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News for Thursday, 1 Jan 1970

Japan FM pushes for better ties with China

TOKYO - Japan should discuss a free trade deal with China while improving diplomatic ties through ministerial exchanges, Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara said in an interview aired Friday.
"I believe...

W African defence chiefs to oust Gbagbo if talks fail

LAGOS - West African regional military chiefs have set in motion plans to oust Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo if negotiations fail, a Nigerian defence spokesman said Friday.
The decision...

Turkish police detain 10 Al Qaeda suspects

ISTANBUL - Turkish police have detained 10 suspected Al Qaeda militants who they believe were planning an attack ahead of New Year, state-run Anatolian news agency reported.
The agency...

Russia rejects Western criticism of Khodorkovsky case

MOSCOW - Russia on Friday rejected the West's criticism of a court decision to keep Kremlin critic and ex-tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky in jail until 2017 in a case watched as...

Addis Ababa Jews see no quick route to promised land

ADDIS ABABA - In a run-down synagogue built from corrugated iron sheets in the north east of the Ethiopian capital, preacher Wagaw Moges addresses a crowd of dozens gathered for...

Floods cover vast area of Australia’s northeast

SYDNEY - Floodwater rose across a vast area in Australia's northeast on Friday, inundating 22 towns, forcing 200,000 residents out of their homes, and closing a major sugar export port....

Hu pledges a peaceful, cooperative China in 2011

BEIJING - Chinese President Hu Jintao said in a New Year's Eve address on Friday China would adhere to the path of peaceful development and would always seek to cooperate...

Wave of Baghdad bombings kills two Christians

BAGHDAD - A wave of apparently coordinated bomb attacks in Iraq's capital has killed two Christians and wounded 16, further stoking fears in a community already terrified after a massacre...

Suu Kyi calls for reconciliation struggle in New Year

YANGON - Myanmar's democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi called for citizens of her country to rejuvenate their struggle for national reconciliation in 2011 in a New Year's message released...

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