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| Seven killed, 36 injured in Iraq blasts (by PressTV)
At least seven people have been killed and 36 others wounded in separate bombing attacks in Iraq, says an interior ministry official.
"There were three incidents in Fallujah, killing four policemen and wounding 25 people," the official told AFP on Monday.
He added that an improvised bomb also killed three people and wounded 11 others in the Jisr Diyala area of south Baghdad.
On Sunday, six...
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| | 'Bahrain under US, Saudi occupation' (by PressTV)
More arrests, more deaths, more torture and more intimidation in Bahrain describe what the residents of the Persian Gulf country are experiencing on a daily basis.
And now more sacrilege, as Saudi-led troops have burned more mosques in the country.
In an interview with Mohsen Saleh, a political analyst from Lebanese university in Beirut, Press TV discusses the situation to see what lies...
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| | Japan lifts tsunami warning after quake (by PressTV)
Japan has lifted a tsunami warning issued following the 6.6-magnitude aftershock which rocked the country on the one-month anniversary of the March 11 twin disasters.
On Monday, a three-foot tsunami warning was issued after the earthquake struck Japan's northeastern coast. All advisories and warnings were lifted about an hour later.
Japanese officials reported the aftershock at 7.1 before...
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| | Green tea, Tai chi help bone health (by PressTV)
Drinking green tea regularly and practicing Chinese martial art improves bone strength and reduces inflammation in postmenopausal women.
Previous animal model studies have reported that green tea consumption has a protective effect against the breakdown of the bone's micro-architecture in female rats.
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center researchers studied 171...
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| | Bahrain sacks doctors, health workers (by PressTV)
The Bahraini government has dismissed 30 doctors and 150 health ministry workers for supporting anti-government protests.
Police also stormed schools on Monday and arrested teachers ahead of a planned strike, a Press TV correspondent reported.
Earlier, Bahraini authorities expelled 16 Lebanese nationals from the country. The move came after the leader of the Lebanese resistance movement...
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| | 'Obama agreement, at people's expense' (by PressTV)
US President Barack Obama has made a number of concessions to Republican lawmakers to avert a federal government shutdown, says an investigative journalist.
In an interview with Press TV on Saturday, American investigative journalist Wayne Madsen said the American people "will pay the price" for Obama's compromise with the Republicans.
He pointed out that the most vulnerable class of...
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| | Saleh welcomes PGCC's exit proposal (by PressTV)
Yemen's embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh has accepted a proposal by Persian Gulf Arab states to hand power to his deputy.
"The presidency welcomes the efforts of our brothers in the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council ([P]GCC) to solve the current crisis in Yemen," a statement released by Saleh's office said on Monday, Reuters reported.
"He (Saleh) has no reservations about...
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| | Italians protest poor living status (by PressTV)
http://217.218.67.244:8181/video/20110410/01-30-00-new-ftp-christine-rome.flv Thousands of Italians have demonstrated to voice their concerns over the deteriorating living conditions in the European country.
On Saturday, thousands of people took to the streets of Rome and more than 29 other locations nationwide to protest...
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| | 'Revolution unconfirmed in Egypt' (by PressTV)
While Egypt experiences a post-revolution era, demonstrators have been demanding that ousted President Hosni Mubarak be tried for corruption.
In an interview with Press TV, Dr. Hesham Tillawi, host of Current Issues TV and Radio in the US state of Louisiana, discusses his views on the revolutions' actual results and the realities facing Egyptians today. The following is a transcript of the...
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| | 'Bahrain Shia face sectarian cleansing' (by PressTV)
With the help of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain is carrying out "sectarian cleansing" against the Shia population in the Persian Gulf country, a national human rights activist says.
"Today we are witnessing a sectarian cleansing targeting the Shia. People are being sacked from their work based on sectarian reasons. Athletes are being sacked from the clubs they play for based on their sectarian...
