http://www.news24.com/ Argotic Syndication Framework, http://www.codeplex.com/argotic http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:19:50 +0200 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:12:58 +0200 Italian prosecutors have requested life in prison for American Amanda Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend for allegedly killing Briton Meredith Kercher during a drug-fuelled sex game. http://www.news24.com/Content/World/News/1073/941027c2ca4940fabc4d5983880f2bda/21-11-2009-10-12/Meredith_was_my_friend Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:12:58 +0200 Hamas says it has reached an agreement with other militant groups in Gaza to stop firing rockets at southern Israeli towns. http://www.news24.com/Content/World/News/1073/eaaaa71f911b442593a4906e9fb07912/21-11-2009-10-12/Militants_No_more_rocket_fire_ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:12:58 +0200 Hugo Chavez has defended alleged terrorist mastermind Carlos the Jackal and says Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are wrongly labelled "bad guys". http://www.news24.com/Content/World/News/1073/8025d754e62d4f8d8999637293e441d5/21-11-2009-10-12/Chavez_defends_Mugabe,_Jackal Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:12:58 +0200 Afghan and foreign troops have killed 23 Taliban militants in separate operations a day after President Hamid Karzai pledged to take responsibility for security. http://www.news24.com/Content/World/News/1073/8caad075d91243698176d97e9ff3f7bb/21-11-2009-09-33/23_Taliban_militants_killed Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:33:11 +0200 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has visited the scene of massive floods that killed one person and stranded hundreds after the heaviest rainfall on record in England. http://www.news24.com/Content/World/News/1073/2404161f259c4d85a50e130907749fea/21-11-2009-06-17/Rains_a_1_in_500_year_event_ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:20:28 +0200 Landslides have razed several houses in a mountainous region of Turkey, killing at least three people, a news agency in the country has reported. http://www.news24.com/Content/World/News/1073/7ad6709b8d5449169ebb8cecc3aafabc/21-11-2009-06-17/3_killed_in_Turkey_landslides Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:17:17 +0200 Italian police have arrested two Pakistanis whose money transfer service was allegedly used by those in contact with militants who carried out the 2008 Mumbai attacks. http://www.news24.com/Content/World/News/1073/5444a442a3dd4c30a27c095b208f31a2/21-11-2009-02-14/Mumbai_attacks_2_held_in_Italy Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:14:40 +0200 Sri Lanka has announced it is to release 136 000 ethnic-minority Tamil war refugees from overcrowded government camps. http://www.news24.com/Content/World/News/1073/79778d2df56e4210ab374e1633b1ca0b/21-11-2009-02-14/Sri_Lanka_refugees_to_be_freed Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:07:39 +0200 A rocket has hit outside the luxury Serena Hotel in Afghanistan's capital, wounding two people, the Interior Ministry says. http://www.news24.com/Content/World/News/1073/f32d4c5626324486802e8825b754db6b/21-11-2009-08-15/Rocket_fired_at_luxury_hotel Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:15:32 +0200 The Canadian refugee board has been ordered to review the rejected asylum application of a lesbian US soldier who claimed her sexual orientation had prompted death threats. http://www.news24.com/Content/World/News/1073/e374a802f5bf4a95a679e39b8d64346a/21-11-2009-02-14/Canada_to_review_soldiers_asylum Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:14:40 +0200