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French ex-president Chirac convicted in graft trial
PARIS (Reuters) – A judge found former French president Jacques Chirac guilty on Thursday of misusing public funds, making him the country’s first head of state to be convicted since Nazi collaborator Marshal Philippe Petain in 1945. Chirac, 79, was absent from the court as the judge declared him guilty…
Toxic liquor kills 126 in eastern India
A batch of home-brewed liquor thought to have been laced with the highly toxic chemical methanol has killed 126 people in eastern India, an official told AFP on Thursday. Hospitals near the impoverished district 30 kilometres (20 miles) south of West Bengal state capital Kolkata have been overwhelmed by victims,…
Jewish settlers set fire to mosque, defy Netanyahu
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – People thought to be Jewish settlers set fire to a mosque, damaging its interior, in the West Bank on Thursday after Israeli forces tore down structures in a settler-outpost built without government approval. The vandalism appeared to be the latest act of defiance by militant settlers whom…
Putin ‘pleased’ by Russian protests
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday said he was pleased with the protest wave that shook his 12-year domination of Russia but rejected opposition claims that parliamentary elections were rigged. In his annual phone-in session, Putin sought to show he was relaxed about the mass protests alleging fraud in parliamentary…
Iraqis burn U.S. flags to celebrate troop pullout
FALLUJAH, Iraq — Hundreds of Iraqis set alight US and Israeli flags on Wednesday as they celebrated the impending pullout of American forces from the country in the former insurgent bastion of Fallujah. Shouting slogans in support of the “resistance,” the demonstrators held up banners and placards inscribed with phrases…
Nazi hunters launch new drive to prosecute war criminals
BERLIN — The Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center launched a new drive in Germany Wednesday to catch the last perpetrators of the Holocaust still at large based on a major legal precedent set this year. Efraim Zuroff told a news conference that the Center would offer a reward of up to…
French woman faces two years in jail for wearing veil
A 32-year-old mother in France could go to jail for two years after she refused to perform 15 days of “citizenship” service for wearing an Islamic veil. Hind Ahmas was arrested outside Elysee Palace in Paris on April 11 after she disobeyed an order to remove her niqab. Magistrates in…
Desperate British students ‘turning to prostitution’
LONDON (Reuters) – Desperate British students, faced with rising costs on the back of government austerity measures, are turning to prostitution, gambling and other dangerous pursuits to fund their studies, support workers and student leaders said on Wednesday. The English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP), a welfare body for sex workers, said it estimated…
Islamists pursue gains in Egypt’s phased election
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s rival Islamist groups sought more gains in the second round of a parliamentary election on Wednesday, with liberals also fighting for a voice in an army-led transition that began with the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak. Egypt’s first free election in six decades is unfolding in three stages…
Epic race to South Pole remembered on 100th anniversary
One hundred years ago Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen won the race to the South Pole in a dramatic and ultimately fatal duel with British adventurer Robert Scott that captured the world’s attention. On December 14, 1911, not long before the outbreak of World War I as nationalism was on the rise in Europe, Amundsen and the…
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