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

    Bill to extend unemployment benefits in the US may get through

    The St Petersburg 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

    The St Petersburg 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

    The St Petersburg 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

    The St Petersburg 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

    The St Petersburg 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

    The St Petersburg 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

    The St Petersburg 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

    The St Petersburg 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

    The St Petersburg 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

    The St Petersburg 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

    The St Petersburg 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

    The St Petersburg 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

    The St Petersburg 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

    The St Petersburg 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

    The St Petersburg 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

    The St Petersburg News.Net

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  • McDonnell counters Va. atty. gen.'s words on gays

    Washington Times

    By Larry O'Dell ASSOCIATED PRESS RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has directed state agencies not to discriminate against gay people, essentially overriding the state attorney genera...

  • Senate passes jobless aid, business tax breaks

    Washington Times

    By Andrew Taylor ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate voted Wednesday to extend a host of soon-to-expire elements of last year's economic stimulus measure, including help for the jobless an...

  • Some Democrats shun Obama event in St. Louis

    Washington Times

    Joseph Curl The Show Me State briefly became the No Show State on Wednesday as some prominent Missouri Democrats decided they'd rather be somewhere else when President Obama came to St. Louis to push...

  • Woman sues store over clown shoe fall

    New York Post

    A 56-year-old Oakland Gardens resident who recently filed a lawsuit against a costume company and several other businesses was not clowning around when she was injured at a 2008 Halloween party while ...

  • City Planning Offers a “Rose” for ‘Burg

    New York Post

    This “Rose” has been revived.After disapprovals from Community Board 1 and Borough President Marty Markowitz, the City Planning Commission reversed course with a rare close vote Monday aft...

  • Kalua owners charged in $2M fraud scheme: DA

    New York Post

    The mother and son who owned the now shuttered strip club linked to the Sean Bell shooting were arraigned Tuesday along with two others on charges of taking part in a multimillion-dollar mortgage frau...

  • Monserrate seat race nears

    New York Post

    Voters in Corona, East Elmhurst, Elmhurst and Jackson Heights are awash in mailers this week as former state Sen. Hiram Monserrate battles state Assemblyman Jose Peralta (D-Jackson Heights) in a speci...

  • Along canal, EPA plays corporate detective

    New York Post

    Six degrees of separation from polluting the Gowanus Canal doesn’t mean a company has necessarily escaped a hefty cleanup bill.The Environmental Protection Agency has already named a series of c...

  • Hold The Sugar! Board Rejects New Domino

    New York Post

    In the end, it was a sugar overload.By a nearly 2 to 1 margin, Community Board 1 rejected Tuesday night a plan to rezone 11.2 acres of the williamsburg waterfront that sought to add 2,200 units of hou...

  • Let kids eat cupcakes, parents say

    New York Post

    Next week, Brooklyn parents will protest the city Department of Education’s (DOE) new bake sale rules — by making cupcakes.On March 18 from 4-6 p.m., parents are expected to pack City Hall...

  • Groundbreaking signals start of Barclays Center arena

    New York Post

    As this paper went to press, two Brooklyn groundbreakings were scheduled to take place Thursday, March 11 relating to the 22-acre, Atlantic Yards project starting at the Flatbush/Atlantic Avenues inte...

  • Burglary spree hits Maspeth

    New York Post

    Residents in northern Maspeth are dealing with a spate of burglaries near 73rd Street, civic leaders and police said last week.Five homes in the area had been broken into between Feb. 19 and Feb. 23, ...

  • Better pay up: Bklyn’s tax delinquents put on parade

    New York Post

    Brooklyn is known for many things. Now it’s known for harboring the state’s biggest tax debtor.Irving Bilzinsky, a proud son of the borough of churches, was named the state tax department&...

  • Massa 'massaged' and 'snorkled' subordinates while in Navy: report

    New York Post

    New allegations emerged Wednesday about former Democratic Congressman Eric Massa’s unwanted advances toward subordinates during his time in the Navy. In an article by Joshua Green in the Atlanti...

  • Jobs bill could boost boro economy: Maloney

    New York Post

    The economy may be weak, but there are still employment and business opportunities, according to a town hall forum on jobs and the economy hosted Saturday by U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Astoria).Malo...

  • Manhattanite gets 3-9 years in Little Neck mortgage scam

    New York Post

    A 35-year-old Manhattan man has been sentenced to prison for having used a forged power of attorney to unlawfully obtain a mortgage on his mother-in-law’s Little Neck condominium and steal more ...

