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VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI has rebuked Irish bishops for "grave errors of judgment" in handling clerical sex abuse and ordered a Vatican investigation into the Irish church to wipe out the scourge. There was no mention of any Vatican responsibility in the scandal and no specific punishments …
Los Angeles Times · March 20, 2010, 5:00 AM (PST)
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(RFE/RL) – Protesters rallied today in Vladivostok, Irkutsk, and St. Petersburg as part of planned Russia-wide demonstrations against the government’s handling of the economic crisis. In Vladivostok, hundreds of protesters demanded tax cuts and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s resignation …
Radio Free Europe · March 20, 2010, 5:00 AM (PST)
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NEW DELHI (AP) – Indian investigators will be able to question a Chicago man who pleaded guilty to scouting targets for the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai , a senior U.S. official said Saturday. Headley has pleaded guilty to making surveillance videos in preparation for the siege of India’s …
Daily Press · March 20, 2010, 4:25 AM (PST)
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U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks to the media after talks in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 19, 2010. Ban Ki-moon is participating in a meeting of the quartet of Middle East peace mediators – the U.S., Russia, the EU and the United Nations.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) Israeli …
Vail Daily News · March 20, 2010, 5:00 AM (PST)
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LONDON – British Airways canceled more than 1,000 flights after its cabin crew launched a three-day strike Saturday, wreaking havoc on the plans of tens of thousands of passengers just before the busy spring holiday season. Hoping to keep as many passengers happy as possible, BA scrambled to …
Dayton Daily News · March 20, 2010, 4:53 AM (PST)
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BANGKOK – Thousands of red-clad Thai protesters began to snake across Bangkok on Saturday in a festive travelling rally aimed at winning over the city’s residents to their flagging anti-government campaign. Police said around 20,000 "Red Shirts" joined the convoy across the capital in pick-up trucks …
AsiaOne · March 20, 2010, 4:32 AM (PST)
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WASHINGTON – In a fresh appeal directly to the Iranian people, President Barack Obama says in an online video that the United States wants more educational and cultural exchanges for their students and better access to the Internet to give them a more hopeful future. In the video, the second of …
Houston Chronicle · March 20, 2010, 4:25 AM (PST)
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Evil is not a color. It has no particular religion nor creed, nor style of dress, nor gender nor geographic home. Evil is an equal opportunity employer. One hopes we learn at least that much from the adventures of Jihad Jane. That, according to federal prosecutors, is the name Colleen LaRose used …
Oshkosh Northwestern · March 20, 2010, 2:09 AM (PST)
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KABUL – The arrests of top Taliban figures in Pakistan abruptly halted secret U.N. contacts with the insurgency at a time when the efforts were gathering momentum, the U.N.’s former envoy to Afghanistan said Friday. Kai Eide, a Norwegian diplomat who just stepped down from the U.N. post here in the …
msnbc.com · March 20, 2010, 2:30 AM (PST)
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BEIJING – China’s capital woke up to orange-tinted skies Saturday as the strongest sandstorm so far this year hit the country’s north, making breathing the air "very bad for health." The sky glowed and a thin dusting of sand covered Beijing, causing workers to muffle their faces in vast Tiananmen …
msnbc.com · March 20, 2010, 5:00 AM (PST)
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