TV closure sparks media freedom fears
CARACAS (Reuters): Venezuela's RCTV television station had viewers roaring with a spoof of leftist President Hugo Chavez after he misspelled a word while promoting a nationwide literacy campaign four years ago.Within months, the government passed...
'Gov't expands atom programme, defying UN'
VIENNA (Reuters):The United Nations nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday that Iran was expanding its uranium enrichment programme in defiance of international demands, opening the way to harsher sanctions against Tehran over fears it is seeking atom bombs...
'Nuclear capacity close to its peak'
TEHRAN (Reuters): Iran's nuclear work is nearing a 'peak', President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said yesterday, while the U.N. atomic watchdog chief said Tehran was probably at least three years from making atom bombs even if it chose to do so.
Irish vote on razor's edge as polling starts
DUBLIN (Reuters): Irish voters headed for the polls yesterday in an election so close that Prime Minister Bertie Ahern may have to lure a major left-leaning opponent on to his side if he is to stay in power. Having repeatedly ruled out entering a coalition with Ahern...
Car bomber kills 27 during funeral
FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters):At least 27 people were killed and dozens wounded yesterday when a suicide car bomber drove into a crowd of mourners at a funeral in Falluja, west of Baghdad, police said.In the capital, gunmen stopped a minibus in the mainly...
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