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Georgian opposition says TV war hoax is government attempt at ?information terror?

Misha Dzhindzhikhashvili, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 15 Mar, 2010 0 1

TBILISI, Ga. - Georgia's opposition politicians on Monday denounced the government over a hoax television broadcast that said Russia had invaded and the president had been killed. The broadcast Saturday, which simulated a news program, sparked wide anxiety in Georgia, which is still traumatized

Suicide car bomber kills 4 in western Iraqi city of Fallujah

Hamid Ahmed, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 15 Mar, 2010 0 0

BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomber killed four people and wounded 29 others when his vehicle exploded in a busy street Monday during the morning rush hour in western Iraq. The blast took place shortly before 9 a.m. near a central thoroughfare in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometres) west of Baghdad. Th

Pakistani doctors studying conjoined twins to see if they can operate

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 15 Mar, 2010 0 0

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A Pakistani neurosurgeon says doctors are studying a pair of twin girls who were recently born connected at the head to determine whether they can separate them. The infants were brought to a hospital in Islamabad on Monday from the city of Sahiwal in Punjab province where

China gov't official who allegedly kept lurid diary arrested on suspicion of taking bribes

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 15 Mar, 2010 0 0

BEIJING - A Chinese government official has been arrested on suspicion of taking bribes a month after a series of steamy diary entries he allegedly wrote appeared online describing casual sex, drinking parties and under-the-table payments. Han Feng, 53, was arrested for allegedly taking 482,000

Drug gang blamed for killings of 3 with ties to US consulate in violent Mexican border city

Olivia Torres, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 15 Mar, 2010 0 0

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Suspected drug gang hit men separately ambushed two cars carrying families with ties to the U.S. consulate in this violent border city, killing an American couple and a Mexican man. Three young children survived, although two suffered wounds. The slayings came amid a surg

Pro-Uribe parties dominate elections for Colombia's Senate; no early trend for lower house

Libardo Cardona, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 15 Mar, 2010 0 0

BOGOTA, Colombia - Candidates from parties allied with outgoing President Alvaro Uribe dominated Sunday's elections in Colombia to replace a Congress tarnished by lawmakers' links to far-right criminal bands. One of those parties, largely made up of relatives and friends of lawmakers jailed or u

Woman, 92, charged with killing 98-year-old husband in Australia

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 15 Mar, 2010 0 0

SYDNEY, Australia - Police in Australia have charged a 92-year-old woman with killing her 98-year-old husband. Clare Tang is due to appear in court Tuesday on a murder charge after her husband was found dead in their apartment in downtown Sydney on Friday night. New South Wales state police s

Thai protesters march on army headquarters ahead of ultimatum to dissolve Parliament

Thanyarat Doksone, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 15 Mar, 2010 0 0

BANGKOK, Thailand - Army reinforcements were rushed into Thailand's capital as tens of thousands of anti-government demonstrators marched Monday on a key military headquarters demanding that the government dissolve Parliament. Some 100,000 Red Shirt protesters who have been camped out along a bo

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband visits China amid rancour in ties, Iran sanctions push

Christopher Bodeen, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 0 0

BEIJING - Britain's foreign secretary is in China to lobby for further nuclear sanctions on Iran and will seek to smooth rancour with Beijing over climate change talks and the execution of a British drug smuggler thought to be mentally ill. David Miliband's visit is a further step in the push by

Frenchwoman on trial accused of killing 6 of her newborns, hiding corpses

Frederic Veille, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 0 0

COUTANCES, France - A 38-year-old woman acknowledged Monday killing six of her newborns, whose corpses were found in plastic bags in her basement, at the opening of a chilling trial in northwest France. Celine Lesage faces life in prison if convicted by the jury in the courthouse in Valognes, ne
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