Chilean miners accept Israeli invitation – if their relatives can go too

Family members pray outside the mine before the 33 Chilean miners were rescued. Photograph: Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images

Amid the euphoria surrounding the rescue of the 33 trapped Chilean miners last month, Israel has invited the men to spend Christmas in the Holy Land.

The miners – who became instant heroes after surviving 69 days trapped underground – have accepted the free trip, but with only one condition. They will not go without their relatives – all 70 of them.

Bombings target Christian neighbourhoods in Baghdad

Iraqis inspect a destroyed car at the scene of a bomb attack on Christian houses in Baghdad. Photograph: Khalid Mohammed/AP
At least four people have been killed and dozens injured in co-ordinated attacks on Christian neighbourhoods in Baghdad.
More than 14 bombs and mortar shells were detonated, targeting homes and a church across the Iraqi capital.

Cargo plane bomb 'timed to detonate over US'

Cargo plane package removed from a UPS container at East Midlands airport would have detonated over the US. Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters
The timer on the bomb found on a cargo plane at East Midlands airport last month was set for the device to detonate over the eastern seaboard of the US, Scotland Yard said today.

Demo 2010 student protests

Demo 2010 student protests: Demonstrators gain entry to 30 Millbank. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images
A police spokesman tonight said 32 people had been arrested for a range of offences, including criminal damage and trespass, and were now in custody. Those arrested are being taken to a police stations across central London including Westminster and Fulham.

Cameron in China: What does Beijing think of us? Let's start with hypocrisy

David Cameron with China's premier Wen Jiabao. The British PM's case over human rights has been weakened by recent news stories. Photograph: Pool/Getty Images
As David Cameron vowed to raise human rights as a topic of discussion in Beijing today, it became the subject of two other international news stories.

Awlaqi lawyer denies cleric linked to killing of Frenchman

A still image of a video taken on Monday from the website muslm.net shows Anwar al-Awlaki, a US-born cleric linked to al-Qaeda in Yemen speaking from an undisclosed location.Picture: Reuters

A LAWYER for radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaqi, accused of incitement to kill foreigners, denied yesterday the imam was linked to the murder of a Frenchman in Yemen and said his whereabouts are unknown.
Awlaqi and his relative, Othman al-Awlaqi, have been charged in absentia with "incitement to kill

Qantas reviews way it runs A380s in engine investigation

Qantas employees walk under one of the engines of a Qantas A380 during Qantas' 90th anniversary celebrations at Sydney Airport last Sunday.Picture: AFP

QANTAS Airways is reviewing the way it operates its A380s after last week's engine blowout, a source said yesterday, amid reports the carrier worked its Rolls-Royce engines harder than rivals.
Qantas's use of its A380 engines is being looked into as part of a wider investigation into why a Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine blew apart last

Mumbai attacker plotted attacks in Copenhagen: report

DAVID HEADLEY, who helped plan the 2008 Mumbai attacks, had been preparing several attacks in the Danish capital in cooperation with an Al-Qaeda-linked group, a Danish newspaper reported yesterday.
Headley, a Pakistani-American who has confessed to helping plot the Mumbai attacks that left 166 dead, has already been charged with plotting an attack on a Danish newspaper that published caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.

Libyan president orders release of 20 journalists

VETERAN Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi has ordered the release of 20 journalists working for titles close to his reformist son, who were arrested amid a mounting backlash from conservatives, state television reported.
The Oea weekly and the Libyapress news agency, both run by the Al-Ghad publishing company sponsored by Seif al-Islam Kadhafi, said Monday that 10 of their journalists had been picked up by agents of the Internal Security Agency, among them three Tunisians and two Egyptians. A further 10 journalists working for Al-Ghad titles were rounded up in a second wave of arrests.

