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  • New majority in US: Non-white births

    New majority in US: Non-white births

    South Africa News.Net

    WASHINGTON - Is the US turning towards a major demographic shift? May be so, if the new data from the US Census Bureau is any indicator. The data released Thursday says that a rising Hispanic ...

  • Iran threatens Google with legal action over missing Persian Gulf label

    South Africa News.Net

    TEHRAN - Iran has threatened legal action against Google for not labelling the body of water between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula on Google Maps. Iran has accused the US internet giant of ...

  • Hollande picks 34-member team to run government

    Hollande picks 34-member team to run government

    South Africa News.Net

    PARIS - New French President Francois Hollande has chosen a 34-member team comprising mostly moderates, including half of them being women, for his cabinet. The list of 34 new ministers was ...

  • Iran exporting arms to Syria in violation of ban

    Iran exporting arms to Syria in violation of ban

    South Africa News.Net

    WASHINGTON - Iran is continuing to export arms to the Syrian government in violation of an international ban on weapons sales, according to a confidential United Nations report. The draft report ...

  • Hollande picks 34-member team to run government

    Hollande picks 34-member team to run government

    South Africa News.Net

    PARIS - New French President Francois Hollande has chosen a 34-member team comprising mostly moderates, including half of them being women, for his cabinet. The list of 34 new ministers was ...

  • Suicide bombers attack Afghan governor's compound, seven dead

    Suicide bombers attack Afghan governor's compound, seven dead

    South Africa News.Net

    KABUL- At least seven people, including six policemen, were killed and 13 wounded when a suicide bomber attacked a governor's compound in western Afghanistan Thursday, officials said. Police ...

  • Media General sells 63 newspapers to Buffett in $142mn deal

    Media General sells 63 newspapers to Buffett in $142mn deal

    South Africa News.Net

    WASHINGTON - Media General has signed agreements with BH Media Group, a subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, for sale of all its 63 newspapers with the exception of the Tampa group, in ...

  • HSBC's turnaround target doubled to $2 billion, plan on target

    HSBC's turnaround target doubled to $2 billion, plan on target

    South Africa News.Net

    LONDON - HSBC, Europe's biggest bank, Thursday said it was on track towards its slimming down programme after making sustainable cost savings of $2 billion in the first year of a three-year ...

  • HSBC's turnaround target doubled to $2 billion, plan on target

    HSBC's turnaround target doubled to $2 billion, plan on target

    South Africa News.Net

    LONDON - HSBC, Europe's biggest bank, Thursday said it was on track towards its slimming down programme after making sustainable cost savings of $2 billion in the first year of a three-year ...

  • Declining commodity prices sees BHP back out of Altia joint venture

    Declining commodity prices sees BHP back out of Altia joint venture

    South Africa News.Net

    SYDNEY - Global mining giant BHP Billiton has decided to withdraw from the Altia joint venture project with Breakaway Resources for prospecting silver, lead and zinc in north Queensland amid doubts ...

  • Macquarie led consortium buys European gas network in 3.2bn deal

    Macquarie led consortium buys European gas network in 3.2bn deal

    South Africa News.Net

    SYDNEY - In a 3.2 billion euros ($4.1 billion) deal, a consortium led by Australian investment bank Macquarie Group has bought the Open Grid Europe gas distribution network from Germany's largest ...

  • Five per cent dip in Aviva's long term savings sales

    Five per cent dip in Aviva's long term savings sales

    South Africa News.Net

    LONDON - Britain's biggest insurer Aviva, which parted company with chief executive Andrew Moss earlier this month, posted long-term sales of 7.5 billion pounds during the first quarter, down 5 per ...

  • U.S. Lawmaker Criticizes Ukraine Over Tymoshenko Case

    RadioFreeEurope

    WASHINGTON -- The imprisonment of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko is casting a shadow over Ukraine's upcoming parliamentary elections, says ...

  • Russian Opposition Leaders Sentenced To 10 Days In Jail

    RadioFreeEurope

    MOSCOW – The leader of Russia's opposition Solidarity movement, Ilya Yashin, has been sentenced to 10 days in jail after being found guilty of failure to obey a law-enforcement ...

