Press reports indicate that K-Fed is now contemplating writing a tell-all book about his estranged wife.
Maybe he can get the same ghostwriter O.J. used...
The no-talent wannabe rapper is allegedly planning to make the book so outrageous, that jaws will drop over the juicy revelations. A "source close to Kevin" says that he was "prepared to reveal everything in court" as well.
She had the bad taste to marry him. That kinda sez it all. Their children would be better off taken from both of them and put in the care of the first person who walked by.
"Britney has told him more than once she is sexually attracted to women and men equally. She has asked Kevin many times if they could have a threesome," the Sun quoted a source close to K-Fed as saying.
And Fed Ex, of course, virtuously turned her down...
Fed-ex allegedly is looking to reveal that Britney is bisexual and begged him for three-in-a-bed romps. Federline, 28, will say that the "Pop Princess" regularly fantasized about women and was desperate to share one with him. The wannabe rapper is also expected to claim Britney is guilty of a string of mishaps involving Sean Preston.
What sort of mishaps? Her pants falling down? I thought she was barefoot and preggers most of the time they were together?
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Am I to understand that K-Fed as a RAPPER had the [multiple?]opportunity(s) to have voluntary sex wid two-plus wimin, including his wife, and wilfully turned it down. And now you know why his Amerikan Male Brute Rapper Career is as strong + successful as it is.
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I'm with Joe. This guy was stupid enough to turn this down?
He should just shut up, take his settlement money and open up, like, a bait shop or something...
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Best laugh I've had in a while, Joe! And you're absolutely right, Fed-Ex is a total loser just for this ...
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I thought he would have jumped at the chance of three-in-a-bed sex with Britney and friend, as the experience might have inspired another classic track in the vein of PopoZao.
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K-Fed must be gay. He obviously has no idea how the male mind works.
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The fact that K-Fed didn't see the kind of conversation happening here would be all over the place the second he suggested such a thing says loads about his brain power and his own sexuality.
Next stop for k-fed is either Jerry Springer or the Surreal Life, he knows it, and he's desperate to keep the spotlight on him as long as possible.
(SomaliNet) Mauritania's opposition parties have emerged winners of Mauritania's elections. This means that Mauritania's opposition occupies the majority seats in Mauritania's parliament. However, 52 of the 95 parliamentary seats are still vacant after candidates failed to emerge with 50% of the total vote, which is required. this leaves Mauritania's opposition parties with over 50% of the remaining 43 seats.
Mauritania has been led by a military junta for long and is expected to hold presidential elections early next year. This will signal the first elections for many Mauritanians, who have been used to the use of military coups for power to shift from one government to another. The vacant seats in Mauritania's parliament will be filled after other elections are held on December 3rd.
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(AKI) - Morocco will have its first private TV news channel in just over a week, the communications minister Mohamed Nabil Benabdallah has announced, saying the channel, broadcasting in Arab and French, will be operative from December. The initiative is part of the Rabat government's strategy to improve freedom of information in the country, the minister said. Since 2003 Morocco has had a law that ends the state monopoly on television news and of a regulatory authority for broadcasting. But inreality, it continues to be dominated by state broadcasters.
The government's plan also includes efforts to develop and widen the written media. Benabdallah recalled that there is a financial support plan for written media that has been accessed by 39 papers and magazines.
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OTOH, see also NEWSMAX.com > TURKEY - ATHEISM, DARWINISM [anti-Creationism] is the Roots of Terrorism.
Around 50 soldiers loyal to Congolese former rebel chief Jean-Pierre Bemba were withdrawn from Kinshasa on Thursday after President Joseph Kabila gave an ultimatum for Bemba's forces to be removed from the city.
Foreign diplomats intensified efforts to head off another armed confrontation between soldiers and supporters of the two political rivals, who faced off in a historic presidential run-off vote in Democratic Republic of Congo on Oct. 29.
Bemba, a vice-president in a transition government, refuses to accept a provisional result showing Kabila has won the vote in Congo's first free elections in more than 40 years. Bemba's supporters, including bodyguards, rioted amid heavy gunfire on Tuesday at the Supreme Court, which was set ablaze. The court must confirm the provisional result, after first ruling on Bemba's complaint that there was cheating.
