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News for Monday, 10 Jan 2011

Netanyahu defends settlement after US criticism

JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying Jews have a right to live anywhere in Jerusalem, defended on Monday a settlement project that drew criticism from US Secretary of...

Iran arrests Israel-linked spy network

TEHRAN - Iran has arrested a "network of spies" linked to Israel's Mossad intelligence service that it blames for the assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist in 2010, its state...

Travellers face another London Tube strike

LONDON - Londoners face more transport disruption after a 24-hour strike was called on part of the underground train system in support of two sacked drivers. The strike will take...

Sex education an ‘attack’ on religious freedom: pope

VATICAN CITY - Sexual and civic education in schools in Europe is an "attack" on religious freedom, Pope Benedict XVI said on Monday in a traditional annual address to foreign...

Flash floods hit Australia’s third biggest city

SYDNEY - Residents in Australia's third largest city, Brisbane, sandbagged their homes against rising waters on Monday as torrential rain worsened floods that have paralysed the coal industry in the...

Seoul rejects North Korea’s proposal for talks

SEOUL - North Korea on Monday officially proposed dialogue with South Korea, less than two months after launching a deadly bombardment of a border island, but a sceptical Seoul quickly...

Foreign troops say they may have killed Afghan police

KABUL - A foreign force air raid in central Afghanistan may have killed three Afghan police and wounded three, the NATO-led force said on Monday, the third such incident in...

Basque separatists ETA call permanent ceasefire

MADRID - Basque separatist group ETA called a permanent ceasefire on Monday, Basque regional newspaper Gara said on its website, three months after the weakened group announced a halt to...

Hindu ‘terror’ vs corruption splits India’s politics

NEW DELHI - A growing scandal over Hindu militants linked to bombings in India has highlighted how the ruling Congress party and the main opposition are increasingly exchanging bitter barbs...

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