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| | 'US using human rights as a tool' (by PressTV)
A senior Iranian cleric says Washington is using human rights as a tool to slam other countries while it does not respect human rights itself.
"Human rights has become an excuse [for you] to hammer the governments which are opposed to your policies while you yourselves do not respect it (human rights)," said Chairman of the Iranian Assembly of Experts Ayatollah Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi...
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| | Yemen protesters reject Saleh's exit bid (by PressTV)
Yemeni anti-government protesters have dismissed a proposal by Persian Gulf Arab states suggesting that President Ali Abdullah Saleh pass power to his deputy.
"We are not concerned by any solution negotiated between the regime and the opposition that does not answer our main demand: the fall of the regime and its figures," said leading activist Adel al-Rabyi, from the Youth for Change...
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| | Pakistani Christians rap Qur'an burning (by PressTV)
The Christian community across Pakistan has staged a protest to denounce the burning of Islam's holy book, the Qur'an, by a US extremist pastor.
Christians throughout the country gathered in the Pakistani city of Lahore to show solidarity with the world's Muslims, a Press TV correspondent reported Monday.
The Christian demonstrators said that US Pastor Wayne Sapp's burning of the Holy...
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| | Policeman, 3 militants killed in Pakistan (by PressTV)
One Pakistani policeman and three unknown militants have been killed in a clash between security forces and gunmen in Pakistan's northwestern tribal region.
Security officials told Press TV that the gunfight occurred before dawn on Monday after militants attacked a police patrol in the northwestern city of Peshawar, killing one policeman and injuring another.
Just after the attack, police...
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| | Japan issues tsunami alert after quake (by PressTV)
Japan has issued a tsunami alert after a 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit the eastern and northeastern parts of the Asian country and swayed buildings in the capital city of Tokyo.
There has been no immediate report of casualties of the incident.
The Monday quake was shallow and centered 14 miles (22 km) southwest of Iwaki, Reuters reported.
It has triggered a one-meter tsunami alert,...
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| | 'US unable to stop Islamic awakening' (by PressTV)
A top Iranian military commander has lashed out at Saudi Arabia for its violent military offensive against civilians in Bahrain, stressing that the US is unable to stop Islamic awakening in the region.
"Weapons of the United States, Britain and the Zionist regime (Israel) cannot destroy the Islamic awakening," IRNA quoted Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of Iran's Armed Forces...
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| | Icelanders Vote on Predatory Bailout (by Stephen J. Lendman)
 In his April 8 article headlined, "The Economic Crisis in Iceland: 'IMF Medicine' is not the Solution," Michael Hudson asked: "Will Iceland Vote 'No' on April 9, or commit financial suicide," their choice being: Reject debt bondage or "subject their economy to decades of poverty, bankruptcy and emigration of their work force." In other words, destroying the nation for profit, extorting its...
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| | Berlusconi due in court for tax fraud (by PressTV)
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is expected to be in court on Monday to face the latest in a series of trials over the coming weeks on charges ranging from tax fraud to paying for sex with a minor.
Monday's trial centers on charges that Berlusconi's Mediaset broadcasting empire bought TV and film rights at inflated prices through offshore front companies, leaving the difference to...
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| | 'AU's Libya roadmap a long shot' (by PressTV)
The African Union has negotiated a proposed ceasefire, which Qaddafi has accepted along with a road map to end the stalemate that has developed in Libya.
In an interview with Press TV in London, Ayo Johnson, Director of View Point, Africa, deliberates what the road map contains and how certain assumptions will affect relevant stakeholders.
Press TV: How do you understand the recent...
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| | Japan to widen evacuation zone (by PressTV)
Japan says it has planned to widen the current 20-kilometer evacuation area around the quake-ravaged Fukushima nuclear power plant in the northeastern coasts of the country.
The area will include villages and towns that have had more accumulated radiation, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said during a news conference on Monday.
"These regions could accumulate 20 millisieverts...
