Archive for November 26th, 2009
Phony British aristocrat detained in Spain for fraud (AFP)
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
AFP – A British man who falsely claimed to be an aristocrat about to inherit a fortune has been detained in Spain on suspicion of conning women he promised to marry out of hundreds of thousands of euros, police said Thursday.
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Murray labours to fruitless Verdasco victory (AFP)
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
AFP – Scotland’s Andy Murray laboured to a third set tie-break victory over Spain’s Fernando Verdasco at the World Tour Finals on Thursday, but it eventually proved not enough to see him into the semis.
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US aides pressured China on Iran: report (AFP)
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
AFP – Senior US officials traveled to China two weeks before President Barack Obama’s trip there to pressure Beijing to further isolate Iran, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
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New spy charge against jailed Iranian-American (AP)
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
AP – Iran brought new espionage charges against an Iranian-American scholar who was already convicted of spying and sentenced to 15 years in prison in the country’s crackdown following June’s disputed presidential election, a human rights group said Thursday.
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Japan’s jobless rate falls to 5.1 percent in October: govt (AFP)
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
AFP – Japan’s unemployment rate fell to 5.1 percent in October from 5.3 percent in September, improving for a third consecutive month, the government said Friday.
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Mininova ends illegal torrents
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
A Dutch court ruling forces the file-sharing website Mininova to remove all torrents linked to copyright material.
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World powers demand Iran mothball nuclear site (Reuters)
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
Reuters – Six world powers are demanding Iran immediately mothball a uranium enrichment site it hid for years in a resolution to be voted on by U.N. nuclear agency governors, calling it a message to Tehran to change its ways.
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Iran sentences leading reformist to six years (AFP)
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
AFP – An Iranian court has sentence leading reformist Behzad Nabavi to six years in prison for his part in June demonstrations but freed him on bail pending a possible appeal, his lawyer told AFP on Thursday.
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Iranian president in Dakar on last leg of tour (AFP)
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
AFP – Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Dakar on Thursday, the second African capital on a five-nation tour that has also seen him visit Latin America.
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ElBaradei: Iran blocking of atom plan disappointing (Reuters)
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
Reuters – The U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Thursday criticized Iran’s blockage of a plan to divest it of possible nuclear bomb material as “disappointing.”
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