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News Corp Australia chief Kim Williams resigns

10.08.2013 05:03
The chief executive of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp Australia has resigned after 20 months in the job. Kim Williams, who took the role in December 2011, is to be replaced by Julian Clarke. In an email to staff, Mr Williams said he made the decision with a "heavy heart and a mixed bag of feelings",...

Stephanie Banister: Australian Islam gaffe goes viral

10.08.2013 04:57
An Australian election candidate has made the wrong kind of headlines after a gaffe-strewn interview in which she mistook Islam for a country. Stephanie Banister, a candidate with the anti-immigration One Nation Party, clocked up multiple mistakes in a TV interview with Channel 7 News. The...

Zimbabwe's MDC challenges Robert Mugabe election victory

10.08.2013 04:50
Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has filed a legal challenge to Robert Mugabe's victory in last week's presidential elections. The electoral petition seeks an order for the result to be declared null and void and a new election to be called within 60 days. The MDC's 15 grounds...

DEA agent 'Kiki' Camarena's Mexico slaying called a game changer

10.08.2013 04:13
MEXICO CITY -- The former boss of slain DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena says the 1985 killing was a game changer, both in how the U.S. worked with Mexico on narcotics enforcement and how the traffickers themselves operated. James Kuykendall, who served as resident agent in charge in the Drug...

Abduction of two Turkish Airlines pilots in Beirut tied to Syrian war

10.08.2013 04:04
BEIRUT — Gunmen waylaid a minibus carrying a Turkish Airlines crew on a road leading from Lebanon's major international airport Friday, kidnapping two pilots in an incident that appeared to be the latest fallout from the war in neighboring Syria. A group claiming responsibility said the abduction...

Pasadena City College porn professor admits sexting, extramarital affairs, will take time off

10.08.2013 04:00
PASADENA - Pasadena City College's porn professor Hugo Schwyzer announced he will take time off from teaching to deal with the fallout from a sexting scandal involving an adult film actress who offered to have sex with him in the college classroom. Screen shots of Schwyzer's text exchanges with...

World on edge: security alerts heighten tension

10.08.2013 03:54
A little on edge, are we? With Al Qaeda and terrorism seemingly on every front page this week, frayed nerves across the globe have prompted security alerts from Philadelphia to Paris to Pakistan – some warranted, others not so much. You can probably attribute it to nearly two dozen American...

Egypt ’ s government tells police to break up pro- Morsi protests

03.08.2013 01:29
CAIRO -- Egypt's military-backed interim government on Wednesday ordered the country's security forces to break up protest encampments in the capital where thousands of supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi have held running demonstrations over the past month. The cabinet's...

Taiwan lawmakers brawl over nuclear plant referendum

03.08.2013 01:06
Taiwanese lawmakers exchanged punches and threw water at each other Friday ahead of an expected vote that would authorize a referendum on whether to finish a fourth nuclear power plant on this densely populated island of 23 million people. Nuclear power has long been a contentious issue in Taiwan...

Morsi supporters set up 3rd protest camp in Cairo

03.08.2013 01:02
Authorities announced plans Friday to besiege two sit-ins filled with supporters of deposed President Mohammed Morsi, but hundreds of his loyalists defiantly set up a third camp near Cairo's international airport. The new vigil is in the eastern Cairo neighborhood of Heliopolis, close to...
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