http://dailynews.blogmas.com 24hrs News came daily 2U.. Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:37:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en BANGKOK : Allies of ousted Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra laid out an ambitious agenda for a coalition government Monday, even though they refused to reveal which parties had agreed to align with them. If the pro-Thaksin People Power Party (PPP) succeeds in building a coalition, it could pave the way for ... http://dailynews.blogmas.com/2007/12/24/pro-thaksin-party-claims-enough-support-to-form-coalition/ PARIS - French police Tuesday said 64 officers were injured in a second night of clashes with youths in and around the flashpoint Paris suburb of Villiers-le-Bel, adding that five of them were in critical condition. The injuries followed rioting in Villiers-le-Bel and the nearby towns of Sarcelles and Garges-les-Gonesses, a ... http://dailynews.blogmas.com/2007/11/27/64-officers-injured-in-paris-riots-police/ LONDON : West Ham goalkeeper Robert Green has blamed the increasing popularity of video games among English boys for the country's failure to reach the finals of the Euro 2008 football championships. The in-form England international, who saved a penalty to ensure a 1-1 draw with the Hammers top-flight London ... http://dailynews.blogmas.com/2007/11/27/football-video-games-to-blame-for-englands-failure-to-reach-euro-2008-green/ By REUTERS Published: November 10, 2007 Filed at 6:43 a.m. ET KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Police in the Malaysian capital used water cannon and fired tear gas on Saturday to disperse protesters in one of the nation's biggest anti-government rallies in nearly a decade. Police arrested at least a dozen ... http://dailynews.blogmas.com/2007/11/11/malaysia-police-turn-water-cannons-on-protesters/ N'DJAMENA : French President Nicolas Sarkozy travelled to Chad on Sunday to bring home seven Europeans jailed over a charity's attempt to fly some 100 children to France. A Chadian judge ordered the release of three French journalists and four Spanish air hostesses who were among 17 Europeans accused of ... http://dailynews.blogmas.com/2007/11/05/sarkozy-brings-seven-freed-europeans-home-from-chad/ ISLAMABAD: Up to 500 people have been arrested across Pakistan in a crackdown launched after the declaration of a state of emergency, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said Sunday. Aziz further said that parliament was entitled to delay elections for a year under emergency rule imposed by President Pervez Musharraf, but added ... http://dailynews.blogmas.com/2007/11/05/up-to-500-arrests-in-emergency-hit-pakistan-pm/ Tehran Times Political Desk TEHRAN – The leaders of the five Caspian Sea states are preparing for the Caspian Sea summit, which opens in Tehran today. Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan, plan to discuss how best ... http://dailynews.blogmas.com/2007/10/16/caspian-sea-summit-opens-in-tehran/ document.write(cnnRenderT1TimeStamp(1190862360725)); Researchers who launched an experimental cyber attack caused a generator to self-destruct, alarming the federal government and electrical industry about what might happen if such an attack were carried out on a larger scale. Sources said the same attack scenario could be used against huge generators that produce the country's ... http://dailynews.blogmas.com/2007/09/27/staged-cyber-attack-exposes-vulnerability/ Viggo Mortensen is known for doing extensive research on his characters -- work that comes in handy when he's playing, say, a Russian gangster in "Eastern Promises." He's also found a simpatico collaborator in director David Cronenberg. full story http://dailynews.blogmas.com/2007/09/26/viggo-mortensen-is-watching-closely/ An Iraqi police colonel was gunned down near his home in Afak on Sunday, marking the third government official killed in the Iraqi Shiite town in five weeks, an Interior Ministry official said. full story http://dailynews.blogmas.com/2007/09/17/iraqi-police-colonel-assassinated-near-home/