AFP - China Tuesday said attempts to disrupt the Olympic torch relay were “shameful” after protests at the ceremony to light the flame added to pressure over its handling of ongoing unrest in Tibet.
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AP - Dozens of angry mourners buried an Egyptian man Tuesday who they said was killed by shots fired from an American cargo ship contracted to the U.S. Navy as it passed through the Suez Canal.
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AFP - Air France-KLM will submit fresh proposal to improve its offer for struggling carrier Alitalia on Friday, meeting some key demands from labour, union officials said after a meeting with its chairman.
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AP - Ivan Toms, a South African doctor who played a key role in the campaign to end conscription of young white men to bolster the racist apartheid security forces has died. He was 55.
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AP - A key figure in Pakistan’s new government told two top U.S. envoys on Tuesday there needs to be a change in President Pervez Musharraf’s policy of using the power of the army against Islamic militants.
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“It’s 8am, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008, and you are headed for a business appointment 300 mi. away. You slide into your sleek, two-passenger air-cushion car, press a sequence of buttons and the national traffic computer notes your destination, figures out the current traffic situation and signals your car to slide out of the garage. Hands free, you sit back and begin to read the morning paper—which is flashed on a flat TV screen over the car’s dashboard. Tapping a button changes the page.”
It’s a flying car, I suppose, but not quite what I expected
James R Berry’s vision of 2008 was written 40 years ago, in the November 1968 issue of Mechanix Illustrated. Berry’s other predictions included four-hour workdays for all and undersea “shellfish ranches”, conjuring the delightful image of tiny seahorse-riding men herding clams into corrals - or should that be corals?
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Today should have been the day that we found out how MPs spend our money on their second homes.
Who knows how many MPs’ kitchens have been paid for by taxpayers
I asked in January 2005 for details of how six named MPs spent their Additional Costs Allowance, now worth £23,000 a year.
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No real surprise to hear from Philip Yea, chief executive of 3i, that the UK’s biggest listed private equity group is finally admitting that it has pulled out of early stage venture capital investing.
3i will now focus on buy-outs, growth capital and infrastructure
Mike Butcher at TechCrunch UK says he told the world about the move in January.
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AP - Israel’s defense minister on Tuesday said he would soon allow 600 foreign-trained Palestinian police to take up positions in a volatile West Bank town in a gesture aimed at helping the moderate Palestinian government restore law and order.
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AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Tuesday that he cannot rule out the possibility he might boycott the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics if China continues its crackdown in Tibet.
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