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Venus flytraps caught in shrinking natural habitat
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Hungary 4 dead, 26 injured in train collision
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Iraqi lawmaker urges resolution of minority issue
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Curfew in Indian Kashmir to prevent protest rally
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Kashmir police threaten to shoot curfew violators
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Supreme Court to open new term with heavy workload
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Congress hears Lehman sought millions for execs
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Designers play it safe as economy sours
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Jimmy Kimmel returns as American Music Awards host
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Global News Archive for February 2008:
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World Briefing | Middle East: Gaza: Israeli Army Clears Itself in 21 Deaths
The army said no legal action would be taken against military officials over an artillery strike in Beit Hanun in 2006 in which an errant shell hit residential buildings and killed 21 Palestinian civilians. An army investigation concluded that the shell was fired based on information that militants were intending to fire rockets from the area, an army statement said. The civilian deaths, it said, were ?directly due to a rare and severe failure? in the artillery control system. The army?s military advocate general concluded that there was no need for further investigation...
New York Times - February 27, 2008
World Briefing | Europe: Only One Parmesan, European Court Rules
The European Court of Justice ruled that only the sharp hard cheese that has been made for some 800 years near the Italian city of Parma can legally be called Parmesan. In a case dating to 2003, the court condemned Germany for allowing sales of imitation Parmesan in violation of European Union food origin rules. The German producers will now have to change the name of their cheese. The German dairy industry estimates German farmers produce some 10,000 tons of ?Parmesan? a year...
New York Times - February 27, 2008
World Briefing | Middle East: Israel: Court Backs Deal for Ex-President
The High Court upheld the plea bargain last year by which possible rape charges against former President Moshe Katsav, left, were dropped in exchange for his stepping down and pleading guilty to lesser charges. There has been fierce public criticism of the deal, and the court?s five-judge panel split 3 to 2 in its opinion. Chief Justice Dorit Beinisch was in the minority. The judges unanimously agreed that there was not sufficient evidence to charge Mr. Katsav with rape. Although Mr. Katsav has protested his innocence, he is to plead guilty to committing indecent acts without consent, sexual harassment of two women and harassing a witness. He faces a suspended sentence and payment of compensation, but no prison time...
New York Times - February 27, 2008
World Briefing | Africa: South Africa: Power Crisis Puts Jobs at Risk
The economic fallout from South Africa?s electricity crisis continued to reverberate as Gold Fields, the second largest gold producer, announced that it might cut up to 6,900 jobs, 13 percent of its work force, because of a 10 percent power reduction by the state utility, Eskom. It said its production would decline by 20 to 25 percent this quarter because of the power cuts. The National Union of Mineworkers, which represents 320,000 workers, said its members would ?take to the streets? if there were major job cuts...
New York Times - February 27, 2008
World Briefing | Middle East: Israel: Still Comatose, Sharon Turns 80
Ariel Sharon turned 80 at a medical center outside Tel Aviv, more than two years after he was rendered comatose after a stroke while prime minister. Dov Weisglass, formerly his top adviser, said there had been little change in his condition over the past year...
New York Times - February 27, 2008
Dan Shomron, Leader of Entebbe Airport Rescue, Is Dead at 70
Mr. Shomron was in command of the Israeli paratroopers in the 1976 hostage rescue at Entebbe International Airport in Uganda...
New York Times - February 27, 2008
World Briefing | The Americas: Argentina: ?Dirty War? Suspect Found Dead
A military officer linked to crimes during Argentina?s dictatorship was found dead, the second in three months...
New York Times - February 27, 2008
British Government Ordered to Release Notes on Iraq
Britain?s information commissioner has ordered the government to release the minutes of two cabinet meetings held in 2003 to discuss the legality of the allied invasion of Iraq...
New York Times - February 27, 2008
Qaeda Suspect Held in Earlier Attack on Bhutto
Pakistan has arrested a suspected Qaeda militant in connection with the bomb attack last October against the slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto...
New York Times - February 27, 2008
France Weighs Shifting Forces in Afghanistan
France may send hundreds of ground troops to eastern Afghanistan, where NATO-led forces are fighting insurgents backed by Al Qaeda...
New York Times - February 27, 2008
Britain Convicts 7 of Terrorist Training
One of the plot leaders, a 50-year-old Tanzanian-born preacher in a London mosque, called himself Osama bin London when first confronted by the police in 2004...
