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42 killed in Iraq attacks as Qaeda plants flagKut, Iraq (AFP) Aug 3, 2010 Twin car bombs in south Iraq killed 33 people on Tuesday while Al-Qaeda fighters hoisted their flag having shot dead five police in Baghdad, a day after the US vowed no delays to a major troop pullout. The attack in Kut, 160 kilometres (100 miles) south of the Iraqi capital, the first car bombing in the city since the US invasion in 2003, occurred amid concerns that the conflict-wracked nation's security may be unravelling. Overall, 42 people were killed in violence on Tuesday, officials said, j ... read more |
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Vienna (AFP) Aug 3, 2010Millions in secret Liechtenstein accounts, links to Saddam Hussein and Moamer Kadhafi, and an explosive political diary: the latest saga surrounding deceased Austrian far-right leader Joerg Haider reads like a thriller. The weekly magazine Profil dropped the bombshell over the weekend: Haider, killed in a drunk-driving accident in October 2008 aged 58, had allegedly deposited 45 million euro ... more  
Washington (AFP) Aug 3, 2010The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on 21 firms it believes are front companies for the Iranian government, stepping up pressure on the Islamic republic over its nuclear program. Accusing Tehran of trying to dodge sanctions by setting up opaque trading companies, the Treasury Department named a host of banking, mining and other companies spread throughout Europe and Japan as gover ... more 
Washington (AFP) Aug 3, 2010US Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair John Kerry announced Tuesday that the panel would delay until mid-September its vote on approving a landmark nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia. "My hope is that we can do this expeditiously when we come back, and I will postpone the committee vote on the treaty until immediately after the August recess," he said, one day before the panel ha ... more |
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BP begins crucial well 'kill' in Gulf of MexicoNew Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) Aug 3, 2010 BP began operations Tuesday to permanently plug the runaway well that has brought environmental and economic ruin to the Gulf of Mexico and spilled more oil into the sea than ever before. Engineers launched their long-awaited static kill at 2000 GMT, ramming heavy fluids into the blown-out Macondo well to force the crude back down into a reservoir almost 3.5 miles (5.7 kilometers) beneath the surface of the sea. Having conducted "text-book" tests that showed the oil could be subdued, BP was opti ... read more |
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