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ElBaradei slams Iran at his last IAEA meeting

AFP Global Edition 7 hours ago

Outgoing IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei fired a parting shot at Iran here Thursday, saying efforts to verify the exclusively peaceful nature of its nuclear programme have reached a dead end, as the UN atomic watchdog considered censuring Tehran. Iran's delegate to the ...

Cuba conducts war games with U.S. invasion in mind

Reuters US Online Report World News 7 hours ago

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba began its biggest military maneuvers in five years on Thursday, saying they were needed to prepare for a possible invasion by the United States. Despite a thaw in U.S.-Cuba relations and assurances last week by President Barack Obama ...

Mujica headed for presidential victory in Uruguay

AP News 7 hours ago

Polls suggest former guerrilla Jose Mujica will be Uruguay's next president Uruguay's likely next president tried to lead an armed revolution as a young man, hiding in sewers, killing a police officer and twice escaping prison through elaborately dug tunnels. Polls suggest ...

(FILE PHOTO) Judgement In Extradition Proceedings Against Gary McKinnon

Getty Images 8 hours ago

LONDON - MAY 10: (FILE PHOTO) Gary McKinnon leaves Bow Street Magistrates court after failing in his bid to escape extradition on May 10, 2006 in London. The British Home Secretary Alan Johnson has informed the McKinnon family today November 26, 2009 ...

(FILE PHOTO) Full Extradition Hearing For Computer Hacker Gary McKinnon

Getty Images 8 hours ago

LONDON - APRIL 12: (FILE PHOTO) Computer hacker, Gary McKinnon leaves Bow Street Magistrates on April 12, 2006 in London. The British Home Secretary Alan Johnson has informed the McKinnon family today November 26, 2009 that he could not block his extradition ...

Under pressure, Canada PM to attend climate talks

Reuters Environmental Online Report 8 hours ago

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, whose government is often criticized for dragging its feet on global warming, will attend U.N. talks next month in Copenhagen designed to find a successor to the Kyoto climate change protocol. Harper spokesman Dimitri ...

Sarkozy, Amazon leaders to issue rainforest plea

AFP Global Edition 8 hours ago

French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Brazil Thursday to urge nations straddling the Amazon basin to adopt tough measures to combat climate change and preserve rainforests. Called by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the one-day meeting in the city of ...

Hamas says 'tangible progress' in prisoner swap

AFP Global Edition 8 hours ago

Hamas deputy chief Mussa Abu Marzuk said on Thursday there has been progress on a prisoner swap for a captured Israeli soldier, amid reports that talks were snagged over a group of prisoners Israel refuses to free. "There is tangible progress," he ...

Israel soldier swap talks on hold till Tuesday: Palestinian

AFP Global Edition 8 hours ago

Indirect talks between Israel and the Islamist Hamas movement over a prisoner exchange involving Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit have been suspended until Tuesday, a Palestinian official said. "Negotiations on Shalit will resume after Eid al-Adha in Cairo on Tuesday," the official told ...

EU gives staff inflation-busting pay rise

AFP Global Edition 8 hours ago

Tens of thousands of European Commission staff are in line for an inflation-busting 3.7 percent pay rise -- even as the bloc is ordering member states to bolt down public budgets. Despite efforts by the European Commission to get European countries to ...

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