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Madonna, Ritchie granted preliminary divorce
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Shuttle gives space station a mile-high boost
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Congo refugees suffer shooting, rape, looting
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Italian premiers political party OKs merger plan
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Iraqi Shiites burn Bush effigy in anti-US protest
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Iraq Shiites burn Bush effigy in anti-US protest
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Blast kills 8 mourners at Pakistani funeral
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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China 19,000 victims identified from May quake
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Obama keeps low profile in auto rescue talks
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Global News Archive for June 2005:
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Rumsfeld Speaks Cautiously on Strength of Insurgency
WASHINGTON, June 26 - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld insisted today that United States-led forces were making significant progress in Iraq, but he spoke with deliberate caution about how long and forcefully insurgents were likely to resist and noted that such resistance movements can last a dozen years...
New York Times - June 26, 2005
Rights Groups Fault White House for Jailing of Terror Suspects
A new study charges that the administration has twisted the system of due process in jailing at least 70 terror suspects since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001...
New York Times - June 26, 2005
Iran's President Says He'll Move Forward With Nuclear Program
Iran's conservative president-elect, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, insisted today that the program was a matter of national pride...
New York Times - June 26, 2005
Israel Approves Plans to Build Community for Settlers Who Stay
Israel's cabinet approved plans for a community to accommodate Jewish settlers who remain opposed to being removed from the Gaza Strip...
New York Times - June 26, 2005
Rapper crushes Frog in chart race
An unreleased track by late rapper Tupac Shakur has pushed Crazy Frog off the top of the UK singles chart...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Cabinet set for Lib Dem reshuffle
The Scottish cabinet is set for a shake-up as new Lib Dem leader Nicol Stephen reshuffles his party's team...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Progress on cancer target 'slow'
Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt will warn NHS managers they must renew efforts to meet key cancer targets by the end of the year...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Jerusalem gay march ban set aside
A Jerusalem court rules that the city's annual gay parade should take place next Thursday as originally scheduled...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Pakistan's top court in rape case
Pakistan's Supreme Court will shortly open hearings in a gang rape case that has caused international outrage...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Cockbain replaces banned Grewcock
Wales lock Brent Cockbain will replace the suspended Danny Grewcock in the Lions squad...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Tennis: Federer heads round four
Roger Federer takes on Juan Carlos Ferrero on a day when all 16 fourth-round singles matches take place...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Boxing: Hatton 'should be wary'
Ricky Hatton should fear the challenge of Floyd Mayweather...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Gaza clashes as demolitions begin
Israeli settlers clash with soldiers in Gaza during work to dismantle buildings ahead of the planned withdrawal...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
ID card database 'not for sale'
The Home Office denies a report UK citizens' personal details could be sold to fund the introduction of ID cards...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Presenter Richard Whiteley dies
Richard Whiteley, the host of quiz show Countdown, dies just days after undergoing heart surgery...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Troops Will Carry General's 'Common Sense' Rules on Wallet-Size Cards
American troops in Iraq are getting a new list of dos and don'ts on how to behave in the war zone from their top ground commander...
New York Times - June 26, 2005
Turkey's Growing Sex Trade Snares Many Slavic Women
Turkey, with its now booming economy and lax visa requirements, is becoming the world's largest market for Slavic women...
