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  • Israel provides no recognition for churches and mosques

    Israel provides no recognition for churches and mosques

    Sri Lankan News.Net

    The U.S. State Department has scolded Israel for only recognizing Jewish holy sites.

  • Iranian president denigrates US presence in Afghanistan

    Iranian president denigrates US presence in Afghanistan

    Sri Lankan News.Net

    With official visits overlapping in Afghanistan, Iran's outspoken president and the US defence secretary have accused each other of interfering in local affairs.

  • Salt could be banned in New York restaurants

    Salt could be banned in New York restaurants

    Sri Lankan News.Net

    A state legislator in New York wants salt banned from pre-packaged and restaurant food.

  • Threat on Internet leads to school lockdowns

    Threat on Internet leads to school lockdowns

    Sri Lankan News.Net

    A number of schools in the US were closed down on Wednesday after posted on a social networking site.

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

    Bill to extend unemployment benefits in the US may get through

    Sri Lankan News.Net

    The US Senate has adopted a draft bill to increase unemployment benefits.

  • Hungry people unable to get through corruption for UN food

    Hungry people unable to get through corruption for UN food

    Sri Lankan News.Net

    A United Nations report, which is still to be released, has found that up to half the food aid in Somalia is diverted to corrupt contractors, local UN workers and Islamic militants.

  • More calls for Venables identity to be released

    More calls for Venables identity to be released

    Sri Lankan 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

    Sri Lankan News.Net

    Two UK women who were repeatedly raped and violently abused by their father have received an apology from 28 different public agencies.

  • Officials take whale meat of restaurant menu

    Officials take whale meat of restaurant menu

    Sri Lankan News.Net

    Federal prosecutors in the US have charged the owner of a California restaurant over alleged sales of whale meat, which was labelled sushi.

  • Young actor dies of unknown causes

    Young actor dies of unknown causes

    Sri Lankan 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

    Sri Lankan 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

    Sri Lankan News.Net

    The main airport in Bangkok has been locked down by soldiers as the Thai capital prepares for anti-government demonstrations.

  • Manhattan Church Perv Reindicted For More Victims

    New York Post

    A disgraced Lower Manhattan youth minister -- already charged with repeatedly raping and seducing a 12-year-old girl -- has been re-indicted for sex assaults against three new girl victims, all in the...

  • Sen. Harry Reid’s Wife, Daughter Injured In Car Crash

    New York Post

    The wife and daughter of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) were taken to a DC-area hospital Thursday after being involved in a car accident, the Washington Post reported. Reid’s wife, Lan...

  • Iaf Strikes Two Targets In Southern Gaza Strip

    Haaretz

    The Israel Air Force successfully bombed two targets in the southern Gaza Strip - a weapon manufacturing facility in and an arms smuggling tunnel on the Rafah border - in a joint IDF-ISA operation ove...

  • Rights: U.s. Concerned Over Curbs On Ngos, Press, Internet

    IPS

    WASHINGTON - Releasing its annual report on the state of human rights around the world, the U.S. State Department Thursday said it was increasingly concerned about curbs imposed by foreign governments...

  • Politics: Sri Lanka Garners Support Against U.n. Probe

    IPS

    UNITED NATIONS, Mar 11, 2010 (IPS) - Sri Lanka, which won a grueling decades-long battle against one of the world's most ferocious terrorist organisations last May, has scored a diplomatic victory in ...

  • Israeli Airstrikes Target Gaza, Several Wounded

    Channel News Asia

    GAZA CITY: Israeli aircraft hit two targets in southern Gaza Strip early Friday, wounding several people, the army and witnesses said. In the first strike, they blew up a metal workshop in the town of...

  • Swedish Court Allows Extradition Of Ex Neo-nazi For Auschwitz Theft

    Channel News Asia

    STOCKHOLM: A Stockholm court Thursday allowed the extradition to Poland of Swedish former neo-Nazi leader Anders Hoegstroem to face trial for the theft of a sign from the one-time Auschwitz death camp...

  • Israeli Soldiers Indicted Over Gaza War

    New Zealand Herald

    A Palestinian man examines a building damaged following an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, unrelated to the charges laid over the 2009 incident. Photo / AP

  • Uk Politicians Deny Expenses Scam

    New Zealand Herald

    LONDON - Four British politicians have pleaded not guilty to involvement in a fraudulent expenses scam. The three governing Labour Party MPs and a member of the House of Lords are accused of using th...

  • Obama Announces Where His Nobel Money To Go

    New Zealand Herald

    WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama has announced which groups will get the US$1.4 million he received for winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Obama said on Thursday that US$250,000 will go to Fisher H...

  • Dems Look To Health Vote Without Abortion Foes

    USA Today

    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., wrote a letter to his Republican counterparts describing the path ahead for the health care vote.

  • Pentagon: F-35 Fighter Jet Cost Doubles

    USA Today

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon said Thursday the cost to build its next-generation fighter jet has doubled to as much as $113 million per plane since 2001.

  • House Votes To Impeach U.s. Judge From Louisiana

    USA Today

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted unanimously Thursday to impeach a U.S. district judge from Louisiana, who lawmakers said avoided likely criminal charges related to alleged payoffs in part becau...

  • House Votes To Impeach Federal Judge

    CNN

    "Our investigation found that Judge Porteous participated in a pattern of corrupt conduct for years," said U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-California, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Task...

  • Court Oks Reciting Pledge Of Allegiance

    CNN

    Washington (CNN) -- Public schools in Western states can continue teacher-led reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance, after a federal court ruled against a group of atheist parents.

