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Page 1/12 Time to keep the ball flying
DOHA: A world class event which had been long forgotten has seen the light of day due to the efforts of Qatar Volleyball Association (QVBA). It will be a proud moment for Qatar and QVBA when the first match of the 2009 FIVB Men’s Club Volleyball Championship gets under way at the Aspire Zone [more...]
Posted on:11/3/2009 Serb leader insists he is innocent
THE HAGUE: Radovan Karadzic orchestrated the 1995 Srebrenica massacre and his only regret was “that some Muslim men got away,” a UN prosecutor said yesterday as the trial of the former Bosnian Serb leader focussed on Europe’s worst atrocity since Second World War
Karadzic again boycotted his own [more...]
Posted on:11/3/2009 Belgian PM in race for top EU job
BELGIUM: Belgian Prime Minister Herman van Rompuy’s stock is rising as a strong “consensus” runner for the plum new job of European Union president, diplomats said yesterday.
“There is a consensus around his name, which is rare among the 27” EU nations, said one European diplomat. “No-one is oppo [more...]
Posted on:11/3/2009 Fresh look at history in Eastern Europe, 20 years on
WARSAW: Twenty years after the end of communism, history textbooks in Eastern Europe are lifting the curtain on the taboos once imposed by the regime and giving high school students a fresh look at their past.
“For young people, the communist era is as exotic as ancient Greece,” notes Anna Dzier [more...]
Posted on:11/3/2009 Greece shuts down migrant detention centre
ATHENS: Greece has shut down a migrant detention centre on the island of Lesbos which human rights groups had criticised for appalling living conditions, a government official said yesterday.
“The centre of Pagani, at the island of Lesbos shut down last night,” Deputy Civil Protection Minister Sp [more...]
Posted on:11/3/2009 Italian court to reach verdict in CIA kidnapping
ROME: An Italian court is to reach a verdict this week in the landmark trial of 26 US secret agents in the 2003 abduction of a terror suspect from a Milan street.
The trial, which opened in June 2007, is the highest profile case involving the CIA’s covert “extraordinary rendition” programme in wh [more...]
Posted on:11/3/2009 Senate to work on climate bill despite boycott
WASHINGTON: A key US Senate committee crafting sweeping legislation to combat climate change will keep working with or without its Republican members, who have threatened a boycott, its chairwoman said yesterday.
Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer, who leads the Senate’s Environment and Public Work [more...]
Posted on:11/3/2009 Supreme Court refuses to hear Guantanamo case
WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court refused yesterday to consider the case of a Yemeni detainee held at Guantanamo Bay despite a lower court order for his release.
Without giving an explanation, the Supreme Court said it would not take up the case of Yasin Muhammed Basardh, who was ruled innocent of [more...]
Posted on:11/3/2009 Chile compiles DNA to identify missing loved ones
SANTIAGO: Silvia Munoz has searched for decades for the remains of her father, who was executed during the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Thirty-six years later, she hopes her DNA will help solve the mystery.
Munoz and hundreds of others have given blood samples to a government DNA databa [more...]
Posted on:11/3/2009 Evangelical march in Brazil draws 1.5m Christians
SAO PAULO: More than 1.5m evangelical Christians joined Brazil’s annual “March for Jesus” yesterday, an event sponsored by a church whose leaders recently returned after being imprisoned in the US for money smuggling. Now in its 17th year, the march unites faithful from hundreds of evangelical churc [more...]
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