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No charges for Obama assassination plotters
Scotland 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
Scotland 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
Scotland 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
Scotland 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
Scotland News.Net
The death toll in Haiti from tropical storm Gustav has risen to 14.
Australian school teachers investigated over orgy claims
Scotland 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
Scotland 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
Scotland 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
Scotland 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
Scotland 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
Scotland 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
Scotland News.Net
Iraqi forces are due to take over Anbar province.
Taliban militant numbers reduced by allied troops
Scotland 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
Scotland 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.
Database of children is delayed
BBC
The introduction of a database of details about every child in England has been delayed for the second time. The database of children's names, addresses, birth dates and contact details for their...
Live text - Champions League draw
BBC
... time in extra-time FC Midtjylland 1-1 Manchester City 1735: Turks Fenerbahce, complete with Spain's Euro 2008-winning coach Luis Aragones, are in Group G...
Merkel named most powerful woman in world
The Independent
Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel was today named the world’s most powerful woman for the third year in succession by the US magazine Forbes although the accolade was largely ignored...
Drunken driving deaths fall in 32 states
USA Today
Drunken driving deaths fell in 32 states in 2007, but the government says the number of alcohol-related fatalities among motorcycle riders climbed in half the states last year.
Is Hezbollah responsible for shooting down Lebanese military helicopter
Haaretz
Attackers opened fire at a military helicopter as it flew over a Hezbollah stronghold in southern Lebanon on Thursday, killing a navigator and forcing the aircraft to make an emergency landing, the...
Rebels and army clash in DR Congo
BBC
Clashes have erupted between fighters loyal to rebel leader Laurent Nkunda and the army in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN says. Both sides have blamed each other for starting the...
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...
HU researchers help raise sturgeons for black roe caviar
Jerusalem Post
Hebrew University researchers have raised Israel's first sturgeon at Kibbutz Dan in the Upper Galilee to help Israel cash in on the world's growing demand for caviar due to declining fish populations...

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