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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 Octomber 2007:
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Colombian Leader Disputes Claim of Tie to Cocaine Kingpin
President Įlvaro Uribe of Colombia lashed out on Tuesday at claims in a new book that he had close ties to the late cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
Chinese Lawyer Recounts Abduction
A prominent human rights lawyer in Beijing says he was abducted, beaten and threatened last weekend by a gang of men who demanded that he and his family leave the city...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
Shiite Bloc Sharply Criticizes U.S. Outreach to Sunnis
Iraq?s largest Shiite political bloc said today that Sunnis from militant backgrounds should not be allowed into official police forces...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
Blackwater Chief Defends Employees Before House Panel
Erik Prince said that his company was the victim of ?a rush to judgment? by a Congressional committee looking into claims of reckless conduct in Iraq...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
Wallace and Gromit return to TV
Wallace and Gromit are set to return in a half-hour television adventure - the first since 1995's A Close Shave...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Tories pledge to cut immigration
Immigration levels under a Conservative government would be "substantially lower", David Davis says...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Ford leads drop in US car sales
Ford leads most carmakers in posting a drop in US sales as credit worries put consumers off making big purchases...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Driver hours curbs to be relaxed
Rules on lorry drivers' hours will be eased to help cope with the aftermath of the foot-and-mouth outbreak...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
'Enough is enough' crime message
Assembly members unanimously call for zero tolerance of crime and anti-social behaviour...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Victim sent coach intimate texts
A schoolgirl who claims she was forced into a sexual relationship with her tennis coach sent intimate texts, a court hears...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Iran college asks Bush to speak
An Iranian university invites George W Bush to visit, after Iran's president was jeered by US students last week...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Darfur rebels 'outgun' AU troops
The commander of the AU troops in Darfur says his force is outnumbered by rebels and militias...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Football: Arsenal win in Bucharest
Robin van Persie's late goal gives Arsenal victory against Steaua Bucharest in Romania...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Football: Rooney sinks Roma
Man Utd edge past Roma with Wayne Rooney scoring the decisive winner...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Rangers romp to victory in Lyon
Rangers make it two wins from two Champions League outings with an amazing victory in France...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Diver killed on U-boat expedition
A diver dies while on an expedition to assess a sunken WWII U-boat which lies 16 miles off the Donegal coast...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Bluetongue cases almost doubled
The number of confirmed cases of bluetongue in East Anglia almost double in three days...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
'Vigorous' Diana inquest promised
The Princess Diana inquest will be a "vigorous and searching inquiry", the coroner tells the opening day of the hearing...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Madeleine police chief removed
The Portuguese police chief leading the inquiry into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann is taken off the case...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Politicus: Assessing Russia?s Plans With a Rare Fortitude
A remarkable gauge of Russia?s new reality is coming from Nordic countries living close enough by to feel its potential for intimidation...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
Israel Frees More Palestinian Prisoners
Israeli officials described the prisoner release as a goodwill gesture to bolster the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
Maneuvering Before Vote in Pakistan
On Tuesday, Gen. Pervez Musharraf named a close ally to succeed him as army chief and opposition politicians resigned to protest the upcoming elections...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
U.N. Envoy Ends Myanmar Trip
The envoy, Ibrahim Gambari, met with both the leader of the military junta, General Than Shwe, and the leader of the democratic opposition, Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
Suicide Bomber Kills at Least 12 in Kabul
A suicide bomber attacked a bus carrying police officers and civilian employees of the Interior Ministry on Tuesday, killing at least 12 people, including at least one child, officials said...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
Korean Leaders Meet in Pyongyang
Roh Moo-hyun is only the second South Korean president to visit since the two Koreas were divided...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
Britain to Pull 1,000 Troops From Iraq
Prime Minister Gordon Brown, on a visit to Iraq, said the troops would be withdrawn by the end of the year...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
Blackwater Chief Faces House Panel
In a prepared statement, Erik Prince, the head of Blackwater USA, said his company was the victim of ?a rush to judgment? by a Congressional committee...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
Data row hits mobile mast website
The future of a website which details all the mobile phone masts in the UK is in doubt following a row over data...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Virus jab may help combat cancer
A vaccine for a common virus is being used to stimulate the body's immune system to attack cancer cells...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Private school to become academy
A third independent school in England is to join the state sector as an academy, it has been announced...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Hague outlines EU referendum plan
