Aide: India's home minister offers resignation (AP) Posted: 30 Nov 2008 02:41 AM CST AP - India's top security official offered his resignation Sunday, a senior aide said, as the government struggled under growing accusations of security failures following the Mumbai attacks that left at least 174 people dead.
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51 protesters wounded in Bangkok explosions (AP) Posted: 30 Nov 2008 02:51 AM CST AP - Attackers set off explosions at anti-government protest sites Sunday, wounding 51 people and raising fears of widening confrontations in Thailand's worst political crisis that has strangled its economy and shut down its main airports.
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India terror begins with corpses on train platform (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2008 11:11 PM CST AP - 9:21 p.m. Wednesday, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus __ Two young men walk casually through Mumbai's main railway station, a worn Victorian hulk bustling with late commuters heading home, scurrying past small food stands and juice bars and vendors selling newspapers.
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Economic crisis top issue in Romanian elections (AP) Posted: 30 Nov 2008 02:07 AM CST AP - Romanians fearful that the global economic crisis will bring layoffs and painful belt-tightening went to the polls on Sunday to elect a new parliament, a vote expected to deliver a rebuke to pro-Western leaders many see as out of touch.
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US training Iraqis to defeat deadly roadside bombs (AP) Posted: 30 Nov 2008 01:51 AM CST AP - Two Iraqi soldiers acting as insurgents hook up a cellular phone detonator to a 155mm artillery shell with a coiled red wire, bury the mock bomb in a pile of dirt next to a rusty electricity pole and then disappear down the street.
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Troops shoot Afghan policeman dead: military (AFP) Posted: 30 Nov 2008 02:02 AM CST AFP - British soldiers in a NATO-led force shot and killed an Afghan policeman in a vehicle that approached a convoy, despite warnings to keep away, and was seen to be a threat, the military said Sunday.
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Traditional tomb of Abraham stirs emotion (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2008 07:22 PM CST AP - In the divided city of Hebron, Jews toss slips of paper with handwritten prayers into a room over the traditional burial place of Abraham. At the same site, Muslims raise their hands into the air invoking the name of Ibrahim. Both are revering the same forefather. |
Betancourt in Colombia, begins South America trip (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2008 11:09 PM CST AP - Ingrid Betancourt, back home in Colombia for the first time since her July rescue, said Saturday that she would spend the week visiting South American leaders to thank them for their efforts to secure her release.
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Zimbabwe minister warns cholera still spreading (AFP) Posted: 30 Nov 2008 02:44 AM CST AFP - Zimbabwe's health minister insisted Sunday that the country's crumbling medical system was taking all necessary measures to combat a cholera epidemic, even as more than 1,000 new cases were reported.
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Minister resigns, India probes Pakistan attack links (AFP) Posted: 30 Nov 2008 02:56 AM CST AFP - India's interior minister resigned Sunday as anger grew over intelligence failures leading up to the attacks on Mumbai and investigators focused on a Pakistan-based Islamic militant group.
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150 whales die in stranding in Australia (AP) Posted: 30 Nov 2008 01:18 AM CST AP - A group of 150 whales that became stranded on a remote coastline in southern Australia were battered to death on rocks before rescuers could save them.
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