Archive for February, 2008
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
LONDON, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- Two men have asked the European Court of Human Rights to order their DNA and fingerprints removed from the British police database.Read the full story
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) — A photograph circulating on the Internet of Democratic Sen. Barack Obama dressed in traditional local garments during a visit to Kenya in 2006 is causing a dustup in the presidential campaign over what constitutes a smear.Read the full story
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), several large earthquakes have shook Indonesia with the largest having a magnitude of 7.0.
The most recent quake had a magnitude of 6.9 and struck at 4:02 a.m. local time February 26, 150 kilometers (94 miles) south, southwest of Padang, Sumatra, Indonesia. The ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
US troops have stormed into the house of an Iraqi news editor working for Al-Forat TV and detained the journalist and his 19-year-old son.
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
FORT LAUDERDALE - The shooting death of a gay teenage boy who was
dressed in women's clothing is being investigated as a possible hate
crime, while detectives try to determine whether he was targeted
because of his sexual orientation.Read the full story
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
BELGRADE (AFP) - Rioters set fire to the US embassy in Belgrade on Thursday, before fighting Serbian police in pitched battles and looting shops, after an earlier huge but peaceful rally against Kosovo independence.Read the full story
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
WASHINGTON - CIA Director Michael Hayden acknowledged Thursday that two rendition flights carrying terror suspects refueled on British territory, despite earlier U.S. assurances that none of the secret flights since the Sept. 11 attacks had used British airspace or soil.Read the full story
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
19 percent:
President Bush’s latest approval rating, according to an American Research Group poll, down from 34 percent just one month ago. Seventy-seven percent of Americans disapprove of the job he is doing, and 79 percent disapprove of his handling of the economy.Read the full story
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
Cuban leader Fidel Castro told compatriots early today that he would not accept another term as president, throwing open the Communist-ruled island's leadership for the first time in nearly 50 years.Read the full story
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
LONDON - Credit Suisse shares got a lift on Monday following reports that the Qatar Investment Authority, a Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund, had begun its $15 billion spending spree in Europe and the U.S. with a stake in the Swiss bank. Read the full story
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