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  • Iranian president denigrates US presence in Afghanistan

    Iranian president denigrates US presence in Afghanistan

    New Orleans News.Net

    With official visits overlapping in Afghanistan, Iran's outspoken president and the US defence secretary have accused each other of interfering in local affairs.

  • Bill to extend unemployment benefits in the US may get through

    Bill to extend unemployment benefits in the US may get through

    New Orleans News.Net

    The US Senate has adopted a draft bill to increase unemployment benefits.

  • More calls for Venables identity to be released

    More calls for Venables identity to be released

    New Orleans News.Net

    The BBC has reported that a man who has been subjected to claims he is the killer of James Bulger, has asked for the UK government to reveal who the real murderer is.

  • UK protection agencies apologise to incest victims

    UK protection agencies apologise to incest victims

    New Orleans News.Net

    Two UK women who were repeatedly raped and violently abused by their father have received an apology from 28 different public agencies.

  • Young actor dies of unknown causes

    Young actor dies of unknown causes

    New Orleans News.Net

    A young actor who became a teen idol during his time as a Hollywood star, has died of unknown causes.

  • Staff taken off Ukraine plane after drunken revel

    Staff taken off Ukraine plane after drunken revel

    New Orleans News.Net

    Politicians and police authorities in Ukraine are investigating the airline industry after an incident on the main carrier.

  • Bangkok demonstrators to be kept away from airport

    Bangkok demonstrators to be kept away from airport

    New Orleans News.Net

    The main airport in Bangkok has been locked down by soldiers as the Thai capital prepares for anti-government demonstrations.

  • Javanese terror suspects killed

    Javanese terror suspects killed

    New Orleans News.Net

    Indonesian police have confirmed the deaths of three terrorists in raids outside the capital, Jakarta.

  • World Vision employees in Pakistan attacked

    World Vision employees in Pakistan attacked

    New Orleans News.Net

    Pakistani police have reported a militant incident at the offices of a US-based Christian aid group.

  • Aung San Suu Kyi no longer allowed to stand for election

    Aung San Suu Kyi no longer allowed to stand for election

    New Orleans News.Net

    In Myanmar, a new law may force the National League for Democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, out of the party.

  • Bangladesh rejects claims of refugee neglect

    Bangladesh rejects claims of refugee neglect

    New Orleans News.Net

    Bangladesh has been accused of starving and blocking medical treatment for Rohingya refugees.

  • Biden objects to Israeli settlement announcement

    Biden objects to Israeli settlement announcement

    New Orleans News.Net

    US Vice President Joe Biden has told the Israeli prime minister that the US condemns an Israeli plan to build hundreds of homes in disputed east Jerusalem.

  • Gaddafi receives apology from US

    Gaddafi receives apology from US

    New Orleans News.Net

    The US State Department has apologised over comments made by a State Department official about Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

  • North Korea leases Sea of Japan port to China

    New Orleans News.Net

    China has been given direct access to the Sea of Japan for the first time since the 19th century, thanks to a lease deal with North Korea.

  • Letterman blackmailer confesses his crime

    Letterman blackmailer confesses his crime

    New Orleans News.Net

    A former television producer on the David Letterman show has admitted in a New York court that he tried to extract two million dollars from the famous television compere.

  • Rape in Russian prison results in charges against jailers

    Rape in Russian prison results in charges against jailers

    New Orleans News.Net

    Top prison officials in Saint Petersburg have been charged with the rape of two prisoners, one of whom was awaiting trial.

  • African nation condemns homosexuals

    African nation condemns homosexuals

    New Orleans News.Net

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  • Borough Takes 'wait And See Attitude' Toward Charter Revission Commission

    New York Post

    Community boards across the borough are crossing their fingers and hoping for the best this week now that Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced the members of the new Charter Revision Commission. Four...

  • Subprime Crisis Still Grips Boro, Comrie Says

    New York Post

    City Councilman Leroy Comrie (D-St. Albans) told St. John’s University students last week that he still is fighting predatory lenders in the wake of a subprime mortgage crisis that has caused th...

