Topic: International News

The new items published under this topic are as follows.

Articles: Delicate N.Korea Talks to Start Behind Close Doors

Posted by admin on Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - 12:36 AM

	BEIJING (Reuters) - Envoys to six-party negotiations aimed at ending the North Korean nuclear crisis gathered for talks behind closed doors in the Chinese capital on Wednesday but the prospects of any breakthrough appeared slim. Read full article: 'Delicate N.Korea Talks to Start Behind Close Doors'

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Articles: Arroyo takes lead in election

Posted by admin on Tuesday, May 11, 2004 - 08:15 AM

	President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo took the lead in early election returns Tuesday and a nationwide poll predicted that she would win. But rumblings of trouble emerged as her opponent said he believed he was being cheated. Read full article: 'Arroyo takes lead in election'

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Articles: Japan's Lower House Passes Pension Reform Bill (Update1)

Posted by admin on Tuesday, May 11, 2004 - 04:08 AM

	May 11 (Bloomberg) -- Japan's lower house of parliament approved a bill that will force workers to pay more into the nation's public pension system and slash retirement benefits. Read full article: 'Japan's Lower House Passes Pension Reform Bill (Update1)'

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Articles: IBM Poses "Rich" Client Challenge to Microsoft

Posted by admin on Tuesday, May 11, 2004 - 04:03 AM

	IBM Corp is launching a cross-platform middleware and desktop strategy, for multiple types of devices and platforms, to take the steam out of Microsoft Corp's Longhorn. Read full article: 'IBM Poses "Rich" Client Challenge to Microsoft'

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Articles: India's Naidu, Vajpayee's Ally, Faces Defeat in Andhra Polls

Posted by admin on Tuesday, May 11, 2004 - 03:54 AM

	May 11 (Bloomberg) -- N. Chandrababu Naidu, who wooed Microsoft Corp. and Oracle Corp. to set up software centers in Andhra Pradesh, was set to lose control of the southern Indian state to the Congress party, as counting proceeded in state polls. Read full article: 'India's Naidu, Vajpayee's Ally, Faces Defeat in Andhra Polls'

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Articles: President tells Rumsfeld: 'You're doing a superb job'

Posted by admin on Tuesday, May 11, 2004 - 03:48 AM

	WASHINGTON — President Bush extended Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld a full-throated endorsement yesterday for a "superb job," then went into Rumsfeld's Pentagon office for his first private glimpse of Iraqi prisoner-abuse pictures never seen in public. Read full article: 'President tells Rumsfeld: 'You're doing a superb job''

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Articles: Israeli Army Confirms 6 Soldiers' Deaths

Posted by admin on Tuesday, May 11, 2004 - 03:40 AM

	JERUSALEM -- The Israeli army confirmed Tuesday that six soldiers were killed in fighting with Palestinian militants in Gaza City, the highest death toll in a single operation in nearly two years. Read full article: 'Israeli Army Confirms 6 Soldiers' Deaths'

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Articles: Reopening Emmett Till case may not bring closure

Posted by admin on Tuesday, May 11, 2004 - 03:37 AM

I was 6 years old when Emmett Till was lynched in a Mississippi town. The 14-year-old Chicagoan was taken from his uncle's home on Aug. 28, 1955, by white men who wanted to warn black men to stay away from white women. Although Emmett was still a boy, after he allegedly "whistled" at a white woman who worked in a store, he was savagely brutalized and his body was thrown in the Tallahatchie River.

Read full article: 'Reopening Emmett Till case may not bring closure'

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Articles: Dirty diesels will get a scrubbing

Posted by admin on Tuesday, May 11, 2004 - 03:34 AM

	A new regulation requiring clean-diesel fuel and engines will eventually help Utah save 200 lives and $1.2 billion each year. Read full article: 'Dirty diesels will get a scrubbing'

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Articles: PRESS DIGEST - Washington Post - May 11

Posted by admin on Tuesday, May 11, 2004 - 12:40 AM

	WASHINGTON, May 10 (Reuters) - Following are some of the items the Washington Post included on the front page of its May 11 edition. Read full article: 'PRESS DIGEST - Washington Post - May 11'

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