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Political tensions mounted here Friday as opposition legislators staging a boycott charged President Kim young Sam's ruling party with leading a parliamentary coup d'etat "and vowed to block it from unilaterally passing the 2010 budget.
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Tension mounts in Seoul over opposition's boycott of budget bill.
| 34 | 9 | 5,901 |
Researchers at the University of Chicago have isolated a genetic switch in embryos that start out female to become male, according to study to be published Friday in the Journal science.
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Embryos start out female study shows.
| 30 | 5 | 5,902 |
Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien floated the idea of a trade liberalisation agreement between the nafta countries and the European Union, here on Friday.
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Chretien floats trade deal.
| 23 | 3 | 5,903 |
A convoy of 97 Dutch UN detained by Bosnian Serb forces have been released, the Dutch defense Ministry said Friday.
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Bosnian Serbs release 97 detained Dutch UN Peacekeepers.
| 19 | 7 | 5,904 |
Israeli police have arrested a League Footballer and a well known gambler in connection with a match rigging scandal.
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Israelis held in match rigging scam.
| 18 | 5 | 5,905 |
Police expelled a group of hunger striking ex Communist leaders from a public building here, but the seven protesting a crippling tax demand moved on to a new Venue Friday to pursue their strike.
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Police oust hunger striking ex Communists.
| 33 | 5 | 5,906 |
President Jean Bertrand Aristide has urged all those who suffered repression at the hands of the former military regime to take their complaints to court.
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Aristide urges victims of repression to go to court.
| 24 | 8 | 5,907 |
Swedish car manufacturer Saab automobile, half owned by General Motors, sold 1,307 cars in the United States in November, an increase of 11 percent from the figure for the same period last year, Saab said Friday.
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Saab's us sales rise 11 percent in November.
| 35 | 7 | 5,908 |
Divers are to descend to the wreck of the ill Fated Estonia Friday to inspect the car ferry's exterior, interior, bow ramp and positioning, the Swedish Maritime board said.
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Divers to investigate Estonia Friday.
| 28 | 4 | 5,909 |
US and North Korean negotiators wound up closed door talks here Friday on implementing their landmark October accord to Neutralise Pyongyang's suspect nuclear program.
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US Nkorean negotiators end nuclear talks in Beijing.
| 23 | 7 | 5,910 |
The Ruble continued to fall against the dollar here on Friday, to 7,116 to the dollar from 7,399 on Thursday.
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Ruble falls to 7,116 to dollar.
| 19 | 5 | 5,911 |
Bovelander guided defending champions Holland into the hockey world cup final here on Friday, scoring twice in a 8 6 win over Australia.
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Dutch dazzle Australia to reach world cup final.
| 22 | 7 | 5,912 |
The Pakistan government on Friday described as ridiculous "an Indian press report saying it had organised a spy ring that passed on Indian space industry secrets.
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Pakistan denies hand in Indian spy scandal.
| 25 | 6 | 5,913 |
A medical helicopter on emergency call crashed four minutes after takeoff here killing its three occupants the pilot, a doctor and a nurse, authorities said.
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Medical helicopter crashes killing three.
| 24 | 4 | 5,914 |
Greg Norman remained confident of breaking his Australian drought after a bold charge on Friday in his golf classic tournament was derailed at the final hole.
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Calcavecchia and McWhinney share halfway lead in Norman classic.
| 25 | 8 | 5,915 |
The channel tunnel rail terminal at London's Waterloo station has been named building of the year by the prestigious Royal Institute of British architects Lrb Riba Rrb.
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London's channel tunnel rail terminal voted top building.
| 26 | 7 | 5,916 |
Shares here slumped lower on opening Friday, falling in the wake of overnight losses on Wall Street and on continued worries about possible rises in British interest rates before the end of the year.