  • Make the Road decries guv’s proposed ed cuts

    New York Post

    A nonprofit that provides services to immigrants and has offices in Queens would lose more than a quarter of their English language classes if Gov. David Paterson’s budget cuts are enacted, pare...

  • Quoted Remarks by Nelson Mandela’s Ex-Wife Raise a Stir

    International Herald Tribune

    African National Congress , said Wednesday that its leaders will talk to Nelson’s Mandela’s ex-wife, Winnie Mandikizela-Mandela, when she returns from abroad about published remarks attrib...

  • RIGHTS: Africa's Success Stories in Gender Empowerment

    IPS

    UNITED NATIONS, Mar 10, 2010 (IPS/TerraViva) - Whenever gender empowerment is a vibrant topic of discussion internationally, some of the countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America are invariably sing...

  • EDUCATION-TANZANIA: Pregnant Teens Forced Out of School

    IPS

    DAR-ES-SALAAM, Mar 10, 2010 (IPS) - Pregnancy is the leading cause of dropouts for school girls in Tanzania. And a national law forbidding young mothers to return to school after giving birth did not...

  • Dan Rather sorry for 'watermelons' comment

    New Zealand Herald

    Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather today apologised for a remark that could be taken as a racist slur on President Barack Obama. Rather apologised for his choice of words on a TV current affairs talk ...

  • Virginia approves bill banning mandated health care

    USA Today

    RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia's General Assembly became the first in the nation Wednesday to approve legislation that bucks any attempt by President Obama and Congress to implement national healt...

  • Study: Too many heart patients get angiograms

    USA Today

    NEW YORK (AP) — A troublingly high number of U.S. patients who are given angiograms to check for heart disease turn out not to have a significant problem, according to the latest study to suggest...

  • Senate extends aid for jobless, health care for poor

    USA Today

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate voted Wednesday to extend a host of soon-to-expire elements of last year's economic stimulus measure, including help for the jobless and money to help financially str...

  • Arab League calls for ending support for talks

    USA Today

    Arab League recommended on Wednesday to withdraw its support for indirect talks between Palestinians and Israelis due to recent announcements of new settlement building in east

  • White House continues to slam insurers

    CNN

    Washington (CNN) -- President Obama is set to turn up the heat on private health insurers again Wednesday, taking his increasingly populist health care overhaul pitch on the road to the political batt...

  • CDC: Most with herpes don't know it

    CNN

    (CNN) -- As much as 16 percent of the U.S. population between the ages of 14 and 49 has genital herpes, according to a government study released Tuesday.

  • Chief justice: Obama speech 'troubling'

    CNN

    WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Simmering tension between the White House and U.S. Supreme Court spilled into public this week when Chief Justice John Roberts labeled the political atmosphere at the State of the ...

  • N.Y. state loses 2nd top cop in 2 weeks

    CNN

    Pedro Perez stepping down as New York State Police's acting superintendent His predecessor, Harry Corbitt, quit last week Perez's letter denies resignation tied to ethics scandals involving New York G...

  • Tories allege plan to cut police

    BBC

    The Conservatives say ministers are planning to reduce the number of front-line police, despite a pledge to protect them from spending cuts.A Home Office study of nine forces has concluded that saving...

  • Preval's $14bn paradise vision

    The Australian

    HAITI'S President went to the White House with a vision of a Caribbean paradise waiting to be rebuilt after January's catastrophic earthquake - and a price tag that could rise to $14 billion...

  • Boyfriend: "Jihad Jane" Wasn't Religious

    CBS News

    "JihadJane" Charged With Terror Recruiting (CBS/AP) The self-dubbed "Jihad Jane" who thought her blond, all-American profile would help mask her plan to kill a Swedish cartoonist is a rare case of a U...

  • Senate Passes Jobless Aid, Tax Breaks

    CBS News

    New Hire Tax Breaks Bill Clears House (AP) The U.S. Senate voted Wednesday to extend a host of soon-to-expire elements of last year's economic stimulus measure, including help for the jobless and mone...

  • Unplugged: Massa's Mess and Fashion's Best

    CBS News

    Former Congressman Eric Massa's bizarre Tuesday interviews only raise more questions. Nancy Cordes spoke with Politico's John Bresnahan and Washington Post's Carol Leonning. Plus; Betsey Johnson comes...