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Russia’s spies must learn from betrayal: Medvedev (Reuters)

November 12th, 2010

A billboard with a view of Moscow's Kremlin reflects in a puddle as Muscovites walk past it in the centre of Moscow in 2006. A top Russian spy turned double agent helped Washington crack a major Moscow spy ring that sparked the worst post-Cold War espionage crisis between the two countries, media and a lawmaker said Thursday.(AFP/File/Denis Sinyakov)Reuters - President Dmitry Medvedev told Russia’s once mighty spy agency on Friday to put its house in order after a senior spymaster betrayed a network of agents to the…

France: Airlines must cut flights in half Tuesday (AP)

October 18th, 2010

French Union workers burn tires to block the entrance of the oil refinery of Grandpuits eastern of Paris, Monday, Oct. 18 , 2010. Some oil workers pledged to keep up a protest at refineries, and one union warned of looming gasoline shortages as an open-ended strike against President Nicolas Sarkozy's plan to raise the retirement age to 62 entered its seventh day. (AP Photo/ Francois Mori)AP - France’s civil aviation authority says airlines must drastically cut back on their flights into France on Tuesday due to strikes over the government’s pension reform bill.


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French ex-trader must pay $6.7 billion for fraud (AP)

October 5th, 2010

Jerome Kerviel, center, followed by his lawyer Olivier Metzner, second right, arrives at the Paris courthouse, Tuesday Oct. 5, 2010. The Paris court will hand down a verdict in the case of the former French trader accused of masterminding one of history's biggest trading frauds and costing one of France's largest banks billions in losses. Kerviel, the 33-year-old former index futures trader at Societe Generale SA, risks five years in prison and a euro 375,000 ($513,000) fine on charges related to the claim that he covered up bets worth nearly euro 50 billion, or more than the bank was worth, between late 2007 and early 2008. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)AP - Ex-trader Jerome Kerviel was convicted on all counts Tuesday in history’s biggest rogue trading scandal, sentenced to at least three years in prison and ordered to pay his…

Ex-French trader must pay $6.7 billion for fraud (AP)

October 5th, 2010

Jerome Kerviel, center, followed by his lawyer Olivier Metzner, second right, arrives at the Paris courthouse, Tuesday Oct. 5, 2010. The Paris court will hand down a verdict in the case of the former French trader accused of masterminding one of history's biggest trading frauds and costing one of France's largest banks billions in losses. Kerviel, the 33-year-old former index futures trader at Societe Generale SA, risks five years in prison and a euro 375,000 ($513,000) fine on charges related to the claim that he covered up bets worth nearly euro 50 billion, or more than the bank was worth, between late 2007 and early 2008. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)AP - Former Societe Generale SA trader Jerome Kerviel was convicted on all counts Tuesday in one of history’s biggest trading frauds, sentenced to three years in jail and ordered…

Ex-Societe Generale trader must pay $6.7 billion (AP)

October 5th, 2010

ALTERNATE CROP TO PAR101 DATED OCT 5 2010 - Jerome Kerviel, followed by his lawyer Olivier Metzner, arrives at the Paris courthouse, Tuesday Oct. 5, 2010. The Paris court will hand down a verdict in the case of the former French trader accused of masterminding one of history's biggest trading frauds and costing one of France's largest banks billions in losses. Kerviel, the 33-year-old former index futures trader at Societe Generale SA, risks five years in prison and a euro 375,000 ($513,000) fine on charges related to the claim that he covered up bets worth nearly euro 50 billion, or more than the bank was worth, between late 2007 and early 2008. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)AP - A Paris court ordered former Societe Generale SA trader Jerome Kerviel on Tuesday to pay the bank a mind-numbing euro4.9 billion ($6.7 billion) for his role in one…

Indian court: Hindus, Muslims must share holy site (AP)

September 30th, 2010

Hindu priests celebrate after hearing the first reports on the court verdict in Ayodhya, India, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010. An Indian court ruled Thursday that a disputed holy site that has sparked bloody communal riots across the country in the past should be divided between the Hindu and Muslim communities. However, the court gave the Hindu community control over the section where the now demolished Babri Mosque stood and where a small makeshift tent-shrine to the Hindu god Rama rests. While both Muslim and Hindu lawyers vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court, the compromise ruling seemed unlikely to set off a new round of violence, as the government had feared. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)AP - An Indian court ruled Thursday that a disputed holy site that sparked bloody riots in the past should now be divided between the Hindu and Muslim communities.


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Afghan vote observers: Fraud must be investigated (AP)

September 20th, 2010

Workers dismantle posters of election candidates a day after parliamentary election in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)AP - Afghan election observers urged President Hamid Karzai’s government on Monday to allow an independent investigation into reports of widespread fraud during last weekend’s parliamentary elections, including intimidation of…

Machel: Mozambique must tackle broad food crisis (AP)

September 10th, 2010

AP - The widow of independent Mozambique’s first president says the debate over food in her impoverished homeland does not end with the government’s reversal on bread prices.

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Panel: India must secure elephant reserves (AP)

September 1st, 2010

FILE -- In this April 9, 2007 file photo, a herd of wild elephants play at the Deepor Beel Wildlife Sanctuary on the outskirts of Gauhati, India. India unveiled an ambitious plan Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010 to save its dwindling elephant population with a multi-pronged strategy including creating new reserves, improvement of habitats and strict norms for elephants in captivity. 'Elephant corridors' which the animals use to move across forested regions straddling different states would be secured and protected by law to prevent encroachment by mining, irrigation or industrial projects leading to the destruction of the habitat Jairam Ramesh, minister for environment and forests said while declaring the elephant India's 'National Heritage Animal.â? (AP Photo/Anupam Nath, File)AP - India should protect its elephant population by securing its wildlife reserves, curbing poaching and restricting development in the corridors they use to travel between forested areas, a panel…

Chile miners must move tons of rocks in own rescue (AP)

August 29th, 2010

Chile's Mining Minister Laurence Golborne, center, holds a pipe used to communicate with 33 miners trapped alive in the collapsed San Jose mine in Copiapo, Chile, Sunday Aug. 29, 2010. The trapped miners half mile underground will have to aid their own escape clearing tons of rock that will fall as the rescue hole is drilled, the engineer in charge of drilling said Sunday. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)AP - The 33 trapped Chilean miners who have astonished the world with their discipline a half mile underground will have to aid their own escape — clearing thousands of…

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