Tuesday, December 4, 2007

World

Edmonton Journal
The Teddy Bear Tumult's Legacy
TIME - 2 hours ago
Alfred de Montesquiou / AP Four days after she was spared the lash but jailed by a Sudanese court for insulting Islam, British schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons received a presidential pardon Monday and was deported from the country.
Teddy Bear Tyranny Washington Post
Sudan’s President Pardons British Teacher New York Times
Voice of America - USA Today - Wall Street Journal - Guardian Unlimited
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The Age
The Fallout from the Iran Nukes Report
TIME - 1 hour ago
Anyone following the Iran nuclear issue via the presidential debates might have been shocked to learn Monday that the US intelligence community now believes that Iran stopped its nuclear weapons program four years ago, and is unlikely to have restarted ...

Malaysia Star
Putin Basks in Election Win Despite Broad Criticism
New York Times - 2 hours ago
Misha Japaridze/AP Members of Nashi, a pro-Kremlin youth group, celebrated in Moscow Monday after an overwhelming victory by President Vladimir V. Putin’s party, United Russia, in Sunday’s elections.

radiojamaica.com
Chavez revolution takes hit in election
Los Angeles Times - 1 hour ago
Crime, shortages, student opposition combine to help erode support for the Venezuelan president. His constitutional reform plan is narrowly defeated.
How Solid Was Hugo Chavez's Base? TIME
Chavez's Defeat Leaves Opposition Seeking More Common Ground Bloomberg
Chicago Tribune - San Jose Mercury News - Independent - Baltimore Sun
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Canada.com
Bhutto, Sharif sit down in Pakistan
Los Angeles Times - 1 hour ago
The opposition rivals begin strategizing for an election they say Musharraf will try to fix. Protests could be modeled on Ukraine's peaceful Orange Revolution.
Pakistani Rivals Threaten Boycott of Elections New York Times
Pakistan opposition mull list of poll demands Reuters South Africa
Financial Times - BBC News - Times Online - Independent
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
Blast at NATO convoy near Kabul airport hurts civilians
Reuters Canada - 1 hour ago
By Hamid Shalizi KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide bomber rammed a car into a convoy of NATO forces close to the airport in the Afghan capital on Tuesday, wounding 10 Afghan civilians, a police official said.
US Says al-Qaida a Worry in Afghanistan The Associated Press
Suicide attack in Afghan capital as US defence chief visits AFP
Xinhua - New York Times - Bloomberg - NDTV.com
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NDTV.com
Q&A: Bali climate change conference
Guardian Unlimited - 6 hours ago
Delegates from over 180 countries are meeting in Bali this week to begin negotiations on a new international climate change agreement.
Climate talks heat up in Bali, focus on Kyoto Protocol replacement Ars Technica
Can Climate Change Without US Involvemment? ABC News
CQPolitics.com - Reuters India - Reuters UK - NewsHour Extra
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Voice of America
President Bush Launches New Partnership to Help Palestinian Youth
Voice of America - 9 hours ago
By Meredith Buel The Bush administration has launched a new partnership between the US government and the private sector to help provide economic opportunities for Palestinian young people.
Top Israeli downplays target date for peace Chicago Tribune
Mideast Peace Deadline Depends on End to Violence, Olmert Says Bloomberg
Ha'aretz - Times Online - Boston Globe - Independent
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This is London
The 'dead' canoeist John Darwin, his wife
Times Online - 39 minutes ago
The wife of a man who disappeared in an apparent canoeing tragedy five years ago had moved to Panama and opened a new bank account only weeks before he walked into a police station to declare that he was still alive, it emerged last night.
Police attempt to solve mystery of the canoeist Independent
Wife riddle of back-from-dead man Guardian Unlimited
New York Daily News - MyFox Atlanta - Xinhua - CNN
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Israel frees 429 Palestinian prisoners
Los Angeles Times - 1 hour ago
The largest single release in nearly three years is a goodwill gesture in advance of upcoming peace talks. By Maher Abukhater and Richard Boudreaux, Special to The Times RAMALLAH, WEST BANK -- Jubilant relatives greeted 429 Palestinian prisoners with ...
Israel releases 429 Palestinian prisoners International Herald Tribune
Israel Releases 429 Palestinian Prisoners Voice of America
Independent - Jackson News-Tribune - Jerusalem Post - The Associated Press
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Peninsula On-line
Sri Lanka to Free 1000 People Detained After Colombo Bombings
Bloomberg - 8 hours ago
By Paul Tighe Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka's government said it will release about 1000 people detained during a security sweep in and around the capital, Colombo, after two bomb attacks killed 18 people in the city.