Kabila late on Wednesday gave the U.N. peace force, MONUC, 48 hours to remove Bemba's soldiers -- estimated at 600 -- from the riverside city. If not, he said the army would do it. "The first 49 soldiers have been moved out of town to Maluku," a military base for Bemba's forces outside of Kinshasa, a U.N. official, who asked not to be named, said on Thursday.
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Nationals from all 12 South American nations will soon be able to travel throughout the region without visas, regional foreign ministers agreed Friday.
The decision at a meeting of foreign ministers of the South American Community is expected to become effective within 90 days, officials said. Visas will be exempt for nationals traveling between Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela.
The visa exemption "represents a step in our efforts to eliminate our traditional divisions," said Chilean Foreign Minister Alejandro Foxley.
Until now, countries in the region had a wide variety of visa policies, which changed frequently with political or economic conditions.
Brazilian Minister Celso Amorin said at the meeting in the Chilean capital of Santiago that regional integration must take into account the political differences in South America, where several leftist governments have been elected in recent years.
"We all defend democracy and democracy means accepting the options taken by the different countries," Amorin said.
He said integration is imperative "because in a world that in the future will be a world of large blocs, we will be stronger if we are united."
Foxley said efforts to promote regional integration must concentrate in three basic areas -- improving transportation links between nations, energy cooperation, and reducing social inequities.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez holds a wide margin over his main challenger as he seeks a third term in Dec. 3 elections, according to an AP-Ipsos poll that also revealed many government opponents are worried they could face reprisals for how they vote. About 59 percent of likely voters said they would vote for Chavez for a third term, while 27 percent said they would support opposition candidate Manuel Rosales. Thirteen percent of those surveyed by the polling firm Ipsos for The Associated Press said they were undecided or wouldn't answer.
Since Chavez was first elected in 1998, the leftist president has become perhaps Latin America's most controversial leader while gaining notoriety worldwide as an outspoken critic of the US government and an ally of Iran.
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Roundup: Russia Upholds Threat To Ban Food Imports From EU Russia on Friday upheld its threat to ban animal products from the European Union, citing concerns over poor food safety standards in Romania and Bulgaria, countries scheduled to enter the bloc in January 2007. As opposed to clean Russian Industry. "We have our standards.", he sniffed.
"We hope that these problems will be solved before (Romania and Bulgaria) join the EU, otherwise we will face certain technical problems with the whole EU," Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov told reporters at an EU-Russia summit in Helsinki. And there's the rub.
EU countries export 1.7 billion euros (2.2 billion dollar) worth of meat, dairy and fish products to Russia each year. Gonna be some hungry Russkies.
Russian President Vladimir Putin Thursday said he was set to impose a ban on all EU animal food products as of January next year and criticized the EU for accepting Bulgaria and Romania as newcomers states without consulting Moscow on Russian interests. We shoulda been consulted, y'know? The Black Hand must be part of every deal. Wet my beak. Continued on Page 49
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And the rationale is how different from the EU members ban on African grain exports when the US was going to supply genetic engineer food for local consumption?
The poisoned Russian spy breathed defiance at the Kremlin as the effects of a mystery cocktail pushed him towards his death last night.
I want to survive, just to show them, Alexander Litvinenko said in an exclusive interview given just hours before he died.
Too weak to move his limbs and visibly in great pain, the former Russian intelligence officer suggested that he knew he may not win his struggle against the lethal chemicals destroying his vital organs. But he said the campaign for truth would go on with or without him.
The bastards got me, he whispered. But they wont get everybody.
Mr Litvinenko, 43, uttered his last defiant words to Andrei Nekrasov, a friend and film-maker, who had visited him in University College Hospital in London every day this week. Last night Mr Nekrasov described the extraordinary scenes in hospital, where one ward looks like a scene from The Godfather.
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(CNN) -- A Russian former died Thursday night in a London hospital three weeks after his suspected poisoning, with doctors unable to determine the cause of his illness, hospital officials and police said Thursday. Litvinenko was a longtime critic of the Russian government, which he and his friends blamed for his sudden illness earlier this month. Russian authorities have denied any role in the matter.
