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A U.S. army helicopter flies past the minaret of the 14th of Ramadan mosque in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Oct 30, 2007. The Iraqi government on Tuesday approved draft legislation lifting immunity for foreign private security companies, sending the measure to parliament, following a Sept. 16 shooting incident involving Blackwater USA guards that left 17 Iraqi civilians

Guards plead not guilty in '07 killings in Baghdad

International Herald Tribune

: Five guards for Blackwater Worldwide pleaded not guilty in federal court here on Tuesday to manslaughter and other charges stemming from shootings in Baghdad in 2007 that left at least 17 Iraqis dead. The five guards are Paul Slough, of Keller,...

photo: AP / Marko Drobnjakovi

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Gold May Advance for Eighth Year as 'Perfect Insurance' Sought

Infowars

Nicholas Larkin, Claudia Carpenter and Pham-Duy Nguyen Tuesday, Jan 6, 2008...

India PM says Pakistan "agencies" linked to attack

Infowars

Krittivas Mukherjee Tuesday, Jan 6, 2008 Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh accused Pakistan...

Global Warming? At -10C Britain's colder than the Antarctic.. and experts say it will get ...

Infowars

Benedict Moore-bridger, Joe Murphy and Caroline Grant Tuesday, Jan 6, 2008...

Rice gives U.S. support to Mubarak proposal on Gaza

Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Gabriela Shalev, left, listens while United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, right, speaks at a Security Council meeting about the situation in Gaza at United Nations headquarters in New York, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009

The Star

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday gave U.S. backing to a proposal by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. "We need urgently to conclude a ceasefire that can...

photo: AP / Seth Wenig

Abbas pleads with UN for Gaza help

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gestures as he addresses the Palestine Central Council in the West Bank city of Ramallah Wednesday July 18 2007. Abbas said Wednesday he would call early elections, harshly denouncing the Islamic Hamas in speech before

The Australian

PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas has pressed the UN Security Council to call for an "immediate and full cessation of Israeli aggression" in the Gaza Strip and for the lifting of the "suffocating siege" of the territory. “I call on the...

photo: AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti

Russian gas and the struggle for power

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and his likely successor, First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, left, visit Russia's main flight test center in Zhukovsky, 30 kilometers (19 miles) southeast of Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2008

Belfast Telegraph

The Ukrainian gas crisis, which escalated further yesterday and put Europe's energy supplies into greater jeopardy, is a prime illustration of the unusual status of Russia's state-backed energy giant. According to Gazprom, not only has Ukraine...

photo: AP / Mikhail Metzel

Massacre of innocents as UN school is shelled

Belfast Telegraph

Hundreds of Palestinians had fled their homes for the refuge of the al-Fakhoura school, hoping the blue and white flag of the UN flying over the impromptu shelter would protect them from the Israeli onslaught. The UN had even given the Israeli army...

photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb

Obama offers TV doctor Sanjay Gupta post as surgeon-general

Dr. Sanjay Gupta, right, and Anderson Cooper attend a screening of the environmental documentary "Planet in Peril," Monday, Oct. 8, 2007, in New York. The documentary, about threats to the world's environment, is hosted by CNN anchor Cooper, chief medical correspondent Gupta and Animal Planet host Jeff Co

The Australian

BARACK Obama has reportedly asked CNN medical correspondent and neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta to be surgeon-general in the new US administration. The Washington Post's online service, washingtonpost.com, said Gupta had been offered the job, traditionally...

photo: AP / Diane Bondareff

Barclays unlikely to renew Premier League contract as credit crunch bites

A High Street branch of Barclays Bank, in Wallington, England, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2007. (AP Photo/Tom Hevezi) hf1

The Daily Mail

The Premier League are sounding out Barclays over their appetite to renew their sponsorship, worth nearly £70million over three years, but the omens are not good in the credit crunch. There is still a season-and-a-half to run on the current deal but...

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