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Maldives military says President Mohamed Nasheed has resigned amid public protests
Yahoo Daily News | MALE, Maldives (AP) — Maldives military says President Mohamed Nasheed has resigned amid public protests. on Twitter, become a fan on Editors' Picks | Explore Related Content | 1 - 4 of 10 | The Maldives' vice president has joined calls for t... |
Pakistan hunts for survivors as factory toll hits 16
Yahoo Daily News | Rescuers on Tuesday scrambled through the rubble of a factory that collapsed in Pakistan's city of Lahore, in a desperate search for survivors as the death toll climbed to 16. | The three-storey building used to manufacture veterinary medicines cam... |
Toyota Q3 jumps, raises FY outlook on cost cuts, incentives
Yahoo Daily News | TOKYO (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp reported a stronger-than-expected quarterly operating profit, shrugging off a firm yen and the damaging impact of flooding in Thailand, and raised its annual forecast, helped by cost cuts and Japanese government ... |
Fidel Castro warns of bleak future, touts memoir
Zeenews Havana: Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro painted a bleak picture of the future, saying the world was in its worst situation ever as Cuban television aired on Monday part of a six-hour event last week touting his newest memoir. | The 85-year-ol... |
Virginia Rabung, 94, pioneering pilot flew to Batista’s Cuba
Chicago Sun-Times | In 1943, Virginia Rabung, a secretary from Chicago, trekked by bus to a small airport in McCook, marched into the office in her high heels and told the men that she wanted to fly. | “They looked at her like she was from another planet,” said Sh... |
Teen tennis star Tomic disappointed at car controversy
Yahoo Daily News | Teenage Australian tennis star Bernard Tomic said Tuesday he was disappointed to have been caught up in another controversy involving his high-powered, bright orange sports car, and he plans to sell it. | The 19-year-old is due to face court next w... |
KRouge jailer's life term 'bad example': observers
Yahoo Daily News | A life term handed to a feared Khmer Rouge jailer has elated Cambodians, but observers say the historic verdict violates the torture chief's human rights and serves public opinion rather than justice. | Kaing Guek Eav, or Duch, who oversaw the deat... |
S. Korea cram school accused of hi-tech copying
Yahoo Daily News | A top cram school in education-obsessed South Korea used tiny audio recorders and cameras hidden in pens to record exam questions and then passed them on to students, prosecutors said Tuesday. | They said the five bosses of Hackers Education Group,... |
Death toll in Pakistan factory collapse up to 18
Yahoo Daily News | ISLAMABAD (AP) — A rescue official says the death toll from a factory that collapsed in eastern Pakistan has risen to 18. | The factory, which manufactured medicine, caved in Monday in the city of Lahore after several gas cylinders inside explode... |
US, Japan mull sending 4,700 Marines to Guam
Yahoo Daily News | TOKYO (AP) — The United States and Japan, hoping to break a stalemate over the U.S. military presence on Okinawa, are discussing a plan to transfer nearly 5,000 troops to Guam despite their failure to replace a major Marine base on the southern J... |
Five missing after Japan refinery tunnel collapse
Yahoo Daily News | Divers were searching for five workers after an undersea tunnel collapsed at one of Japan's biggest oil refineries Tuesday, emergency services said. | Six people were in the partially constructed tunnel at Kurashiki, 550 kilometres (350 miles) west... |
Cuban Bailout - Minister Davies Must Account to Parliament
All Africa [DA] The South African government has wasted R600 million on sustaining the failed Cuban state, including what government has called a "solidarity grant". This follows a R1.4 billion Cuban bailout that President Zuma authorised in December 2010. | ... |
Kylie Minogue calls police over Twitter 'weirdo' threat
Yahoo Daily News | Australian pop star Kylie Minogue has alerted police to an online stalker -- a "deluded weirdo" issuing threats over Twitter, she wrote on the micro-blogging site on Tuesday. | The diminutive singer told her more than one million followers on the s... |
US, Japan mulling Marines' transfer to Guam
Yahoo Daily News | TOKYO (AP) — The United States and Japan are discussing a plan to transfer thousands of troops to Guam despite their failure to replace a major U.S. Marine base on the southern Japan island of Okinawa. | Officials from both sides are meeting in W... |
Maldives soldiers fire rubber bullets at police
Yahoo Daily News | MALE, Maldives (AP) — Maldives soldiers on Tuesday fired rubber bullets and clashed with police officers who were defying a presidential order to end a protest against what they perceive as illegal orders by authorities. | Hundreds of police star... |
Death toll in 6.9 Philippines quake rises to 15
Yahoo Daily News | MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Rescuers digging for survivors among dozens of people buried by earthquake-triggered landslides on a central Philippine island have found only bodies. The death toll climbed to 15 on Tuesday, and at least 73 people were... |
Top Colombian warlord arrested in Venezuela
Yahoo Daily News | CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela says it has arrested on murder and drug trafficking charges the last major Colombian far-right paramilitary warlord still at large. | Interior Minister Tareck El Aissami said Monday that the warlord known as "M... |
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