Nuclear fuel swap talk an 'independent issue': Iran

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki speaks during a press conference in Tehran yesterday. Picture: AFP
IRAN reiterated yesterday that the nuclear fuel swap issue was separate from its overall atomic programme for which the six world powers and Tehran are expected to hold talks later this month.
"We have said from the beginning that these two issues are independent from one another," Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told AFP.

35 injured Iraqis arrive in France

A group of wounded Iraqis wait at Orly airport in Paris upon their arrival in France for hospital treatment last Monday.Picture: AFP
THIRTY-FOUR Iraqi Christians and a Muslim guard wounded in a deadly al-Qaeda attack on a Baghdad church just over a week ago flew in to France late Monday for admission to hospitals for treatment.
Bearing bullet and grenade wounds from the October 31 attack, they arrived at Orly airport outside Paris on a plane dispatched to Iraq earlier Monday to

Chirac faces new corruption charges

A MAGISTRATE said Monday that former French president Jacques Chirac will stand trial on a second set of corruption charges dating to the 1990s when he was mayor of Paris, an official said.
Investigating magistrate Jacques Gazeaux decided to refer Chirac, 77, to a criminal court over the case involving alleged use of public funds to pay salaries to his political allies, said a judicial official who asked not to be named.

German nuke waste convoy arrives after mass protests

 

Police watch as anti-nuclear protesters set a fire before the Castor transport of nuclear waste makes its way on the road to Gorleben, northern Germany, yesterday.Picture: AFP
Accompanied by swarms of riot police and dozens of armoured police cars, the convoy of 11 white containers on lorries crawled slowly into its storage site at Gorleben, northern Germany, after a 20-kilometre (12-mile) road trip.

Palestinians say it's time to recognise their state

ISRAEL'S plan to build new homes on occupied land should be countered by international recognition of a Palestinian state, the chief Palestinian negotiator said yesterday.

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Yemen ups security, but skeptics remain

Yemeni security are seen outside a branch of UPS in Sanaa on Oct. 30, 2010. (Mohammad Huwais/AFP/Getty Images)

RSS feed for United Kingdom Ireland slowly locates its "disappeared"

Members of the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims Remains carry a coffin after finding human remains during a dig on Waterfoot's beach, 50 miles north of Belfast, on Nov. 3, 2010. (Cathal McNaughton/Reuters)

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U.S. President Barack Obama gestures to reporters with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono after speaking at a joint press conference, Nov. 9, 2010. (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Dany looks nervously over his shoulder: “Come on, we have to move.”
A few feet behind the slender 25-year-old, two policemen are approaching, clapping their hands and barking at the street vendors,

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Israel devouring East Jerusalem

Flying in the face of the international community, including its own guardian-ally, the United Sates, Israel has approved a wide-ranging plan to obliterate the remaining vestiges of the traditional Arab-Islamic identity of East Jerusalem.

Consumer debt tumbles $100B

Household debt shrank by about 1 percent, or $100 billion, in the third quarter, according to a report released yesterday by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. That means in the two years since the bottom dropped out of the economy, about $1 trillion, or 7.9 percent of consumer buying power, has been sucked out of the US economy.

Heading Towards the End of Globalisation?

A "grave recession" in the world economy may lie ahead, with a profusion of new barriers to trade and capital flows, if the Group of 20 major economies (G20) fail to come up with solutions to the present crisis. The G20 will probably begin to suffer "progressive fragmentation" at its Nov. 11-12 summit in Seoul, because it is based on "unsustainable coalitions" and there are insurmountable conflicts between members, according to Fernando Cardim, a professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Only "a remarkable diplomatic initiative" at this point could bring about the common understanding needed for "a collective solution," which would be the only way out of the global economic crisis, he said. "Perhaps the vision of the abyss" will stimulate a spirit of cooperation among government leaders, the Brazilian professor added.

Bush book defends waterboarding - Video

Former US president says in his new book that techniques such as waterboarding helped saved lives. George Bush, the former US president, has reopened the debate on the legality of the use of torture in his newly published book Decision Points, in which he defends his "war on terror" in Afghanistan and the decision to invade Iraq. Bush invaded two countries and killed over a million human beings, but rest assured he saved lives through torture.