  • Borough On Alert To Fight Sex Traffickers

    New York Post

    Now that Queens has become a gateway for sex and human trafficking in part because of its two international airports, law enforcement, nonprofits and the media need to work in concert to combat the ex...

  • Newtown Creek’s New Labs

    New York Post

    The city’s largest wastewater treatment plant keeps coming up with ways to better treat our waste.On March 8, Department of Environmental Protection officials announced the opening of a new $2.3...

  • A Kefi Cafe In ‘burg?

    New York Post

    Is popular Greek chef Michael Psilakis, of the Upper West Side institution Kefi (505 Columbus Avenue and 84th Street), looking to bring warm feta salad, pork souvlaki, and walnut ice cream to williams...

  • Queens College Professor A Pakistani Rock Star

    New York Post

    When Salman Ahmad stepped onto the stage at Queens College last week, he was promoting the same message that has long defined his career and vaulted him into stardom as one of Pakistan’s best-kn...

  • Lines Wrap Around Block As Stores Open In New Mall

    New York Post

    Queens residents packed into the Rego Center shopping complex last week, forming lines that snaked around the Kohl’s and Century 21 stores shoppers praised for bringing hundreds of jobs to the b...

  • City Takes Control Of Brooklyn Bridge Park

    New York Post

    After months of negotiations, the state on Wednesday handed the reins of Brooklyn Bridge Park over to the city, while remaining to ride shotgun.The deal came with two major caveats - an agreement that...

  • Two Stabbed In Columbus Circle

    New York Post

    Two high school students were hospitalized after being stabbed the in the Columbus Circle subway station this afternoon, authorities said. A fight involving students from nearby Independence HS broke ...

  • Richmond Hill Bursts Into Color With Phagwah Fete

    New York Post

    Hundreds of revelers descended on Smokey Oval Park Sunday, dousing each other with colorful powders, liquids and dyes in celebration of Phagwah, the Hindu rites of spring.“The cleaner you are wh...

  • P.s.1 Entrance Plan Draws Cb 2 Anger

    New York Post

    It appears the wall between Long Island City’s P.S. 1 and Community Board 2 will not be crumbling any time soon.Members of the board were furious with the art museum after it presented plans to ...

  • Hold That Coffee! Starbucks Not Coming To ‘burg

    New York Post

    A williamsburg bagel store’s rent will double next year, leaving its owner scrambling, and sparking fresh concerns from local merchants that another chain could soon be taking its place.The Bage...

  • Anti-gay Attack Stuns Carroll Gardens

    New York Post

    Last week’s anti-gay attack on Luquer Street has put a stain on Carroll Gardens, as well as the entire borough, residents and elected officials said last week as they encouraged the police to ma...

  • Gin And Meat Seminar

    New York Post

    Tom Mylan of Meat Hook and mixologist James Moreland will conduct a -- you guessed it -- meat and gin seminar at Meat Hook. You'll learn about gin and porterhouse pairings, among other things. The bes...

  • College Pt. Clan Charged With Credit Card Ruse

    New York Post

    Five members of a College Point family, a Jamaica resident, a Laurelton resident, a Flushing resident and four other people have been indicted in connection with a fraudulent credit card scheme, Queen...

  • 'that's Montgomery Clift, Honey!' At Bam

    New York Post

    Through March 25, BAM will pay tribute to the late actor who was a sort of precursor to the likes of Marlon Brando. Screenings throughout the event include Thursday's "The Heiress." Tickets are $12; c...

  • 3rd Annual Panorama Challenge

    New York Post

    Geography geeks, take note: The star of this trivia night will be the Panorama of the City of New York, which will be used as a great visual to help you answer those tough questions. Call 718-592-9700...

  • Detained Herdsmen Tell Of Roles In Nigeria Killings

    International Herald Tribune

    JOS, Nigeria — Dispassionately, the baby-faced young man recounted his killings: two women and one man, first beaten senseless with a stick, then stabbed to death with a short knife.

