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Nigerian football star sentenced to 40 lashes in Sudan
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A Nigerian football star on Thursday said he had been sentenced to 40 lashes in Sudan after being wrongly convicted of drunk driving in Khartoum.
November 13, 2009, 5:45 am -
Ex-French minister links Chirac to arms scandal
PARIS (Reuters) - Former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua, convicted last month for his role in an arms scandal in the 1990s, accused former President Jacques Chirac on Thursday of letting illegal weapons sales to Angola go ahead.
November 13, 2009, 5:40 am -
Obama sets off for Asia, China looms large
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama left for Asia on Thursday with the U.S. economy, jobs and a yawning trade deficit with China looming large on his agenda.
November 13, 2009, 5:21 am -
Iran exile group: Khamenei tightens intelligence grip
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has created a powerful new intelligence organization to try to quell any further public unrest following June's disputed election, an exiled Iranian opposition group said on Thursday.
November 13, 2009, 4:57 am -
Aid freeze in post-coup Honduras hurting poor
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Poor Hondurans are going hungry and their sick children cannot obtain medicines as donors cut aid to the country following a June coup that deposed President Manuel Zelaya, doctors and aid workers say.
November 13, 2009, 4:43 am -
Bikinis, hugs and hairy heroics on world records day
LONDON (AFP) - Stripping down to bikinis, cuddling strangers in railway stations and dragging buses with their hair, thousands of people across the globe attempted to break curious world records on Thursday.
November 13, 2009, 4:42 am -
Touchline ban for Fergie over 'unfit ref' slur
LONDON (AFP) - Sir Alex Ferguson was given a four-match touchline ban for improper conduct by the Football Association (FA) here on Thursday following an outspoken attack on referee Alan Wiley.
November 13, 2009, 4:42 am -
Food summit dilutes aid targets, France wants more
ROME (Reuters) - A draft declaration to be made at next week's world food summit ducks new targets on agricultural aid and the fight against hunger, but France said on Thursday it wanted firmer pledges on finance and market regulation.
November 13, 2009, 4:33 am -
Russian opposition slates Medvedev election reforms
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's pro-Western opposition on Thursday dismissed President Dmitry Medvedev's promises to reform the political system as empty and said they saw little prospect of an easing of Kremlin domination.
November 13, 2009, 4:26 am -
EU offers plan to protect falling swordfish stocks
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The swordfish now ranks as one of the Mediterranean's most vulnerable species, the European Union said on Thursday, proposing new measures to protect diminishing stocks.
November 13, 2009, 4:19 am -
Enke suicide note 'said sorry': therapist
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) - Germany goalkeeper Robert Enke left a note apologising for the desperate suicide plan he had made in the hours before taking his own life, it was revealed on Thursday.
November 13, 2009, 3:55 am -
Sri Lanka top general retires, may run for president
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's top general, who engineered the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam after a 25-year war, submitted his resignation on Thursday amid speculation he will run for president.
November 13, 2009, 3:25 am -
Israel hints at Syria opening after Sarkozy meet
PARIS (AFP) - Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met French President Nicolas Sarkozy for talks on the crisis in the Middle East peace process and appeared to open the door to talks with Syria.
November 13, 2009, 2:59 am -
Deforestation threatens Indonesia's Papua region
JAYAPURA (AFP) - Logging and agribusiness is threatening environmental destruction in Indonesia's Papua region, one of the world's last vast wildernesses, local leaders said on Thursday.
November 13, 2009, 2:56 am -
Thai crisis deepens as Thaksin finds Cambodian base
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Emboldened by a rousing welcome in Cambodia, fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra is rallying supporters from just over the border, upping the ante in Thailand's political crisis.
November 13, 2009, 2:53 am -
Cambodia, Thailand expel senior diplomats
BANGKOK (AFP) - Cambodia expelled a Thai diplomat and Thailand reciprocated on Thursday in a row over Phnom Penh's naming of fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra as an adviser, a Thai government spokesman said.
November 13, 2009, 2:44 am -
Filipino boxer Pacquiao unfazed by Cotto
LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AFP) - Manny Pacquiao says even at his maximum fighting weight he still has the lightning hand speed and ring savvy to counter the raw power of Miguel Cotto.
November 13, 2009, 2:25 am -
Passions run high over Belgian bridge plan
ANTWERP (Reuters) - The Lange Wapper is a mischievous shape-shifting giant who in Flemish folklore taunts the people of Antwerp.
November 13, 2009, 1:50 am -
Medvedev warns Russia opposition not to rock boat
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Dmitry Medvedev warned Russia's opposition in his annual address on Thursday not to use democracy as a cover to "destabilise the state and split society."
November 13, 2009, 1:36 am -
Mike Tyson in scuffle at LA airport
US police are investigating conflicting accounts of an airport scuffle between Mike Tyson and a photographer that resulted in both being booked and released.
November 13, 2009, 1:10 am
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