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Arkansas police issue warrant in hit-and-run case
Publish Date : 6/27/2006 8:56:00 AM   Source : US News SofiaNewsroom.com
More than a year after an Indian student was killed in a hit-and-run accident, Arkansas state police issued a warrant against a youth, who was reportedly driving the car that mowed down Karthikeyan Sennimalai, for fleeing the scene.

Seven nabbed for planning attack on Sears Tower
Publish Date : 6/24/2006 8:40:00 AM   Source : US News SofiaNewsroom.com
Authorities today arrested seven persons including five US citizens for allegedly planning to blow up Chicago's famous Sears Tower with Al-Qaeda help.

Osama's ex-concubine is busy penning soaps
Publish Date : 6/24/2006 8:39:00 AM   Source : US News SofiaNewsroom.com
Sudan's novelist Kola Boof, the ex-concubine of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, reportedly has a new show writing for "Days of Our Lives," but the NBC soap opera doesn't seem to be interested in the new project.....

Waziristan turns graveyard for reporters
Publish Date : 6/22/2006 8:58:00 AM   Source : US News SofiaNewsroom.com
Pakistani journalists would do well to avoid media coverage of developments in tribal-dominated Waziristan, says an article in the Boston, Massachussets-based Christian Science Monitor (CSM).

Al-Zawahiri rallies Afghans in new video
Publish Date : 6/22/2006 8:57:00 AM   Source : US News SofiaNewsroom.com
A new videotape of Al Qaeda's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, calls on Muslims in Kabul and elsewhere in Afghanistan to work with Al Qaeda against the Americans, a news report said.

ILO asks Myanmar to take steps to end forced labour
Publish Date : 6/20/2006 8:02:00 AM   Source : US News SofiaNewsroom.com
The UN labour agency has asked Myanmar to take "tangible and verifiable" measures within the next few months to stop forced labour or face the prospect of further action.

Suspend uranium enrichment or face sanctions: Bush to Iran
Publish Date : 6/20/2006 8:01:00 AM   Source : US News SofiaNewsroom.com
erming the US offer of talks on Iran's controversial nuclear programme a "historic opportunity", President George W Bush today warned Tehran of "progressively stronger political and economic sanctions" if it failed ......

Slow progress in voluntary blood donation: WHO
Publish Date : 6/13/2006 8:50:00 AM   Source : US News SofiaNewsroom.com
The world is making only slow progress towards the goal of 100 per cent safe, unpaid, voluntary blood donation, with most developing countries still depending on paid donors or family member donors, according to the UN's health agency.

Hillary second favourite presidential candidate in Iowa poll
Publish Date : 6/13/2006 8:49:00 AM   Source : US News SofiaNewsroom.com
Once the frontrunner, Senator Hillary Clinton has slipped to being the second favourite after former Democratic Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards for the US Presidential elections in a poll conducted in the crucial state of Iowa.

'United States troop cut once unity govt capable of quelling violence'
Publish Date : 6/12/2006 8:55:00 AM   Source : US News SofiaNewsroom.com
The top US military commander in Iraq, General George Casey, has indicated the possibility of a gradual reduction of American troops from Iraq once the national unity government becomes capable of quelling violence across the country.

United States builds coalition of willing to isolate Iran
Publish Date : 6/12/2006 8:55:00 AM   Source : US News SofiaNewsroom.com
The United States has pursued another diplomatic track by building a 'coalition of the willing' to isolate Iran, American officials said.

Al Qaeda's threat to carry out "major attacks" expected: US
Publish Date : 6/12/2006 8:52:00 AM   Source : US News SofiaNewsroom.com
Terming the new al Qaeda threat to carry out "major attacks" as fully anticipated, the US today said it is prepared for retaliation by the terror group after the death of its leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi.

Guantanamo suicides a "good PR move to draw attention": US
Publish Date : 6/12/2006 8:52:00 AM   Source : US News SofiaNewsroom.com
Top American officials have described the suicides of three detainees at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as a "good PR move to draw attention" and an act of warfare waged against the US.

'Breakfast Club' Principal Gleason Dies
Publish Date : 5/29/2006 8:37:00 AM   Source : US News SofiaNewsroom.com
Paul Gleason, who played the go-to bad guy in "Trading Places" and the angry high school principal in "The Breakfast Club," has died. He was 67.

Murtha: Iraq Killings May Hurt War Effort
Publish Date : 5/29/2006 8:36:00 AM   Source : US News SofiaNewsroom.com
The fallout from the killing of as many as two dozen Iraqi civilians by Marines could undermine U.S. efforts in Iraq more than the Abu Ghraib prison scandal did, a lawmaker who is a prominent war critic said Sunday.

Senate Confirms Hayden As CIA Director
Publish Date : 5/27/2006 9:26:00 AM   Source : US News SofiaNewsroom.com
Gen. Michael Hayden won confirmation to be the 20th CIA director Friday in a lopsided Senate vote, placing a career Air Force officer in charge of the civilian spy agency that is grappling .....