A referendum should be held every time a UK government wants to sign away powers to the EU, William Hague says...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Project 'will bring 20,000 jobs'
It is hoped 20,000 jobs will be created over 15 years in the Titanic Quarter, NI's largest ever building project...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Fake £20 notes gang sent to jail
A judge sentences a counterfeiting gang for a fraud that could have destabilised the economy...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Crash deaths driver 'showing off'
A teenager accused of killing four girls in his car was "showing off" after passing his test, a court hears...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Girl 'forced into sex with coach'
A schoolgirl claims she felt threatened into having a sexual relationship with her tennis coach, a court hears...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Ukraine rivals claim poll victory
Ukraine's Orange Revolution parties and their rivals both claim victory in polls, as a vote count nears completion...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
UK PM flies in for Baghdad visit
The British military force in Basra is to be cut by 1,000, Gordon Brown has said on his first visit to Iraq as PM...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Blackwater boss grilled over Iraq
The chairman of US private security firm Blackwater defends his company during a grilling by US lawmakers...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Football: FA to tackle dissent
The FA plans to step up its campaign against bad behaviour by launching a pilot scheme allowing only captains to talk to referees...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Football: Russian eyes Arsenal
Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov reveals he has long-term ambitions to take over the Gunners...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
BBC unearths new phone-in fake
A number of BBC staff are disciplined after a worker posed as a competition caller on Jo Whiley's Radio 1 show...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Bluetongue cases almost doubled
The number of confirmed cases of bluetongue in East Anglia have almost doubled since the weekend...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Menezes police 'poorly briefed'
Police who shot Jean Charles de Menezes on a Tube train wanted to stop him "at any cost", a court hears...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Israel admits air strike on Syria
Israel confirms for the first time that it carried out a strike on a Syrian military site almost a month ago...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Tory anger at Brown's Iraq visit
Gordon Brown is accused of "cynical pre-election politics" by the Conservatives over his visit to troops in Iraq...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Envoy Meets Myanmar Junta Leader
A United Nations envoy met with the leader of Myamar?s junta, according to a diplomat in Yangon, as authorities continued a crackdown...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
Pakistani Legislators Quitting
Opposition legislators submitted their resignations as part of their efforts to undercut President Gen. Pervez Musharraf?s re-election bid...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
Korean Leaders Meet in Pyongyang
Roh Moo Hyun is only the second South Korean president to visit since the two Koreas were divided...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
Suicide Bomber Targets Kabul Bus
A suicide bomber approached a bus carrying police officers and civilian employees of the Interior Ministry and blew himself up, killing at least 12 people...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
Spam weapon helps preserve books
A weapon used to fight spammers is now helping university researchers preserve old books and manuscripts...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Sabretooth's surprising weak bite
The sabretooth tiger may have had fearsome canines but its bite was relatively weak, say scientists...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
BSkyB criticised over ITV stake
BSkyB's purchase of a 17.9% stake in ITV restricts competition, a provisional ruling by regulators says...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Brown's 'insult to armed forces'
Liam Fox has launched a bitter attack on Gordon Brown's treatment of Britain's armed forces...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
'Secret' Lockerbie report claim
Lawyers for the Lockerbie bomber want a court to examine claims vital papers were kept from the defence...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Arrest made in dog walker murder
A man is arrested by police investigating the murder of a 24-year-old woman walking her dog in west Wales...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Titanic plan for 2,000 city homes
Planners give the go-ahead for a scheme which will provide 2,000 homes near the centre of Belfast...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
'Most wanted' sex offender found
One of the UK's most wanted child sex offenders is arrested in the Irish Republic after years on the run, say police...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Musharraf appoints army successor
Pakistan's former intelligence chief is named by President Musharraf to take over as head of the army...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Israel frees Gaza Strip detainees
Israel returns 29 Palestinian detainees to Gaza in an attempt to bolster President Mahmoud Abbas...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
FBI to investigate Iraq shootout
The FBI is to investigate the role of security firm Blackwater, following the killing of 11 Iraqis last month...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
UN warning on Cambodia tribunal
A UN report criticises the Cambodian administration of the Khmer Rouge tribunals and calls for changes...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
'Elders' in landmark Darfur visit
Archbishop Tutu leads a delegation of influential ex-statesmen to Darfur in Sudan to boost peace efforts...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Football: Keane backs Jol
Tottenham's Robbie Keane, whose side fought back from 4-1 down to draw with Aston Villa, says the players back under-fire boss Martin Jol...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Theme tune writer Hazlehurst dies
Ronnie Hazlehurst, the man behind some of TV's most memorable theme tunes, dies aged 79...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Envoy presses Burmese generals