  • Amnesty Calls Navalny, Udaltsov 'Prisoners Of Conscience'

    RadioFreeEurope

    Opposition figure and anticorruption blogger Aleksei Navalny says he has teamed up with an unidentified Russian bank to issue a new debit card that will raise funds to fight ...

  • UN Chief Believes Al-Qaeda Behind Syrian Car Bombings

    RadioFreeEurope

    UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said he believes Al-Qaeda is behind two suicide car bombings that killed 55 people and wounded some 370 others in Damascus on May 10. Ban said Al-Qaeda's ...

  • Suspect Reportedly Admits Trying To Kill Kazakh Journalist

    RadioFreeEurope

    One of the suspects in the attempted murder of Kazakh journalist Lukpan Akhmedyarov has reportedly confessed his guilt. Adil Soz, an independent media freedom organization in Kazakhstan, said the ...

  • Palestinians firebomb IDF forces at Joseph's Tomb

    Jerusalem Post

    Palestinians threw Molotov cocktails at IDF forces guarding a large group of Jewish worshipers at Joseph's Tomb in Nablus.There were no reports of damages or injuries resulting from the ...

  • N. Cyprus warns Israel against airspace violations

    Jerusalem Post

    Northern Cyprus on Thursday warned Israel against violating its airspace, Anatolia news agency reported, just one day after Israel was accused of violating northern Cypriot airspace.According to the ...

  • SL cabinet backs president to free jailed rival

    IOL

    Colombo - Sri Lanka's cabinet has formally backed President Mahinda Rajapaksa's move to free his ailing former army chief Sarath Fonseka, a spokesman said, a proposal seen as a bid to ...

  • Zimmerman 'found with bloody nose'

    The Independent

    A Florida neighbourhood watch volunteer who shot an unarmed black teenager had a bloody nose and a cut on his head, according to police ...

  • Obama, Hollande to press euro crisis remedies at G8

    Reuters

    U.S. President Barack Obama waves as he walks out from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington May 10, 2012, before his departure to attend campaign events in Seattle and Los ...

  • VIDEO: G8 leaders to meet at Camp David

    BBC

    The ratings agency Moody's has downgraded 16 Spanish banks, citing the country's ongoing recession. It is likely to drive up the the cost of borrowing for the already struggling Spanish ...

  • Quiz of the week's news

    BBC

    Info It's the Magazine's 7 days, 7 questions quiz - an opportunity to prove to yourself and others that you are a news oracle. Failing that, you can always claim to have had better things ...

  • The Rundown - May 18

    RadioFreeEurope

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  • From Mubarak to Worse

    IPS

    CAIRO, May 18, 2012 (IPS) - More than 15 months after Egypt's Tahrir Square uprising and four months after free parliamentary polls, many Egyptians say that daily living conditions are worse ...

  • Quebec students slam hike in fees

    IOL

    Protesters make their way through the hall of a Montreal university to disrupt classes. The student unrest in Quebec, fuelled by anger about university tuition hikes, has lasted for 14 ...

  • The resurrection of al-Qaeda

    The Herald

    TWO car bombs explode in a Damascus street killing 55 innocent bystanders and injuring many more, a lone terrorist is foiled before he can explode a sophisticated new underwear bomb on a US-bound ...

  • UN leader says Al-Qaeda in Syria

    Channel News Asia

    UNITED NATIONS: UN leader Ban Ki-moon said Thursday he believes Al-Qaeda committed a major bomb attack in Damascus that left dozens dead, and that up to 10,000 people have now been killed in ...

  • Notorious 1980s drug dealer arrested in NYC

    USA Today

    James Corley, 51, was charged with criminal sale of a controlled substance and other drug charges after a 15-month undercover investigation that used wiretaps and surveillance, Police Commissioner ...

  • Oregon bans Native American mascots in schools

    USA Today

    The 5-1 vote followed months of passionate and emotional debate about tolerance and tradition. The schools have five years to comply with the order or risk losing their state funding. Another seven ...

  • Bus plunges into Vietnam river bank; 34 killed

    USA Today

    Local official Tran Bao Que says the bus smashed through the rails of a bridge Thursday night and plunged into the bank of the Serepok River about 18 meters (60 feet) below. The bus was traveling on ...

  • U.S., Pakistan to reach "conclusion" on supply route

    CBS News

    (AP) WASHINGTON - The White House says the U.S. and Pakistan have decided to "reach a conclusion" to their standoff over Pakistan's blockade of a key supply route. But National ...

