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Blasts temporarily shut down Iraq-Turkey pipeline
Overnight blasts in southeastern Turkey on Thursday temporarily shut down a pipeline pumping oil from Iraq, with Kurdish rebels suspected to be behind the explosions, authorities said. Three blasts hit the section of the pipeline running near the border city of Idil in the Sirnak province, sparking a fire, said a statement by the Sirnak regional…
Malaysia axes Singapore ballet show over tights
Authorities in Muslim-majority Malaysia have abruptly cancelled a show by a Singapore ballet troupe amid concern that their costumes would be too revealing, a dance group said Thursday. Bilqis Hijjas, president of Malaysian arts group MyDance Alliance, said performers from the Singapore Dance Theatre were denied visas for the performance scheduled for this weekend due to the “indecency of…
Mali slips into chaos as world gropes for response
Fears mounted Thursday that Al Qaeda-linked Islamists were turning Mali into a rogue state despite the announcement by Tuareg rebels that their 10-week military offensive was complete. As the Tuareg trumpeted the success of a decades-old struggle to “liberate” their homeland, their fundamentalist comrades-turned-rivals began imposing sharia in northern Mali, also leaving an…
China artist Ai Weiwei ordered to remove home webcams
Chinese artist and government critic Ai Weiwei said he was ordered to take down four live webcams he installed in his home this week to mock authorities’ round-the-clock surveillance of him. Ai, who was held in secret detention for 81 days last year as part of a widespread clampdown on dissent in China, said authorities had…
Coroner’s final report: Whitney Houston drowned after ingesting cocaine, other drugs
LOS ANGELES — Pop legend Whitney Houston may have overdosed on drugs and alcohol before drowning face-down in her bathtub, coroners said, giving grisly details of her shocking death in February. The 48-year-old was found lying face down in her bathtub in the Beverly Hilton hotel, the Los Angeles County…
N.Y. residents cry foul over university growth plans
NEW YORK — Plans to expand the New York University campus in Greenwich Village are running into resistance from local residents, who say it would destroy a historic section of Manhattan. A local coalition that includes 50 area business owners is demanding that the university modify plans that would add…
Snake forces Australian flight to make emergency landing
SYDNEY — An Australian pilot was given the fright of his life when a snake slithered from the dashboard of the plane he was flying, forcing him to make an emergency landing, according to airline officials. Braden Blennerhassett was on a freight run for Air Frontier from Darwin to the…
Oakland shooting suspect One Goh charged with seven counts of murder
Former nursing student had recently sought tuition refund after leaving school for ‘anger management issues,’ police say A former student at a private Christian college in California has been charged with murder in relation to a shooting spree that ended with the deaths of seven people and left three others…
Developing countries face digital divide: study
SAN FRANCISCO — The World Economic Forum said Wednesday that the BRICS countries, despite their booming economies, are lagging behind their rivals when it comes to capitalizing on Internet technologies. The Switzerland-based non-profit group released a report highlighting that the world’s most developed countries dominate the top of a “networked…
Clinton warns Iran time not ‘infinite’ for talks
WASHINGTON — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday warned Iran that time was not “infinite” for diplomacy and that “all options remain on the table” after a dispute over the venue of talks. Clinton said that the European Union would look into setting a time and place for…
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