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Salvadoran police find over $9M in cash in drums

Posted: Saturday, September 4, 2010 5:15 pm Police in El Salvador have found two buried oil drums stuffed with millions of dollars in cash possibly linked to the illegal drug trade, authorities said Saturday. » read more

Keywords: world news trade authorities possibly linked drums stuffed Date: 09-05-2010

Foreman keeping trapped miners' hopes alive

Trapped for a month in the San Jose mine, Chile, shift leader Luis Urzua has worked heroically to protect his men About 700 metres underground, in the most traumatic of circumstances, Luis Urzua has no intention of relinquishing command of the 33 men in his care. » read more

Keywords: world news chile miners rescue trapped Date: 09-05-2010

What Britain could learn from Portugal's drugs policy

A decade ago Portugal took a radical new approach to illegal drugs by treating users as people with social problems rather than as criminals. » read more

Keywords: world news drugs policy portugal addicts approach Date: 09-05-2010

Afghans continue pulling money from troubled bank

By RAHIM FAIEZ | Posted: Saturday, September 4, 2010 4:33 pm Nervous Afghans pulled more deposits out of the nation's largest bank on Saturday, despite assurances from government leaders that their money was safe. » read more

Keywords: government leaders their money despite assurances saturday despite afghans pulled Date: 09-04-2010

Gazprom to double gas imports from Azerbaijan

Posted: Friday, September 3, 2010 7:29 am Russia's Gazprom on Friday clinched a deal to double supplies from Azerbaijan in a bid to expand its control over gas produced by former Soviet republics. » read more

Keywords: soviet republics former soviet double supplies friday clinched Date: 09-03-2010

Government: Mozambique lost $3M because of riots

By EMANUEL CAMILLO | Posted: Friday, September 3, 2010 12:23 pm Mozambique's economy has lost more than $3 million because of deadly riots over the rising prices of food and other goods, the government said Friday, as state media reported new protests in two other towns. » read more

Keywords: world news state media media reported other goods rising prices Date: 09-03-2010

Experts see trouble ahead for developed world

By DAN PERRY | Posted: Friday, September 3, 2010 10:37 am Is the global economy out of the woods? » read more

Keywords: world news europeans fighting crisis experts experts gathered italy offered Date: 09-03-2010

Morrissey reignites racism row by calling Chinese a 'subspecies'

Remark came in context of an attack on China's animal welfare record, with singer having been criticised on a number of previous occasions for negative race comments Read Simon Armitage's interview with Morrissey in full Tom Clark: Morrissey, this joke isn't funny anymore For almost three decades, indie rock icon Morrissey has made almost as many enemies as devoted fans willing to hang on his every melancholy-drenched lyric. » read more

Keywords: world news morrissey morrissey racism magazine Date: 09-03-2010

Mexico's war on drugs: optimism has turned to depression

Fear as the old troubles remain unsolved while the country reels from the worst wave of violence since the revolution Ten years ago Mexico completed a velvet transition to democracy after 71 years of one-party rule with the opposition winning an uncontested victory in presidential elections and the economy growing at 6. » read more

Keywords: world news drugs trade violence mexico calderã³n Date: 09-03-2010

Jobs report may show rise in unemployment rate

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Time Warner Cable gets ESPN3.com in new deal

By RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted: Thursday, September 2, 2010 6:56 pm Time Warner Cable Inc. » read more

Keywords: service according internet service website espn3 sports website warner cable Date: 09-03-2010

Calderon: Violence price worth paying in drug war

By ALEXANDRA OLSON | Posted: Thursday, September 2, 2010 8:43 pm President Felipe Calderon tried to rally frustrated Mexicans behind his increasingly bloody drug war Thursday, saying he knows violence has surged under his watch, but arguing that it is the price of confronting powerful and brutal cartels. » read more

Keywords: world news increasingly bloody thursday saying knows violence surged under Date: 09-03-2010

Election official: Chavez breaking campaign rules

By CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER | Posted: Thursday, September 2, 2010 8:27 pm An electoral official accused President Hugo Chavez and his allies of breaking campaign laws by using state-run media to berate rivals and praise friends ahead of this month's legislative elections. » read more

Keywords: world news praise friends friends ahead legislative elections berate rivals Date: 09-03-2010

