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Al Jazeera: French unions hold pensions strike

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:47:40 -0700

Workers stage strikes and nationwide protests over Sarkozy's overhaul plans, disrupting public transport and services.

Al Jazeera: Mozambique lowers cost of bread

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:44:45 -0700

Cabinet holds emergency meeting following three days of clashes between police and demonstrators that left 13 dead.

Reuters International: Australia's Gillard scrapes back to power

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:45:42 -0700

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard secured a wafer thin parliamentary majority on Tuesday, ending a political impasse but hardly cheering investors worried about the fragility of her government and its plans to tax mining profits.

Reuters International: North Korea asks South for help despite tensions

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:19:25 -0700

SEOUL (Reuters) - Destitute North Korea has asked its wealthy neighbor for rice aid following severe flooding this year, the South's Unification Ministry said on Tuesday, a sign of easing tensions on the peninsula.

Reuters International: Afghanistan freezes Kabulbank directors' assets

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:16:08 -0700

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan has frozen the assets of leading shareholders and borrowers at Kabulbank, the country's top private lender, after the resignation of two top directors triggered a crisis, officials said on Tuesday.

Al Jazeera: China hosts Myanmar military leader

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:11:57 -0700

China hails Myanmar as a "friendly neighbour" and warns the world not to meddle in its forthcoming election.

BBC Front Page: Tax error letters start to arrive

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:45:17 -0700

UK tax authorities are bracing themselves for a deluge of complaints and enquiries after sending out fresh tax calculations.

BBC Front Page: Blitz commemorated at St Paul's

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:44:11 -0700

Pilots, firefighters, nurses and ambulance workers gather 70 years after battling through eight months of bombing raids over Britain's industrial centres.

BBC World News: N Korea accepts flood aid offer

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:43:02 -0700

North Korea has asked South Korea to send rice, cement and construction equipment after devastating floods, southern officials say.

BBC Front Page: Diamond to be new Barclays chief

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:39:36 -0700

Bob Diamond is to become chief executive of Barclays, while HSBC chairman Stephen Green steps down to become a government trade minister.