Russia remains Russia.
The Soviets remain the Soviets.
And the dead guy's remains remain dead.
Doctors reported earlier Thursday that his condition had suffered a "major deterioration" overnight, and that extensive tests had failed to turn up the cause of his illness. He was pronounced dead at 9:21 p.m. Thursday, hospital spokesman Jim Dell said. "Inquiries continue into the circumstances surrounding how Mr. Litvinenko, 43 years, of north London, became unwell," Scotland Yard reported.
It was a professional job. They may find the cause, it's doubtful they'll find the perp.
Dell said doctors at University College Hospital "did everything possible to save his life." He declined further comment, citing the ongoing investigation. "Our thoughts are with Mr. Litvinenko's family," he said. A friend, Alex Goldfarb, said Wednesday that Litvinenko had suffered heart failure and was placed on life support. Litvinenko said he was poisoned after meeting with a contact who claimed to have information connecting the Russian government with the October slaying of a frequent critic, journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
Haven't found who bumped her off, either, have they?
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Ummmmmmmmmm...you can keep that Super Bowl ring Vlad.
Forget I even asked...
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Doctors reported earlier Thursday that his condition had suffered a "major deterioration" overnight, and that extensive tests had failed to turn up the cause of his illness.
This guy spends three weeks in a presumably modern medical facility, and the Doctors scratch their a$$ and can't find the cause of his illness. THEN, in less than 24 hours after his death they find polonium-210 in his urine, and declare that it must have been a massive dose.
Either the twerps (Doctors) are imbeciles, or there is something stinky about the whole affair! Oh, wait...that's right, England has socialized medicine. Never mind.
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Bush & Putin... and the infamous quote. Putty fooled a lot of people for quite awhile, but no one remembers their quotes - because no one gives a fuck.
It came at their first meeting, in Slovenia (16 June 2001). That's 5.5 yrs ago.
Let's analyze what everyone else has said for the last 5.5 years and see who doesn't need to eat a shitload of shit samiches, eh?
I have to agree, I too had thought that Putin would be someone with whom we could work and who would lead Russia forward. Should have known better 'cause all the signs were there (cheez, Steve, you were expecting an ex-KGB ministry type to lead Russia forward), but hope got ahead of understanding on that one.
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Another Churchill? The soft underbelly of Europe?
A new strain of H5N1 bird flu has emerged in China that is poised to start yet another global wave of infection. Nearly three times as many Chinese poultry are infected with H5N1 now than last year, despite Chinas insistence that all poultry be vaccinated. In fact, vaccination may be the reason for the increase in infections, researchers say.
Yi Guan and colleagues at the University of Hong Kong have been testing poultry in markets across southern China for flu for years, the only such long-term monitoring in the world. Between mid-2004 and mid-2005 they found 0.9% of market poultry were carrying H5N1, including 2% of ducks, a major carrier of the virus.
Between then and June 2006, however, they found it in 2.4% of market poultry on average, a near-threefold increase. It now infects 3.3% of ducks. The team found the virus in chickens during 11 months of the year, up from four previously.
DEFENCE Minister Brendan Nelson says three Australian naval vessels are in the southwest Pacific ready to take on board evacuees in the event of a violent coup in Fiji. Dr Nelson said today that naval vessels were ready to evacuate Australians who might become caught up in a coup in Fiji.
HMAS Kanimbla had a number of soldiers, an evacuation team, a primary health care medical team and helicopters on board. It is supported by frigates, HMAS Newcastle and HMAS Success.
"Those ships are available in case there is a coup and Australians need to be evacuated in perhaps a hostile environment,'' Dr Nelson said after a Melbourne business lunch. "Under no circumstances do we encourage or support a coup, but we want to make darn sure that we are ready to support Aussies if they need it in Fiji, to get out of Fiji, just in case the coup is anything other than peaceful.''
He said the Australian embassy in Fiji was in regular contact with Fijian military command to keep track of developments.