Mexican army kills dozens of drug suspects

Soldiers shoot dead suspected drug cartel members near US border Soldiers killed 25 suspected drug cartel members yesterday in a raid in a Mexican state near the US border that has seen a surge in gang violence, the military said. » read more

Keywords: world news mexico cartel soldiers tamaulipas Date: 09-03-2010

ECB raises 2010, 2011 eurozone growth forecast

By GEIR MOULSON | Posted: Thursday, September 2, 2010 9:38 am The European Central Bank raised its growth projections for the 16-nation eurozone on Thursday, but stressed that the outlook remains uncertain and said its effort to keep banks supplied with credit would stay in place for the rest of the year. » read more

Keywords: remains uncertain banks supplied outlook remains nation eurozone growth projections Date: 09-02-2010

Karzai: Afghan govt will back Kabul Bank

By DEB RIECHMANN | Posted: Thursday, September 2, 2010 12:02 pm Afghan President Hamid Karzai reassured nervous customers at the troubled Kabul Bank on Thursday, saying every penny of their deposits would be guaranteed by the government. » read more

Keywords: world news saying every thursday saying every penny their deposits Date: 09-02-2010

US Def Sec: Afghans should lead corruption fight

By ANNE GEARAN | Posted: Thursday, September 2, 2010 11:53 am U. » read more

Keywords: world news prevent millions american dollars dollars flowing against corruption Date: 09-02-2010

Middle East peace 'in a year'

Israeli and Palestinian leaders begin framework talks on a peace deal which could encompass borders, Jerusalem, Jewish settlements and security The Israeli and Palestinian leaders, Binyamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas, met for the first day of direct talks in Washington today and agreed that a peace deal could be achieved within a year. » read more

Keywords: world news middle east agreement netanyahu israeli Date: 09-02-2010

Middle East peace talks aim for 'a future that will end conflict'

Israeli prime minister gives positive message to 'partner for peace' Mahmoud Abbas Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, launched peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians today with a call for courageous, bold leadership and an appeal to stay the course even when a resolution seemed elusive. » read more

Keywords: world news israel netanyahu israel israeli Date: 09-02-2010

Saskatchewan government blow for Potash in BHP Billiton takeover bid

Saskatchewan government will not support takeover of fertiliser company by any sovereign wealth fund Potash Corp of Saskatchewan's best hope of escaping BHP Billiton's $39bn (£25bn) hostile takeover bid has received a blow from a local government minister. » read more

Keywords: world news bhp billiton saskatchewan potash takeover Date: 09-02-2010

Binyamin Netanyahu opens Middle East talks with two 'pillars to peace'

Israeli PM names non-negotiable issues as Hillary Clinton warns of cost of continued conflict Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, opened peace talks with the Palestinians today by saying that two issues – recognition of his country as a Jewish state and arrangements to ensure it does not come under attack from within an independent Palestine state – are key to any deal. » read more

Keywords: world news middle east israel netanyahu security Date: 09-02-2010

ECB may raise projections, but not rates

Posted: Thursday, September 2, 2010 3:14 am The European Central Bank is set to leave interest rates untouched at 1 percent as it meets Thursday amid a still-uncertain global economic outlook, but may raise its 2010 growth projection for the eurozone. » read more

Keywords: uncertain global global economic economic outlook growth projection still uncertain Date: 09-02-2010

US forces still in fight at end of combat mission

By LARA JAKES and MAYA ALLERUZZO | Posted: Wednesday, September 1, 2010 10:42 pm Even as President Barack Obama was announcing the end of combat in Iraq, American soldiers were sealing off a northern village early Wednesday as their Iraqi partners raided houses and arrested dozens of suspected insurgents. » read more

Keywords: world news iraqi partners partners raided raided houses arrested dozens Date: 09-02-2010

Kabul Bank braces for run on deposits after doubts

By DEB RIECHMANN and RAHIM FAIEZ | Posted: Wednesday, September 1, 2010 9:46 pm Managers of Afghanistan's largest bank braced for a run on deposits Thursday, a day after nervous customers showed up in droves to take out their money following the resignation of two top executives allegations of mismanagement and unorthodox lending practices. » read more

