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PARIS Feb 16, 2010 France knowingly exposed its soldiers to nuclear explosions in Algeria in the 1960s to study the effect of radiation on humans. Le Parisien newspaper reported this today, citing secret government papers.
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CANBERRA Feb 08, 2010 The Australian government said it will dump 20,000 low-skilled migrant applications, received before September 1, 2007. It will re-focus its immigration intake on high-skilled jobs critical to the economy. Australia’s mining sector welcomed the move. It has been expanding to meet China’s growing demand for resources, but faces a shortage of skilled workers.
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The sculpture dates from the early Classic period between 300 to 400 B.C. This suggests the site may have once been a major city. Guatemala’s famous Mayan cities are Tikal and El Mirador, but little excavation has been carried out at Chilonche.
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CANBERRA Jan 20, 2010 Australia’s former military chief has said recent attacks on Indian students were racially motivated.
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High-profile former general Peter Cosgrove said this last night after delivering a speech on race relations.
TOKYO Jan 19, 2010 Japan Airlines Corp (JAL) filed for bankruptcy on Tuesday. It currently owes more than $25 billion to outsiders.
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It plans to slash 15,700 jobs and unprofitable routes to survive rising fuel prices and shrinking passenger numbers.
SAN FRANCISCO/BEIJING Jan 13, 2010 Internet giant Google’s threat to quit China over censorship and hacking whipped up Sino-U.S. frictions. Both countries already have issues over climate change, trade, human rights and military ambition. China is the largest lender to the United States, holding $800 billion in US Treasury bills.
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KUALA LUMPUR Jan 10, 2010 A convent school and a fifth church were attacked in Malaysia on Sunday amid rising tensions between majority Muslims and Christians over the use of the word "Allah" to describe the Christian God. Police in Taiping, around 300 km (185 miles) from the capital Kuala Lumpur, said a Catholic convent school was attacked with petrol bomb, which failed to go off.
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BELFAST Jan 9, 2010 Irish Republican militants seriously injured a police officer when they exploded a bomb under his car in Northern Ireland on Friday, police said.
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OSLO Jan 6, 2010 Mohammed Reza Heydari, a diplomat at the Iranian embassy in Oslo told Norwegian broadcaster NRK on Wednesday that he has resigned in protest over a crackdown on anti-government demonstrators in Iran.
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PARIS Jan 1, 2010 Pension reform and cuts in state spending will be two
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of the main tasks facing the French government in 2010, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday.
