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Global News Archive for April 2005:
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Berlusconi Fills New Cabinet With Familiar Faces
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi appointed a new cabinet on Saturday that included most of the same faces that had left office three days earlier after a crisis in the governing coalition...
New York Times - April 23, 2005
Rights Group Cites Rumsfeld and Tenet in Report on Abuse
A human rights group called for a special prosecutor to examine the conduct of Donald H. Rumsfeld and George J. Tenet in issues related to the abuse of detainees...
New York Times - April 23, 2005
E-Mail Exchanges Reveal More Bolton Battles
Recently declassified e-mail messages provide new details of animosity between John R. Bolton, the nominee for United Nations ambassador, and his staff and intelligence officials...
New York Times - April 23, 2005
Egyptian Campaigns in Limbo, Awaiting Election Rules
Egyptian opposition parties are waiting to see what the rules will be for the open election President Hosni Mubarak has promised for the fall as a step toward democracy...
New York Times - April 23, 2005
China and Japan Leaders Pledge to Improve Relations
The leaders of Japan and China pledged to improve ties Saturday after weeks of escalating disputes, easing tension but not resolving some critical problems...
New York Times - April 23, 2005
Turbulence on Campus in 60's Hardened Views of Future Pope
It was the protests of student radicals at Tübingen University that shaped the man who now leads the Roman Catholic Church...
New York Times - April 23, 2005
Abbas announces security shake-up
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas appoints three new security chiefs as part of efforts to root out corruption...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
Snooker: McManus beats Doherty
Alan McManus beats Ken Doherty 13-11 to progress to the quarter-finals of the World Championship...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
North and South Korea agree talks
North and South Korea agree to resume stalled dialogue, at their highest level talks for five years...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
Abigail suspect released on bail
A man arrested over the stabbing of Abigail Witchalls, who remains in intensive care, is released on police bail...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
Trial Opens in Madrid for 24 Accused of Aiding Qaeda Cell
The men, mostly Syrians and North Africans, were arrested from 2001 to 2003 and charged with terror ties...
New York Times - April 23, 2005
Trap-building ants torture prey
A fierce species of Amazonian ant is caught building elaborate traps on which it dismembers its hapless prey...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
Third Scream suspect is charged
Police in Norway charge a third man over the theft of artist Edvard Munch's masterpiece The Scream...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
Do you celebrate St George's Day?
England's patron saint is St George and his feast day is 23 April. How are you marking it?...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
Police treat city death as murder
Police say they believe a man whose body was found at a house in east Belfast was murdered...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
BNP launches election manifesto
The British National Party launches its election manifesto with a pledge to "abolish" multi-culturalism...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
Berlusconi forms new government
Italy's worst political crisis for four years ends as Silvio Berlusconi forms a new coalition government...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
US holds Iraq helicopter suspects
The US military says it has detained six Iraqi men suspected of shooting down a helicopter earlier this week...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
Hundreds bid to buy bits of Rover
Car companies from several countries have expressed an interest in buying parts of stricken UK firm MG Rover...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
London withdraws 2012 incentives
London's 2012 Olympic bid team retracts its incentives package following an IOC investigation...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
Football: Chelsea title in reach
Chelsea see off Fulham and all but seal their first league title for 50 years...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
Japan told to reflect on war past
China's president tells Japan to back up apologies for its wartime history with action, if it wants to settle tension...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
'Stray bullet' may have hit boy
A five-year-old Fermanagh boy who is critically ill in hospital may have been hit by a stray bullet, police say...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
Father's 'shock' over stab attack
The father of paralysed Surrey stabbing victim Abigail Witchalls appeals for help from the public...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
Acting legend Sir John Mills dies
Sir John Mills, one of Britain's best-known and best-loved actors, dies at home at the age of 97...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
Tories reveal election vote hope
The Scottish Conservatives will say they can enjoy success at Westminster by focusing on Holyrood's failings...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
Collector jailed over illegal gun