  • School Nixes Prom Over Lesbian Student

    CNN

    (CNN) -- A Mississippi high school faces a lawsuit over its decision to cancel its prom rather than allow a lesbian high school student attend with her girlfriend.

  • Turkey And Sweden In Genocide Row

    BBC

    Turkey has withdrawn its ambassador to Sweden after the parliament voted narrowly to describe as genocide the killing of Armenians in World War I.The Turkish government condemned the resolution, sayin...

  • Fans Riot At Metallica Gig In Colombia

    Sky News

    download Flash from the Adobe download website. The police, who were expecting crowd trouble, had deployed 1,500 officers, four tanks and several police trucks to manage the event. Some 30,000...

  • Cardinal Questions Priest Celibacy

    The Australian

    A SENIOR cardinal has called for priestly celibacy to be re-examined in the light of sex scandals sweeping the Roman Catholic Church.

  • Australia On Net Censorship Blacklist

    The Australian

    A TOP media rights watchdog has listed Australia along with Iran and North Korea in a report on countries that pose a threat of internet censorship.

  • Toyota Discounts Boost Sales, U.s. Mulls "black Box"

    Reuters

    DETROIT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Unprecedented discounts after a series of damaging recalls boosted Toyota Motor Corp's U.S. sales in early March, as U.S. regulators weighed new auto safety measures.

  • U.s. Boosted Financial, Tax Crime Probes In 2009

    Reuters

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States boosted its investigation of tax and other financial crimes by about 10 percent last year, tax authorities reported on Thursday, amid an increased push to purs...

  • Guantanamo Prisoner Known As Hambali Seeks Release

    Reuters

    (Reuters) - The Guantanamo Bay detainee accused of helping plan the 2002 bombings in the Indonesian resort area of Bali that killed more than 200 people on Thursday revived his legal bid to be release...

  • Obama Gives $1.4 Million Nobel Prize To 10 Charities

    Reuters

    President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Barack Obama laughs after receiving his medal and diploma from Nobel committee chairman Thorbjorn Jagland at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony at City Hall in Osl...

  • Highway Deaths At Lowest Level Since 1950s

    CBS News

    (AP) U.S. highway deaths have fallen to their lowest levels since the 1950s, as more motorists bought into buckling up and embraced safety innovations. A sour economy that dampened traveling instincts...

  • Dems Dealt Blow On Health Care Reconciliation

    CBS News

    After more than a year of passionate and substantive debate, the fate of the Democrats' health care reform package may rest largely on technicalities. Senate Republican sources say the Senate parliame...

  • Flyers Showing More Discipline

    Philadelphia Daily News

    Oh, they aren't pacifists. They still play with an edge, still are the NHL's most penalized team. But since Peter Laviolette became their coach in early December, the Flyers are playing with more sma...

  • Mall Owner Preit Finalizes $670 Million Financing Deal

    Philadelphia Daily News

    Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust, which owns eight of the region's most visible shopping malls - such as the newly renovated Cherry Hill and Plymouth Meeting - announced today that it has fin...

  • Villanova Falls To Marquette

    Philadelphia Daily News

    NEW YORK - Lazar Hayward gave Marquette the lead for good with a 3-pointer with 1:51 to play, then added the clinching free throws with 3.2 seconds left, and the Golden Eagles went on to another close...

  • Ex-council Rock Teacher Sentenced For Sex With Teen

    Philadelphia Daily News

    A former Bucks County high school teacher who had a five-month sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student - with the apparent knowledge of his peers - was sent to prison yesterday. Robert C. Hawk...

  • Vicodin, Valium Found In Haim's Apartment At Time Of Death

    New York Post

    Bottles of generic versions of Vicodin and Valium were found in dead teen actor Corey Haim's apartment, and all of them had been prescribed by the same doctor just days earlier, according to a report....

  • Spitzer Doc In Tribeca Film Festival Lineup

    New York Post

    A documentary about the rise and fall of Eliot Spitzer will be shown at the Tribeca Film Festival.The festival unveiled part of its lineup Wednesday.The work-in-progress film about the former New York...

  • State: Idf Not To Blame For Activist Rachel Corrie's Death

    Haaretz

    The State Prosecutor's Office appealed Thursday to the Haifa District Court to dismiss outright the civil suit filed by U.S. activist Rachel Corrie's family against the Defense Ministry for unspecifie...

  • Eu Parliament Demands Schalit’s Release

    Jerusalem Post

    The European parliament on Thursday called, by a large majority, for the immediate release of IDF soldier Gilad Schalit, who has been held captive by Hamas in Gaza since June 2005.The move came just o...

  • Women In Black Protest In Violence-hit Nigeria State

    Channel News Asia

    JOS, Nigeria: Dressed in black and wielding wooden crosses, thousands of women marched in a Nigerian city on Thursday to express grief at a new bout of sectarian carnage and anger at the failure to st...

  • Us Slams Rights Abuses In China, North Korea And Iran

    Channel News Asia

    WASHINGTON: The United States on Thursday accused China and Iran of worsening human rights abuses as it raised the alarm about growing anti-Semitism worldwide and discrimination of Muslims in Europe. ...

  • Vatican Criticizes Condom Machines In Rome School

    USA Today

    But the Keplero high school vowed Thursday to go ahead with its experiment, billed as the first in the capital. While it's a relative novelty for Italy, schools in several other European countries hav...

  • Ohio State Shooter Left Note, Tells Woman 'sorry'

    USA Today

    COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio State janitor who shot two supervisors in a campus maintenance shop before killing himself left behind a brief handwritten note directed to a woman named Donna that ...