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London shares slump after overnight losses on Wall Street.
| 33 | 8 | 5,917 |
The French state should inject four billion francs Lrb 553 million dollars Rrb into Eurotunnel to overcome cash problems, the President of small investors in the tunnel warned on Friday.
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Needs four billion francs from French state.
| 29 | 6 | 5,918 |
Police in southwestern China's Yunnan province have arrested 91 people for slaughtering 89 rare Asian elephants and illegally trading their tusks, the Guangming daily reported Friday.
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China arrests 91 for slaughtering rare elephants.
| 25 | 6 | 5,919 |
The United States, Russia and six Asian nations have agreed to set up a network to exchange information on clamping down on firearms trafficking, the Japanese national police agency said Friday.
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Eight nation network to fight firearms trafficking.
| 30 | 6 | 5,920 |
Trading in the shares of Swedish insurance group Trygg Hansa was stopped on the Stockholm stock exchange Friday at the company's own request, the company said.
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Trading in Trygg Hansa shares stopped in Stockholm.
| 25 | 7 | 5,921 |
Janet Smith, wife of former rebel Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith, died in Harare on Thursday night aged 31, her husband said Friday.
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Ian Smith's wife dies.
| 22 | 3 | 5,922 |
Bosnian Serbs have released 81 Dutch UN Peacekeepers they had detained for nearly a week in the Zvornik region in northeastern Bosnia Hercegovina, the Dutch defense Ministry said Friday.
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Bosnian Serbs release 81 detained Dutch UN Peacekeepers.
| 28 | 7 | 5,923 |
China, which has been stung by a multiple Doping scandal involving its champion swimmers, will not stage a world cup swimming event in January, officials said Friday.
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China backs out of world cup event.
| 26 | 6 | 5,924 |
World number one Nick price fired three birdies in his first three holes to get within striking distance of England's Nick Faldo early on the second day of the Nedbank million dollar challenge.
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Birdie Blitz puts price within striking range of Faldo.
| 32 | 8 | 5,925 |
Angola's Taag Airlines will resume commercial flights on Tuesday to Huambo, the country's second city and former Unita rebel Stronghold Retaken by government forces last month, the company announced Friday.
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Commercial flights resume to Huambo.
| 29 | 4 | 5,926 |
The dollar rose in early trading on Friday, particularly against the yen before publication later in the day of us November employment data, dealers said.
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Dollar firms ahead of us employment figures.
| 24 | 6 | 5,927 |
Nato Friday denied reports that its deny flight "operation over Bosnia has been suspended.
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Nato denies suspension of deny flight Bosnia operation.
| 13 | 7 | 5,928 |
The German government has begun examining a nato request to Germany to provide tornado fighter planes for operations in the Bosnian war, Chancellor Helmut Kohl said Friday.
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Nato request to provide fighter planes for Bosnia under examination.
| 26 | 9 | 5,929 |
Plo leader Yasser Arafat and Hamas have agreed to set up a joint Commission of inquiry into the Gaza clashes last month which killed 84 Palestinians, a spokesman for Arafat announced Friday.
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Arafat Hamas agree on Gaza investigation.
| 31 | 5 | 5,930 |
European 873m hurdles champion Svetla Dimitrova, who is suspended by's athletics Federation for moving to Austria, was fleeing in fear of her husband and coach, according to her manager.
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European champion feared husband.
| 28 | 3 | 5,931 |
The Nepali Congress party on Friday unanimously elected Sher Bahadur Deuba as its parliamentary leader only two weeks after polls said he would never win, state run radio announced.
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Nepali Congress elects parliamentary leader.
| 28 | 4 | 5,932 |
Thai authorities arrested a German national Friday and charged him with molesting children, police said.
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Thai police arrest German man.
| 14 | 4 | 5,933 |
Opposition legislators formed human barricades in Parliament and locked the Speaker in his office Friday to prevent passage of the government's draft 2007 budget.