Sri Lankan government says it will free innocent Tamils detained ... International Herald Tribune
More than 40 killed in clashes in northern Sri Lanka Indian Muslims
RTT News - AFP - eFluxMedia - United Press International
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Javno.hr
Iran's President Calls for Security Pact with Gulf Arab States
Voice of America - 9 hours ago
By Challiss mcdonough Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for economic and security cooperation deals between the states bordering the Persian Gulf.
Iran reaches out to Gulf states Dallas Morning News
Iran calls for Gulf security organisation Hindu
International Herald Tribune - Reuters - Khaleej Times - Reuters India
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Aljazeera.net
Europeans See Murkier Case for Sanctions
New York Times - 4 hours ago
By ELAINE SCIOLINO PARIS, Dec. 3 - The Bush administration’s new intelligence assessment that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 is likely to complicate efforts to impose new sanctions on Iran at the United Nations Security Council, ...
US says agreement with China on new Iran sanctions Reuters
Sanctions weighed again on Iran Christian Science Monitor
The Associated Press - Xinhua - Voice of America - Khaleej Times
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Turkish Press
In Algeria, Sarkozy Denounces Colonialism
New York Times - 6 hours ago
By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ALGIERS, Dec. 3 (Agence France-Presse) - President Nicolas Sarkozy of France began a three-day visit to Algeria on Monday, denouncing colonialism as “profoundly unjust” but stopping short of apologizing for the atrocities France ...
Sarkozy makes apology to Algeria Philadelphia Inquirer
Sarkozy Confronted by Algerian Anger TIME
Euronews.net - Voice of America - Houston Chronicle - International Herald Tribune
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Javno.hr
Bomb Kills 6 in Pakistani Islamic School
Voice of America - 13 hours ago
By VOA News Police in southern Pakistan say a powerful bomb ripped through an Islamic school Monday, killing six students and wounding at least four others.
Five die in Pakistan school bombing CNN International
Blast kills 5 in Pakistani school on Afghan border Reuters UK
AHN - BBC News - DailyIndia.com - The Australian
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L'express.mu
Gender activists to march against Zuma
Independent Online - 26 minutes ago
By Moshoeshoe Monare Gender activists are planning to march against the ANC Women's League's nomination for Jacob Zuma as the next party president.
Populism, policy and a Zuma presidency Business Day
South Africa Taps Former VP Zuma To Be New ANC Leader Voice of America
AllAfrica.com - iAfrica.com - Reuters - Reuters South Africa
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GulfNews
Israeli airstrike kills three Hamas policemen in Gaza
International Herald Tribune - 3 hours ago
AP GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip: An Israeli airstrike killed three Hamas men, and injured another, early Tuesday in an attack against a Hamas police post in the central Gaza Strip, Hamas and medical officials said.
Palestinians report increased flights by Israeli combat drones World Tribune
IAF strike in Gaza kills two Hamas men Jerusalem Post
AFP - The Associated Press - International Middle East Media Center - Reuters AlertNet
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Buddhadeb regrets ‘pay back` remark
Zee News - 22 minutes ago
Kolkata, Dec 04: A remorseful West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Tuesday regretted making the statement in which he had said that armed CPM cadres paid back the Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee activists in the same coin in context ...
Buddhadeb clarifies stand on Nandigram, Taslima Times of India
Nandigram a political failure: Buddhadeb NDTV.com
CNN-IBN - The Statesman - Frontline
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Canada.com
What Will an Independent Kosovo Mean?
ABC News - 41 minutes ago
On Dec. 10, three international mediators -- US envoy Frank Wisner, Russian representative Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko and European Union envoy Wolfgang Ischinger -- will submit their report on Kosovo's status to Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, ...
No proposals on Kosovo's status to be included in report to UN Xinhua
Kosovo envoys make last visit, EU urges decision Reuters
AFP - Canada.com - Deutsche Welle - International Herald Tribune
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CTV.ca
Somalia needs more help-UN aid chief
Reuters - 13 hours ago
By Guled Mohamed BAIDOA, Somalia (Reuters) - The United Nations' top aid official called on Monday for more aid for Somalia where the world body says one million people have been forced to flee their homes in Africa's worst humanitarian crisis.
UN says Somalia needs more help BBC News
UN appeals for more Somalia aid Aljazeera.net

