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2006 Jun 14 |
Husky Energy, Cnooc’s Canadian partner, announced a large gas discovery under the South China Sea. In 2009 Husky confirmed the discovery saying the Liwan field could ultimately produce over 150 million cubic feet per day. Links: Canada, China, Gas 
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2006 Jun 14 |
President Bush, just back from a surprise visit to Iraq, dismissed calls for a US withdrawal as election-year politics and refused to give a timetable or benchmark for success that would allow troops to come home. Links: Iraq, USA, BushGW
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2007 Jun 14 |
A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll said US President George W. Bush's approval rating has plunged to a new low of 29 percent. Links: USA, BushGW
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2007 Jun 14 |
A US panel said an obesity treatment made by French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi-Aventis was unsafe and should not be marketed in the United States. Links: USA, France, Pharma
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2007 Jun 14 |
In Channahon, Ill., 3 children and a woman were found shot to death in a sport utility vehicle parked just off a service road. On June 23 authorities charged Christopher Vaughn (32) with two murder counts per victim, saying he gunned down his family in their sport utility vehicle. Links: USA, Illinois, Murder
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2007 Jun 14 |
In Australia New Zealand PM Helen Clark met briefly with the Dalai Lama as they both toured Australia, where the Tibetan spiritual leader's visit has drawn fire from China. Links: Australia, Tibet, New Zealand
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2007 Jun 14 |
In Austria Kurt Waldheim (b.1918), former UN Secretary-General (1972-1982), died. He was elected Austrian president in 1986 despite an international scandal about his secretive World War II military service for the Nazis. Links: Austria, UN
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2007 Jun 14 |
Cambodian PM Hun Sen, visiting Japan, pledged to fight corruption to lure more investors from top donor Japan as he tries to wean his government away from foreign aid. Links: Japan, Cambodia
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2007 Jun 14 |
Police in Henan province said they have rescued more than 200 people, including 29 children, who were working as "slaves" in brick kilns, in a shocking revelation of labor practices in booming China. Links: China, Labor, Kids
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2007 Jun 14 |
Fiji's military ruler said he was expelling New Zealand's top diplomat, sending already strained relations between the South Pacific nation and one of its biggest neighbors spiraling even lower. Commodore Bainimarama said he had told New Zealand High Commissioner Michael Green to leave because the diplomat would not "stop interfering in Fiji's domestic affairs." Links: New Zealand, Fiji
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2007 Jun 14 |
A handful of Sunni mosques were attacked or burned, but curfews and increased troop levels kept Iraq in relative calm a day after suspected al-Qaida bombers toppled the towering minarets of a prized Shiite shrine. Attackers broke into the Hateen mosque in Iskandariyah and planted bombs inside. Gunmen armed with rocket-propelled grenades attacked the Talha Bin al-Zubair shrine about 13 miles outside Basra. They returned early the next day, planting bombs inside the structure that destroyed it. Insurgents linked to al-Qaida released a videotape showing the execution-style deaths of 14 Iraqi soldiers and policemen after the expiration of a 72-hour deadline for the Iraqi government to meet their demands. 3 US soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded near their vehicle during operations in Kirkuk province. A 4th soldier was killed by small arms fire in Diyala province. Links: Iraq, USA
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2007 Jun 14 |
More than $20 million in disputed North Korean funds was transferred from a blacklisted Macao bank, signaling a breakthrough in a dispute that has held up the North's pledge to shut down its nuclear reactor. Links: North Korea, Nuclear, Macao
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2007 Jun 14 |
In the Netherlands four African states (South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe), after an 18-year ban, were allowed to put their ivory stocks on the market in a one-time sale as part of a hard-fought compromise reached with other Africans who tried to block the sale. The 171-member Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES, approved the deal by consensus. Links: Botswana, Netherlands, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia
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2007 Jun 14 |
Nigerian separatist leader Mujahid Asari Dokubo, whose detention on treason charges since 2005 has sparked kidnappings in the oil-rich Niger Delta, was provisionally freed on health grounds. Militants freed 10 Indian hostages, including 2 women and 2 children. Links: Nigeria
