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World cannot pay for Pakistan flood disaster: US envoy - 09/21/2010

UNITED NATIONS- The outside world cannot foot the entire bill for Pakistan's recovery from devastating floods and the Pakistani government must do more, US special envoy Richard Holbrooke said...

Moral search engines squeeze out sin on Internet - 09/20/2010

WASHINGTON, Virginie Montet - Seek and ye shall find. A number of new Internet search engines created by Christian, Jewish or Muslim entities aim to filter out queries from Web users in a way that...

Twin Baghdad car bombs kill 29 - 09/20/2010

BAGHDAD, Sabah Arar- Two near-simultaneous car bombs rocked the Iraqi capital on Sunday, killing at least 29 people and wounding 111 in the city's deadliest day in a month. The violence, which saw...

Israel to allow first import of cars to Gaza since 2007 - 09/20/2010

JERUSALEM- Israel will allow the import of private vehicles into the Gaza Strip for the first time since 2007, the military said Sunday. The "transfer of vehicles for the Palestinian private...

Russia 'irresponsible' for selling arms to Syria: Israel - 09/20/2010

JERUSALEM- Israel on Sunday denounced as irresponsible the reported sale by Russia of P-800 Yakhont cruise missiles to Syria, saying it could threaten the strategic balance in the region. News of...

Vatican declares pope's visit to Britain a success - 09/20/2010

BIRMINGHAM- Pope Benedict XVI's state visit to Britain has been a "spiritual success", his spokesman said here Sunday. Father Federico Lombardi said the pontiff was happy that his message of...

Al-Jazeera to launch Balkan regional TV in 2011: report - 09/19/2010

SARAJEVO- Pan-Arab satellite channel Al-Jazeera will launch a regional television in the Balkans in January, Bosnian daily Dnevni Avaz reported Saturday. The seat of its regional project,...

Increasingly literate India fuels newspaper boom - 09/19/2010

NEW DELHI, Penny Macrae- When India hosted the World Newspaper Congress last year, Indian editors and owners were a conspicuously cheerful minority at a gathering dominated by doubts over the future...

UAE president returns home after Swiss medical treatment - 09/17/2010

ABU DHABI- UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan returned home on Friday after undergoing unspecified medical treatment in Switzerland, the official WAM news agency reported. "The...

Cuba, Syria sign agreement on pharmaceuticals - 09/17/2010

HAVANA- Cuba signed an agreement with Syria Friday to sell the Arab country anti-cancer drugs, vaccines and technology for producing human placenta derivatives, the Cuban press said Friday. The...
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