A UN envoy meets Burma's detained opposition leader after talks with the junta on the recent violent crackdown...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Youth admits killing sister, 12
A 17-year-old boy admits shooting his 12-year-old sister in the head at their Greater Manchester home...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Diana and Dodi inquest begins
The inquest into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed opens 10 years after their Paris car crash...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
UK troops in Basra cut by 1,000
The UK military force in Basra is to be cut by 1,000, Gordon Brown says, on his first visit to Iraq as prime minister...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Nazi Suspect to Be Deported
Federal officials said Monday that they planned to deport an elderly German man living in Georgia who they said was a guard and dog trainer in Nazi death camps...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Turkey: Teenager Admits Killing Journalist
A 17-year-old accused in the shooting death in January of Hrant Dink, a prominent Turkish-Armenian journalist, admitted killing him at his trial in Ankara but expressed remorse and said he had been under the influence of the drug Ecstasy. The defendant, Ogun Samast, an unemployed high school dropout, also said he had been coerced by one of his co-defendants. He ended his testimony saying that he would not have killed Mr. Dink if he had known that the journalist had a family. Mr. Dink?s widow, daughter and brother were in the courtroom. A total of 18 suspects are on trial for the killing. The judge scheduled the next hearing for Feb. 11...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
Obama to Urge Elimination of World?s Nuclear Weapons
Senator Barack Obama plans to call on the U.S. to greatly reduce its stockpiles to lower the threat of nuclear terrorism, aides say...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
World Briefing | Africa: South Africa: Shock at Lion Homicide Ruling
Stunned South Africans sharply criticized an appeals court ruling that shortened the life sentence of a white farmer who had been convicted of murder for ordering the beating of a onetime black employee in 2005 and then throwing him to 20 rare white lions. The court in Bloemfontein cut Mark Scott-Crossley?s sentence to five years, saying the worker, Nelson Chisale, might have already been dead when the lions attacked...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Britain: London Police ?Failures? in Shooting
A Brazilian electrician, Jean Charles de Menezes, was mistakenly killed by the police in the aftermath of the failed terror attack in London in July 2005 because of ?fundamental failures? by the police, the prosecutor said at the opening of the trial of the department. The office of the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police is charged with failing to ensure that the public, and ultimately Mr. de Menezes, were not put at risk during the surveillance and pursuit of a suspected suicide bomber. After a report by the Independent Police Complaints Commission, prosecutors decided that no individual officers would be charged in connection with the killing. The prosecutor for the trial, Clare Montgomery, described a ?noisy and chaotic? operations room on the morning of July 22, a day after five men tried to detonate backpacks filled with explosives on the London transit system. ?The police planned and carried out an operation that day so badly that the public were needlessly put at risk, and Jean Charles de Menezes was actually killed as a result,? she said...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
World Briefing | The Americas: Ecuador: President Claims Victory
President Rafael Correa called for Congress to be dissolved and for limits to be removed on the government?s ability to spend oil revenues...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
World Briefing | The Americas: Canada: Acquittals in Tainted-Blood Trial
An American pharmaceutical company and four doctors were acquitted after an 18-month trial of criminal negligence charges stemming from tainted blood...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Austria: Man With Grenades at U.S. Embassy
The police said they arrested a man after he tried to enter the United States Embassy in Vienna with a backpack filled with explosives and nails. The suspect, 42, who has a Bosnian background and lived outside Vienna, ran away when the entrance metal detectors went off. He dropped the bag and was quickly arrested. Bomb specialists found two devices similar to hand grenades and other explosive material in the backpack, as well as nails. ?Had it detonated, it would have had an enormous shrapnel effect,? a police spokeswoman said. The suspect, she added, ?appears to be a bit confused.?...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: The Netherlands: Hirsi Ali Returns From U.S.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali by birth who became a member of the Dutch Parliament and was threatened with death for her anti-Islam writings, returned to the Netherlands after the Dutch government refused to continue paying for her bodyguards in the United States, the newspaper NRC Handelsblad reported. She had been under security protection since 2004. She moved to Washington last year to become a fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. The newspaper said that on her return she was taken to a safe house at an undisclosed location. A Justice Ministry spokesman said he could not comment on the arrangements...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
World Briefing | Europe: Germany: Mob Attacks Greeks in Berlin
The police said they had arrested 11 members of a mob that shouted xenophobic slurs and attacked three Greeks at a gas station in eastern Berlin over the weekend. A police spokesman said at least 13 attackers punched and kicked two Greek men while hurling insults at them for being foreigners. The attackers pushed and shoved the victims? Greek female companion but did not injure her. The attack occurred just weeks after a mob of 50 people shouting racial insults attacked eight Indians near Dresden...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
Report Details Shooting by Drunken Blackwater Worker