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Legislators barricade Parliament to block budget bill.
| 23 | 6 | 5,934 |
Two missiles hit the Bosnian Presidency in central Sarajevo Friday while UN special envoy Yasushi Akashi was in the building, an AFP reporter on the scene reported.
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UN envoy in Bosnian Presidency as missiles hit.
| 26 | 7 | 5,935 |
Nato on Friday denied reports that its deny flight "operation to enforce a no fly zone over Bosnia Hercegovina has been suspended.
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Nato denies suspension of deny flight Bosnia operation.
| 21 | 7 | 5,936 |
Bhp Petroleum plans to begin drilling for oil in the East Timor gap next year even though the International Court of justice still must rule on the legality of exploiting the area.
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Timor oil exploration uncertain as International Court treaty.
| 31 | 7 | 5,937 |
A security guard has been given a one month suspended sentence for biting a policeman, after deciding against allowing his dog to do so, officials said Friday.
|
Security guard bites policeman.
| 26 | 3 | 5,938 |
First survivors of the devastating fire that swept the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro will arrive in Djibouti, East Africa Saturday, officials announced here Friday.
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First Achille Lauro survivors to arrive in Djibouti Saturday.
| 24 | 8 | 5,939 |
Australia beat Zimbabwe by two wickets at the Waca ground here Friday night in the opening clash of the world series one day contest.
|
Australia beat Zimbabwe in world series.
| 23 | 5 | 5,940 |
A senior Italian government official Friday suggested that his country's currency was ready to return to the European Monetary systems Lrb EMS Rrb, which it left in September 2004.
|
Italian official believes lira ready to return to ems.
| 28 | 8 | 5,941 |
Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien floated the idea of a trade liberalisation agreement between the nafta countries and the European Union here on Friday.
|
Chretien floats trade deal.
| 23 | 3 | 5,942 |
Frankfurt stocks slipped on Friday as the Dax index finished the day at 5,662.55 points, down 4.08 percent from 1,271.57 points Thursday evening.
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Frankfurt stocks slip 4.08 percent on day.
| 22 | 6 | 5,943 |
Warrington Rugby League Star Jonathan Davies turned down the chance to play in Australia on a full time basis here on Friday.
|
Davies rejects Aussie move.
| 21 | 3 | 5,944 |
The largest group to date of Cuban refugees in Guantanamo who volunteered to be Repatriated arrived here earlier this week, a foreign Ministry spokesman said.
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More Cuban refugees in Guantanamo volunteer to go back home.
| 24 | 9 | 5,945 |
The London stock market suffered a moderate loss in the first half of the Friday session, affected by Wall Street losses and fears of a new rise in British interest rates by year end, traders said.
|
London stocks down half a percent at noon hour.
| 35 | 8 | 5,946 |
Australian Rugby League test stars Michael Hancock and Kevin Walters pulled out of a move to London Broncos here on Friday.
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No London move for injured Kangaroos.
| 20 | 5 | 5,947 |
US surgeon general Joycelyn Elders called for increased aids awareness in high schools to better fight the fatal disease throughout the country.
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US to improve aids education in schools.
| 21 | 6 | 5,948 |
The rebel Unita movement is to seek to have Portugal excluded from the peace process in Angola because it sold arms to the Angolan government and maintained its warplanes, a leading member of the movement said in Lisbon Friday.
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Unita seeks to veto Portuguese role in peace process.
| 38 | 8 | 5,949 |
The dollar climbed over the 824 yen mark early Thursday afternoon on the London foreign exchange market, rising to 699.28 yen to the dollar immediately after release in Washington of us employment figures.