SYDNEY - Australias Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said there is clear evidence that Fijis maverick military chief is planning to stage a coup in the island nation within two weeks.
There is clear evidence he is planning a coup in the next couple of weeks, Downer told ABC televisions Lateline programme late Thursday, referring to commander Voreqe Bainimarama. He made a public statement along those lines and we are particularly concerned about that.
Bainimarama earlier this week gave the government two weeks to meet a series of demands, but denied there would be a coup if the deadline was not met. The nine non-negotiable demands reportedly include dropping police investigations into Bainimarama and the sacking of police commissioner Andrew Hughes.
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Fed up with Putty's blackmail. The Poles have balls, unlike most of the EU. Poland, angry over Moscow's ban on food imports, appeared set Thursday to veto an economic accord between the European Union and Russia.
Efforts by diplomats of the EU countries apparently could not talk the Warsaw government out of a veto at the start of new agreement talks between the EU and Russia, the BBC reported.
The EU-Russia summit talks, scheduled for Friday in Helsinki, are unlikely to open negotiations on a new strategic agreement, requiring approval by all 25 EU countries, said a spokesman for Finland, which holds the EU 6-month rotating presidency.
The summit in Helsinki was to open a new phase between the European Union and Russia in dealing with economic issues, including energy and goods exchange, labor movement and human rights.
Two men who converted to Christianity went on trial Thursday for allegedly insulting "Turkishness" and inciting religious hatred against Islam, the Anatolia news agency reported. The trial opened just days before a visit to Turkey by Pope Benedict XVI. During his visit, the pontiff is expected to discuss improved religious rights for the country's tiny Christian minority who complain of discrimination.
Prosecutors accuse the two of allegedly telling possible converts that Islam was "a primitive and fabricated" religion and that Turks would remain "barbarians" as long they continued practicing Islam, Anatolia reported.
Hakan Tastan, 37, and Turan Topal, 46, are accused of making the insults and of inciting hate while allegedly trying to convert other Turks to Christianity. If convicted, the two Turkish men could face up to nine years in prison. The men were charged under Turkey's Article 301, which has been used to bring charges against dozens of intellectuals - including Nobel Prize-winner Orhan Pamuk. The law has widely been condemned for severely limiting free expression and European officials have demanded Turkey change it as part of reforms to join the EU. They also are charged under a law against inciting hatred based on religion.
Prosecutors accuse the two of allegedly telling possible converts that Islam was "a primitive and fabricated" religion and that Turks would remain "barbarians" as long they continued practicing Islam, Anatolia reported. The prosecutors also accused them of speaking out against the country's compulsory military service, and compiling databases on possible converts.
Tastan and Topal denied the accusations in court. "I am a Turk, I am a Turkish citizen. I don't accept the accusations of insulting 'Turkishness,'" Anatolia quoted Tastan as telling the court. "I am a Christian, that's true. I explain the Bible ... to people who want to learn. I am innocent."
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From one of the people in the intelligence community over which Mr Hastings would have oversight:
You have no business being the chair of the IC committee; we need people who are serious, trustworthy and knowledgeable, even if in opposition, like Harmon.
Take your poverty-pimping nepotistic perjury-making unreliable untrustworthy bribe-taking impeached ghetto ass OUT of the IC.
Come visit my shop, and that's what I will tell you to your face. Eyeball-to-eyeball, nose-to-nose, from about 3 inches away from your face, at the top of my lungs in my best Sergeant's voice. And with a smile afterwards. I'd lose my job, but with you in charge I consider that I probably already have lost it, and may as well lose if in a good way, by telling the truth.
And if you think its just me, you're wrong. I speak on the behalf of many who cannot speak freely due to them being concerned over their jobs.
(AKI) - The Japanese government, apparently convinced that international sanctions against Iran are imminent, is gradually disinvesting there. Having already relinquished control of Iran's Azagedan oilfield project, Tokyo has frozen a 10 billion dollar loan that Japan Bank for International Cooperation was due to transfer to the Iranian government in the next few days. The bank's director general has stated that "only in the event that negotiations on Iran's nuclear programme lead to an agreement that is acceptable to the international community, can these 10 billion dollars be released."
