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Pope Benedict XVI will visit Cuba on March 26-28 and perform two open-air masses on the communist island as part of his upcoming trip to Mexico and Cuba, Roman Catholic Church officials said on Sunday. The 84-year-old pontiff was to fly from Mexico and arrive in the eastern city of Santiago, where he will be [...]
Syria’s military has withdrawn from residential areas and is on the outskirts of the country’s cities, but gunfire continues and snipers are still a threat, Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elaraby said on Monday. The United Nations says more than 5,000 people have been killed in a crackdown on protests which broke out against President [...]
Several thousand protesters took to the streets on Monday to demand an end to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s 12-year rule after voters cut his party’s parliamentary majority in an election that was condemned as unfair by European monitors. Police said they detained 300 people in Moscow, where they confronted a crowd of 3,000 to [...]
A 5.6 magnitude earthquake killed at least five people in eastern Turkey, less than three weeks after a massive quake killed more than 600 in the same area, a government official said. “Twenty people were found alive and five were dead,” Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay was quoted as saying in televised remarks after visiting [...]
A powerful typhoon that barreled through Japan and threatened the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant killed at least 10 people including a woman aged 101, according to officials and reports. Typhoon Roke, which churned across the main island of Honshu and through the already disaster-ravaged northeast, caused flooding and triggered landslides in an echo of [...]
Eleven people were killed and 14 people were missing after a traditional boat sank off Indonesia’s Bali island, a search and rescue agency official said on Wednesday. ‘We are still searching for 14 missing people from the boat, which sank late Tuesday. Eleven people have been found alive,’ Bali search and rescue agency head I [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – Right after FPT Mobile and HiPT Mobile announced their plans to market Vietnamese tablet PCs into the domestic market, people commented that the two companies “made an adventurous move in the game”. However, more and more “players” want to join the game. More comers In mid May 2011, the domestic tablet PC [...]
An Iranian official said Friday that the country’s Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant is highly safe, the official IRNA news agency reporte An Iranian man stands after swimming at seaside near the Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran, Aug. 20, 2010. Nuclear fuel is going be loaded to Bushehr nuclear power …
With the spread of an samonella outbreak, the number of people sicked by the disease has risen to more than 1,000, authorities said on Friday. Eggs are seen at a supermarket in New York, the United States, Aug. 20, 2010. A U.S. egg company has extended a nationwide food recall to 380 …
Details of 100 million Facebook users have been gathered and published online, according to BBC News on Thursday. Stephanie Endicott and Marcus Smallegan, first-year students at George Washington University, display a photograph of themselves on their Facebook website, in Washington November 25, 2007. A security consultant, Ron Bowles, used a code to collect …