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2007 Jun 14 |
In eastern Pakistan thousands rallied against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, demanding the ouster of the military ruler for suspending the country's top judge. Gunmen opened fire on government troops in the southwestern city of Quetta, considered a Taliban hideout, shortly after the visit of a top US official, killing seven soldiers and two police. Links: Pakistan
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2007 Jun 14 |
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared an emergency after the Hamas militant group effectively took control of the Gaza Strip. Hamas fighters overran one of the rival Fatah movement's most important security installations in the Gaza Strip. Witnesses said the victors dragged vanquished gunmen into the street and shot them to death execution-style. 14 fighters and civilians were killed and 80 wounded in the battle for the Preventive Security complex, bringing the day's death toll to 25 by mid-afternoon. Witnesses, Fatah officials and a doctor reported gangland-style killings of the defeated fighters. Palestinian security officials said an Israeli tank shell killed six people, including five children, in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah. The clashes in Gaza left an estimated 116 people dead and over 500 wounded. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2007 Jun 14 |
In South Africa former UN chief Kofi Annan said he would head a new green group bankrolled by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates to help reverse Africa's declining food production and double output. Links: UN, South Africa, Africa, Agriculture
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2007 Jun 14 |
Sudan’s press reported that 4 people were killed and at least 10 wounded when police dispersed residents in the Kijbar region of north Sudan protesting a dam project which they say will destroy their community. Links: Sudan
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2007 Jun 14 |
In insurgency-wracked southern Thailand a bomb exploded during a soccer match, wounding 14 police officers who were providing security. Links: Thailand
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2007 Jun 14 |
In Mississippi Klansman James Ford Seale (71) was convicted on federal charges of kidnapping and conspiracy in the 1964 deaths of Charles Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee. Seale faced life in prison with sentencing on Aug 24. Links: USA, Black History, Mississippi, KKK
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2007 Jun 14 |
Canada said it had approved the idea of burying nuclear waste from its power plants deep in the ground at a single location, a proposal that green activists immediately condemned as too risky. Links: Canada, Nuclear
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2007 Jun 14 |
Four soldiers were convicted of killing a truck driver and five passengers in Chechnya, but three of the defendants have been missing since disappearing while on trial. Links: Chemistry
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2007 Jun 14 |
A UN spokesman said that Ethiopia has accepted a UN commission's ruling to turn over the disputed town of Badme to Eritrea. In a letter last week to the UN Security Council, the Ethiopian government gave its unconditional acceptance of the commission's decision announced five years ago. Links: UN, Ethiopia, Eritrea
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2007 Jun 14 |
India's governing coalition chose Pratibha Patil (72), the governor of northwestern state of Rajashtan, as its presidential candidate, setting the stage for her to become the country's first female president. It was later reported that in the late 1970s she had favored compulsory sterilization for people with hereditary diseases. Reports also said that the Reserve Bank of India had shut down a women’s co-operative bank where she had given favorable loans to relatives. Links: India
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2007 Jun 14 |
Romania's government defended its decision to return "Dracula's Castle" to members of the former royal family, denying allegations that the decision was illegal. Links: Romania
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2007 Jun 14 |
In California the Sonoma County Water Agency became the first water provider in the state since the early 1990s to institute mandatory rationing. Links: California, Environment
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2007 Jun 14 |
Colgate warned that a counterfeit toothpaste bearing its name has been found in four states and may contain diethylene glycol, a poisonous chemical used in antifreeze. Links: USA, Dental
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2007 Jun 14 |
Colombia’s Congress passed a bill to give established gay couples full rights to health insurance, inheritance and social security. This would make it the first Latin American country to provide such rights. Links: Colombia, Gays
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2007 Jun 14 |