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| | Violence kills several in Syria (by PressTV)
Several Syrian people, including nine security forces, have been killed in the latest round of violence in Syria, reports say.
The Syrian soldiers -- including two officers -- were killed and several others were left injured when a convoy of security forces was ambushed by "an armed group" near the northwestern coastal town of Banias on Sunday, Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reports.
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| | Iran MP offers military use in Bahrain (by PressTV)
Amid a Saudi-backed brutal clampdown on Bahraini anti-government protesters, an Iranian lawmaker has proposed that the Islamic Republic should dispatch its military forces to the Persian Gulf state.
"I believe that the Iranian government should not be reluctant to prepare the country's military forces at a time that Saudi Arabia has dispatched its troops to Bahrain," Khabar Online quoted...
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| | Chinese milk intentionally poisoned (by PressTV)
Police have found that nitrite-tainted milk that killed three children and sickened 36 people in northwest China was deliberately poisoned.
Investigators found that the deadly industrial salt was added to fresh milk from two dairies last week in the Gansu province in order to harm people, Xinhua news agency said.
The report added that local police were questioning several suspects and...
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| | 'Bahrainis in a state of constant fear' (by PressTV)
Almost two months into the anti-regime protests that have ripped through Bahrain, reports are mounting of the government creating a state of fear among local citizens.
Five mosques in the town of Hamad and the village of Mahooz in the East and Northeast of the country have reportedly been demolished by regime forces backed by Saudi troops.
A national human rights activist has also died in...
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| | Iraqis hate MKO terrorists: Iran MP (by PressTV)
An Iranian lawmaker says the recent incidents at Camp Ashraf, the terrorist Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) group's base in Iraq, were the result of the Iraqi people's hatred of MKO terrorists.
"These events stemmed from the MKO's despicable background caused by their collaboration with the Iraqi Baath Party in killing defenseless Muslim Iraqis," Mohammad Karami-Raad who sits on the...
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| | Many lung cancer patients smoke (by PressTV)
About 18 percent of lung cancer victims and their family caregivers do not stop smoking despite that the habit may jeopardize recovery and deteriorate their conditions.
A study of 742 people suffering from cancer revealed that nearly one in five of lung cancer patients did not quit smoking cigarettes after being diagnosed even though knowing that the habit is the top cause of their disease.
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| | Corporate America (by Braveheart)
This corporate America is an abomination. It has abandoned the old system of family wage. It no longer pays a man enough to support a wife and family. It pays two people less than it used to pay one. This corporate America must be destroyed. It must be replaced by a national economy where American prosperity and American jobs are the paramount consideration. Shipping any American production...
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| | Another good idea from Arizona (by Jeff Davis)
Arizona to Go to Flat Tax? It looks like immigration enforcement isn't the only reason the Democrat regime is ticked off with the great state of Arizona. They're messing with the Dems' money supply in a big way, and they may be about to try something that conservatives have been advocating in this country for almost a century, but never had the guts to try –a flat tax. An article in...
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| | Police pullout sets Argentine strikes (by PressTV)
http://217.218.67.244:8181/video/20110409/09-52-00-ftp-constanza-buenos aires - new2.flv The order for a police pullout in Argentina has triggered more protests by the country's hospital workers, who feel the order threatens their workplace security.
The Municipal Medical Association organized a 24-hour strike for hospital...
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| | 'Bahrain identity systematically attacked' (by PressTV)
Bahraini coalition forces are intentionally targeting the people's religious identity, destroying mosques as a prelude to the physical destruction of the Bahraini people.
In an interview with Press TV, Rodney Shakespeare, Chairman of the Committee against Torture in Bahrain, airs his views as to why mosques are being targeted in the Bahrain crackdown.
Press TV: Bahrain, as we know, is in a...
