Baghdad says it is negotiating the return of 19 MiG fighters which were sent to Yugoslavia in the 1980s for repairs.
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Putin condemns Nazi-Soviet pact
August 31, 2009 – 10:36 pm
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin condemns the Nazi-Soviet pact signed a week before Germany’s 1939 invasion of Poland as “immoral”.
Minister faces second night on mountain
August 31, 2009 – 9:43 pm
A Victorian government minister faces a second night missing in the state’s freezing alpine region, as his family clings to the hope he will be found alive.
S Africa probes ID card suicide
August 31, 2009 – 9:33 pm
The South African government investigates the suicide of a man who was refused the identity papers he needed to start a job.
Japan’s new PM ‘a softy’ says wife
August 31, 2009 – 8:57 pm
Japan’s next prime minister likes to wash dishes, enjoys animal movies and is secretly addicted to shrimp crackers, his wife reveals.
Russia ‘kills al-Qaeda operative’
August 31, 2009 – 8:51 pm
Russian forces have killed an al-Qaeda militant in the increasingly volatile North Caucasus region of Dagestan, officials say.
Aspirin ‘could do more harm than good’
August 31, 2009 – 8:39 pm
Healthy people taking a daily dose of aspirin to prevent heart attacks may be doing themselves more harm than good, scientists say.
Price falls slowing in eurozone
August 31, 2009 – 8:20 pm
The eurozone’s annual rate of inflation was negative in August for the third month running.
Africans ‘under siege’ in Moscow
August 31, 2009 – 7:28 pm
Nearly 60% of African people living in Russia’s capital Moscow have been the victim of racist attacks, a study says.
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