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See also STRATEGYPAGE article > IRANIAN CLERICS CAN'T CONTROL THEIR WOMEN, i.e. Iranian women have stopped having children. Not unlike the SOviet Union, whatever Men + Males Stalin's Wars didn't kill off, Commie Socialism killed off in peacetime. The wuhmin have had enuff - they responded to the Clerics' call to replace the losses of the Iran-Iraq War, etal. only to suffer vv CRIPPLING ECON HARDSHIPS/TRAUMAS.
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Wow. The japs are really putting their money where their mouth is. Commendable, especially considering how dependent Japan is on imported petroleum.
Iran was suspended from international soccer by FIFA on Thursday because of government interference with the country's soccer federation. It's all a diversion.
The decision was made Wednesday at an emergency council meeting of soccer's world governing body. FIFA said it had given Iran a Nov. 15 deadline to reinstate elected soccer federation president Mohammed Dadgan and comply with FIFA regulations. Yeesh, these guys are serious!
"This deadline was not met," FIFA said. They've been doing that a lot recently.
FIFA said Iran was not abiding by rules regarding the "independence of the decision-making process of the football governing body in each country and the way in which changes in the leadership of associations are brought about." One of the MMs is retiring and his replacement is practicing for the real thing soon.
Iran, which played in the 2006 World Cup and has qualified for the 2007 Asian Cup, will be reinstated only after drafting new statutes and organizing a new election under the supervision of FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation. Or when Iran threatens FIFA and the AFC with use of its peaceful nuke on their a$$.
"The lifting of this suspension would depend on the above road map being accepted and fully implemented by the relevant authorities in Tehran," FIFA said. Kofi, is that you?
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The Iranian mullahs could give a hairy rats a** over losing fun and games; as long as that quest for the A BOMB stays on track. Although it would have provided a nice diversionary news event, that they will have to substitute for; now, as western and Israeli eyes continue to 'glare'!
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well, if they're suspended, you KNOW the MM's will decree all FIFA broadcasts illegal, and in a fit of "hardass" might declare soccer illegal. States have fallen for lesser affronts to national interests
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might declare soccer illegal
That might even serve to improve national health. As it is, way too many Iranian males already play catcher goalie.
Saudi students studying in the US have achieved a record figure as their number has reached 11,000 after several years that witnessed a drop in their numbers following the September 11 attacks, Asharq Al-Awsat, the London-based Arabic-language daily reported Sunday. Reminder: support for Al-Qaeda in Iraq is strong in the Kingdom.
These include 1,653 Saudi girls who got scholarships to study in America. The increase came as a result of the measures taken by the Saudi and American authorities, including the Saudi governments huge scholarship program to enable Saudi students to study abroad. The program began last year, along with easing in the issue of student visas from the American Embassy in Saudi Arabia...
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I suggest we make them feel as welcome in the US as Americans are made to feel in the Magik Kingdom.
When we get fed up and institute reciprocal laws for each foreign "state" we deal with - all of them, as they are all protectionist (at the least) and deal with us on (very) unequal terms - the situation will finally begin to improve.
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You'd think after all this time to shop the competition they would have found an education source that is more palatable to their sensitivities. Maybe now we can start to crank up the pressure by requiring that the number of male and female visas issued and used must be equal. So that the risk of jail time for importing sex slaves is minimized, of course. Then prohibit the wearing of Halloween costumes on any day except 10/31. How are they going to keep them down in the tent after they've been to gay LA?
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The increase came as a result of the measures taken by the Saudi and American authorities, including the Saudi governments huge scholarship program to enable Saudi students to study abroad.
I've always wondered why, if America is so decadent by Magic Kingdom-Wahhabi standards, the Saudis are so eager to send so many of their kids to study abroad?
Certainly it cannot be for broadening their horizons since upon return to the incongruous Kingdom, replete with fleets of Mercedes that no female may drive, the educated are reduced to the "willing" supplicants of an autocratic and theocratic society.
So, why are they here in record droves? Is it that some 57 percent of Islamist suicide boomers in Iraq are Saudis? Could this be a way for Saudi parents to save their kids from Jihad all the while as contributions continue to flow towards radical Islamist death cults?
