Thai police fire tear gas at right wing protesters
Police in Bangkok fired tear gas at thousands of right wing protesters who besieged their headquarters while demonstrators outside the city disrupted air and rail services. The movement seeks to unseat Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej, who refuses to quit and weighs a state of emergency. The army commander says the military will stay out of politics. The pro democracy group PDP has occupied Sundaravej’s offices for a fourth night.
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Bangkok
Thailand
Thaksin Shinawatra
Cor
Samak Sundaravej
People’s Alliance For Democracy
Sundaravej
Karadzic Refuses Pleas at UN War Crimes Trial
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic refuses to enter pleas before the International Criminal Tribunal, calling the court a NATO proxy and vowing not to plead. Judge Iain Bonomy enters not guilty pleas for 11 counts including genocide tied to Srebrenica and the Sarajevo siege. Karadzic will proceed with self representation aided by advisers as he questions tribunal legitimacy.
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Hague
Netherlands
Radovan Karadzic
U.N
NATO
Iain Bonomy
Karadzic
Srebrenica
Sarajevo
International Criminal Tribunal
Bosnia
Dayton
Bonomy
Georgia cuts diplomatic ties with Russia over troops
Georgia severs relations with Moscow in protest of Russian troops on its soil. Russia warns the move will worsen relations as EU leaders plan Brussels talks on Georgia and cease fire observance. Georgia to withdraw diplomats from Moscow after lawmakers urged breaking ties.
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Tbilisi
Georgia
Moscow
Russia
European Union
Brussels
Vladimir Putin
Europe
America
South Ossetia
Abkhazia
United States
Foreign Ministry
Near collision reports as two airliners avoid each other over Atlantic
Federal officials say a Delta Air Lines flight and a Transaero Boeing 747 narrowly avoided a midair collision 180 miles north of San Juan. Both planes were at 33 000 feet when alarms sounded and evasive maneuvers were taken. no injuries reported.
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Washington
Atlantic Ocean
National Transportation Safety Board
Delta Air Lines
Puerto Rico
NTSB
Delta
San Juan
New York
Kennedy International Airport
Port of Spain
Trinidad
Doug Church
National Air Traffic Controllers Association
Victor Santoro
Controllers Union
Knudson
FAA
Plea in Body Parts Scheme and Global Fatalities Span Stories
A New Jersey man pleaded guilty to hundreds of counts involving desecration of corpses and theft as part of a scheme with Philadelphia funeral directors, facing possible life imprisonment. Separate reports cover bones found in San Marino linked to a vanished couple, a suspect in a Baltimore kidnapping, a deadly plant explosion inquiry in West Virginia, and clashes with militants in Afghanistan.
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Michael Mastromarino
Fort Lee
N.J
Mastromarino
New York
San Marino
Calif
Jonathan
Linda Sohus
Baltimore
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