  • Chen's relatives tell of beatings

    BBC

    Relatives of Chen Guangcheng have described beatings meted out by local officials after the Chinese activist's escape from house arrest last month. In their first face-to-face interviews since ...

  • UN chief blames al-Qaeda for Syria bombings

    Al Jazeera

    Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, has said that he believes al-Qaeda was responsible for last week’s bombings in Syria that left more than 50 people dead. "A few days ago there was ...

  • White House Enlists 45 Firms to Give $3 Billion to Grow Food for World's Poor

    International Herald Tribune

    The Obama administration has drafted some of the world's largest food and finance companies to invest more than $3 billion in projects aimed at helping the world's poorest farmers grow enough food ...

  • 6.2-magnitude quake strikes far off Chile's coast

    USA Today

    The US Geological Survey says the quake's epicenter was 336 miles (542 kilometers) west-southwest of Castro, Los Lagos. It struck Thursday evening local time off the coast of the Aysen region and at ...

  • Prisons unlock new tourist attractions

    USA Today

    Old prisons, from famous ones such as Alcatraz to less-known small state facilities, are becoming tourist attractions and drawing a growing number of visitors, operators say. "We've been shocked by ...

  • China jails smuggling kingpin Lai for life

    C News

    Chinese fugitive Lai Changxing listens to questions from reporters during a news conference in Vancouver in this April 5, 2007 file photo. (REUTERS/Lyle Stafford/Files) BEIJING - A Chinese court ...

  • Facebook Frenzy Peaks With $100bn Flotation

    Sky News

    The frenzy of hype and excitement surrounding the flotation of Facebook peaks this morning as its shares go on offer in the biggest flotation of an internet-based company in ...

  • Former editor says Murdoch sowed seeds of hacking scandal

    Reuters

    A still image from broadcast footage shows News Corporation Chief Executive and Chairman, Rupert Murdoch, speaking at the Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the media, at the ...

  • House OKs continued war in Afghanistan

    CBS News

    (AP) WASHINGTON - The House endorsed the continued war in Afghanistan on Thursday despite acknowledgment from Republicans and Democrats that the American people are war-weary after more than a ...

  • Colo. wildfire grows amid wind gusts

    CBS News

    (AP) FORT COLLINS, Colo. - Hundreds of firefighters worked Thursday to combat a growing blaze that was scorching terrain around a scenic canyon in northern Colorado. Ground efforts were being ...

  • NZ police charge driver in Boston U crash

    CBS News

    Police and fire crew examine the scene of a minivan crash near Turangi, New Zealand, Saturday, May 12, 2012. Three Boston University students who were studying in New Zealand were killed Saturday ...

  • Joe Ricketts Rejects Plan to Finance Anti-Obama Ads

    International Herald Tribune

    Joe Ricketts, an up-by-the-bootstraps billionaire whose varied holdings include a name-brand brokerage firm in Omaha, a baseball team in Chicago, herds of bison in Wyoming and a start-up news Web ...

  • China jails fugitive smuggler for life

    Al Jazeera

    A Chinese court has handed a sentence of life in jail to the boss of a huge smuggling and bribery scam who was at the centre of a lengthy deportation battle with Canada, state media has said. Lai ...

  • Protesters Are Attacked at Aleppo University in Syria

    International Herald Tribune

    BEIRUT, Lebanon - In the presence of United Nations monitors, hundreds of students converged on the campus of the leading university in Aleppo, Syria's biggest city, on Thursday for an ...

  • China sentences former fugitive to life in prison

    USA Today

    The official Xinhua News Agency reported that Lai Changxing was convicted and sentenced Friday morning by the Intermediate People's Court in Xiamen, the port city which operated as his base. He had ...

  • 6.7-magnitude earthquake strikes of Chilean coast

    New Zealand Herald

    There's been a 6.7 magnitude earthquake, just ten kilometres deep, off the coast of southern Chile. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said no destructive widespread tsunami threat exists.- Newstalk ...

  • Czech PM to ‘Post’: We’ll support Israel in EU

    Jerusalem Post

    PRAGUE - Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas expressed "a special feeling" for Israel as he met with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Prague on Thursday.Netanyahu arrived in the Czech ...