Dow Jones in News Deal With France's AFP

Dow Jones & Co. said Tuesday it has struck a deal with Agence France-Presse to distribute news from the Paris-based agency through its Dow Jones Newswires unit, replacing a partnership with The Associated Press.

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A journalist for Agence France Presse has been detained by Iranian security forces, the news agency has said.

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The masses gathered today in Rome to protest for the freedom of the press! "Accusations of an anti-Berlusconi bias have spiked since Rai 2 twice invited to its studios a call girl who claims to have accepted money to spend the night with the prime minister.

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Now highly unlikely that Oz will pursue criminal charges against the former AWB executives, who helped funnel almost $300 million to Saddam Hussein's regime in breach of United Nations oil for food sanctions.

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The Victorian and Australian Federal Police forces last week raided a suspected internet fraudster based in Melbourne, the ABC's Four Corners revealed last night.

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Police in Australia said today they had foiled a plot to stage a suicide attack on an army barracks in suburban Sydney, after arresting four men with suspected links to a militant Somali Islamist group.

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Federal police and immigration officials have raided the office of a Sydney migration agent allegedly involved in a scam to exploit foreign students.

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A SWEDISH woman who abducted her two Australian sons from their father and spent several months on the run with them has been sentenced to 10 months' jail.

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[Manila, Philippines--] This is a not-too-cryptic line shared with me by a senior journalist covering Camps Aguinaldo and Crame and two military officers when I sought to reconfirm the incessant reports about Oplan August Moon.

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"Pressured by the military, officials of a high school in Quezon City rejected the enrollment of a student activist. She could only enroll at the school, they told her, if she signed a waiver that would prohibit her from participating in protest actions and rallies.

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To the Officers and Men of the Armed Forces of the Philippines:

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Commonwealth Bank customers are being inundated with phishing attacks, some at a rate of several scam emails a day, sent by cyber criminals seeking to steal passwords and credit card details.

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Sixteen Australian men have been arrested in connection to an internet video showing the rape of an eight-year-old girl.

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The Union of People's Lawyers In Mindanao (UPLM) strongly condemns the grievously fallacious and ridiculously adulterated lies peddled by the Armed Forces of the Philippine's 10th Infantry Division as contained in the power point presentation labeled as "JCICC 'AGILA', 3rd  …

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THE developers of a portable explosives "fingerprint" device, capable of detecting residues from a bomb blast in the field, will extend its capability.

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I am Carlos H. Conde, a journalist based in Manila.

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AN ALLEGED people smuggler says an Australian Federal Police officer tried to recruit him to spy on people smugglers in Indonesia in exchange for Australian citizenship, employment and money.

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Australia will spend more than 70 billion US dollars boosting its defences over the next 20 years in response to a regional military build-up and global shifts in power, the government said.

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The right wing and Fox News are trying to paint tomorrow's tea party protests as an organic uprising, when they are in fact being spearheaded by high-powered business interests. Now, organizers are doling out generous financial incentives to publicize the tea parties.

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The Philippines, with a population of 89 million, is a multiparty republic with an elected president and bicameral legislature. In May 2007 approximately 73 percent of registered citizens voted in mid-term elections for both houses of congress and provincial and local governments.

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In its issue of Feb. 23, the Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI) carried a full page statement of 10 military organizations and 30 individual signatories declaring that they have "formally united under the leadership of Brig. Gen.

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Greens Leader Bob Brown says a raid on the Sea Shepherd's anti-whaling ship by the Australian Federal Police was outrageous behaviour. The Steve Irwin remains in Hobart after it was boarded by AFP officers late on Friday at the request of Japanese authorities.

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US President Barack Obama has already used experts within the last few months to hold high-level but discreet talks with both Iran and Syria, organizers of the meetings told AFP. TheCapitalist

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An Australian Federal Police (AFP) staff member has been charged with stalking and steroid possession.

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[Philippines'] Sandiganbayan "kangaroo court" Judge Diosdado Peralta (named after Diosdado Macapagal, by Peralta's own claim) joins his Sandiganbayan "kangaroo court" colleague Teresita de Castro in the Supreme Court.

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The fate of the [Philippines' Gloria Macapagal Arroyo] regime — whether it will meet the fate of Marcos and Erap or survive calls for its ouster — won't be determined by the political opposition or even by the parliament of the streets.

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