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Awarding Liu Xiaobo Nobel peace prize may harm China-Norway relations, says FM spokesman
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sat, 10/09/2010 - 00:41.Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to China's Liu Xiaobo desecrated the prize and could harm China-Norway ties, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu on Friday. read more »
Afghanistan's Election: A Look at the Diversity of Headlines
Submitted by Newsbyte on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 12:32.Afghans have voted in a key parliamentary election. There are a number of articles from various sources around the globe. Here is a list of some of the headlines and what agency they come from: read more »
Obama Details Small Business Lending Initiatives
Submitted by Newsbyte on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 21:41.President Obama, who has declared creating jobs one of his top priorities for 2010, has finally unveiled details of his $30 billion plan to increase small-business lending through community banks. read more »
Army used profiles to reject reporters (Afghanistan)
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 08/30/2009 - 11:59.WASHINGTON — The secret profiles commissioned by the Pentagon to rate the work of journalists reporting from Afghanistan were used by military officials to deny disfavored reporters access to Americ read more »
Twitter race between Ashton Kutcher and CNN narrows
Submitted by Newsbyte on Thu, 04/16/2009 - 11:02.The online popularity contest between celebrity Ashton Kutcher and CNN narrowed Thursday, with Kutcher's Twitter following growing considerably overnight. read more »
Opinion: Why South Carolina Doesn't Want 'Stimulus'
Submitted by Newsbyte on Thu, 03/26/2009 - 08:40.America's states are laboratories of democracy. They are both affected by, and relevant to, the larger national debate. read more »
Obama speaks of 'reaching out' to Taliban
Submitted by dontlook on Sun, 03/08/2009 - 09:45.The US president admits that the 'anti-terror' operations in Afghanistan will not lead to victory, urging dialogue with insurgents as a cure. read more »
How Fannie and Freddie seizure affects homeownership
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 09/07/2008 - 15:20.WASHINGTON – Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on Sunday moved to take control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which operated like private companies but had enjoyed implicit government backing until t read more »
Analysis: Biden pick shows lack of confidence
Submitted by newscaster on Sun, 08/24/2008 - 20:12.The candidate of change went with the status quo. read more »
Medvedev says Russia will continue active role in S.Caucasus
Submitted by Newsbyte on Mon, 08/11/2008 - 12:40.MOSCOW, August 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's president said on Monday that Russia will continue its active role in the South Caucasus after the current conflict, and pledged to see through the operation read more »
Beijing tightens security after protests, attack
Submitted by Newsbyte on Mon, 08/04/2008 - 21:45.Authorities in Beijing are tightening security after an attack on a police station in China's north-west and protests in the capital. read more »
Two suspected terrorists identified in W China's Xinjiang
Submitted by Newsbyte on Mon, 08/04/2008 - 21:42.URUMQI, Aug. read more »
Kabul Blast Kills At Least 40
Submitted by Newsbyte on Tue, 07/08/2008 - 00:11.A suicide bomb that struck Kabul on Monday blew off the gates of the Indian Embassy, where Afghans often line up for visas to leave the country. read more »
OBAMA MAKES HISTORY, CLAIMS NOMINATION; Clinton plots her next move
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Once a long shot for the Democratic presidential nomination, Barack Obama, a first-term senator from Illinois, earned enough delegates Tuesday to claim his place in history. read more »
Bush faults Congress for inaction on energy, housing bills
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President Bush, hoping to inoculate his party and his presidential legacy from election-year anger over the economy, heaped criticism on the Democratic-led Congress on Tuesday for "letting the America read more »
Texas officials defend removing FLDS children: Child advocate says state is ready to argue they be placed in foster homes
Submitted by newscaster on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 21:49.Texas lawmakers joined with state child and health advocates Tuesday to defend the removal of 416 children from a polygamous sect's ranch and the separation, a day earlier, of older children from thei read more »
Let them eat ethanol
Submitted by dontlook on Wed, 04/09/2008 - 12:24.SHARON SMITH explains that the source of worsening global hunger is a system that puts greed first. read more »
Was WWII inevitable?: Collection of eyebrow-raising narratives prompts reassessment of conflict
Submitted by newscaster on Sun, 03/23/2008 - 13:07.In 1937, a prominent British politician wrote, "Those who have met Herr (Adolf) Hitler face to face in public, business or on social terms have found a highly competent, cool, well-informed functionar read more »
Chinese Police Fire Tear-Gas at Protesting Tibetan Monks (Tibetan Reporting)
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 03/16/2008 - 18:49.KATHMANDU—Armed Chinese police fired tear-gas Tuesday to disperse a crowd of several hundred protesting Tibetan Buddhist monks near the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, RFA's Tibetan service reports. read more »
Full disclosure: Dalai coterie's secessionist attempts doomed to fail (Chinese News Source)
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 03/16/2008 - 18:39.LHASA, March 17 (Xinhua) -- Memories of horror were alive again. read more »
Spitzer's Media Enablers Share The Shame, Blame
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 03/16/2008 - 16:04.The fall of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer holds many lessons, and the press will surely be examining them in coming months. read more »
US Public Losing Interest in Iraq As News Coverage Wanes
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A sharp fall in US media coverage of the Iraq war has left Americans less interested in and knowledgeable about the conflict, a report by the independent Pew Research Center showed Wednesday. read more »
Ferraro: 'They're attacking me because I'm white'
Submitted by Newsbyte on Wed, 03/12/2008 - 18:27.Geraldine Ferraro defended her controversial comment that Sen. read more »
FEMA Meets the Press, Which Happens to Be . . . FEMA
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sat, 10/27/2007 - 17:52.FEMA has truly learned the lessons of Katrina. Even its handling of the media has improved dramatically. For example, as the California wildfires raged Tuesday, Vice Adm. Harvey E. read more »
Faking It boss: I made doctored Queen tape
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sat, 07/21/2007 - 10:34.The TV production company boss at the heart of the row over faked footage of the Queen yesterday admitted he was personally responsible for making the fateful edit of her storming out of a photoshoot, read more »
