Friday, November 30, 2007

AUSTRIAN POST WANTS TO EXPAND TO BALKAN REGION
Sofia Echo, Bulgaria - 1 hour ago
Austrian postal operator Oesterreichische Post wants to have a presence in all Balkan countries within the next 15 months, chief financial officer Rudolf ...
Austrian Post Wants to Invest in Bulgaria international.news.bg
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Monsters and Critics.com
UK troops ready for Kosovo crisis
Guardian Unlimited, UK - 7 hours ago
Britain yesterday offered to be the first Nato country to send extra troops to Kosovo within weeks, as the Conservatives and Balkan experts warned of a ...
Cameron tries to win over Washington Guardian Unlimited
David Cameron: Army must halt Russia threat Telegraph.co.uk
British Conservative Party leader talks with Bush about Iran International Herald Tribune
The Press Association - Guardian Unlimited
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Balkan Boat Madness
Bangkok Recorder, Thailand - 5 hours ago
Bright Ears invites you to join Bangkoks unique Balkan Boat Madness tonight. “THE BALKAN PIRATES” will take you on a trip, starting from modern sounds of ...
Balkan drug ring smashed
Kathimerini, Greece - Nov 29, 2007
Greek and Croatian police yesterday claimed to have broken a major drug-smuggling ring in the Balkans following the seizure of 160 kilos of cocaine bound ...
Caribbean and Latin American packages at IFFK 2007
Hindu, India - 8 hours ago
Another major attraction of the festival is a selection of Balkan films. The package is noteworthy for the varied reactions of directors to internal ...
14 films to compete in IFFK 2007Hindu

World

KATU
Turkish plane crash kills all 56 on board
Reuters Canada - 1 hour ago
By Mert Ozkan ISPARTA, Turkey (Reuters) - A Turkish budget airliner crashed in the mountains near the town of Isparta in central Turkey on Friday, killing all 56 people on board, officials said.
The CNN Wire: Friday, Nov. 30 CNN
Plane Crash in Turkey Kills All 56 Onboard Deutsche Welle
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Canada.com
Musharraf Sets Date for End of Emergency Rule
New York Times - 5 hours ago
BKBangash/AP Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf gave an emotional speech after he was sworn in as the country's civilian president today in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Ex-leader Sharif to boycott Pakistani elections USA Today
Musharraf says he will lift state of emergency by Dec. 16 Boston Globe
Houston Chronicle - Voice of America - Bloomberg - Guardian Unlimited
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Brisbane Times
Another Philippines Coup Plot Fails
TIME - 8 hours ago
Rebel Philippine soldiers stand guard after seizing control of Manila’s luxury Peninsula Hotel , 29 Nov. 2007. The Philippines, in recent weeks, has been battered by typhoons and tropical storms that threatened to cause widespread devastation but never ...
Rebel officers surrender in Manila International Herald Tribune
Philippine coup fails as troops storm hotel Guardian Unlimited
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BBC News
Talks over teddy row sentence
Guardian Unlimited - 5 hours ago
High-level diplomatic negotiations are set to continue over the 15-day prison sentence given to a British teacher for naming a teddy bear Mohammed.
British Teacher in Sudan Sentenced to 15 Days in Jail Voice of America
UK Teacher Sentenced to 15 Days in Sudanese Jail (Update1) Bloomberg
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24dash
Harman implicates Brown
Guardian Unlimited - 7 hours ago
Harriet Harman and Gordon Brown on the day she was elected his deputy. Photograph: Stephen Hird/Reuters Harriet Harman, the Labour deputy leader, was forced to implicate Gordon Brown deeper into the donor scandal last night as Scotland Yard was called ...
Brown Faces UK Police Probe Into Funding of His Labour Party Bloomberg
Poll woe for Brown as police start funding probe Reuters UK
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Bernama
Putin's 'Jackals'
Wall Street Journal - 4 hours ago
By ANDREAS UMLAND The campaign for Russia's parliamentary elections this Sunday is nasty and tense. Garry Kasparov, the former chess champion and leader of the Other Russia coalition, found himself jailed for five days earlier this week after ...


