PRISTINA (Reuters) - Serbia has offered to govern ethnic Serb areas in Kosovo, senior diplomatic sources said on Tuesday, a plan that would effectively partition the newly independent state.
The proposal was made at the weekend by Serbia’s Minister for Kosovo, Slobodan Samardzic, but was rejected by the United Nations administrators of Kosovo which has a [...]
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Posted in Citi, India, JPMorgan, Tata on March 18, 2008 | No Comments »
HONG KONG (Reuters) - India’s Tata Motors Ltd (TAMO.BO: Quote, Profile, Research) has signed a deal to receive a $3 billion bridge loan from Citigroup (C.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and JPMorgan (JPM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) to help finance a potential purchase of luxury brands Jaguar and Land Rover, a source familiar with the deal said [...]
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Dozens are hurt in the worst fighting since the fledgling nation seceded from Serbia in February.
By Behar Zogiani and Tracy Wilkinson, Special to The Times
March 18, 2008
PRISTINA, KOSOVO — Serbs opposed to Kosovo’s independence battled U.N. and NATO forces Monday in the divided town of Mitrovica, stoking fears of a new regional conflict in the [...]
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Posted in China, Democracy, Tibet on March 18, 2008 | No Comments »
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Close to 1,000 Tibetans have been detained in two days of sweeps across the capital, Lhasa, by paramilitary police hunting down those who took part in last week’s deadly anti-Chinese riots.
Sources in the city said around 600 people had been detained on Saturday and another 300 had been picked up on Sunday. They [...]
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Posted in Madonna on March 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Originally posted Monday March 17, 2008 06:25 PM EDT
Madonna and Guy Ritchie are not headed for splitsville, according to the singer’s rep.
“I am delighted to confirm that Mr. and Mrs. Guy Ritchie remain happily married,” Liz Rosenberg said in a statement Monday, countering rampant speculation about trouble in the couple’s marriage.
Earlier Monday, a British news [...]
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Kuwait City: Kuwait’s entire cabinet resigned on Monday amid strained relationship between the legislative and executive powers in the country.
First Deputy Premier and Defence Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah and the cabinet members tendered their resignations to Prime Minister Shaikh Nasser Al Mohammed Al Sabah, state news agency KUNA reported.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister [...]
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BRUSSELS — Serbs in the northern Kosovo city of Mitrovica fired weapons and threw grenades at international peacekeepers on Monday, wounding dozens of police officers and NATO troops. The clash was the worst violence since Kosovo declared independence from Serbia on Feb. 17.
The episode began at dawn when United Nations police officers raided a United [...]
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Posted in Iran, Iraq, US on March 18, 2008 | No Comments »
By KIM GAMEL – 1 hour ago
BAGHDAD (AP) — A female suicide bomber struck Shiite worshippers in the holy city of Karbala on Monday, an official and a witness said, killing at least 43 people and leaving pools of blood on the street leading to one of Iraq’s most revered mosques.
The blast was the deadliest [...]
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