Keywords: world news their money money following customers showed nervous customers Date: 09-02-2010

Calderon: Mexico shows gains in security, economy

Posted: Wednesday, September 1, 2010 8:31 pm President Felipe Calderon delivered his latest "state of the nation" report to Congress on Wednesday, saying Mexico has made gains in security and is enjoying its strongest economic growth in a dozen years. » read more

Keywords: world news saying mexico strongest economic economic growth wednesday saying Date: 09-02-2010

July unemployment up in about half of US cities

Posted: Wednesday, September 1, 2010 3:10 pm The unemployment rate rose in nearly half of the nation's 372 largest metro areas in July, as the pace of hiring slowed from earlier this year. » read more

Keywords: hiring slowed metro areas largest metro Date: 09-01-2010

Ponzi scheme shakes West African nation of Benin

By VIRGILE AHISSOU and ARTIS HENDERSON | Posted: Wednesday, September 1, 2010 12:06 pm More than a hundred thousand people in the tiny West African nation of Benin have lost their savings in a Ponzi scheme run by a now-defunct company that appeared to be publicly endorsed by the country's president. » read more

Keywords: world news defunct company publicly endorsed ponzi scheme their savings Date: 09-01-2010

Chile rescuers divided over how much to tell trapped miners

Controversy erupts over attempts to keep trapped miners' spirits up by censoring bad news in newspapers and family letters The 33 trapped Chilean miners were today delivered their first hot meals in nearly a month, as a debate broke out over how much information should be shared with the men before they are rescued. » read more

Keywords: world news chile miners trapped government Date: 09-01-2010

Gallery director defends decision to swap Gainsborough for African works

First black director of collection at National Gallery in Cape Town accused of 'Wal-Marting South African art' Riason Naidoo knows how to ruffle feathers. » read more

Keywords: world news painting naidoo gallery history Date: 09-01-2010

Tradition ends: No Michigan state fair this year

By COREY WILLIAMS | Posted: Wednesday, September 1, 2010 2:24 am Rabbit breeder Rob Usakowski typically spends the week before Labor Day helping his daughters show their Jersey Woolies and Holland Lops at the Michigan State Fair. » read more

Keywords: jersey woolies michigan state their jersey before labor usakowski typically Date: 09-01-2010

Barack Obama on the end of US combat missions in Iraq

• Obama urges Americans to 'turn the page' on Iraq • 'Patriots supported this war and patriots opposed it' • Swift change in focus from Iraq to state of US economy Preamble: Tonight, President Obama addresses the American people to mark the historic moment that occurred earlier today: the official end of US combat missions in Iraq. » read more

Keywords: world news barack obama president people speech Date: 09-01-2010

Israeli settlers to resume building on West Bank after Hebron killings

West Bank settlers to defy freeze on construction, putting further strain on contentious issue in this week's peace talks West Bank settlers have pledged to resume building from 6pm tonight in defiance of the Israeli government's freeze on construction and in direct response to last night's killing of four people by Hamas gunmen. » read more

Keywords: world news israel attack israeli palestinian Date: 09-01-2010

Barack Obama ends the war in Iraq. 'Now it's time to turn the page'

US president delivers on key election promise and thanks troops for 'job well done' – but cautions against triumphalism Barack Obama formally brought an end to US combat operations in Iraq last night, seven years and 165 days after the invasion began, and declared it was time for America "to turn the page". » read more

Keywords: world news barack obama troops president combat Date: 09-01-2010

'Unprecedented' challenge to save Chilean miners

By BRADLEY BROOKS | Posted: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 2:10 pm The effort to save 33 Chilean men trapped deep in a mine is an unprecedented challenge, mining safety experts said Tuesday. » read more

Keywords: world news means months harrowing three safety experts mining safety Date: 08-31-2010

Iraqis approach end of US combat role with worry

By BARBARA SURK and REBECCA SANTANA | Posted: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 6:25 am As Vice President Joe Biden presides over the formal end to U. » read more

Keywords: world news combat operations biden presides Date: 08-31-2010

The new kind of sex party sweeping the US

Expectant couples are holding celebrations at which they reveal the sex of their baby. » read more