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| | Video: US troops fire on Iraqi detainees (by PressTV)
http://217.218.67.244:8181/video/site video/04-11-2011/us_war_crimes.flv Amateur footage recently posted on the internet shows American troops firing live ammunition on Iraqi prisoners during a riot in a US detention facility in Iraq back in 2005.
The footage shows US forces using disproportionate force and live rounds against...
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| | 'Arab dictators commit political suicide' (by PressTV)
Chairman of Iran's Expediency Council Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani says the authoritarian regimes in the Arab world are committing "political suicide" by suppressing their nations.
"Repressive methods will not be effectual in the long run and the countries which kill their people are committing political suicide," ISNA quoted Ayatollah Rafsanjani as saying during a meeting with...
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| | PGCC urges Yemen's Saleh to quit (by PressTV)
The member states of the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council ([P]GCC) have presented a united front in calling on embattled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down.
During a Sunday meeting in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, foreign ministers from the [P]GCC urged the long-ruling Yemeni president to hand over power to his deputy to pave the way for power transition in the Middle Eastern...
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| | Why I don't believe in the Holocaust revisited (by Editorial)
A response to Eustace Mullins' speech concerning Zionist complicity with the alleged 'Jewish Holocaust' Last week, a video was making the rounds of a speech given by one of the greatest historians of the 20th century, Eustace Mullins, in which he was suggesting that the Nazi concentration camps were the result of Zionist cooperation with the German Nazis for the purpose of eliminating those...
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| | World military spending hits record high (by PressTV)
The world's military spending has increased to a record high of $1.6 trillion in 2010, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) says.
The Swedish think-tank said on Monday that the global military spending rose 1.3 percent in 2010, indicating that budget constraints caused by the worldwide financial crisis has slowed the growth of military investment, Reuters reported.
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| | Tornado destroys homes in W Iowa (by PressTV)
A tornado has ripped through a town in the west of US state of Iowa, wreaking havoc on more than half of the city and displacing at least 400 people, officials say.
The cyclone roared through Mapleton, a town of 1,200 in western Iowa on Saturday night with speeds of more than 100 miles per hour, destroying 12 to 15 blocks in the southwest corner of the town, the Associated Press reported on...
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| | Hamas arrests 'Israeli spies' (by PressTV)
http://217.218.67.244:8181/video/20110411/00-17-00-sng-ashraf-gaza.flv Hamas says it has captured informants who had helped Israel in the latest attacks on the Gaza Strip, which killed 19 Palestinians and injured over 70 others.
Hamas's Interior Ministry spokesman, Ihab al-Ghussein, said that despite the help of the informants,...
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| | 28 die in Mexico drug-related violence (by PressTV)
At least 28 people have been killed in the latest spate of attacks related to organized crime in northern Mexico amid failing efforts to stem drug violence in the country.
In the state of Chihuahua, 21 people were gunned down, including 10 in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's murder capital, which is located across the border from El Paso in the southern US state of Texas, AFP reported on Sunday.
A...
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| | Failed 'Qaddafi Project' and the 'blowback' (by Rehmats World)
The President of Libya Jumhurriya, Muammar al-Qaddafi, recently sent a message to Barack Obama, calling him 'son'(!!): "As you know too well democracy and building of civil society cannot be achieved by means of missiles and aircraft, or by backing armed member of Al-Qaeda in Benghazi". The Al-Qaeda Qaddafi is talking about was created by the French, the US, British and Israeli...
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| | Japan ruling party loses local vote (by PressTV)
Japan's ruling party has lost the local elections following what people call the government's inability in tackling the country's nuclear crisis.
The Democratic Party of Japan lost nearly 70 seats in Sunday's elections for prefectural assemblies as well as losing to the Liberal Democrat Party (LDP) in three gubernatorial elections, Reuters reported.
Though ratings for Prime Minister Naoto...
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| | 'Egypt keen on relations with Iran' (by PressTV)
Head of Egypt's ruling military council, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, says Iran is not an enemy of Egypt, calling for better ties with the Islamic Republic.
