of Shiite civilians on Saturday, killing at least three people and wounding nine as they went to visit relatives south of Baghdad, police said. U.S.-led forces raided houses in search of Shiite extremists elsewhere in the volatile area...
New York Times - October 20, 2007
2 Killed in Gaza Fight Between Clan and Hamas
JERUSALEM, Oct. 20 ? Two more Palestinians died today, including a boy, 13, and more than 20 were hurt in continued fighting between the Hamas police and a Gaza clan aligned with the Fatah movement...
New York Times - October 20, 2007
Iran?s Chief Nuclear Negotiator Resigns
Ali Larijani was to meet with a U.N. envoy Tuesday, but a spokesman said his successor would go to Rome instead...
New York Times - October 20, 2007
Syria Shuts Last Official Exit From Violence for Iraqis
Syria has closed its borders to Iraqis and imposed new visa rules that will legally require 1.5 million Iraqis currently in Syria to return to Iraq...
New York Times - October 20, 2007
Lenders reject Darling's attack
Mortgage lenders have hit back at accusations that they are responsible for the rapid rise in house prices...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
Arrest after flat 'arson' attack
A pregnant woman and her two children were taken to hospital as 20 people were evacuated from flats after a suspicious fire...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
Bradford tops green cities league
Once industrial Bradford is Britain's greenest city while Brighton is the most sustainable, a survey says...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
Poots at GAA council conference
DUP MLA and Culture Minister Edwin Poots addresses a gaelic sports conference in east Belfast...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
Talabani chides Syria over Kurds
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani criticises Syria for backing possible Turkish strikes against Kurdish rebels...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
Gorbachev sets up Russia movement
The leader of the former Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, sets up a new political movement in Russia...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
Congo rebel leader denies losses
DR Congo rebel leader Laurent Nkunda has dismisses a claim that over 1,000 of his men had defected...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
Burma lifts curfew on main cities
Burma's military rulers lift curfews in Rangoon and Mandalay, imposed amid protests led by monks...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
F1: Hamilton to start second
Britain's Lewis Hamilton will start second in Sunday's Brazilian Grand Prix as he bids to become the first driver to win the title in his debut season...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
Ant and Dec profits go to charity
TV presenters Ant and Dec will donate profits from their next series of Saturday Night Takeaway to charity...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
NI politician held in murder probe
Protesters gather outside a police station where a former assembly member is held in connection with a murder...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
Pay-out for bogus abuse woman
A woman who falsely accused her father of rape after a discredited form of therapy receives a pay-out...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
Karachi 'bomber' photo released
Police issue a photo of the man they say tried to kill Pakistan's ex-PM Benazir Bhutto, with huge loss of life...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
Roadside Bomb Kills 3 in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A roadside bomb exploded near a minibus south of Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least three people and wounding nine, police said...
New York Times - October 20, 2007
Bomb Kills 7 in Southwestern Pakistan, Police Say
A bomb ripped through a bus parked at a terminal in southwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing seven people and wounding six others, police said...
New York Times - October 20, 2007
Iranian Nuclear Negotiator Resigns
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- The Iranian government announced Saturday that its top nuclear negotiator had resigned, a move seen as a victory for hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that could bring about an even tougher stance in ongoing talks...
New York Times - October 20, 2007
JK Rowling outs Dumbledore as gay
Harry Potter author JK Rowling reveals one of her characters, Hogwarts school head Albus Dumbledore, is gay...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
Parents to fight school closures
Parents plan protests against Wales's biggest school closure programme, with 29 primaries due to shut...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
Former MLA held in murder probe
The Progressive Unionist Party's Billy Hutchinson is one of seven held in an inquiry into a boy's murder...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
Three killed in motorway pile-up
Three people are killed and six others are injured when a lorry and six cars crash on the M62 in East Yorkshire...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
Bomb blast in south-west Pakistan
At least seven people have died in a bomb blast in south-western Pakistan's Balochistan province, police say...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
England fans march on Paris
Up to 60,000 England fans are packing the streets, bars and cafes of Paris ahead of the Rugby World Cup final...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
Seven charged over 'voting fraud'
Seven people will face a court on charges relating to postal ballot fraud in Bradford at the last election...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
MP will not face assault charges
No charges are being brought against an MP arrested by police after he was accused of assaulting his wife...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
Iran's nuclear negotiator resigns
Ali Larijani, Iran's top nuclear negotiator, quits amid reports of growing differences with the president...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
World Briefing | Asia: Japan: 4 U.S. Marines Suspected of Raping Hiroshima Woman
The police in Hiroshima are investigating four United States marines from the nearby Iwakuni Air Station on suspicion of raping a 19-year-old woman...
New York Times - October 20, 2007
World Briefing | Asia: India: 5 Rare Lions Electrocuted
Five rare Asiatic lions were found electrocuted on the edge of Gir National Park in western Gujarat...
New York Times - October 20, 2007
World Briefing | The Americas: Venezuela: Che Monument Destroyed
A glass monument to the guerrilla leader Che Guevara on an Andean mountain highway near Mérida was destroyed less than two weeks after it was unveiled...