New York Times - June 26, 2005
Star Wars creator launches new HQ
Star Wars creator George Lucas opens a high-tech base for his film and video game empire...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Brown pledges 100% poverty relief
A deal on 100% debt relief for the world's poorest countries can be secured at the G8 summit, the chancellor claims...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Two arrested after death near pub
Police interview two men after a man dies outside a Swansea city centre pub on Saturday night...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Norman denies link with Morrisons
Former Asda boss Archie Norman says he has no plans to join the board of struggling supermarket Morrisons...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Zimbabwe lives 'won't be risked'
Failed asylum seekers will not be returned to Zimbabwe if the government believes they are at risk, says a minister...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Socialists win Bulgaria election
The opposition Socialists win most votes in Bulgaria's election, but not enough to form a government...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Freed hostage tells of killings
An Australian who was held hostage in Iraq has described the murders of two fellow detainees in the same room...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Body of teenager is found in lake
Police recover the body of a teenager who had been missing after going for a swim in a County Fermanagh lake...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Disney's Tigger voice dies at 82
Ventriloquist Paul Winchell, who was the voice of Tigger in Disney's Winnie the Pooh films, dies aged 82...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
England win clinches final place
England reach the NatWest Series final with a five-wicket win over Bangladesh at Headingley...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
'No progress' on maternal deaths
The UN warns that too little is being done to cut maternal mortality in the developing world...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Iran to maintain nuclear policy
Iran's newly elected hardline president says his government will carry on with the country's nuclear programme...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Two children killed in flat fire
A girl and a boy die as a fire sweeps through a flat in south-west London...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Clean wards 'rank above choice'
A BMA survey finds cleaner hospitals are well above greater choice in the public's priorities for health spending...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Hewitt defends paramedic plan
Plans to treat some medical emergencies at home will not put lives at risk, says Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Glastonbury boss rues flooding
Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis is to look at ways to avoid the flooding that disrupted the festival...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Smart home dream could be for all
More "digital plumbing" companies are starting up to make homes smarter...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
HIV drugs block malaria in tests
Powerful drugs used to treat HIV also block malaria, researchers say they have shown for the first time...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
'Lip-stitching' police suspended
Seven police officers in Pakistan are suspended over allegations that a prisoner's lips were stitched up...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Teenager missing after night swim
A search operation is under way at a Fermanagh lake for a teenager missing after he went for a swim...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Concern on Clywch report progress
A year after a report into abuse at a south Wales school, there are fears its advice has not been acted upon...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
EADS finally names its new bosses
Airbus owner EADS names Noel Forgeard and Thomas Enders as its new joint chief executives, ending months of reported boardroom wrangling...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Iran to maintain nuclear policy
Iran's newly elected hardline president will not change the country's nuclear policy, says a foreign ministry official...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Angry Woodward calls for review
Lions coach Sir Clive Woodward says the process of citing players should be reviewed in the wake of Saturday's controversial first Test...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Tennis: Murray caution urged
Top coach Nick Bollettieri says Andy Murray needs the right team around him...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Guantanamo conditions 'better'
US lawmakers touring Guantanamo Bay prison say there has been progress on the treatment of detainees...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Church leader joins poverty rally
Roman Catholic leader Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor will lead an anti-poverty march this week...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
ID cards 'will not make us safer'
Government plans for ID cards are in turmoil ahead of a Commons vote, says shadow home secretary David Davis...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Blasts hit Mosul security forces
At least 25 people die in three suicide attacks on a military base, a police station and a hospital in northern Iraq...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Kazakh President Takes Steps to Ensure an Easy Re-election
President Nursultan Nazarbayev has been churning out repressive laws that will curtail the rights of protesters and religious groups...
New York Times - June 26, 2005
Straw's nuclear warning to Iran
Foreign Secretary Jack Straw urges Iran's new hard-line president to address concern over its nuclear programme...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Home treatment paramedics planned
Paramedics could soon treat patients in their own homes, saving many a trip to the accident and emergency department...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Probe into fatal fire continues
A woman is fighting for her life as investigations continue into a fire that left three children dead...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Coral heads top 100 private firms
Betting firm Coral Eurobet is named the top selling private firm in the UK in a list produced by The Sunday Times...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Boxing: Magnificent Mayweather
Arturo Gatti is stopped after six rounds of his WBC light welterweight defence against Floyd Mayweather...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
China says no to yuan revaluation
China's Prime Minister Wen Jiabao says he will not speed up the flotation of the Chinese currency, the yuan...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Bomb targets Madrid Olympic venue
A car bomb explodes outside a sports stadium in Madrid which is part of Spain's Olympic bid...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Euan Blair accepts US internship
The prime minister's eldest son accepts an internship in the US working for a Republican-dominated committee...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Stars join anti-poverty campaign
Entertainment stars including singer Daniel Bedingfield and actor Billy Boyd join July's anti-poverty rally...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Colombia troops killed in ambush
Farc guerrillas in Colombia ambush an army convoy and attack a military base, killing at least 24 soldiers...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Thomas takes on Lions captaincy
Gareth Thomas will take over captaincy of the Lions following Brian O'Driscoll's shoulder injury...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Ministers insist Zimbabwe is safe
The government says Zimbabwe is safe for failed asylum seekers, despite mounting protests...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Coldplay win over festival fans
Glastonbury fans give their approval to Coldplay as the band pay tribute to Kylie Minogue...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
Tsunami remembered six months on
Countries across Asia commemorate six months since the disaster, which claimed 200,000 lives...
BBC News - June 26, 2005
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