March, 2011 | My Gripe An Thing

Dubai jails man for in-flight assault

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A DUBAI court has jailed an Italian for four months for sexually molesting a woman who was drugged and drunk on a flight from Jakarta, an Emirati newspaper reported. The National said the court heard […] […]

Bali bomber thought arrested in Pakistan

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A MAN suspected of being Umar Patek, most wanted of the al-Qa’ida-linked fugitives responsible for the 2002 Bali bombings, has been arrested in Pakistan. Indonesian police are helping with the identification and have sent officers […] […]

Beer-keg bomb defused outside Ulster court

29th March 2011 sandrea 0

BRITISH Army experts in Northern Ireland have defused a bomb that was packed into a beer keg and abandoned near the courthouse in Londonderry, a mostly Catholic city where IRA dissidents are particularly active. No […] […]

The west weighs exile option for Gaddafi

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BRITAIN and the United States are prepared to consider a swift exit of Colonel Gaddafi into exile. Coalition nations gather in London today to plot a future for Libya without him. The official position of […] […]

Obama vows to avoid Iraq ‘misery’ in Libya

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A DEFIANT President Barack Obama today said he had stopped a “massacre” in Libya, but warned trying to oust Muammar Gaddafi by force could repeat the carnage of Iraq. “As president, I refused to wait […] […]

Britain seeks broader coalition in Libya

28th March 2011 sandrea 0

BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron has told the leaders of the US, Germany and France that today’s London talks on Libya should “broaden the coalition” of nations committed to enforcing UN resolutions. “The prime minister […] […]

More radioactive water at Japan’s stricken nuclear power plant

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WORKERS have discovered new pools of radioactive water leaking from Japan’s crippled nuclear plant that officials believe are behind soaring levels of radiation spreading to soil and seawater. Crews also detected plutonium in the soil […] […]

11 troops killed in Pakistan attack

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan—Islamist militants ambushed a convoy of Pakistani troops traveling close to the Afghan border on Monday, killing 11 of them in an unusually bloody attack, a government official said. The dead included a colonel […] […]

Britain apologizes for 1976 killing of 12-year-old

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BELFAST, Northern Ireland—The family of a 12-year-old Catholic girl fatally shot in the back by a British Army soldier in 1976 has received a face-to-face apology from the senior British government official in Northern Ireland. […] […]

Swine flu cases double in Venezuela

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CARACAS, VENEZUELA—Venezuelan health officials say the number of confirmed swine flu cases in the country has risen to more than 400 people. Health Minister Eugenia Sader says the 415 people have been diagnosed with swine […] […]