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Commander Pavel Vinogradov and NASA Science Officer Jeffrey Williams, the 13th International Space Station crew, launched March 29 aboard their Soyuz spacecraft to begin a six-month stay in space.
10:07 Mar 30, 2006
A 'state-of-the-art dairy farm' will be established in rural Siberia thanks to the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), which is providing political risk insurance to a small U.S. business.
09:38 Mar 30, 2006
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is meeting in Berlin with permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, plus Germany, to discuss a long-term strategy for dealing with Iran's nuclear program as well as broader regional concerns.
09:37 Mar 30, 2006
A United Nations helicopter transporting former Liberian President Charles Taylor, who has been indicted for war crimes, arrived today in Sierra Leone, where he is now being held by the UN-backed court for the country.
08:36 Mar 30, 2006
Mr. Taylor, who was indicted by the UN-backed court in Sierra Leone on charges related to his support for rebels in that country, absconded from his home in Nigeria, where he had been exiled three years ago as part of a peace deal that helped bring
08:36 Mar 30, 2006
By a unanimously adopted resolution, the Council also requested the four-member panel to provide before the end of August a final report on compliance with the sanctions and other matters under its purview related to the conflict in Darfur, where at
06:58 Mar 30, 2006
The United Nations Security Council today urged the leaders of the Cote d'Ivoire to carry out their recent commitment to organize free and fair elections by the end of October...
06:48 Mar 30, 2006
The creation of a tribunal to try those responsible for last year's assassination of Lebanon's Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and others took a step forward today as the Security Council unanimously voted to ask Secretary-General Kofi Annan to consul
06:33 Mar 30, 2006
United Nations efforts to set up an early warning system that could save tens of thousands of lives in natural disasters moved a further step forward today with an international conference calling for more funds and stressing the vital importance of
05:24 Mar 30, 2006
Scientists with NASA's Cassini mission have found evidence that a new class of small moonlets resides within Saturn's rings. There may be as many as 10 million of these objects within one of Saturn's rings alone.
04:53 Mar 30, 2006
NATO ships discovered the illegal transfer of immigrants in the Mediterranean Sea, on 23 March. The Hellenic Coast Guard was informed and intercepted the offending vessel.
04:53 Mar 30, 2006
HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt today approved a proposal by California to extend health care coverage to pregnant women and their unborn children with family incomes of up to 300 percent of the federal poverty level. The state currently covers children
19:48 Mar 29, 2006
Goul, 48, of Newport Beach, has served as a deputy district attorney with the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office since 1989. He is currently deputy-in-charge of the sexual assault unit of the Long Beach branch of the Los Angeles County D
19:47 Mar 29, 2006
Thanks to successful security measures put in place by Iraqi authorities, more than 1 million Shi'ites safely observed a major religious holiday for the first time in decades, said Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
17:02 Mar 29, 2006
Ethiopia is 'currently at a crossroads' - it can continue to move forward or it can lapse into the sort of government that is best encountered in the history books, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Donald Yamamoto told the U.S. Congress March 2
16:38 Mar 29, 2006
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