Top Veteran Official Joins Pentacle Debate
Publish Date : 5/27/2006 9:24:00 AM   Source : US News SofiaNewsroom.com
Over the years, families have used religious symbols such as the Jewish Star of David, the Christian cross and the Islamic crescent and star to honor their loved ones on headstones and markers.

Sexual predator can live in trailer
Publish Date : 5/26/2006 9:30:00 AM   Source : US News SofiaNewsroom.com
A California judge has ruled that a violent sexual predator who has completed treatment in a mental hospital can live in a trailer outside a prison.

Bush Orders FBI-Congress Documents Sealed
Publish Date : 5/26/2006 9:17:00 AM   Source : US News SofiaNewsroom.com
President Bush is calling a timeout in the constitutional tussle between Congress and the Justice Department, ordering that documents seized in the FBI's raid of a representative's office be sealed for 45 days.

Bush, Blair Acknowledge Mistakes in Iraq
Publish Date : 5/26/2006 9:16:00 AM   Source : US News SofiaNewsroom.com
More than three years after sending their troops to invade Iraq, President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair cannot escape questions about their decision to go to war even as they acknowledge far-reaching mistakes.

Justice denies Hastert target of probe
Publish Date : 5/25/2006 8:57:00 AM   Source : US News SofiaNewsroom.com
The Justice Department denied an ABC News report that the FBI is looking at U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert in the congressional lobbying investigation.

Heroin laced with Fentanyl on the rise
Publish Date : 5/25/2006 8:56:00 AM   Source : US News SofiaNewsroom.com
U.S. officials are concerned over the growing problem of heroin dealers lacing their drugs with the painkiller Fentanyl, creating a deadly combination.

Wisconsin governor signs abstinence law
Publish Date : 5/25/2006 8:54:00 AM   Source : US News SofiaNewsroom.com
Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle has signed legislation that requires sex education programs in public schools to promote abstinence to teenagers.

Conn. parish upset over fraud, private eye
Publish Date : 5/25/2006 8:54:00 AM   Source : US News SofiaNewsroom.com
Most people in a Connecticut parish appear to support the priest who hired a private detective to investigate claims another priest was embezzling money.

More than 2000 people have fled their homes in Myanmar: United Nations
Publish Date : 5/24/2006 9:31:00 AM   Source : US News SofiaNewsroom.com
Renewed violence and human rights abuses in Myanmar has forced more than 2000 people to flee their homes to neighbouring Thailand over the last three years, the UN refugee has reported.

Big five reject proposal for panel to choose Secy-Gen: report
Publish Date : 5/24/2006 9:25:00 AM   Source : US News SofiaNewsroom.com
The five permanent members of the UN Security Council have rejected a proposal that they send a slate of two or more candidates to the General Assembly for the election of the world body's next Secretary General.....

Obesity spreading to developing world and Europe: FAO
Publish Date : 5/19/2006 12:29:00 PM   Source : US News SofiaNewsroom.com
Obesity, once a problem confined to the United States, is now spreading fast to Europe and even the developing nations, a UN agency said.

US to consider India's Security Council bid 'very carefully'
Publish Date : 5/19/2006 12:19:00 PM   Source : US News SofiaNewsroom.com
The US is "considering the issue of India's candidature to the United Nations Security Council "very carefully" but has made it clear that there was no consensus yet on the "eventual composition of the council".

N-deal with India real-world pact: US official
Publish Date : 5/19/2006 12:17:00 PM   Source : US News SofiaNewsroom.com
The US-India civil nuclear energy deal is a "real-world agreement" that may not be perfect, but will prove to be a "net gain for non-proliferation", said a top state department official here.

United Nations asks donors for funds for drought-hit East Africa
Publish Date : 5/13/2006 9:31:00 AM   Source : US News SofiaNewsroom.com
The UN relief agencies have asked international donors to pool in about USD 70 million to provide immediate relief to more than nine million people, mostly children, facing starvation in drought-hit East Africa.

Vietnam signs satellite deal with US firm
Publish Date : 5/12/2006 1:58:00 PM   Source : US News SofiaNewsroom.com
An American defence firm has won the contract to build Vietnam's first satellite, an official with the state-owned telecommunications company said Friday.

Michael Hayden likely to take over as CIA head
Publish Date : 5/8/2006 1:44:00 PM   Source : US News SofiaNewsroom.com
Michael Hayden, current Deputy Director of National Intelligence, is likely to take over as the head of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Reporters and sources, a court battle
Publish Date : 5/7/2006 1:42:00 PM   Source : US News SofiaNewsroom.com
The San Francisco Chronicle and two reporters have been subpoenaed to testify on a grand jury leak, the latest wedge between media and confidential sources.

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