Keywords: world news world news parties reveal checked Date: 08-31-2010

A trillion-dollar catastrophe. Yes, Iraq was a headline war

Mission accomplished? » read more

Keywords: world news iraq saddam western occupation Date: 08-31-2010

Pakistan's problem is deeper than match fixing

Amid Pakistan's general lawlessness, is it any wonder that cricketers have lost their way? » read more

Keywords: world news cricket cricket cricketers pakistan Date: 08-31-2010

Letters: A sad day for cricket and journalism

I was saddened by your leading article ( Cricket and corruption: a sport that needs fixing , 30 August). » read more

Keywords: world news cricket cricket cricketers pakistan Date: 08-31-2010

Nigeria: Shell says $1.1B oil pipeline nearly done

Posted: Monday, August 30, 2010 7:52 am Royal Dutch Shell PLC says a $1. » read more

Keywords: restive southern southern delta almost complete through nigeria running through Date: 08-30-2010

Iraq withdrawal: Amid heat and broken promises, only the ice man cometh

After seven years and $53bn of US reconstruction money, Baghdad still relies on slabs of ice to keep cool On a pot-holed backstreet in eastern Baghdad, Saad Turki is sweltering under a corrugated tin roof, manning a giant pulley. » read more

Keywords: world news iraq baghdad country government Date: 08-30-2010

US homeowners flock to Florida event in desperate bid to save properties

More than 20,000 American mortgagees to hit Palm Beach as Naca's five-day mortgage modification marathon gets under way In the pre-dawn darkness of a steamy night of sub-tropical rain, a queue of anxious, soggy people snakes around the palm trees outside a cavernous Florida convention centre. » read more

Keywords: world news us housing and sub-prime crisis mortgage property housing Date: 08-30-2010

Questions loom over drug given to sleepless vets

By MATTHEW PERRONE | Posted: Monday, August 30, 2010 12:05 am Andrew White returned from a nine-month tour in Iraq beset with signs of post-traumatic stress disorder: insomnia, nightmares, constant restlessness. » read more

Keywords: restlessness doctors constant restlessness doctors tried symptoms using using three Date: 08-30-2010

NKorean leader Kim visits Chinese city Harbin

By DAVID WIVELL | Posted: Sunday, August 29, 2010 8:30 am North Korean leader Kim Jong Il visited China's northeastern city of Harbin on Sunday while on a secretive trip reportedly aimed at drumming up support for a succession plan involving his youngest son, a news report said. » read more

Keywords: world news reportedly aimed sunday while visited china korean leader Date: 08-29-2010

Turning to censorship betrays South Africans

President Zuma's government has proposed laws that will help to silence critics in the media. » read more

Keywords: world news nelson mandela africa national government Date: 08-29-2010

Trapped miners: depression fears mar 'miracle' as Chileans rally around

The people of Chile offer overwhelming support to the families of the 33 men amid concern the miners' spirits are flagging It was a week of celebrations that could not last. » read more

Keywords: world news chile miners chilean people Date: 08-29-2010

Of course we must fight for women around the world

Those who argue that a society's attitude to female rights is 'cultural' ignore the stark economic realities As the debate rages over the withdrawal of British and US troops in Afghanistan, there are those who argue that the appalling treatment of women under the Taliban is a peripheral issue. » read more

Keywords: world news afghanistan female economic families Date: 08-29-2010

Let's have a scientific Olympiad as well as one devoted to the arts

The widespread ignorance of science reflects badly on a nation with a such a questing and inventive history The prospect of the Cultural Olympiad accompanying the London Olympics in two years' time fills me with an unreasonable sense of dread. » read more

Keywords: world news science genome science british Date: 08-29-2010

Feisal Rauf: Ground Zero's lightning rod

US State Department favourite he might be, but his plans to open a cultural centre for Muslims close to the site of the Twin Towers have seen him reviled For the first time in a long while, Feisal Rauf is avoiding the press. » read more

Keywords: world news ground zero american park51 america Date: 08-29-2010

London in the blitz: How crime flourished under cover of the blackout

As the 70th anniversary of the start of the blitz approaches, Duncan Campbell reveals how black marketeers, thieves and looters took advantage of the misfortunes of war The first people to be liberated by Britain in the second world war were our own criminals. » read more

Keywords: world news social history people britain london Date: 08-29-2010