Quake rocks north-west coast, kills eight
KASHIWAZAKI, Japan (AP): A powerful earthquake ripped into Japan's northwest coast yesterday, killing at least eight people and causing a reactor at a sprawling nuclear power plant to spill water containing radioactivity into the sea, an accident not reported...
Russian diplomats expelled
LONDON (Reuters): Britain ordered the expulsion of four Russian diplomats yesterday over Moscow's refusal to hand over the main suspect in the murder of ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, escalating tension between Russia and the West.
'Too sexy for my bus', woman told
BERLIN (Reuters):A German bus driver threatened to throw a 20-year-old sales clerk off his bus in the southern town of Lindau because he said she was too sexy, a newspaper reported yesterday."Suddenly he stopped the bus," the woman named Debora C...
Opposition leaders get life sentence
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters):An Ethiopian court sentenced 35 opposition members to life in prison yesterday, rebuffing a prosecution request that they be executed for trying to overthrow the government, treason and inciting violence...
$660m clergy abuse settlement approved
LOS ANGELES (AP): A judge yesterday ap-proved a US$660 million (€478.9 million) settle-ment between the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles and more than 500 alleged victims of clergy abuse, the largest payout yet in the countrywide sex abuse scandal.
Government freeing 250 Palestinian prisoners
JERUSALEM (AP): Israel said yesterday it will free 250 Palestinian prisoners this week, the latest step in its efforts to strengthen Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in his stand-off against Hamas militants.Israel announced the planned release...
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