Within 36 hours, a report to a House committee said Monday, Blackwater fired the man for possessing a firearm while drunk and arranged with the State Department to fly him back to the United States...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
In Surprise, Oilman Admits Iraq Kickbacks
Oscar S. Wyatt Jr. pleaded guilty to paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal kickbacks to Saddam Hussein?s government in 2001 to gain access to lucrative Iraqi oil contracts...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
Politicus: Assessing Russia?s Plans With a Rare Fortitude
A remarkable gauge of Russia?s new reality is coming from Nordic countries living close enough by to feel its potential for intimidation...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
For Myanmar?s Neighbors, Mutual Needs Trump Qualms
The prospect of extracting resources appears to override the embarrassment and shame of dealing with a junta that has attracted worldwide condemnation...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
Momentum Seems to Build for an Independent Kosovo
The world powers that will help determine Kosovo?s fate are again pushing to separate it completely from Serbia despite continued resistance from the Serbs and the Russians...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
Afghan Insurgents Hang 15-Year-Old Accused as Spy
Taliban insurgents kidnapped a 15-year-old keymaker, accused him of being a spy for the Afghan and foreign authorities and hanged him, officials said...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
After Delays, U.N. Envoy Is to Meet Myanmar Leader
A United Nations envoy was to meet with the leader of Myanmar?s junta on Tuesday as authorities continued a crackdown after crushing huge peaceful demonstrations last week...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
Police Officials Suspended in Pakistan Over Battle With Lawyers
On Saturday, dozens of lawyers were beaten as they protested a bid for re-election by the president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
Rivals for Prime Minister Claim Victory in Ukraine
Leaders of the two main political parties in Ukraine both claimed victory on Monday but the vote appeared so tight that it could be many days before a new prime minister takes office...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
A Calm Voice From Embattled Eritrea
As the leader of a country teetering on the edge of officially becoming a pariah state, Isaias Afewerki, the president of Eritrea, seems fairly relaxed...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
Amsterdam Journal: A New Wave of Support for Anne Frank?s Ailing Tree
Tree lovers and admirers of Anne Frank are continuing efforts to contest a local decree requiring the felling of a large but ailing chestnut tree that gave Anne comfort...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
Israel Releases 57 Palestinians for Ramadan; More Set to Go
Israel freed 57 Palestinian prisoners on Monday, all residents of the West Bank, Israeli officials said, as a gesture to bolster the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
News Analysis: Peacekeepers as Targets: Darfur Attack Imperils Talks
The deadly attack on a peacekeeping base in Darfur late Saturday threatened to undermine fragile efforts by the U.N. and the African Union to forge a peace agreement...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
Iraqi Violence Ebbed in September, Reports Say
The number of violent civilian deaths in Iraq dropped precipitously in September compared with the previous month...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
Leaders of North, South Korea Meet
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il greeted South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun in Pyongyang on Tuesday...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
Suicide Bomber Targets Kabul Bus
A suicide bomber set off a blast in a bus carrying police officers in Kabul on Tuesday, killing or wounding at least 10 people in the second such attack in four days...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
Report Says Firm Sought to Cover Iraq Shootings
Employees of Blackwater USA have engaged in nearly 200 shootings in Iraq since 2005, according to a new report from Congress...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
Putin Says He Will Run for Parliament
President Vladimir V. Putin?s announcement seemed to confirm what many analysts had assumed: that he plans to hold on to the power he has accrued over eight years...
New York Times - October 2, 2007
'Worrying' HIV ignorance in young
Nine in 10 young people rarely or never think about HIV when making decision over their sex lives, a BBC poll shows...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Correa 'to shut' Ecuador Congress
Ecuador's president says he will dissolve the national Congress after taking an early lead in elections for a constituent assembly...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Football: Mask made for Terry
Chelsea's John Terry could face Valencia in Wednesday's Champions League game after having a protective mask made for his broken cheekbone...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
At-risk Post Office outlets named
The Post Office will name the first 180 of 2,500 branches earmarked to shut by the end of 2008...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Ten 'casualties' in Kabul attack
At least 10 people are killed or injured in the second suicide attack in the Afghan capital, Kabul, in four days...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Diana and Dodi inquest to begin
The inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed is to open 10 years after their deaths...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Korean leaders hold rare summit
North and South Korean leaders meet in Pyongyang for a summit, only the second since the Korean war...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Burmese FM blames 'opportunists'
Burma's Foreign Minister Nyan Win blames "political opportunists" for trying to escalate protests...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Tory plan to scrap early release
The Conservatives plan to scrap Labour's early prisoner release scheme, the shadow home secretary will say...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
Broadcaster Ned Sherrin dies
Ned Sherrin, who presented BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends for 20 years, dies aged 76 from throat cancer...
BBC News - October 2, 2007
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