In an interview with German daily Der Spiegel, Tantawi lauded Iran's excellent position in the Islamic world, and expressed hope that Tehran-Cairo relations would increase.
"We hope that the upcoming stage would be a stage of...
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| | 'Palestine will never give up to Israel' (by PressTV)
The Deputy Head of the Islamic Jihad Movement, Ziad Enkhaleh, has said that Palestinian resistance would never surrender to Israel.
Enkhaleh told Press TV on Sunday that the historical and real Palestinian nation's choice is resistance against occupation and it will never end until the Israeli aggression continues.
"It will never surrender to Israel. Israeli aggression is going on. We...
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| | Peru exit polls hint at run-off election (by PressTV)
Exit polls show that a leftist candidate has won the first round of the presidential election in Peru, failing to garner majority of votes to avoid a run-off.
Former army Lt. Col. Ollanta Humala led with 31.6 and 33.8 percent of the vote, followed by right-wing Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of jailed former President Alberto Fujimori, who obtained between 21.3 and 22 percent of the vote, AFP...
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| | I am Israel (Documentary) (by Hashem Said)
{vimeo width="560" height="340"}22210375{/vimeo} I am Israel. Written by Hashem Said on Feb.25.2002. Video made by Jihane Al Quds on Sept.4.2009. Hashem Said is an officer in the UW Palestinian student group Hayaat. | | Gaddafi accepts ceasefire: AU mediator (by PressTV)
South African President Jacob Zuma says embattled Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi has accepted the African Union's roadmap for a ceasefire to end the war in Libya.
An African Union (AU) mediation delegation held talks with Gaddafi's team on Sunday about a peace plan to put an end to the conflict, AFP reported.
The AU has brought up other proposals to Gaddafi which will be announced later and...
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| | EU, IMF to discuss Portugal bailout (by PressTV)
A group of European experts are set to meet in Lisbon for talks aimed at granting the debt-laden Portugal an 80 billion euro bailout.
The EU, the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will discuss the "technical details" of the rescue package on Tuesday in a meeting with Portuguese finance ministry officials, AFP quoted EU commission...
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| | The Legality of Israel is a Ruse (by Kawther Salam)
The First Episode – written by Chelli S., a courageous young American  woman who has visited occupied Palestine and lived in my homeland Hebron, from where I was expelled in 2002. She lived in the center of the city which is occupied by about 400 militant extremist American and European jewish colonists protected by over 5000 soldiers. Chelli moved between Tel Rumeida, the highest hill...
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| | 'Abidjan on brink of health disaster' (by PressTV)
Relief agency Doctors Without Borders has said that heavy fighting in Ivory Coast's most populated city Abidjan is nearing a heath disaster.
The agency said on Sunday that cuts in water supply has increasingly grown worrisome with the high possibility of cholera outbreak, adding that there was not enough medicine available, Reuters reported.
Security in the city is deteriorating every day...
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| | UAE detains three rights activists (by PressTV)
Police in the United Arab Emirates have arrested three human rights activists, who are members of political forums.
Fahad Salem al-Shehhi was detained in his apartment in Ajman on Saturday, a day after the UAE police arrested another rights activist Ahmed Mansoor.
Both activists are members of the online political forum Hewar, which has been blocked in the country, Reuters reported on...
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| | Spaniards protest against ETA in Madrid (by PressTV)
http://217.218.67.244:8181/video/20110410/14-24-00-ftp-sonia-madrid.flv Tens of thousands of protesters have staged a rally in Madrid to show their anger at the Spanish government's "submission" to the Basque separatist group ETA.
Demonstrators shouted "no more lies" and "no more fake ceasefires" and carried Spanish flags and...
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| | ICRC worried about foreigners in Libya (by PressTV)
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has voiced concerns about the foreign nationals that have been stuck in Libya's war-torn Misratah city.
