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Iran begins enriching uranium to higher levels stoking international fear over nuclear program

Nasser Karimi, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 9 Feb, 2010 0 0

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran began enriching uranium to a higher level Tuesday over the vociferous objections of the U.S. and its allies who fear the process could eventually be used to give the Islamic republic nuclear weapons. Even before the announcement U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates said he bel

Reports: Russian security chief says NATO poses threat

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 9 Feb, 2010 0 0

MOSCOW - Russian news reports have quoted the nation's security chief as saying that NATO has remained a threat. Russia's Security Council chief Nikolai Patrushev said that the alliance's expansion eastward to include former Soviet allies and Soviet republics has undermined the nation's security

UN vows to stop giving out free medicine to any Haitian hospitals who are charging patients

Frank Bajak, Paisley Dodds, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 9 Feb, 2010 0 0

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The United Nations has warned that it will cut off shipments of free medicine to any Haitian hospitals that it finds are charging patients. When the catastrophic earthquake struck Jan. 12, authorities immediately decided to make all medical care free. More than 200 intern

Tymoshenko camp plans legal challenge against results of Ukraine's presidential vote

Peter Leonard, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 9 Feb, 2010 0 1

KYIV, Ukraine - Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko plans to legally challenge the results of the presidential runoff that opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych is leading, her campaign said Tuesday. Tymoshenko's allies say she will not concede until appeals have run their course and recount

Dutch police evacuate hundreds of train passengers and station in bomb alert, 1 man detained

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 9 Feb, 2010 0 0

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Dutch police evacuated hundreds of train passengers and cleared a station during the morning rush hour Tuesday after witnesses reported a man threatened to blow the train up. No explosives were found on the train. Spokeswoman Marika Stewart said the man was been taken in

NKorean leader Kim sends envoy to China after reiterating commitment to nuclear-free Korea

Hyung-Jin Kim, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 9 Feb, 2010 0 0

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea's Kim Jong Il reportedly dispatched his top nuclear envoy to Beijing on Tuesday to discuss restarting nuclear disarmament talks, a day after pledging Pyongyang's commitment to a nuclear-free Korean peninsula. Kim made the disarmament pledge during a meeting Monda

China sentences activist who investigated children's deaths in 2008 quake to 5 years' jail

Gillian Wong, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 9 Feb, 2010 0 0

BEIJING - A Chinese court Tuesday sentenced an activist who investigated the deaths of thousands of schoolchildren in the country's massive 2008 earthquake to five years in jail for inciting subversion of state power, the man's lawyer said. The United States deplored the sentence handed down to

Heavy rain, flooding leave 6 dead, thousands homeless in Kandahar

Steve Rennie, THE CANADIAN PRESS 9 Feb, 2010 0 0

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Torrential rain and flooding in southern Afghanistan have claimed at least six lives and left thousands homeless. Two cars travelling through the district of Shah Wali Kot were caught in floodwaters and swept away, a spokesman for Kandahar Gov. Tooryalai Wesa said Monday.

Shuttle astronauts inspect their ship on way to space station, no major problems suspected

Marcia Dunn, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 0 0

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Endeavour's astronauts inspected their ship early Tuesday for any launch damage as they raced toward a 200-mile-high rendezvous with the International Space Station. Barely a day after blasting into orbit, the space shuttle crew used a 100-foot, laser-tipped boom to check

US congressman Murtha remembered as Bush foe on Iraq war, advocate for military

Peter Jackson, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 0 0

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Congressman John Murtha, who said the Bush administration's handling of the war in Iraq was based on "flawed policy wrapped in illusion" and called for a withdrawal of U.S. troops there, has died. The Democrat died Monday at a hospital after suffering complications from gallbla