KETV.com
Bin Laden Urges Europeans to Stop Helping US in Afghanistan
Voice of America - 9 hours ago
By VOA News An audio recording purportedly from al-Qaida terrorist network leader Osama bin Laden urges European countries to stop helping the US military with the war in Afghanistan.
Bin Laden: Message to the European Peoples ThreatsWatch.Org
Bin Laden: Europeans should end US help The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com
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Washington Post
George W. Bush: Diplomat
TIME - 12 hours ago
The greatest sign of hope for peace in the Middle East didn't come on Nov. 27 in Annapolis, Md., when President George W. Bush convened a new round of Arab-Israeli talks.
ANALYSIS-Rice stakes reputation on Mideast peacemaking Reuters
Annapolis Over: What Does This Mean for Olmert? ABC News
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LIVENEWS.com.au
Venezuelans protest, as vote nears
CNN - 7 hours ago
CARACAS, Venezuela (CNN) -- One day after demonstrators thronged the Venezuelan capital's main thoroughfare to express their opposition to Sunday's referendum on changes to the constitution, supporters of President Hugo Chavez plan to hold their own ...
Chavez opponents show force in referendum rally Reuters
Chavez rallies supporters for Sunday's vote Houston Chronicle
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RussiaToday
Slovak Police Say Seized Radioactive Material Was Uranium
Voice of America - 8 hours ago
By Stefan Bos Officials in Hungary and neighboring Slovakia say police have detained three suspects who were in possession of material enriched enough to be used to make a so-called "dirty bomb.
Seized uranium had potential to build nuclear bomb International Herald Tribune
Gang arrested trying to sell enriched uranium Times Online
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Caribbean360.com
Briton dies during Caribbean quake
Guardian Unlimited - 2 hours ago
A British citizen has died during an earthquake in the eastern Caribbean, the Foreign Office confirmed. The magnitude-7.4 earthquake was centred 14 miles north-west of Martinique's coastline and lasted longer than 20 seconds.
Strong quake hits Martinique, leaves at least one dead: officials AFP
Powerful Earthquake Hits Caribbean Island Sofia News Agency
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Malaysia Star
Sarkozy vows reform and no handouts to lift economy
Reuters - 10 hours ago
By Jon Boyle and Swaha Pattanaik PARIS (Reuters) - President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday he was intent on reform to boost France's economy and raise living standards, but that there was no money left in state coffers for huge cash handouts.


Washington Post
Lebanese Opposition Leader Backs Army Chief for President
New York Times - 5 hours ago
By THANASSIS CAMBANIS and NADA BAKRI BEIRUT, Lebanon, Nov. 29 - The political logjam over Lebanon’s vacant presidency was broken Thursday when a leader of the Syrian-backed opposition announced his support for the compromise candidate accepted by the ...
Lebanon to delay vote again, army chief in focus Reuters
A leader for Lebanon Los Angeles Times
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Turkish Press
Sri Lanka says to bomb Tigers till 'terrorism' ends
Reuters - 18 hours ago
COLOMBO, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka will continue to attack Tamil Tiger rebel positions until Tiger "terrorism" is completely defeated, the prime minister told parliament on Thursday, a day after two separate explosions rocked the capital Colombo.


Liverpool Champion
Rudd Confirms
Wall Street Journal - 4 hours ago
By RACHEL PANNETT CANBERRA, Australia -- Incoming Prime Minister Kevin Rudd unveiled his ministry team, confirming Wayne Swan as treasurer and Lindsay Tanner as finance minister, and naming Simon Crean as trade minister and Stephen Smith as minister of ...
New leader names Cabinet By Michael Keats Washington Times
Gillard's super-ministry a 'very ambitious task' ABC Online
Taipei Times - Voice of America - NEWS.com.au - International Herald Tribune
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Reuters AlertNet
Climate conference to start Monday
USA Today - 7 hours ago
By Patrick O'Driscoll, USA TODAY A year of rising world concern about climate change will peak next week when representatives of more than 180 nations meet in Indonesia to establish a strategy in the battle against global warming.
INTERVIEW-China says will curb emissions if gets tech help Reuters
Cutting a Climate Deal. TIME
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eFluxMedia
NATO Airstrike Kills 14 Afghans
New York Times - Nov 28, 2007
By ABDUL WAHEED WAFA KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 28 - A NATO airstrike killed 14 workers for an Afghan company that had been contracted by the United States Army Corps of Engineers to build a road in Nuristan, a mountainous province in eastern Afghanistan ...
NATO air-strike kills 12 Afghan civilians: governor Reuters
NATO strike kills 14 road workers, Afghans say San Francisco Chronicle
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Chosun Ilbo
Uranium enrichment remains a hurdle for US-North Korean relations
Christian Science Monitor - 14 hours ago
Despite more subdued diplomacy, the US continues to accuse North Korea of hiding a uranium enrichment program. By Donald Kirk | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Seoul, South Korea - A flurry of official traffic between Washington, Seoul, ...
US expects full North Korean nuclear disclosure soon International Herald Tribune
US nuke envoy: N. Korea must disarm by end of 2008 USA Today
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Washington Post
Knox: I'm 'afraid ... confused'
Seattle Post Intelligencer - 3 hours ago
By ANDREA VOGT PERUGIA, Italy -- Two days after her roommate was slain, University of Washington student Amanda Marie Knox wrote a letter to her mother explaining that, though she was rocked by the killing, she wanted to continue her studies in Italy.
Meredith suspects fight detention BBC News
Student murder suspects in court Guardian Unlimited
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CityNews
Phone did not kill bloke
Inquirer - 46 minutes ago
By Nick Farrell: Friday, 30 November 2007, 8:16 AM A BLOKE, who authorities believed had been killed by an exploding mobile phone, was accidentally bumped off by a colleague.
S Korean police: death over mobile explosion a "phony" Xinhua
Korean man killed by co-worker, not exploding phone Cnet Asia