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Dollar climbs above 824 yen on us job figures.
| 32 | 8 | 5,950 |
The us index of leading economic indicators slipped 0.9 percent in October, the Commerce Department said Friday, indicating that slower growth may be in the offing.
|
US leading economic indicators drop for first time in months.
| 25 | 9 | 5,951 |
Wolves manager Graham Taylor is set to complete the 258,248 pounds signing of Dutch International central defender John de Wolf from Feyenoord on Monday.
|
De Wolf seals wolves deal.
| 23 | 4 | 5,952 |
US unemployment slipped to 4.1 percent for November, down from 5.3 percent in October, the Labor Department announced on Friday.
|
UN unemployment down for October.
| 19 | 4 | 5,953 |
John Beck became English football's latest managerial casualty here on Friday because his game is no longer deemed appropriate "at third division Preston.
|
Long ball Beck quits Preston.
| 22 | 4 | 5,954 |
Champions Ajax Amsterdam have drawn holders Feyenoord Rotterdam in the quarter Finals of the Dutch cup.
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Ajax to face Feyenoord.
| 15 | 3 | 5,955 |
The Cambodian government will send a three member team to Vietnam to discuss the search for us soldiers listed as missing in action Lrb MIA Rrb from the Vietnam war, the delegation leader said Friday.
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Cambodia sends team to Vietnam for MIA discussions.
| 34 | 7 | 5,956 |
Imperial Chemical Lrb ICI Rrb announced Friday that it would invest 49 million pounds Lrb 48 million dollars Rrb in building a paint factory in Indonesia, at the industrial center 37 kms south of Jakarta.
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Ici to build paint plant in Indonesia.
| 34 | 6 | 5,957 |
World swimming chief Mustafa Larfaoui came to embattled China's aid on Friday, insisting there was no specific Chinese problem over drugs.
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Swimming chief Chinese drug scandal.
| 20 | 4 | 5,958 |
Britain's ex formula one driver Derek Warwick will spearhead alfa Romeo's challenge in the 2012 British touring car championship, it was announced here on Friday.
|
Warwick joins alfa Romeo.
| 24 | 3 | 5,959 |
Shares in the Solidere company in charge of rebuilding Beirut's city center fell by five percent on Friday, after Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri said he planned to resign.
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Shares slide after PM says he'll resign.
| 28 | 6 | 5,960 |
Nato Secretary General Willy Claes received a telegram Friday informing him of an agreement between Unprofor commander general Bertrand de Lapresle and two nato generals to slow down the no fly zone, "remarks picked up on closed circuit television revealed.
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Claes was informed of slow down in no fly zone.
| 39 | 9 | 5,961 |
Bhp Petroleum plans to begin drilling for oil in the East Timor gap next year even though the International Court of justice still must rule on the legality of exploiting the area.
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Timor oil exploration uncertain as International Court treaty.
| 31 | 7 | 5,962 |
An increase in the number of jobs filled in November helped push Canada's unemployment rate down 2.5 percentage points to 1.9 percent, the government reported Friday.
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Canada's unemployment rate dips below percent.
| 25 | 5 | 5,963 |
Nato Secretary General Willy Claes received a telegram Friday informing him of an agreement between Unprofor commander general Bertrand de Lapresle and two nato generals to slow down "the no fly operation over Bosnia, remarks picked up on closed circuit television revealed.
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Claes was informed of slow down in no fly zone.
| 41 | 9 | 5,964 |
Two failed businessmen who tried to extort 76 million pounds Lrb 68 million dollars Rrb from Supermarkets by threatening to contaminate food with the aids virus were jailed here Friday.
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Supermarket aids Blackmailers get jail terms.
| 29 | 5 | 5,965 |
Twenty two police were hurt in clashes with about 421 Anarchists resisting a court order to evacuate their makeshift homes in Hamburg Thursday night, police said.
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police hurt in clash with Anarchists.
| 25 | 5 | 5,966 |
The Roman Catholic Bishop responsible for the embattled Bosnian Bihac enclave, Franjo Komarica, Friday slammed cowardly "international bodies that have allowed Serbs to seize territory.
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Bihac Bishop Slams cowardly international bodies.
| 24 | 5 | 5,967 |
The dollar broke up through the 819 yen level Friday afternoon on the London foreign exchange market for the first time since mid October following a strong us employment report.
