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Ex. News Corp bosses say they investigated hacking
LONDON (Reuters) – News Corp did all it could to investigate a claim in 2007 that phone hacking was widespread at its News of the World tabloid before concluding there was no evidence to support it, a former human resources executive said on Tuesday. Daniel Cloke, who was in charge…
The world still thinks Americans are “coolest”: poll
LONDON (Reuters) – They may be witnessing their global superpower influence decline in the face of challenges from other emerging players on the world stage, but Americans have been voted the world’s “coolest nationality” in an international poll. Social networking site Badoo.com (www.badoo.com) asked 30,000 people across 15 countries to…
Malaysia seizes nearly 700 elephant tusks
KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysian authorities have seized nearly 700 elephant tusks bound for China, an official said, the latest in a series of hauls indicating Malaysia had become a key ivory transit hub. Inspectors discovered the 695 African elephant tusks, worth three million ringgit ($1 million), on Friday in Klang,…
Turkish PM freezes trade, military ties with Israel
ANKARA — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Tuesday a total freeze in trade and defense ties with Israel amid a dispute with the Jewish state. “We are totally suspending our trade, military, defense industry relations,” Erdogan was quoted as saying by Anatolia news agency.…
U.S. civilian found killed in Kabul
KABUL — An American civilian engineer has been found murdered in mysterious circumstances in Kabul a few days before the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks that triggered the long war in Afghanistan. Afghan and Western security sources told AFP Tuesday that the man’s body was found on Monday and…
World Bank chief believes U.S. will avoid recession
SINGAPORE — World Bank head Robert Zoellick said Tuesday he was confident the United States would not sink into another recession, despite widespread fears over the state of the world’s biggest economy. Zoellick’s comments come just days after official figures showed no jobs were created in the United States in…
Philippines catches ‘largest crocodile on record’
A monster 21-foot (6.4-metre) saltwater crocodile, believed to be the biggest ever captured, has been trapped in the southern Philippines after a spate of fatal attacks, officials said Tuesday. The 1,075-kilogramme (2,370-pound) male is suspected of eating a farmer who went missing in July in the town of Bunawan, and…
Thousands stranded after Japan typhoon kills 41
Thousands of people remained stranded in western Japan Tuesday after the death toll from a fierce typhoon rose to 41, heaping more misery on a nation recovering from the March earthquake and tsunami. Torrential rain brought by powerful Typhoon Talas, which made landfall Saturday and was the deadliest in seven…
Battle under way for soul of ‘United States of Europe’
Star economists and former national leaders now happily argue that resolving the eurozone debt crisis will eventually demand the surrendering of sovereignty to create a fully-fledged United States of Europe. However, as they press for the political integration they say is needed to prevent the currency union collapsing on an…
6.6-magnitude quake hits Indonesia
JAKARTA — A 6.6-magnitude earthquake hit the northern part of Indonesia’s Sumatra island on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, with local reports saying at least one person had been killed. The quake struck at 12:55 am (1755 GMT on Monday) at a depth of 110 kilometres (70 miles), USGS…
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