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(May 6) — Greek bank workers went on strike this day to protest the deaths of three colleagues trapped in a bank set aflame by protesters angry about government plans to cut salaries and hike taxes to pull the country back from the brink of bankruptcy. Athens has been paralyzed ...
(May 6) — The lone surviving gunman from the bloody 2008 siege of luxury hotels, a Jewish center and a bustling train station in the Indian financial hub of Mumbai was sentenced to death by hanging today. Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, a 22-year-old Pakistani, was found guilty Monday on 86 counts ...
(May 5) — Taliban fighters armed with machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and suicide vests stormed a provincial governor’s compound in western Afghanistan today, sparking street battles in which security guards managed to kill at least five would-be suicide bombers, officials said. Civilian casualties were reported from today’s sophisticated attack in ...
Legendary baseball broadcaster Ernie Harwell, 92, died Tuesday at his home, 10 months after he was diagnosed with an incurable form of cancer in his bile duct. A member of the Baseball and Sportscasters Hall of Fame and a recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award for broadcasting in ...
(May 4) — A 30-year-old Pakistani-American has been arrested in connection with the failed SUV bomb in New York’s Times Square, reportedly pulled off a midnight flight for Dubai just after it rolled out of the gate for takeoff from Kennedy International Airport. Attorney General Eric Holder held a rare ...
(May 4) — A Japanese woman believed to be the oldest person in the world has died just days before her 115th birthday. Kama Chinen died Sunday on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, where she’d been living in a care home for the past few years. A spokesman this ...
HAVOT YAIR, West Bank (May 2) — Doron Nir-Tzvi opens the door of the newly built pinewood bed-and-breakfast cabin next door to his home and smiles. There are two bedrooms, a Jacuzzi, a flat-screen TV and a well-equipped kitchen. The view out the massive window is of rolling hills and ...
(May 3) — New York City’s Times Square is returning to normal after a failed automobile bombing, and authorities are looking for a man caught on video changing his shirt near the bomb-carrying SUV and are reviewing hundreds of other surveillance tapes . Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Homeland Security Secretary ...
OMAHA – Just after dawn today, tens of thousands of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) shareholders began gathering at Omaha’s Qwest Center for the company’s annual shareholder meeting. And billionaire investor Warren Buffett did not waste any time answering questions on a range of topics including the economy, ...
ISLAMABAD (May 1) — The execution of a former Pakistani spy with well-known connections to Pakistan’s security establishment has re-ignited fears here that militants once friendly to Pakistan now pose a serious threat to its stability. The bullet-riddled body of Khalid Khawaja, a retired military officer and senior member of ...