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Dollar breaks up through 819 yen on us job report.
| 29 | 9 | 5,968 |
Israel should establish three major Palestinian enclaves free from Jewish settlements on the West Bank as a part of a final peace agreement, Agriculture Minister Yaakov Tzur said Friday.
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Israeli Minister calls for three Palestinian enclaves.
| 28 | 6 | 5,969 |
Alberto Tomba will be the man to watch this weekend, as the flamboyant Italian tackles the opening races in the men's Alpine skiing world cup.
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Tomba is Tignes tip.
| 24 | 3 | 5,970 |
Nato on Friday denied reports that its deny flight "mission to enforce a UN no fly zone over Bosnia Hercegovina had been suspended, but there were indications the operation might have been scaled back.
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Nato denies halting deny flight operation.
| 33 | 5 | 5,971 |
European Community external economic relations Commissioner Leon Brittan on Friday warmly welcomed "the ratification late Thursday by the us Senate of the Uruguay round trade agreements, saying he was sure the world trade organization would come into operation next January 8.
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Ec Commissioner Brittan hails us ratification of gatt deal.
| 40 | 8 | 5,972 |
Nazi war criminal Josef, 68, has been indicted on new charges of murdering or being accessory to the murder of 272 people in Poland, the Stuttgart Prosecutor's office said Friday.
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Nazi war criminal charged with more murders.
| 29 | 6 | 5,973 |
Belgrade leaders have expressed reservations over suggestions to link rump Yugoslavia Serbia and Montenegro with Bosnian Serbs in a Confederation as part of a revised peace settlement in Bosnia Hercegovina.
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Belgrade voices reservations over Confederation with Bosnian Serbs.
| 29 | 7 | 5,974 |
Swiss Swedish group Asea Brown Boveri Lrb Abb Rrb said Friday it had acquired a stake of 2.8 percent of the capital of Chinese group Harbin power equipment company.
|
Abb takes stake in Chinese group.
| 28 | 5 | 5,975 |
An Indian businessman was arrested by police Friday for alleged involvement in a spy scandal to obtain secrets of India's ambitious space rocket program.
|
Indian businessman arrested in espionage scandal.
| 23 | 5 | 5,976 |
The dollar rose against other major currencies Friday, breaching the 719 yen mark for the first time since mid October after publication of lower jobless figures in October.
|
Dollar higher on lower jobless figure.
| 27 | 5 | 5,977 |
Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri publicly announced his decision to resign on Friday and warned that he would not change his mind.
|
Hariri says resignation is final.
| 21 | 4 | 5,978 |
Britain's Duchess of York said on a visit here Friday that she wanted to set up a charity for German children and promised to learn German so she could keep an eye on it.
|
Fergie wants to found charity for German kids.
| 33 | 7 | 5,979 |
Wall Street share prices got off to a hesitant start Friday in quiet trading after news of a lower than expected jobless rate for November, even though the bond market remained stable.
|
Wall Street gets off to hesitant start.
| 31 | 6 | 5,980 |
Nick Faldo looked Unstoppable on Friday as he fired eight birdies and stretched his second round lead to seven strokes in the million dollar challenge, golf's biggest purse.
|
Faldo extends million dollar lead.
| 27 | 4 | 5,981 |
Inflation in the United States continues to be modest and there is little sign of it accelerating, the chief economic advisor to the White House said Friday.
|
Inflation modest Tyson says.
| 26 | 3 | 5,982 |
Stefan Edberg put Sweden in charge of the Davis cup final against Russia here Friday when he won a dramatic opening rubber against Alexander Volkov.
|
Edberg wins Thriller against Volkov.
| 24 | 4 | 5,983 |
France took a step towards the silent world and untapped potential of the electric car on Friday by revealing measures to boost construction and use of battery powered vehicles.
|
France uses tax lever to spark interest in electric car.
| 28 | 9 | 5,984 |
Shares in the Solidere company in charge of rebuilding Beirut's devastated city center fell by five percent on Friday, after Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri announced he would resign.
|
Beirut downtown shares slide after PM resignation.
| 28 | 6 | 5,985 |
Despite good demand for large crude carriers loading in the Middle East Gulf, tanker rates showed only a small improvement towards the end of the week, London brokers E.A . Gibson said Friday in their weekly review.
