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Indonesian court gives four others life in prison in Bali drugs trial DENPASAR, Indonesia - An Indonesian court on Tuesday sentenced two young Australian men to die by firing squad for attempting to smuggle heroin from the resort island of Bali, verdicts that could strain ties with Canberra...

U.S. takes issue with preliminary report; document urges closing prison UNITED NATIONS - A U.N. investigation has concluded that the United States committed acts amounting to torture at Guantanamo Bay, including force-feeding detainees and subjecting them to prolonged solitary confinement...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran has resumed some uranium enrichment work, geared to making fuel for nuclear reactors or bombs, in defiance of a vote to engage the U.N. Security Council in efforts to rein in Tehran's atomic ambitions, diplomats said. Iran said earlier on Monday that it would...

CARSON - BP and Edison International said Friday they plan to team up on a $1 billion hydrogen-fueled power plant in southern California. The plant, near the BP refinery in Carson 20 miles (32 km) south of Los Angeles, would come online by 2011 and generate 500 megawatts of electricity...

WASHINGTON - The American bald eagle, after battling back from the threat of extinction because of habitat loss and DDT, took another step Monday toward coming off the endangered species list. The Interior Department's Fish and Wildlife Service issued draft voluntary guidelines spelling out...

ONE of the world's last Stone Age tribes has murdered two fishermen whose boat drifted on to a desert island in the Indian Ocean. The Sentinelese, thought to number between 50 and 200, have rebuffed all contact with the modern world, firing a shower of arrows at anyone who comes within range...

Moscow: Amid the escalating crisis around Iran's nuclear programme, Russia said Thursday that it will still arm Tehran with missiles that can secure nuclear facilities from attacks. "We concluded a contract for the supply of air-defence systems to Iran and there is no reason not to fulfil it,"...

BERLIN (AP) - Feb. 10, 2006 - A German businessman who printed the name of the Quran on toilet paper and offered the rolls for sale to mosques and media will face trial for disturbing the peace. The man, identified only as Manfred van H., is scheduled to go on trial Feb. 23 at a court in...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Arab fury at the West intensified on Monday after images of British soldiers apparently beating Iraqi youths were aired in a region already inflamed by caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad. Some Arabs said the video, like the Danish newspaper cartoons, was proof of the...

I posted this elsewhere and will no doubt get lost, perhaps it bares repeating. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry Lamb Monday, February 6, 2006 At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last week, the United Nations Development Program...

Talks on normalizing relations with Japan are spotlighting just how vast Pyongyang's kidnap scheme was. By Hideko Takayama and Evan Thomas Newsweek International Feb. 20, 2006 issue - The 13-year-old girl was on her way home from badminton practice when she disappeared. Every night for five...

(CNN) -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair has promised to investigate allegations of abuse by his country's forces in Iraq after a newspaper released what it said was a video showing soldiers savagely beating Iraqi youths. The News of the World said on Sunday the alleged attack by eight...

SAN FRANCISCO - The key to kicking what President Bush calls the nation's oil addiction could very well lie in termite guts, canvas-eating jungle bugs and other microbes genetically engineered to spew enzymes that turn waste into fuel. It may seem hard to believe that microscopic bugs...

BRISBANE, Australia - Several tourist beaches along Australia's popular Gold Coast were closed again Sunday because of a massive feeding frenzy involving more than 100 sharks, a lifeguard official said. Several beaches in Queensland state were closed for the second straight day after more than...

ROME, Italy (Reuters) -- First it was Napoleon. Now it is Jesus Christ. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has compared himself to both, prompting the open scorn of his political opponents and even the quietly raised eyebrows of his coalition partners. "I am the Jesus Christ of...

CALGARY -- The cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that sparked riots worldwide angered Calgary Muslims yesterday after the caricatures were published in a city paper. The Jewish Free Press -- an independent paper -- reprinted three of the cartoons in its Thursday edition alongside paintings of...

U2's Bono Lavishes Praise on President Bush and American Generosity to the Poor By John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, February 10, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The lead singer of the famous rock band U2 which just this week claimed an incredible five Grammy awards, has praised President George W. Bush...

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:roll: :roll: TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's hard-line president on Saturday accused the United States and Europe of being "hostages of Zionism" and said they should pay a heavy price for the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that have triggered worldwide protests. Denmark —...

says Bolivian official President also promotes legal uses of plant, while fighting cocaine trade LA PAZ, Bolivia - Bolivia’s foreign minister says coca leaves, the raw material for cocaine, are so nutritious they should be included on school breakfast menus. “Coca has more calcium than milk...