The Libyan Red Crescent estimates that between 6,000 and 7,000 foreign migrants are found under shelters provided by the ICRC in the port city of Misratah on Sunday, AFP reported.
ICRC spokesman, Nicole Engelbrecht, said their team had...
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| | US soldier killed in Iraq (by PressTV)
An American soldier has been killed in northern Iraq, bringing the total death toll to over 4,440 since it invaded Iraq in 2003, a report says.
The US military has withheld the details of the soldier, who was killed on Saturday. It only said that this was the sixth death of an American soldier in the month of April, AP quoted a US military statement as saying.
That puts April on pace to be...
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| | 'Japan vague about N-crisis scope' (by PressTV)
Japanese people have voiced concerns over the true levels of post-quake radiation that might not have been announced by the government.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan said earlier Japan is facing the worst catastrophe since World War II, as the March 11 earthquake and tsunami has claimed the lives of at least 28,000 so far.
Press TV has conducted an interview with Philip White of the Citizens'...
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| | France, UN fire on Gbagbo's residence (by PressTV)
Helicopters from the United Nations and France have fired rockets on the residence of Ivory Coast's incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo.
Residents from nearby neighborhoods said the helicopters opened fire on the presidential residence on Sunday.
The same three helicopters were seen take off from the French military base only minutes before the attack, the Associated Press reported.
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| | Egypt detains Mubarak's ex-premier (by PressTV)
Egypt's former Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif has been detained for questioning over corruption two months after a historic revolution toppled the country's autocratic regime.
Egypt's public prosecutor said on Sunday that Nazif is suspected of illicit gains and graft.
Nazif, who acted as Mubarak's premier for more than five years, will be in custody for 15 days as part of an investigation...
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| | Iran: West unfair on nuclear energy (by PressTV)
A top Iranian diplomat says the Western thought is "discriminatory" in principle when it comes to the inalienable right of all nations to nuclear energy.
"Based on their own standards, Western countries maintain that Muslim nations should be inferior to Israel, and that they do not have the right to acquire superior nuclear energy knowhow, even if peaceful," Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister...
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| | Village remains under siege weeks after settlement murders (by Charlotte Silver)
 | | Israeli soldiers stop a Palestinian driver on the outskirts of Awarta village, 22 March. (Jafar Ashtiyeh/AFP) |
Awarta is a poor, sprawling village in the northern occupied West Bank. Surrounded by land that is now a vivid green from the winter rains, trails of cactus plants grow between the houses of the village. Two weeks ago, however, Israel designated Awarta a...
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| | Envoy explains Iran mistrust of West (by PressTV)
Iran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says "unfair and inappropriate" moves to impede Tehran's nuclear progress are the reason for the country's mistrust of the West.
"Such actions set the stage for our country to lose trust in Western countries and their activities," Ali Asghar Soltanieh was quoted by ISNA as saying at a conference in Tehran.
Soltanieh...
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| | Canadians hold anti-war rallies (by PressTV)
http://217.218.67.244:8181/video/20110410/15-20-00-ftp-zahra-vancouver.flv Hundreds of Canadian citizens and peace activists have gathered in various cities to speak out against Canada's participation in the Afghanistan mission.
Protesters gathered in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver on Saturday, calling for the withdrawal of...
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| | 'Secret Israeli-Azeri ties exposed' (by PressTV)
A leaked US diplomatic cable exposes Azerbaijan's contact with the Israeli spy agency, Mossad, and security agreements reached between the two sides.
The document was sent from the United States embassy in Baku on February 16, 2007, Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz wrote on Sunday. It says that Azeri President Ilham Aliyev's security adviser had met with Mossad representatives as well as the...
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| | AU peace delegation meets Gaddafi (by PressTV)
An African Union delegation has met with embattled Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi in an attempt to mediate an end to fighting between the revolutionaries and regime troops.
The high-level delegation held talks with Gaddafi and his senior officials in the capital, Tripoli, on Sunday.