Abel Diaz Lucas, also known as Jorge Guevara-Perez, was arrested in El Paso, Texas. The next day he was handed to Mexican authorities, who had been trying to find Diaz for five years. They accused him of running a central Mexico gang notorious for cutting off the fingers and ears of their victims and sending them to their families to demand ransom money. Links: USA, Mexico, Texas
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2007 Jun 14 |
In Puerto Rico 5 men robbed a Loomis Fargo armored car. The next day Angel Fernandez Ramos, a Puerto Rican police officer assigned to a DEA anti-drugs unit, was arrested and charged with carrying out the $515,000 armored car heist with three relatives and another man. Links: Puerto Rico, Robbery
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2007 Jun 14 |
The Swiss National Bank raised interest rates by a quarter point. Links: Switzerland, Economics
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2007 Jun 14 |
The San Antonio Spurs won their fourth NBA title in nine years as they defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 83-82 in Game 4. Links: USA, Texas, Basketball
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2007 Jun 14 |
Rifat Hadziahmetovic (39) of Montenegro and another "Pink Panther" member allegedly stole a diamond tiara worth 200 million yen (2.3 million dollars) and other gems from a jewelry store in Tokyo's upmarket Ginza district. Hadziahmetovic was arrested in 2009 in Cyprus. In 2010 he was extradited to Japan from Spain for the robbery in Tokyo. The other suspect in the heist, Radovan Jelusic (39) was arrested in Rome in May in possession of a forged Croatian passport. Links: Japan, Montenegro, Robbery
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2008 Jun 14 |
In northern California the former Fort Baker was rededicated as a public park and featured the new 142-room Cavallo Point lodge. Links: USA, SF Bay Area
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2008 Jun 14 |
Shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven returned to Earth and capped a successful expansion job at the international space station, more spacious and robust thanks to a new billion-dollar science lab. Links: USA, NASA, ISS
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2008 Jun 14 |
In Afghanistan a roadside bomb killed four US troops. Afghan and US-led coalition forces killed more than 15 insurgents during a hunt for inmates who fled prison after a sophisticated Taliban attack that set hundreds free, while Afghan forces recaptured 20 prisoners. Links: USA, Afghan
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2008 Jun 14 |
Rebels in Chad attacked the eastern town of Goz-Beida, and Irish EU troops took up defensive positions between the fighting and a refugee camp. Links: Chad, EU
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2008 Jun 14 |
The EU presented Iran with a modified package of incentives to suspend its uranium enrichment program, but an Iran government spokesman said the country would reject the offer if it requires a halt to sensitive nuclear work. As part of the package Western nations told Iran that they could cut off any new help to Iran's anti-drug units unless the Islamic regime halts uranium enrichment. Links: EU, Iran, Nuclear
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2008 Jun 14 |
In northeast India landslides and house collapses caused by 2 days of heavy rains killed at least 14 people and injured more than 50 others. Links: India, Weather Asia
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2008 Jun 14 |
US helicopters blanketed the southern city of Amarah with pamphlets urging residents to cooperate with Iraqi security forces as they prepare for a new operation against Shiite militia fighters. A bomb hidden on a bus exploded in a Shiite neighborhood in eastern Baghdad, killing two people and wounding eight. Links: Iraq, USA
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2008 Jun 14 |
In Japan G8 finance ministers said soaring oil and food prices are emerging as serious threats to global economic growth, while vowing to work together to address the problem. Links: Oil, Japan, Food, G8
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2008 Jun 14 |
In northern Japan a magnitude-7.2 earthquake ripped across mountains and rice fields, killing at least 13 people as it sheared off hillsides, jolted buildings and shook nuclear power plants. 10 people remained missing. Links: Japan, Earthquake
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2008 Jun 14 |
In Nigeria a union leader said teachers have ended their three-day strike after the government agreed to heed their demand for a pay rise. Links: Labor, Nigeria, Education
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2008 Jun 14 |
Pakistan's main ruling party said it will reinstate judges ousted by President Pervez Musharraf only after it has overcome legal obstacles following a massive rally calling for their restoration. Links: Pakistan
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2008 Jun 14 |
Striking truck drivers in South Korea threatened to block the country's largest port to protest surging fuel prices. Links: Oil, South Korea
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2008 Jun 14 |
Zaragoza, Spain, opened a World Expo and expected some 6 million visitors. The expo was due to close on Sep 14. Links: Spain, Expo
