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No charges for Obama assassination plotters
The Shanghai News.Net
Three white supremacists with a sniper rifle and high on drugs who were arrested near the Democratic convention in Denver will not face charges even though officials believe that they wanted to assassinate Barack Obama.
Obama speech expected to focus on economics
The Shanghai News.Net
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has insisted that he does not want to dazzle a TV audience estimated to be in the tens of millions with "a bunch of a high-flying rhetoric", but instead, intends to focus on the kitchen-table economic issues facing American voters.
Refugees accuse Russia of ethnic cleansing
The Shanghai News.Net
Russian-backed paramilitaries are ethnically cleansing villages on Georgian soil, The Times has quoted refugees and officials, as saying.
Russia condemned by international community
The Shanghai News.Net
The G7, the seven most industrialised nations, have issued a stinging condemnation of the Russian recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Tropical Storm Gustav sweeps Caribbean
The Shanghai News.Net
The death toll in Haiti from tropical storm Gustav has risen to 14.
Australian school teachers investigated over orgy claims
The Shanghai News.Net
St Stanislaus College, in Bathurst, New South Wales, is under fire over child-sex allegations, following which the police sex crimes squad has been called in to investigate the claims involving a former college boarder subjected to alleged late-night sex sessions.
Obama voted in by delegates
The Shanghai News.Net
Barack Obama has swept to the Democratic presidential nomination after thousands of national convention voted him in.
World War II body found hanging from tree in New Guinea
The Shanghai News.Net
New Guinean authorities, with the help of the Australian, US and Japanese governments, are investigating the discovery of what is thought to be the skeleton of a World War II pilot.
UK minister warns Ukraine it could be catalyst for new Cold War
The Shanghai News.Net
Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband has used a visit to Ukraine to warn Russia not to start a new Cold War.
Australia begins probe into plane crash that killed Indian
The Shanghai News.Net
Investigations began Thursday into the mid-air collision in which Indian trainee pilot Akash Ananth died after the wing of his Cessna 150 was clipped by another plane and he crashed in the populated Cheltenham suburb of Melbourne.
Thai court orders anti-government protest arrests
The Shanghai News.Net
Thailand's criminal court has issued arrest warrants for eight leaders of an anti-government protest group that took over several state buildings to try to force the administration to resign.
Iraq forces due to reclaim dangerous province
The Shanghai News.Net
Iraqi forces are due to take over Anbar province.
Taliban militant numbers reduced by allied troops
The Shanghai News.Net
Nearly 80 suspected Taliban militants were killed in coalition airstrikes and clashes with Afghan forces, while four Afghan policemen were killed in a roadside bomb blast in southern region on Wednesday.
UAE president pardons jail inmates
The Shanghai News.Net
President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has granted an executive pardon to 700 prisoners, both UAE nationals and expatriates, lodged in various jails across the country ahead of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
Navy allows protest boats to leave Gaza
Jerusalem Post
Two boatloads of international protesters who defied Israel's blockade of Gaza set sail for Cyprus on Thursday, carrying seven Gaza Palestinians who had been confined to the territory. The navy made...
India authorizes $200 million for monsoon floods
USA Today
PATNA, India The Indian government has made available more than $200 million to combat monsoon flooding in the country's north that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described Thursday as a...
Putin says US was behind conflict
BBC
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused the US of orchestrating the conflict in Georgia, possibly for domestic election purposes. Mr Putin told CNN US citizens were "in the area" during...
Iemma trims power sell-off plan
The Australian
MORRIS Iemma has been forced to produce a slimmed-down version of his $10billion privatisation plan for NSW power after Opposition Leader Barry O'Farrell declared he would block the sale.
$144.5m jackpot for pokie investors
The Australian
SHAREHOLDERS who lost millions of dollars investing in pokies company Aristocrat Leisure on the basis of erroneous profit reports have hit the jackpot with a record $144.5 million class action...
Woman saves baby’s life — by e-mail
MSNBC
It wasn’t easy for Madeleine Robb to send an e-mail to another mom warning that her baby might have a deadly form of eye cancer. But she’s glad she did it — and so is the mother of 1-year-old...
Arrow fired through family
BBC
A family cat is expected to survive after its body was pierced by an 18-inch aluminium arrow. Two-and-a-half-year-old Marmite managed to make it back to his home in the Scottish Borders village of...
McCain says he has yet to make a VP pick
MSNBC
Among potential vice presidential running mates Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is believed to be mulling over are, from left: Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, former Ohio Rep. Rob Portman, former...

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