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Gaza aid boats risk showdown with Israel navyNicosia (AFP) May 28, 2010 Hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists at sea in the eastern Mediterranean were poised late Saturday to launch a bid to break the blockade of Gaza at the risk of a confrontation with the Israeli navy. Two of the seven boats involved were "tampered with," forcing one to drop out and the other to pull into port in Turkish-held north Cyprus for repairs, said Elize Ernshire of the Free Gaza Movement which organised the flotilla. "We are more determined than ever. These actions can be frustrating but ... read more |
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Beijing (AFP) May 30, 2010A man was executed Sunday for carrying out a bloody assault on 32 people, mostly small children, at a kindergarten in eastern China, one of a spate of attacks on schools that shocked the nation. Xu Yuyuan, 47, burst into a classroom in the city of Taixing last month and stabbed children and teachers with a large knife, leaving four victims badly injured. The assault is one of a number th ... more  
New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) May 29, 2010BP offered little insight Saturday as to whether its latest effort to plug a disastrous Gulf of Mexico leak would work, as local officials sought million of dollars from the oil giant. BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said engineers were still feeding heavy drilling fluid into the leaking well head, hoping to overcome it and ultimately seal it with cement, but that the results would n ... more  
Paris (UPI) May 28, 2010 Governments across Europe have begun to prepare their citizens for painful austerity measures in a bid to contain the effects of the debt crisis, sparking mass demonstrations in several countries. In France, tens of thousands of workers took the streets to protest pension reform plans unveiled by President Nicolas Sarkozy. He has identified raising the retirement age as one of his key r ... more |
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Transocean says rig wellhead passed tests ahead of Gulf blastZurich (AFP) May 28, 2010 Transocean, which owns the BP-leased offshore rig that has gushed oil into the Gulf of Mexico, said Friday that special valves to prevent blow-outs passed tests just before the accident. "The deepwater BOP (blow-out preventer) was tested, every week for function and every other week for pressure containment capability," said Steven Newman, chief executive of the Swiss-incorporated, Houston-headquartered firm. "The pressure containment was tested and it passed those tests on April 10. The functio ... read more |
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