Janet Jackson On Being The 'Cool' Aunt & Heading Back To The Studio

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LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Janet Jackson has gotten a reputation among the children of her siblings as a bit of an advice-giver.
"They call me the 'cool' aunt," Janet told George Lopez in an interview set to air on Monday's "Lopez Tonight."

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Obama takes sentimental journey to Indonesia - The Oval: Tracking the Obama presidency

President Obama's trip to Indonesia is bringing back childhood memories -- at least some of them.
"Obviously much has been made of the fact that this marks my return to where I lived as a young boy," Obama told reporters today. "I will tell you though that I barely recognized it as I was driving down the streets."

Boyhood memories...Deadly house fire...Cruise ship fire

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — President Barack Obama has returned to Indonesia, where he spent four years as a young boy. The trip was scheduled to last less than 24-hours and may be abbreviated because of concerns about volcanic ash. Obama is using the visit to address relations between the West and the Muslim world. He'll attend economic meetings beginning Thursday in South Korea and Japan.

Obama nostalgic on return trip to Indonesia

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Barack Obama marveled at the sights and sounds — the rickshaws, the cramped taxis — still vivid in his memories of boyhood in this Asian nation. More than four decades later, the president said it was "a little disorienting" to see the sprawling, built-up capital.

Stock Market Faces Critical Test This Week

By Jon D. Markman, Contributing Writer, Money Morning

Stocks rose gently like heat waves off a radiator over the past week, as traders guessed, assessed and processed the results of the midterm elections and the Federal Reserve's decision to try to light a fire under the U.S. economy by buying a $75-billion pile of fresh, new Treasury bonds every 30 days for the next eight months.

Cameron in China, FT

David Cameron’s first visit to Beijing is an opportunity to reflect on the foreign policy of the UK’s governing coalition. The prime minister came into office promising to build Britain’s economic ties with the fast-growing economies of Asia. While a worthwhile objective, this should not be the sole policy aim with these nations.

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World Cup beckons, Fiji

Albert Vulivuli trains in France where he joined the Flying Fijians in camp
RISING New Zealand Fijian rugby star Savenaca Toakula has called on Flying Fijians new cap Albert James Vulivuli to play his heart out and be part of the World Cup squad in New Zealand next year.
A New Zealand sevens representative and Waikato outside centre, Toakula was among a number of well-wishers across the globe who sent words of support to the

Media cheers close relations

• NEW DELHI, AFP - The Indian media has hailed a new closeness between New Delhi and Washington, with US President Barack Obama's courtship of India seen as reflecting the country's rise to power.

Rivals agree to share

BAGHDAD, AFP - Iraq's political rivals have reached a breakthrough power-sharing deal in which Nuri al-Maliki, a Shi'ite, retains the premiership, exactly eight months after inconclusive elections.

14 dead in drone strikes

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, AP - Two US drone strikes killed 14 suspected militants in northwestern Pakistan yesterday, local intelligence officials said, in the latest attacks against al-Qaeda and Taliban militants seeking sanctuary in the region.

Obama renews calls to free Suu Kyi

MUMBAI, AFP - US President Barack Obama has called for the release of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, criticising the first elections in Burma for 20 years as neither free nor fair.

"We renew our calls for the authorities to free Aung San Suu Kyi and all other political prisoners immediately and unconditionally," Obama said in a statement released in Mumbai.

Referendum on indigenes

CANBERRA, AAP - Prime Minister Julia Gillard says an expert panel will be set up to lead a national discussion on a referendum on recognising indigenous people in the Australian Constitution.

Burma counts votes

RANGOON, AFP - Burma counted ballots yesterday in its first vote in 20 years as western governments lashed out at the military-ruled nation for orchestrating an election that junta-backed parties look set to easily win.

