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Tsunami sweeps away entire towns on Chile’s devastated coast; security, aid scarce
Tuesday, 2 March 2010 - 9:06amTALCAHUANO, Chile — When the shaking stopped, Marioli Gatica and her extended family huddled in a circle on the floor of their seaside wooden home in this gritty port town, listening to the radio by a lantern’s light.
Argentina asks US help to resolve Falklands spat; Clinton says US will ask both sides to talk
Tuesday, 2 March 2010 - 9:00amBUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina asked for U.S. help Monday in resolving a brewing dispute with Britain over the Southern Atlantic islands that were the subject of a brief war more than 25 years ago and where Britain has begun drilling for oil.
IOC says half the world’s population will tune in to Vancouver Games
Friday, 26 February 2010 - 9:11am VANCOUVER — The 2010 Olympic Games is shaping up to be the most watched Winter Games in history on both old and new media.
More than 300 broadcasters and TV stations and another 100 websites worldwide are showing Olympic coverage.
As elephant poaching deaths skyrocket, Kenya opposes proposal for one-time ivory sale
Friday, 12 March 2010 - 8:43amTSAVO EAST NATIONAL PARK, Kenya — Tracking the wounded elephant to its death bed was easy for the ranger. Hit by a poison arrow, the huge mammal could only drag its hind leg, creating a wide gash across the bush.
Rivals Israel, Syria lay out hopes for development of civilian nuclear energy
Tuesday, 9 March 2010 - 8:10amPARIS, France — Mideast rivals Israel and Syria on Tuesday each announced ambitions to develop nuclear energy, with Israel facing the prospect that its plan could bring new attention to its secretive nuclear activities.
Magnitude 6 earthquake hits eastern Turkey; at least 51 dead as stone homes, minarets tumble
Monday, 8 March 2010 - 8:37amOKCULAR, Turkey — A strong, pre-dawn earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6 struck eastern Turkey on Monday, killing 51 people as it knocked down stone and mud-brick houses and minarets in at least six villages, the government said.
Powerful earthquake hits southern Taiwan; 1 injury reported as buildings sway in Taipei
Thursday, 4 March 2010 - 8:36amTAIPEI, Taiwan — A powerful 6.4-magnitude earthquake rocked southern Taiwan on Thursday morning causing buildings to sway hundreds of miles (kilometres) to the north. Local news reports said at least one person was injured.
Holocaust denier deported from Canada in 2005 freed in Germany
Monday, 1 March 2010 - 9:12am MANNHEIM, Germany — Ernst Zundel, the far-right activist deported from Canada in 2005, was released from a German prison Monday after serving a five-year sentence for denying the Holocaust.
A crowd of some 20 supporters clapped and shouted “bravo” as Zundel emerged from the prison in Mannheim shortly after 8 a. m. Some handed him flowers as he passed through the prison’s steel gates.
Kandahar braces for crush of homeless when spring fighting begins
Friday, 26 February 2010 - 8:49am KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Officials in Kandahar province are stockpiling tents, medical supplies and foodstuffs ahead of the next major military offensive in southern Afghanistan.
The province’s Afghan-Canadian governor, Tooryalai Wesa, said he expects as many as 10,000 people may have to flee their homes when the fighting starts.
Man with grudge crashes plane into IRS building
Friday, 19 February 2010 - 1:52pm AUSTIN, Tex.—A software engineer furious with the U.S. tax agency launched a suicide attack on it yesterday by crashing his small plane into an office building housing nearly 200 federal tax employees—setting off a raging fire that sent workers running for their lives.
At least one person in the building was missing and the pilot was presumed dead, authorities said.
