Queen escaped Australian train assassination plot, says cop (AFP)

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Queen Elizabeth II who escaped assassination in Australia nearly 40 years ago when plotters tried to derail her train on a mountain pass, a retired detective has claimed.(AFP/Anatolia News Agency/Pool/File)AFP - Queen Elizabeth II escaped assassination in Australia nearly 40 years ago when plotters tried to derail her train on a mountain pass, a retired detective has claimed.


Source:Queen escaped Australian train assassination plot, says cop
(AFP)

STMicro says to cut 4,500 jobs in 2009 (AFP)

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The logo of French-Italian semi-conductor maker STMicroelectronics, which has said it will cut 4,500 jobs -- a tenth of its workforce -- as tries to respond to the global slowdown.(AFP/File/Thomas Coex)AFP - French-Italian semiconductor maker STMicroelectronics has said it will cut 4,500 jobs — a tenth of its workforce — as tries to respond to the global slowdown.


Source:STMicro says to cut 4,500 jobs in 2009
(AFP)

After offensive, posters of dead sell well in Gaza (AP)

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A Palestinian man enters the Nibras Print Shop beside a poster showing Hamas militants that were killed in Israel's recent Gaza military offensive in Gaza City, Monday, Jan. 26, 2009. The shop prints customized, full-color posters and banners commemorating the dead ? a Palestinian tradition for people killed by Israel. In the wake of Israel's 22-day Gaza offensive, which killed nearly 1,300 Palestinians, the shop is one of Gaza's few businesses experiencing a postwar boom. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)AP - Some were killed when tank shells hit their homes. Others died when bombs erased their offices. Still others met their end battling Israeli troops.


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Yearly Mexican remittances drop for 1st time (AP)

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Guillermo Ortiz, president of the Bank of Mexico, speaks during a news conference in Mexico City, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009. Behind, a graphic shows the decline in the Mexican gross domestic product from 2005 through expectations for 2009. The money sent home by Mexican migrants fell in 2008 for the first time on record, Mexico's central bank said Tuesday  - part of a global trend that could worsen as emigrants from developing countries lose jobs in the global financial crisis. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)AP - The money sent home by Mexican migrants fell in 2008 for the first time on record, Mexico’s central bank said Tuesday ? part of a global trend that could worsen as emigrants from developing countries lose jobs in the global financial crisis.


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North Korea cash sent with leaflets illegal: Seoul (Reuters)

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Reuters - South Korean civic groups that send anti-Pyongyang leaflets into North Korea are breaking the law and face prosecution if they enclose the communist state’s money, a South Korean spokesman said on Wednesday.

Source:North Korea cash sent with leaflets illegal: Seoul
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Rare 1,800-year-old figurine found in Jerusalem (AP)

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An Israel Antiquities Authority worker holds an ancient figurine found near Jerusalem's Old City, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009. Israeli archaeologists say they have discovered a rare 1,800-year-old figurine in a Jerusalem excavation. Dating from the time of the Roman Empire, the five-centimeter (2-inch) marble bust depicts the head of a man with a short curly beard and almond-shaped eyes. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)AP - An 1,800-year-old figurine believed to have originated from the eastern stretches of the Roman Empire has been discovered by archaeologists outside the walls of the old city, the Israeli Antiquities Authority said. The 2-inch marble bust depicts the head of a man with a short curly beard and almond-shaped eyes who may portray a boxer, the authority said.


Source:Rare 1,800-year-old figurine found in Jerusalem
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Rebels lose last key town to Sri Lankan troops (AP)

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Sri Lankan soldiers of Sinha regiment are seen with their regimental flag in the newly recaptured town of Mullaittivu, about 230 kilometers (143 miles) northeast of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009.At least 300 civilians were wounded and scores feared killed by Sri Lankan army artillery shells fired into a designated 'safe zone' for ethnic Tamils trapped by fighting between the military and Tamil rebels, a health official alleged Tuesday. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)AP - The streets of Mullaittivu ? patrolled by rebels just last week ? were empty Tuesday except for stray dogs, abandoned cows and a few government soldiers.


Source:Rebels lose last key town to Sri Lankan troops
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Thieves target Mexico airport, shoot Frenchman (AP)

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AP - Thieves apparently targeting people who exchange money at Mexico City’s international airport shot a French citizen in the head on Tuesday, and authorities warned that gangs have put lookouts at exchange windows in the terminal.

Source:Thieves target Mexico airport, shoot Frenchman
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Hamas bombing, Israeli airstrike shake Gaza truce (AP)

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In this photo released by Israel's Defense Ministry, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak talks with Israeli reserve soldiers during a training session at Tzeelim army base in southern Israel, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009. Palestinian militants detonated a bomb next to an Israeli army patrol near the Gaza Strip on Tuesday and Israeli soldiers quickly crossed the border in search of the attackers, in the first serious clash since a cease-fire went into effect more than a week ago. (AP Photo/Ariel Hermoni, Defense Ministry,HO)AP - A Palestinian roadside bomb killed an Israeli soldier patrolling the border with Gaza on Tuesday, and Israel responded with an airstrike that wounded a Hamas militant in a flare-up of violence that undermined a cease-fire on the eve of a visit by the new U.S. Mideast envoy.


Source:Hamas bombing, Israeli airstrike shake Gaza truce
(AP)

China marches on in Africa despite downturn (Reuters)

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A visitor walks past a poster with the map of Africa at the meeting venue for the annual meeting of the Africa Development bank in Shanghai in this May 14, 2007 file photo. Chinese businessmen are taking a long-term view and pursuing strategic expansion in Africa even though China's multiplying investments on the continent have lost some lustre in the recent global downturn. Aly Song/Files (Reuters)Reuters - Chinese businessmen are taking a long-term view and pursuing strategic expansion in Africa even though China’s multiplying investments on the continent have lost some luster in the global downturn.


Source:China marches on in Africa despite downturn
(Reuters)

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