New York Times - October 20, 2007
World Briefing | The Americas: Mexico: 24 Suspected Migrants Found Dead on Coast
The bodies of two dozen people washed ashore in southern Mexico after emergency officials received reports that a boat carrying Central American migrants had capsized in the Pacific...
New York Times - October 20, 2007
World Briefing | Asia: China Slows Rail Freight to North Korea
The move is apparently in anger over Chinese trains missing in North Korea, where they are sometimes disassembled and sold as scrap metal...
New York Times - October 20, 2007
Haditha Charges Pressed in 2 Cases
A Marine Corps general on Friday ordered criminal charges to proceed to separate courts-martial for a former battalion commander and an enlisted man involved in a battle in Haditha in 2005, in which 24 Iraqis died...
New York Times - October 20, 2007
World Briefing | The Americas: Honduras: Gunmen Kill Radio Commentator
Carlos Salgado, a popular Honduran radio commentator known for his satirical program that often touched on politics, was shot six times, twice in the head...
New York Times - October 20, 2007
Bush Imposes New Sanctions on Myanmar
President Bush imposed new financial sanctions against Myanmar on Friday, freezing the United States assets of 11 additional members of the military government...
New York Times - October 20, 2007
Transit Strike in Second Day
Only about one-third of long-distance services and about half of the Paris subway trains were in service on Friday, the second day of substantial transportation disruptions...
New York Times - October 20, 2007
Bolivian Airport Is Wrested From Government Troops
Thousands of residents of Bolivia?s wealthiest province seized control of the country?s busiest airport on Friday from troops sent in by President Evo Morales...
New York Times - October 20, 2007
Fearing Crime, Japanese Wear the Hiding Place
Japanese fashion designers are devising a variety of novel solutions that they hope will ease growing fears of crime...
New York Times - October 20, 2007
The Saturday Profile: A Font of Commentary Amid Japan?s Taciturn Royals
A cousin of the emperor, Prince Tomohito of Mikasa has never shied away from offering his personal opinions and publicly sharing his thoughts on the burdens of royalty...
New York Times - October 20, 2007
World Bank Report Puts Agriculture at Core of Antipoverty Effort
A new World Bank report crystallizes an emerging view that foreign aid for agriculture is crucial to development...
New York Times - October 20, 2007
France?s Former First Lady Admits Affair and Says Life in Public Eye Isn?t for Her
The day after an announcement that President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife had divorced, Mrs. Sarkozy was on the front page of a French regional newspaper telling her side of the story...
New York Times - October 20, 2007
Blast at Mall Kills 8 in Philippines
Eight people were killed and as many as 130 others wounded Friday when a powerful explosion ripped through a shopping mall in Manila...
New York Times - October 20, 2007
After Bombing, Bhutto Assails Officials? Ties
The opposition leader Benazir Bhutto said she had warned the Pakistani government that suicide bomb squads were going to go after her on her return to the country...
New York Times - October 20, 2007
Backstage, U.S. Nurtured Pakistan Rivals? Deal
The violence that greeted Benazir Bhutto?s return to Pakistan has raised questions about whether a tenuous power-sharing deal with President Pervez Musharraf can survive...
New York Times - October 20, 2007
Look where the target is pointing
Mike Baker looks at what the government's latest targets say about the direction of education policy...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
New nerves grown from fat cells
New nerves grown from stem cells taken from a patient's fat could be available by 2011, say researchers...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
Doctors back alcohol label call
Leaders of the British Medical Association Scotland call for better labelling on alcohol...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
Inmate numbers outstrip capacity
The number of prisoners in England and Wales hits a new high for the fourth week running...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
Kurds 'will fight Turkish raids'
Massoud Barzani, leader of the Kurdish area of Iraq, says Kurds will defend themselves in the event of a Turkish raid...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
G7 calls for stronger China yuan
G7 finance ministers say China should allow its currency, the yuan, to rise more quickly to ease inflation pressures...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
England targeting historic victory
Defending champions England aim to seal a miraculous recovery with victory over favourites South Africa in Saturday's World Cup final...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
Ancestry website offers DNA tests
A family history website launches a new service to help track down people's unknown relatives with DNA tests...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
Lib Dem hopefuls head-to-head
The two Lib Dem MPs to put themselves forward for next party leader are going head to head at a conference...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
Two marines to face Haditha trial
Two US marines are to face a court martial in connection with the killing of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha in 2005...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
Bhutto determined to contest poll
Ex-Pakistani PM Benazir Bhutto says she will never surrender to militants and will contest elections in January...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
Oceans 'soaking up less CO2'
Scientists say there has been a worrying drop in the amount of CO2 soaked up by the world's oceans...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
Task force targets metal thefts
A police task force is being set up in England to tackle the "explosion" in thefts of metal for sale as scrap...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
Airmen punished for nuclear error
The US Air Force disciplines 70 airmen after a B-52 flew across the US loaded with nuclear missiles...
BBC News - October 20, 2007
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