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Posted: 11 Nov 2010 06:50 PM PST |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 06:40 PM PST The journalists' union said the new talks were dependent on management's dropping disciplinary action against three employees for a strike last week.  |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 06:20 PM PST The refugee population in Dadaab, Kenya, has grown to nearly 300,000, virtually all Somali, making it the largest refugee complex in the world.  |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 07:15 PM PST Human rights activists say confinements in mental hospitals appear to be on the rise because authorities are under pressure to nip social unrest in the bud.  |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 03:37 PM PST A few restaurants and bars are exploring new frontiers in coffee cocktails, which reflect more ambition and thought.  |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 02:11 PM PST Japan, which is hosting the women's world volleyball championships for the second time in a row, is leaping above other nations when it comes to supporting and covering the sport.  |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 05:40 PM PST Engineers developed a formula to determine how cats drink, a lapping method too fast for the human eye to see.  |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 01:37 PM PST As the rest of the country bans smoking in public, the casinos of Las Vegas have emerged as a smokers' oasis.  |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 12:02 PM PST An English politician was arrested on Thursday for joking on Twitter that a columnist he disagreed with should be stoned to death.  |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 05:00 PM PST A Russian newspaper reported Thursday that a senior official in Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service assisted the United States in breaking up a spy ring in June.  |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 10:43 AM PST Authorities on Thursday unexpectedly reopened the investigation into the brutal beating of Mikhail Beketov, whose case had come to symbolize the dangers facing journalists in Russia.  |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 06:50 PM PST Gunmen wielding grenades and a car bomb struck at a police compound in central Karachi on Thursday.  |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 01:08 PM PST Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel, who had been in a hospital since a stroke in January 2006, will be moved to his ranch in the Negev desert.  |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 10:05 AM PST Three days after an engine fire shut down electricity and stranded the ship at sea, tugboats pulled it into San Diego harbor.  |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 09:42 AM PST A blast in the heart of Karachi destroyed a police investigation bureau and killed at least 10 people.  |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 03:20 PM PST The inability to seal a deal with South Korea to expand American exports deprives President Obama of a foreign policy trophy.  |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 06:50 PM PST The European Union stands ready to offer a financial lifeline to Ireland, an official said on Thursday, as bond investors apply pressure that threatens to derail Europe's fragile economic recovery.  |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 07:50 AM PST A Russian paper said the Kremlin has dispatched an assassin to hunt down a double agent it blames for betraying Russian spies.  |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 08:50 AM PST Mr. De Laurentiis produced hundreds of movies in his career, including "Serpico" and "Three Days of the Condor."  |
Posted: 11 Nov 2010 06:30 PM PST New rules would oblige financial services firms to record relevant employee communications made on their work cell phones.  |