A World War II collector is jailed for four years after police find a working pistol he had displayed on a wall...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
Berlusconi talks on new cabinet
Italy's Silvio Berlusconi is set to hold talks with his allies in an attempt to form a new cabinet and avoid snap polls...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
Putin reassures Israel over Iran
President Putin reassures Israel that Russia's nuclear collaboration with Iran is of a "peaceful" nature...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
Nepal king in key Indian PM talks
India's premier and Nepal's king meet for the first time since the monarch seized direct power in February...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
Boy critical after mystery 'shot'
Police investigate whether a five-year-old boy critically injured in a school playground in Fermanagh was shot...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
Argentina jails 'dirty war' medic
Argentina jails a doctor who helped abduct babies born to political prisoners during the 'dirty war'...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
US to press for Moussaoui death
The US government says it will seek the death penalty for Zacarias Moussaoui over the 11 September 2001 attacks...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
US urges free and fair Togo poll
The US says it is "deeply concerned" about Sunday's presidential polls in Togo...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
Howard makes 'Blair lies' claim
Michael Howard accuses Tony Blair of "lying to win elections" as Labour urges "if you value it, vote for it"...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
Pope thanks media for coverage
Pope Benedict XVI thanks the media for shining a spotlight on the "historic" papal transition at the Vatican...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
Top brass cleared over Iraq abuse
Four top US officers, including Lt Gen Ricardo Sanchez, are cleared over abuses at Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
Four Top Officers Cleared by Army in Prison Abuses
Only one top officer, Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, has received any punishment for the abuse of detainees in Iraq...
New York Times - April 23, 2005
Kurds' Leaders Said to Attempt to Block Shiite
Some leading Kurdish political figures are trying to stall the formation of a new Iraqi government in an effort to force out the Shiite chosen as prime minister, officials say...
New York Times - April 23, 2005
Japan's Chief Apologizes for War Misdeeds
The prime minister of Japan offered the most public apology in a decade over Japan's wartime aggression in Asia...
New York Times - April 23, 2005
Power Struggle in Ecuador Static; Ex-Leader Is in Asylum Limbo
The fledgling government of President Alfredo Palacio says it will take its time to decide whether to permit the former president to leave the country for Brazil...
New York Times - April 23, 2005
Video Appears to Show Insurgents Kill a Downed Pilot
A video posted on the Internet included a sequence that showed the execution of a survivor from Thursday's helicopter crash in Iraq...
New York Times - April 23, 2005
As Senators Agree to Extend Hearings, Cheney Backs Bolton
Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee agreed to allocate two more weeks for their examination of John R. Bolton...
New York Times - April 23, 2005
Vitamin D 'aids lung cancer ops'
High levels of vitamin D have a positive impact on the success of lung cancer surgery, research suggests...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
Row over secret classroom filming
The NUJ attacks a secretly filmed documentary which shows pupils swearing, fighting and downloading porn...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
US police handcuff five-year-old
Three police officers might face legal action after handcuffing an unruly five-year-old at a Florida kindergarten...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
Kyrgyzstan probes Akayev's wealth
Kyrgyz authorities are to investigate businesses with alleged links to the family of ex-President Askar Akayev...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
Ex-Ecuador head attacks dismissal
Ecuador's ousted president says his removal was "unconstitutional", as he waits to go into exile in Brazil...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
Shoebomb plotter given 13 years
Briton Saajid Badat is jailed for plotting to blow up a US-bound passenger plane with a shoebomb...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
Police quiz couple over stabbing
Detectives continue to question a man and a woman arrested after the stabbing of Abigail Witchalls...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
Former PM Major becomes Sir John
Ex-prime minister John Major becomes a Knight of the Garter, England's highest honour for chivalry...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
Archbishop to meet Pope Benedict
The Archbishop of Canterbury is to attend Pope Benedict XVI's inauguration in Rome on Sunday...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
Parties targeting postal voters
Political parties will focus on their main messages as the final full week of general election campaigning approaches...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
Japan and China leaders to meet
Japan's Junichiro Koizumi will meet China's Hu Jintao on Saturday, in a bid to defuse a bruising bilateral row...
BBC News - April 23, 2005
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