Balkan
Bosnia takes a step closer to EU entry
Financial Times, UK - 6 hours ago
By Neil macdonald in Belgrade In a move to contain Balkan tensions, the European Union will today initial a pre-accession agreement with Bosnia-Herzegovina, ...
Top official: EU to initial pre-membership agreement with Bosnia ... Xinhua
Bosnia to kick off pre-membership EU talks EUobserver.com
Bosnia Rushes To Meet Terms for First EU Accord Javno.hr
International Herald Tribune - EUbusiness (press release)
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Željko Joksimović Balkan project to be presented in May
oikotimes.com, Greece - Dec 3, 2007
The newspaper says that Željko Joksimović will start the preparation of his Balkan Project. The presentation date is what causes our curiocity. ...

Hовини.bg
Local Find Proves the Evolution of Man Started on the Balkans
Hовини.bg, Bulgaria - 23 hours ago
It fills in the time between the Balkan finds and the African ones of the humanoids (representatives of the humans). Nikolay Spasov's excavation can now ...
Antidote to nationalism
Guardian Unlimited, UK - Dec 2, 2007
The Balkan problem - unlike the West Lothian problem - is deemed "solved" for all relevant financing and face-saving purposes. Except that that's rubbish. ...
Trouble ahead: It's back to brink in the Balkans Houston Chronicle
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Festival de musique balkanique recherche artistes de cirque des ...
Courrier des Balkans, France - 22 hours ago
In addition to the music which is the spearhead of our association we are also going to launch "Balkan Zircus.eu", a circus project and a show meant to ...
The book on New Orleans' Peja Stojakovic
USA Today - 3 hours ago
... to the 2002 world championship; and established the Stojakovic Children's Foundation, which assists displaced youths in Balkan countries. ...

Canada.com
Kosovo: To Be or Not to Be?
Javno.hr, Croatia - 9 hours ago
After the fate of the small Balkan region is known, we will know the winner of the eternal conflict between America and Russia. At the global level, ...
EU floats a plan to slow down on Kosovo International Herald Tribune
Callaghan doctrine can't cope with the Kosovo crisis Scotsman
Kosovo compromise impossible, envoy says Raw Story
Telegraph.co.uk - Xinhua
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Bulgaria, birthplace of yoghurt, promotes its own
Guardian Unlimited, UK - 16 hours ago
The Balkan country proudly claims to have invented yoghurt. Lactobacillus bulgaricus, the bacteria that curdles milk, is named after Bulgaria. ...
Enel Signs Energy Cooperation Deal With Albania
Serbianna.com, MI - 8 hours ago
... said Monday it has signed a memorandum of understanding for energy with Albania, as it seeks to expand in eastern Europe and the Balkan region. ...
Enel says to build power plant in Albania UPDATE Forbes
Italian consumers warned of looming energy shortfall Financial Times
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international.news.bg
Bulgaria Jan-Oct budget surplus up at 6.5 pct/GDP
Guardian Unlimited, UK - 20 hours ago
Finance Minister Plamen Oresharski has said the Balkan country will target a surplus of 3.3 percent of GDP this year. The government plans to tighten ...
EU Transport Commish Barrot To Visit Bulgaria December 6-7 Sofia News Agency