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 FBI called in on Wikileaks issue
Afghanistan News.Net
The FBI has been asked to look into how Wikileaks got hold of more than 90,000 classified US military documents.
 Pakistan poll finds Taliban support
Afghanistan News.Net
The US polling group, Pew Research Centre, has done a survey in Pakistan to determine how Pakistanis view the Taliban and other terrorist groups.
Ariz. gov. considers changing law
Washington Times
Maricopa County Board of Supervisors representing District 4, pats the governor on the back at a news conference in Glendale, Ariz., Friday, July 30, 2010.
Army Broadens Inquiry Into WikiLeaks Disclosure
International Herald Tribune
WASHINGTON — Army investigators are broadening their inquiry into the recent disclosure of classified military information to include friends and associates who may have helped the person they s...
ADL opposes ground zero mosque
Jerusalem Post
NEW YORK — The Anti-Defamation League has come out against the planned mosque and Islamic community center near ground zero, saying more information is needed about funding for the project and the l...
Venezuela sends troops to Colombian border: Chavez
Channel News Asia
CARACAS: President Hugo Chavez said Friday that Venezuela has deployed military units and troops to the Colombian border, because outgoing President Alvaro Uribe is "capable of anything," as a row esc...
Forest fires kill 29 in Russia heatwave
Channel News Asia
MOSCOW: Forest fires in Russia's worst heatwave in decades killed 29 people, officials said Friday, as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited one of the worst hit areas and a storm claimed seven m...
No prosecution over Al Gore sex case
New Zealand Herald
PORTLAND - Former Vice President Al Gore won't be prosecuted over allegations by a masseuse that he groped and assaulted her in his Oregon hotel room in 2006, the county prosecutor said. District Att...
Iran woman facing execution: I'm afraid
CNN
London, England (CNN) -- In a room thousands of miles from her prison cell in northeastern Iran, the fear that has gripped Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani for years was clear and almost palpable.
Obama to Iran: Free 3 American hikers
CNN
Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama is calling for the immediate release of three American hikers seized by Iranian forces along the Iraqi border who will have been in custody for exactly a yea...
Israeli launches airstrikes in Gaza
CNN
Gaza City (CNN) -- Israel launched a series of airstrikes in Gaza starting late Friday in response to a rocket assault on Ashkelon earlier in the day.
Boy sent from U.S. back in orphanage
CNN
(CNN) -- A Russian boy who was sent back to Moscow, Russia, by his adoptive mother in the United States has been returned to an orphanage, an attorney of the World Association for Children and Parents...
Australia awaits bushfire verdict
BBC
Australia awaits bushfire verdict A royal commission report into Australia's worst bushfire disaster, which left 173 people dead in 2009, is to be made public.
Israel Launches Airstrikes On Gaza Strip
Sky News
The air strikes hit a training camp used by the Islamist group Hamas and hit smuggling tunnels along Gaza's border with Egypt. Palestinian medical workers said four people were injured. The Palestin...
Pilot has lucky escape from plane crash
The Daily Telegraph
A 46-year-old pilot has walked away with only minor injuries from a single-engine aeroplane crash on a remote airstrip on Cape York Peninsula.
BP to try well kill Tuesday
Reuters
BILOXI Mississippi (Reuters) - BP Plc said on Friday it could seal its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well by next week as the House of Representatives voted to toughen regulation of offshore energy dril...
Enbridge says no restart date for ruptured line
Reuters
DETROIT/CALGARY (Reuters) - Enbridge Inc's chief executive said on Friday he was unable to say when the company would be able to restart the Michigan pipeline that ruptured earlier this week, spilling...
U.S. worried more secret documents may be released
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials are worried about what other secret documents the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks may possess and have tried to contact the group without success to avoid their...
Petters seeks new trial after Ponzi conviction
Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lawyers for convicted U.S. Ponzi schemer Tom Petters on Friday asked an appeals court to send the case back for a new trial, saying they were not able to fully present arguments a...
Live to Tell: Kidnap on Highway 1
CBS News
Live to Tell: Kidnap on Highway 1 48 Hours In Full: A family vacationing in Mexico, kidnapped a mile from the U.S. border, recounts their terrifying brush with death and improbable escape to safety.
Ask CBS News: Does Media Affect Economy?
CBS News
Ask CBS News: Media to Blame for Economic Crisis? From a question via Facebook as part of the ongoing series, "Ask CBS News," Katie Couric asks senior business correspondent Anthony Mason if the media...
Phillies fall in Oswalt's debut
Philadelphia Daily News
WASHINGTON - Most of the Phillies stayed away from the newest face in the clubhouse Friday. A few, like old friend Brad Lidge, chatted with Roy Oswalt. Early in the morning, at the team hotel, Oswalt ...
US casualties in Afghanistan soar to record highs
Philadelphia Daily News
A U.S. medical helicopter arrives to evacuate a soldier from the 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, who was seriously wounded when he stepped on an improvised mine near...
Dems urge Rangel to resign; Obama: Case troubling
Philadelphia Daily News
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Friday called ethics charges against Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel "very troubling" and said he hopes the longtime lawmaker can end his career with di...
House approves bill on drilling, oil spills
Philadelphia Daily News
WASHINGTON - The House approved a bill Friday to boost safety standards for offshore drilling, remove a federal cap on economic liability for oil spills and impose new fees on oil and gas production. ...
The quiet Main Liner marrying Chelsea Clinton
Philadelphia Daily News
Astor Courts in Upstate New York will be the setting Saturday for the wedding of Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky. They met in 1996 and got reacquainted and started dating years later.
4.5% fixed-rate mortgage arrives - finally
Philadelphia Daily News
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Police release video of brutal Bx. stab
New York Post
Police today released video of a brutal stabbing in the Bronx that left an 18-year-old girl dead and another man wounded. In the video, the assailant is seen exiting a black Lincoln Town Car and pulli...
From Germany to Radicalism for Young Muslims
International Herald Tribune
Germany last year, she asked her father, “Daddy, what can I bring you from my journey?” He looked up from his book and answered, “Some perfumed oil.” “Will do,” she...
Deadly German Stampede Gets Its Villain
International Herald Tribune
Angela Merkel , was to interrupt her vacation to attend the service. But the mayor of Duisburg, Adolf Sauerland, won’t be present. Mr. Sauerland, who has been in charge of this aging industrial...
Barak, Ban Ki-moon 'discuss flotilla'
Jerusalem Post
UNITED NATIONS — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak discussed the Security Council's demand for an international investigation of Israel's deadly commando raid on ...
HUMAN RIGHTS-CHILE: Unfinished Business
IPS
SANTIAGO, Jul 30, 2010 (IPS) - The controversial proposal to pardon some convicts in Chile for humanitarian reasons, which was put forward by the Catholic Church and partially taken up by President Se...
Canada intercepts two Russian bombers near Arctic
Channel News Asia
MONTREAL: Canadian military jets intercepted two Russian bombers this week as they approached Canadian airspace near the Arctic, the defence ministry said on Friday. "The two Russian TU-95 bombers hav...
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