The delegation has called for an immediate end to all hostilities and plans to hold talks with both sides.
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| | Iran Navy saves oil-tanker from pirates (by PressTV)
The Islamic Republic of Iran's Navy warship fleet has thwarted an attempt by pirates to highjack an Iranian supertanker in the Indian Ocean.
On Sunday, Iran's supertanker Voyager 1 was attacked by two pirate boats off Pakistan's southwestern coast in the international waters of the Indian Ocean.
The oil-tanker, however, was saved thanks to the timely measure taken by the Iranian Navy...
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| | Iran to unveil hybrid Bus, vessel (by PressTV)
Iranian Fuel Conservation Company (IFCO) has announced plans to unveil a newly-designed hybrid bus and vessel at Tehran's 16th international oil and gas exposition.
IFCO managing director Abbas Kazemi said hybrid engines reduce fuel consumption in buses by nearly 50 percent and greatly reduce greenhouse gas emission in large urban areas, SHANA reported on Sunday.
The company said its...
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| | Russians stage 'Day of Rage' protests (by PressTV)
  In Russia, the opposition has held "Day of Rage" anti-government protests to demand political reform, fair elections and an end to corruption.
Hundreds participated in the rallies held in Moscow on Sunday. Protesters say corruption threatens the Russian society and needs to be stopped before it would destroy the country, a Press TV correspondent reported.
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| | Egyptian Museum closed after protests (by PressTV)
Cairo's Egyptian Museum has been closed to visitors following demonstrations in the capital city's Liberation Square which left six people dead.
The museum was closed on Saturday when violence broke out as the Egyptian military dispersed a peaceful sit-in in Liberation Square where protestors had gathered to ask for the prosecution of ousted president Hosni Mubarak and other figures of his...
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| | Japanese protest Tokyo nuclear policy (by PressTV)
While Japan is facing a new crisis at Onagawa power plant, thousands of Japanese have taken to the streets of Tokyo to protest the country's nuclear policies.
About 15,000 Japanese people took to streets in different parts of Tokyo on Sunday, chanting "No to nuclear bombs! No more Fukushima!"
The demonstration was held in protest at the government's policies regarding Hamaoka nuclear power...
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| | In Libya, 13 revolutionaries killed (by PressTV)
Over a dozen people have been killed in fierce fighting between Libyan revolutionary forces and troops loyal to Muammar Gaddafi near the strategic town of Ajdabiyah.
Medics say at least 13 people have been killed since fighting erupted in and around the frontline town on Saturday. Fourteen others are also reported to have been injured.
Ajdabiyah is a strategic town 150 km (90 miles) km...
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| | Iceland rejects debt repayment plan (by PressTV)
Voters in Iceland have rejected the latest plan to repay EUR 3.9 billion (USD 5.6 billion) worth of deposits in a failed online bank to The Netherlands and UK.
Partial results of a national poll show that 57 percent of Icelanders voted against the plan on Sunday. British and Dutch governments had compensated some 400,000 citizens who lost their savings when Iceland's Landsbanki (Icesave)...
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| | Iran to display military achievements (by PressTV)
Commander of Iran's Army Major General Ataollah Salehi says Tehran will display the country's new defensive achievements in a military parade next week.
"New achievements in military and defense fields will be displayed in a march on April 18," Salehi said on Sunday.
April 18 (Farvardin 29) marks the Islamic Republic of Iran's Army Day.
"Today Iran's Army and [the country's] other...
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| | Mubarak summoned for questioning (by PressTV)
Egypt's public prosecutor has summoned former president Hosni Mubarak and his son for questioning over corruption and use of violence against peaceful protesters.
"The public prosecutor Abdel Magid Mahmud decided today to ask for the questioning of former president Hosni Mubarak and his sons Gamal and Alaa," MENA reported.
Former premier Ahmed Nazif has also been detained for questioning...
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