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2008 Jun 14 |
Spanish police said they had charged 20 people with exchanging child pornography online and arrested 14 others in a nationwide operation. Links: Spain, Sex, Kids
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2008 Jun 14 |
President Robert Mugabe vowed that the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) would never rule Zimbabwe and that he was prepared to fight to keep them from taking power. Zimbabwe opposition's number two leader appeared in court to face a treason charge, while police again detained opposition chief Morgan Tsvangirai ahead of this month's presidential run-off election. Links: Zimbabwe
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2008 Jun 14 |
E. Fuller Torrey authored “The Insanity Offense: How America’s Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens.” He describes the grim consequences of laws that, beginning in the late 1960s, released the seriously mentally ill from the oversight of state mental health services. Links: USA, Medical, Books
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2008 Jun 14 |
Argentine police in riot gear broke up a farmers' highway blockade, briefly arresting 19 demonstrators including a prominent leader of a three-month protest against an increase in grain export taxes. Links: Argentina, Taxes, Agriculture
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2008 Jun 14 |
In Sri Lanka ground battles left 15 guerrillas and two soldiers dead. Links: Sri Lanka
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2008 Jun 14 |
Swedish jazz star Esbjoern Svensson was killed at the weekend in a scuba diving accident off Stockholm. Links: Sweden, Jazz
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2008 Jun 14 |
Annualized inflation in Venezuela stood at around 30% amidst an economic slowdown and an unprecedented crime-wave. Links: Venezuela, Economics
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2009 Jun 14 |
Afghanistan’s Interior Minister Hanif Atmar said more than 250 people, many of them militants and some foreign insurgents, were killed during attacks by the Taliban in 25 of Afghanistan's 34 provinces last week. Police and civilians were also among the dead. He also warned that Islamist militants would attempt to sabotage the August 20 presidential election. Links: Afghan
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2009 Jun 14 |
Belarus boycotted a Moscow-led security summit to protest a Russian ban on Belarusian dairy products, deepening a politically charged dispute between the two ex-Soviet neighbors. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and the other Organization of the Collective Security Treaty (CSTO) leaders signed an agreement creating a joint rapid-reaction force that could bolster the power and prestige of the seven-nation alliance, seen largely as an ex-Soviet answer to NATO. Links: Belarus, Russia
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2009 Jun 14 |
In Iran protesters set fires and smashed store windows in a second day of violence as groups challenging President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election tried to keep pressure on authorities. Anti-riot police lashed back and the regime blocked Internet sites used to rally the pro-reform campaign. Links: Iran, Mad Crowd
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2009 Jun 14 |
Pakistan said it would resort to force against Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud in South Waziristan. Militants remotely-detonated explosives hidden in a rickshaw, causing chaos at a busy market in Dera Ismail Khan town, with 9 people killed and dozens injured. Jet planes bombed hideouts in the tribal area of Bajaur. Up to 44 suspected militants killed in the onslaught. A US drone attack targeting a militant vehicle killed at least three people, including Uzbek and Arab militants, in the Mardar Algad area of South Waziristan. Links: USA, Pakistan
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2009 Jun 14 |
Thai PM Abhisit Vejjajiva urged the country not to panic about swine flu, after the number of cases grew nine-fold in four days and a cluster emerged in a key tourist hub. Health authorities reported that confirmed cases of the A(H1N1) virus soared to 150, compared with just 16 on June 10, including a number of foreigners. Links: Thailand, Microbiology
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2009 Jun 14 |
Yemen accused a Shiite rebel group of kidnapping 9 foreigners in northern Saada province. The Interior Ministry official said Hassan Hussein Bin Alwan, a Saudi man suspected of financing Al-Qaida cells in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, has been arrested. Links: Saudi Arabia, Yemen
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2009 Jun 14 |
In Florida Tyler Hayes Weinman (18), whose divorced parents live in the neighborhoods where many of the cats were killed, was charged with 19 counts each of animal cruelty and improperly disposing of an animal body. Police said they investigated more than 30 cat deaths since May and were flooded with tips from concerned citizens. Links: USA, Florida, Animal, Teens Amuck
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