Tuesday 02 December 2008
Protesters free airport as Thai court bans PM
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- THAILAND
- Protesters free airport as Thai court bans PM
- Tuesday 02 December 2008
- Thailand’s Constitutional Court found the ruling coalition guilty of vote fraud and banned Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat from politics for five years. Protesters will allow flights to resume but travellers remain stranded until Dec. 15.
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- NATO - RUSSIA
- Alliance renews limited ties with Moscow
- Tuesday 02 December 2008
- NATO has agreed to thaw relations with Russia after suspending them in the wake of Moscow's military incursion into Georgia last August, but NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer says the relationship will remain "conditional".
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- AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY
- Carmakers request $34 billion in state aid
- Tuesday 02 December 2008
- The three big US carmakers, Ford, General Motors and Chrysler, have asked for a combined $34 billion in government credit to revitalize their companies. Data shows U.S. auto sales fell for the 13th straight month in November.
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- USA
- Obama to name Bill Richardson as Commerce Secretary
- Wednesday 03 December 2008
- Obama is expected to nominate New Mexico Democrat Bill Richardson, a former rival for the presidential nomination once dubbed the "Indiana Jones" of US diplomacy, at a news conference on Wednesday.
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- MUMBAI ATTACKS
- India demands Pakistan hand over fugitives
- Tuesday 02 December 2008
- India has demanded that Pakistan hand over 20 "most wanted" men as tensions mount between the two nuclear countries in the wake of the deadly Mumbai attacks. Pakistani officials say they are "framing a response" to the demand.
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- ISRAEL - PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES
- Jewish settlers clash with Palestinians in Hebron
- Tuesday 02 December 2008
- At least 13 Palestinians and one Israeli were wounded in clashes in the city of Hebron over rumours that Jewish settlers ordered to leave their West Bank homes in November were facing forced eviction by security forces.
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- IRAQ
- 'Chemical Ali' handed second death sentence
- Tuesday 02 December 2008
- Iraq's notorious "Chemical Ali" Hassan al-Majid has been sentenced to death - for the second time - for crimes against humanity committed during Saddam Hussein's brutal 1991 campaign to crush a Shia uprising.
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- JUSTICE - UK
- Radical cleric Abu Qatada back in jail
- Tuesday 02 December 2008
- Abu Qatada, the radical cleric once known as Bin Laden's "right-hand man" in Europe, has been ordered back in prison for breaching his bail terms. Released in June under strict terms, Qatada was suspected of attempting to leave Britain.
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