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- Soyuz bound for space station blasts off
- Tensions high amid North Korea transition
- Mexican cities counting down final year of Mayan calendar
- Il's death brings fear, hope to South
- Carbon market crashing in EU
- Thousands of women march in Egypt over abuse
- Iraq VP denies running hit squad
| Soyuz bound for space station blasts off Posted: 21 Dec 2011 01:15 AM PST MOSCOW -- A Soyuz spacecraft carrying a Russian, an American and a Dutchman to the International Space Station blasted off flawlessly from Russia's launch facility in Kazakhstan on Wednesday. Mission commander Oleg Kononenko and his colleagues, Am ... |
| Tensions high amid North Korea transition Posted: 20 Dec 2011 04:01 PM PST PYONGYANG, North Korea -- The body of North Korea's long-time ruler Kim Jong Il was laid out in a glass coffin Tuesday as weeping mourners filled public plazas and state media fed a budding personality cult around his third son, hailing him as "bor ... |
| Mexican cities counting down final year of Mayan calendar Posted: 20 Dec 2011 04:01 PM PST MEXICO CITY -- Seize the day. Only a year is left before Dec. 21, 2012, when some believe the Maya predicted the end of the world. While some doomsday theorists may suggest putting together survival kits, people in southeastern Mexico, the heart ... |
| Il's death brings fear, hope to South Posted: 20 Dec 2011 04:05 PM PST SEOUL, South Korea -- Kim Yu-sik fled North Korea for the South some 60 years ago during the war that divided the peninsula. The 75-year-old now hopes Kim Jong Il's death will finally allow him to live a dream and return to his hometown."What I miss ... |
| Posted: 20 Dec 2011 04:03 PM PST BRUSSELS -- Europe's main weapon in the battle against climate change is now fighting for its own survival.In early January, investors in the continent's cap-and-trade system still had to pay some $18.30 for the right to emit one ton of carbon dioxid ... |
| Thousands of women march in Egypt over abuse Posted: 20 Dec 2011 04:01 PM PST CAIRO -- Around 10,000 women marched through central Cairo demanding Egypt's ruling military step down Tuesday in an unprecedented show of outrage over soldiers who dragged women by the hair and stomped on them, and stripped one half-naked in the s ... |
| Iraq VP denies running hit squad Posted: 20 Dec 2011 04:01 PM PST BAGHDAD -- Iraq's Sunni vice president denied Shiite accusations that he organized death squads, describing the charges Tuesday as a trumped-up case brought only after the departure of U.S. troops about assassinations allegedly committed five years a ... |
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