  • Manhattan Id Thief Sentenced In Nypd Scam

    New York Post

    An identity thief who called himself "Lyte" will now do heavy time -- up to 10 years prison -- for heading a massive check fraud scheme with nearly 1,000 accomplices and some 500 victims, including th...

  • Chile’s New President Enters A Changed Political Landscape

    International Herald Tribune

    Chile ’s powerful earthquake buried people and homes in a broad swath of the coastal south, but it may also have given the country’s new right-wing coalition government a chance to entomb ...

  • Ozone Park Dad Beat Baby Girl: Da Brown

    New York Post

    An Ozone Park father was charged Saturday with brutally assaulting his infant daughter, who sustained 17 fractured ribs, a lacerated liver and a bite mark on her leg, Queens District Attorney Richard ...

  • Decoded Genome Gives New Hope In Confronting Diseases

    International Herald Tribune

    Two research teams have independently decoded the entire genome of patients to find the exact genetic cause of their disease. The approach may offer a new start in the so far disappointing effort to i...

  • Israel Planning 50,000 Housing Units In East Jerusalem

    Haaretz

    Some 50,000 new housing units in Jerusalem neighborhoods beyond the Green Line are in various stages of planning and approval, planning officials told Haaretz. They said Jerusalem's construction plans...

  • Harel & Issacharoff / The U.s. Will No Longer Turn A Blind Eye To Israeli Settlements

    Haaretz

    Even Mahmoud Abbas would have been hard put to dream up a greater victory for Palestinian diplomacy than the one handed to him Tuesday on a silver platter by the Israeli Interior Ministry. The condemn...

  • Google 'in Active Talks' With China

    New Zealand Herald

    ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Google's CEO says the internet search company is in active negotiations with the Chinese government and expects some resolution in its dispute with Beijing soon. ...

  • House Leader: Ethics Panel Ends Massa Probe

    USA Today

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Democratic campaign chairman says the ethics committee has ended an investigation of former Rep. Eric Massa, the New York Democrat who resigned this week over allegati...

  • Food Product Recall Jumps By 1.7m Pounds Over Salmonella Fears

    USA Today

    The recall of products containing a potentially salmonella-tainted flavoring ingredient ballooned this week with the addition of 1.7 million pounds of ready-to-eat beef taquito and chicken quesadilla ...

  • Miami-dade Hospital System Nears Insolvency

    USA Today

    The Jackson Health System will have little cash on hand by the end of March if it does not receive a $67 million advance from the county, said Marcos Lapciuc, treasurer of the Public Health Trust, the...

  • America Confronts Its Worst Nightmare: Blonde 'jihad Jane'

    The Independent

    The case of "Jihad Jane" – the middle-aged woman from suburban Philadelphia linked to an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist held to have insulted the prophet Mohamed – represents th...

  • Militants Mount Deadly Attack On Pakistan Charity

    The Independent

    Suspected Islamist militants yesterday stormed an office of World Vision, a US-based Christian aid agency in Pakistan, killing six Pakistani aid workers after singling them out and then blowing up t...

  • Supermarket Ad Mimics Dubai Assassination

    The Independent

    An Israeli supermarket commercial is looking to cash in on the infamous surveillance footage of an assassination team killing a Hamas commander in Dubai. A new TV campaign for the Mahsaney Ki...

  • Cambodia Puts The Cremation Site Of Pol Pot On 'historic' Tourist Trail

    The Independent

    A Khmer Rouge fighter lights a hastily built pyre of mattresses, car tyres and old chairs beneath the coffin of his former leader, Pol Pot, in 1998

  • Dangerous Detour In Moscow As Police Order Motorists To Block Getaway Car

    The Independent

    Moscow's top policeman apologised yesterday after his officers ordered passing motorists to park their cars across a main road to block a speeding getaway car filled with armed criminals. Drivers on ...