Archive for August 2nd, 2008

Palestinian infighting in Gaza escalates, 9 dead

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

Hamas forces on Saturday battled Fatah gunmen with mortars and machine guns in a crowded Gaza City neighborhood, leaving nine …

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Tape: Beheading suspect ate victim’s flesh

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

A police officer responding to a grisly beheading aboard a Canadian bus says on a tape that the attacker ate parts of his victim’s …

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Antigua murder: Groom Ben Mullany shows no signs of recovery

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

Honeymoon shooting victim Ben Mullany has undergone his first assessment by
British doctors.

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Troops in Afghanistan: ‘We were all in tears. It was like losing three brothers’

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

The platoon’s lead section had stopped in an alleyway between two compounds
when an Afghan man appeared from a side door and approached the troops.

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‘Rockefeller kidnapping’: FBI looks to Europe for clues to man who doesn’t exist

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

Not many Americans reach the age of 48 without a driving licence, a social
security number, a job or a single penny paid in tax.

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Nine killed, 95 hurt in Hamas-Fatah violence in Gaza

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

GAZA (Reuters) - Three Hamas policemen and six pro-Fatah gunmen were killed in the Gaza Strip on Saturday in the deadliest confrontation between the rival factions since Hamas seized control of the coastal territory a year ago.

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Beijing Olympics: IOC chief Jacques Rogges denies internet censorship deal with China

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

Jacques Rogge was forced to deny striking a deal with Chinese.

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Bin Laden driver could stay indefinitely at Gitmo

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

The commander of the Guantanamo Bay detention center said Saturday he has been researching new potential accommodations for Osama …

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Iran, on deadline day, vows no nuclear retreat

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said on Saturday it would not back down “one iota” in its nuclear row with major powers, voicing defiance on the day of an informal deadline set by the West over Tehran’s disputed atomic ambitions.

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Holocaust survivor, rescuer live like sisters

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

Janina Pietrasiak, 74, and Maria Lopuszanska, 79, live like sisters just around the corner from each other in a Warsaw neighborhood …

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