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Austrian far right leader killed in crash

Sat, 10/11/2008 - 00:03
Joerg Haider was killed in a car accident on Saturday, the national news agency

Oil money: What do Canadians have to show for it?

Fri, 10/10/2008 - 23:05
In Britain, they have been on the same trip -- a petroleum boom, a Tory prime minister, a sharp fiscal decision, a price crash -- but it happened three decades earlier

Venezuela shuts down McDonald's

Fri, 10/10/2008 - 21:38
Caracas has ordered all McDonald's restaurants closed for 48 hours for what it calls irregularities in the financial books of the fast-food chain

Palin abused her office, panel rules

Fri, 10/10/2008 - 21:36
Bipartisan panel rules she was unlawful by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper

Anger erupts over Nobel Peace Prize recipient

Fri, 10/10/2008 - 20:43
Results-oriented Finnish diplomat who pushes for an end to violent conflicts doesn't always please the parties at the table

U.S. ups ante with plan to buy stake in ailing banks

Fri, 10/10/2008 - 20:34
In a move that evokes the '30s, Washington hopes substantial infusion of taxpayer money will help free up lending

Rekindled war triggers crisis in Congo

Fri, 10/10/2008 - 19:41
Thousands displaced, thousands more cut off from humanitarian assistance by sustained fighting

Peruvian prime minister, cabinet resign

Fri, 10/10/2008 - 18:12
Resignations come after audio tapes emerged that link members of APRA party to a plan to steer lucrative petroleum contracts to favoured bidders

G7 pledge to stem financial crisis

Fri, 10/10/2008 - 18:08
Ministers endorse sweeping action plan; U.S. government to buy stock in financial institutions

Two aid workers appeal for release in Somalia

Fri, 10/10/2008 - 14:01
Foreign aid workers seized last month in a restive region of Ethiopia

About 100 Somali migrants feared drowned

Fri, 10/10/2008 - 12:54
UN and Yemeni officials say smugglers forced them overboard in the treacherous Gulf of Aden waters

Thai protest leaders get bail

Fri, 10/10/2008 - 12:50
Release leaves them free to continue their five-month campaign to unseat the government

U.S. said to remove North Korea from blacklist

Fri, 10/10/2008 - 12:46
Move would be an attempt to salvage talks aimed at ending Pyongyang's nuclear program

Byers on the costs of the Afghanistan mission

Fri, 10/10/2008 - 12:02
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Satellite images unveil Georgian torching

Fri, 10/10/2008 - 10:39
Amnesty International says images of damaged South Ossetian villages could be evidence of war crimes

What next for Iceland?

Fri, 10/10/2008 - 09:05
Options faced by the troubled nation

Suicide attack on Pakistani tribal council kills 20

Fri, 10/10/2008 - 08:38
Seventy people were wounded in the attack, which comes a day after a suicide bombing police headquarters in the Pakistani capital

Case of alleged arms dealer proceeds in Bangkok

Fri, 10/10/2008 - 07:16
United States seeking extradition of Russian man alleged to be one of the world's biggest arms dealers

Vietnam to try journalists over corruption stories

Fri, 10/10/2008 - 07:12
Two journalists were arrested May 12 for unspecified inaccuracies in their reporting on a scandal that erupted in 2005

NATO authorizes troops to hit Afghan drug lords

Fri, 10/10/2008 - 07:08
The United States had been pushing for NATO's 50,000 troops to take on a counter-narcotics role to hit back at the Taliban