New York Times - February 27, 2008
Roadside Bomb Kills 6 in Afghanistan
A roadside bomb hit a vehicle carrying five policemen and a 3-year-old child in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing them all, officials said...
New York Times - February 27, 2008
North Korea Seeks a Clapton Concert
On Tuesday North Korean officials invited the superstar rock guitarist Eric Clapton to perform there, according to a representative for the North Korean Embassy in London...
New York Times - February 27, 2008
Advertising: Not Ready to Pay for TV Time, a Mexican Beer Goes Online
Pacifico takes its advertising to the Internet, spending about $15 million this year on its online initiative...
New York Times - February 27, 2008
Market Place: Russia Quietly Starts to Shift Its Oil Trade Into Rubles
The world?s second-largest oil-exporting nation after Saudi Arabia, has been quietly preparing to switch trading in Russian Ural Blend oil to the ruble from the dollar...
New York Times - February 27, 2008
U.S. Among Countries Investigating Tax Evasion
Following the lead of Germany and Britain, other countries say they will investigate whether some of their citizens were using banks in Liechtenstein to evade taxes...
New York Times - February 27, 2008
China Says It Will Resume Human Rights Talks With U.S.
The move appeared to be aimed at countering criticism from activists ahead of the Olympic Games in Beijing in August...
New York Times - February 27, 2008
Binding Emissions Treaty Still a Possibility, U.S. Says
A senior White House official on Tuesday outlined a new tactic aimed at convincing a skeptical Europe that the Bush administration would support a meaningful agreement to limit global warming...
New York Times - February 27, 2008
Ousted Premier Is Set to Return to Thailand, Officials Say
Seventeen months ago, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was overthrown in a military coup in Thailand...
New York Times - February 27, 2008
Yemen?s Marginalized Class
Set apart by their African features, the servants of Yemen, known as ?Al Akhdam,? form a kind of hereditary caste at the bottom of the country?s social order...
New York Times - February 27, 2008
Warrantless Searches Removed From Legislation in Mexico
Mexican lawmakers on Tuesday stripped a provision from their plan to overhaul the country?s judiciary that would have given police officers the ability to enter homes without obtaining warrants beforehand...
New York Times - February 27, 2008
Drug-Resistant TB Rates at Record Levels
Multiple-drug-resistant tuberculosis cases in parts of the former Soviet Union have reached the highest rates ever recorded...
New York Times - February 27, 2008
Iraq Cabinet Demands Turks Leave Kurdish Area in North
Turkish forces continued to battle Kurdish rebel bases on northern Iraq, prompting a condemnation from Baghdad...
New York Times - February 27, 2008
Senate Democrats Focus on Economic Cost of War
Congressional Democrats are trying to mount new lines of attack against the Bush administration?s policy in Iraq...
New York Times - February 27, 2008
Hints of Change Met by Cautious Eyes in Cuba
Raúl Castro seems inclined to govern more pragmatically than his more doctrinaire and romantic brother. Yet many Cubans say they see few signs of real change...
New York Times - February 27, 2008
Sea reptile is biggest on record
A fossilised "sea monster" discovered in the Arctic is the largest marine reptile on record, scientists say...
BBC News - February 27, 2008
Nepal ethnic group talks collapse
A leader of an ethnically based political movement in Nepal says talks with the government have collapsed...
BBC News - February 27, 2008
Jackson faces Neverland auction
Pop star Michael Jackson's Neverland ranch will go to auction next month unless he pays $24.5m he owes...
BBC News - February 27, 2008
'FBI fugitive' is innocent German
A couple filmed in Sicily are identified as German tourists and not a most-wanted FBI fugitive and his girlfriend...
BBC News - February 27, 2008
Tighter squeeze on drug dealers
Suspected drug dealers could have assets seized on arrest, rather than when charged, under a new strategy...
BBC News - February 27, 2008
Pair in DNA database legal battle
Two men are to appear before the European Court of Human Rights to try to get their DNA removed from the UK national database...
BBC News - February 27, 2008
Democrats clash in crucial debate
Democratic candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton attack each other's campaign tactics in their latest debate...
BBC News - February 27, 2008
Earthquake hits much of England
The biggest UK earthquake for nearly 25 years is felt across large parts of England...
BBC News - February 27, 2008
FSA sees big changes for banks
The Financial Services Authority says the credit crisis will force banks to change how they do business...
BBC News - February 27, 2008
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