Anti-nuclear activists holdup train

DANNENBERG, Germany, AFP - Anti-nuclear activists have abseiled over train tracks to block a cargo of nuclear waste from France as protesters stepped up preparations to halt the controversial cargo.

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Protest against G-20 in S Korea

Protesters denounce the G-20 Summit at a rally in Seoul, South Korea. Photo / AP
SEOUL - Thousands of people chanted anti-globalisation slogans in South Korea's capital to protest this week's Group of 20 summit.
Part of the crowd attempted to march down nearby streets but were stopped by riot police, who fired pepper spray.

Pompeii relics under threat

This house in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, once used by gladiators in training, has collapsed. Photo / AP
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This house in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, once used by gladiators in training, has collapsed. Photo / AP
A 2,000-year-old house in the Roman city of Pompeii has collapsed into rubble.And experts have warned

Charm offensive: Clinton down under

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton walks to lunch with Prime Minister Julia Gillard in Melbourne. Photo / AP
Australia and the United States are today expected to further tighten defence co-operation as part of a shift in focus to counter the rise of China and strengthen America's strategic position in the region.

Obama calls for India - Pakistan peace

Barack and Michelle Obama mark the Diwali festival at Holy Name High School in Mumbai. Photo / AP
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Barack and Michelle Obama mark the Diwali festival at Holy Name High School in Mumbai. Photo / AP
Barack Obama has called on India and Pakistan to renew their efforts to find peace, even as he said Islamabad was not

Chilean miner completes another battle

Rescued Chilean miner Edison Pena, who jogged the tunnels while trapped underground, has completed the New York Marathon.He wore his trademark sunglasses during the race, just as he had when he emerged into the glare of the sunlight from the depths of the Copiapo mine last month.Finishing in an unofficial time of five hours and forty minutes, Pena crossed the finish line draped in a Chilean flag, his left knee strapped up and iced after an injury stop near the

Engine oil found 'where it shouldn't be'

Firefighters surround the Qantas passenger plane which made an emergency landing in Singapore. Photo / AP.
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After completing about five weeks of rehab, Lindsay Lohan took an excursion to a mall in Palm Desert, California.(PEOPLE.com) -- After completing about five weeks of rehab at the Betty Ford Center, Lindsay Lohan took an excursion to wallet-friendly Forever 21.

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(CNN) -- Italy's Francesco Molinari held off the challenge of new world number one Lee Westwood to win the WGC-HSBC Champions tournament in Shanghai by a single shot.

Dubai officials dismiss claim of blast on plane

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(CNN) -- No evidence has surfaced of an explosion aboard a UPS cargo plane that crashed in Dubai last September, officials in the United Arab Emirates said Saturday.

Rescuers recover 'black box' of crashed plane in Cuba

Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- Search crews have found the flight data recorder in the charred remains of a fiery plane crash in central Cuba that left 68 people dead, state media reported Friday.

The Aerocaribbean plane was carrying 40 Cubans and 28 foreigners, the state-run website Cubadebate said. None of them survived the crash, the website said.

Man arrested in shootings targeting immigrants in Sweden

Swedish police secure the area where two people were shot in Malmo, Sweden, on October 21.
(CNN) -- Swedish police have arrested a 38-year-old man suspected in a series of shootings targeting immigrants, they said Sunday.
"The man was arrested late Saturday night on suspicion of murder and attempted murder,"

Polls open in Myanmar for first election in 20 years

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Yangon, Myanmar (CNN) -- Polls opened Sunday in Myanmar as the nation holds its first election in 20 years -- an electoral contest critics say is aimed at creating a facade of democracy.

Guinea presidential candidates sign peace agreement

Conakry, Guinea (CNN) -- Both candidates in Guinea's presidential runoff election signed an agreement Friday aimed at keeping the peace ahead of Sunday's vote.

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Mumbai, India (CNN) -- U.S. President Barack Obama started his second day in India on a lighter note: pulling a few dance moves and celebrating a major religious festival with local students.

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