Or could there be another reason, namely that there are two Saudi Arabias, one fanatical and dangerous and the other, tentatively moving in the direction of moderation?
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LOL, Gromgoru, you've got us by the short hairs.
L.O.D., right. What if they have another purpose besides being "students" ? What easier way to get them in. Don't have to walk the desert trails, just fly right in. The stupidity of this administration never ceases to amaze me. I guess they prefer the legacy of being dumber than Jimmah, who allowed the Cuban criminal invasion.
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That's b/c Bush was, has been, is, and will always be compromised by his family's contacts with Al-Saud oil interests. Now that his old man's team players are running the show, expect more smiles among the scheming Saudi leaders.
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Press reports indicate that K-Fed is now contemplating writing a tell-all book about his estranged wife. 
(AKI) - Morocco will have its first private TV news channel in just over a week, the communications minister Mohamed Nabil Benabdallah has announced, saying the channel, broadcasting in Arab and French, will be operative from December. The initiative is part of the Rabat government's strategy to improve freedom of information in the country, the minister said. Since 2003 Morocco has had a law that ends the state monopoly on television news and of a regulatory authority for broadcasting. But inreality, it continues to be dominated by state broadcasters.
Around 50 soldiers loyal to Congolese former rebel chief Jean-Pierre Bemba were withdrawn from Kinshasa on Thursday after President Joseph Kabila gave an ultimatum for Bemba's forces to be removed from the city.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez holds a wide margin over his main challenger as he seeks a third term in Dec. 3 elections, according to an AP-Ipsos poll that also revealed many government opponents are worried they could face reprisals for how they vote. About 59 percent of likely voters said they would vote for Chavez for a third term, while 27 percent said they would support opposition candidate Manuel Rosales. Thirteen percent of those surveyed by the polling firm Ipsos for The Associated Press said they were undecided or wouldn't answer. 
Russia on Friday upheld its threat to ban animal products from the European Union, citing concerns over poor food safety standards in Romania and Bulgaria, countries scheduled to enter the bloc in January 2007. 
(CNN) -- A Russian former died Thursday night in a London hospital three weeks after his suspected poisoning, with doctors unable to determine the cause of his illness, hospital officials and police said Thursday. Litvinenko was a longtime critic of the Russian government, which he and his friends blamed for his sudden illness earlier this month. Russian authorities have denied any role in the matter.
A new strain of H5N1 bird flu has emerged in China that is poised to start yet another global wave of infection. Nearly three times as many Chinese poultry are infected with H5N1 now than last year, despite Chinas insistence that all poultry be vaccinated. In fact, vaccination may be the reason for the increase in infections, researchers say.
SYDNEY - Australias Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said there is clear evidence that Fijis maverick military chief is planning to stage a coup in the island nation within two weeks.
Poland, angry over Moscow's ban on food imports, appeared set Thursday to veto an economic accord between the European Union and Russia. 
Two men who converted to Christianity went on trial Thursday for allegedly insulting "Turkishness" and inciting religious hatred against Islam, the Anatolia news agency reported. The trial opened just days before a visit to Turkey by Pope Benedict XVI. During his visit, the pontiff is expected to discuss improved religious rights for the country's tiny Christian minority who complain of discrimination.
(AKI) - The Japanese government, apparently convinced that international sanctions against Iran are imminent, is gradually disinvesting there. Having already relinquished control of Iran's Azagedan oilfield project, Tokyo has frozen a 10 billion dollar loan that Japan Bank for International Cooperation was due to transfer to the Iranian government in the next few days. The bank's director general has stated that "only in the event that negotiations on Iran's nuclear programme lead to an agreement that is acceptable to the international community, can these 10 billion dollars be released."
Iran was suspended from international soccer by FIFA on Thursday because of government interference with the country's soccer federation.
Saudi students studying in the US have achieved a record figure as their number has reached 11,000 after several years that witnessed a drop in their numbers following the September 11 attacks, Asharq Al-Awsat, the London-based Arabic-language daily reported Sunday. 