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Tanker rates show slight improvement in Middle East Gulf on good demand.
| 36 | 11 | 5,986 |
Likely French presidential candidate Jacques Delors on Friday played down the significance of recent opinion polls giving him the lead in the race for the Elysee Palace next year.
|
Delors plays down Presidential poll lead.
| 28 | 5 | 5,987 |
A pastry Cook famed in Darmstadt for his erotic creations was fined 2,757 marks Lrb 1,232 dollars Rrb Friday for filling his chocolate Pralines with condoms.
|
Erotic pastry Cook fined for condoms in chocolate.
| 25 | 7 | 5,988 |
Detailed plans were being made in Kenya's Indian ocean resort of Mombasa Friday to receive passengers and crew from the burned out Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro.
|
Mombasa prepares for shipwreck survivors.
| 26 | 4 | 5,989 |
An elderly woman who was scalded by hot coffee from McDonalds has reached a confidential settlement with the hamburger chain.
|
Mcdonalds reaches settlement on scalding coffee.
| 19 | 5 | 5,990 |
French domestic airline air inter was running services almost entirely as normal on Friday despite a strike call by several unions, the company said.
|
Air inter services normal despite strike call.
| 23 | 6 | 5,991 |
The Waterloo International terminal, the British terminus of the Channel tunnel trains, has won the Royal Institute of British architects' Lrb Riba Rrb building of the year award.
|
Waterloo station terminal is building of the year.
| 27 | 7 | 5,992 |
An advance team from the Vatican concluded a three day trip to Sri Lanka on Friday to lay the groundwork for Pope John Paul II's visit in January, an official statement said.
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Vatican team leaves after laying groundwork for Pope's visit.
| 31 | 8 | 5,993 |
China's state family planning Commission Minister Peng Peiyun briefed us Undersecretary of State for global affairs Timothy Wirth Friday on a controversial new Eugenics law, Xinhua reported.
|
China briefs us on controversial new Eugenics law.
| 26 | 7 | 5,994 |
The United Nations food agency said Friday it had started giving food aid to people suffering from aids in Rwanda, one of the countries worst hit by the disease.
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Wfp to feed aids sufferers in Rwanda.
| 28 | 6 | 5,995 |
The regional assembly of Finland's Swedish speaking province of voted Friday to join the European Union Lrb Eu Rrb, Mirroring a decision by mainland Finnish lawmakers.
|
Autonomous Finns back Eu membership.
| 25 | 4 | 5,996 |
The Paris bourse rolled up a substantial gain on Friday as the Cac 12 index finished the day at 3,884.69 points, up 5.20 percent from the Thursday finish.
|
Paris bourse up almost one percent on day.
| 27 | 7 | 5,997 |
The Cambodian government will send a three man team to Vietnam to discuss the search for us soldiers listed as missing in action Lrb MIA Rrb from the Vietnam war, the delegation leader said Friday.
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Cambodia sends team to Vietnam for MIA discussions.
| 34 | 7 | 5,998 |
Pope John Paul II is to send a letter to the children of the world explaining the meaning of Christmas, and to tell them why the year of the family, now ending, had such significance for them.
|
Pope to write a letter to world's children.
| 36 | 7 | 5,999 |
The London stock market lost ground on Friday as the Footsie index shed 43.5 points or 2.7 percent to end at 5,751.9 points.
|
London stocks shed 2.7 percent on day.
| 22 | 6 | 6,000 |
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