AP - A missile from a U.S. Predator drone struck a suspected terrorist safehouse in Pakistan and killed a top al-Qaida commander believed responsible for a brazen bomb attack during a visit last year by Vice President Dick Cheney to Afghanistan, a U.S. official said Thursday.
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Top al-Qaida figure killed in Pakistan (AP)
Posted: January 31st, 2008, 11:47pm EST
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Canada PM threatens Afghanistan pullout (AFP)
Posted: January 31st, 2008, 11:37pm EST
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AFP - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper warned his British counterpart Gordon Brown that Ottawa would pull its 2,500 soldiers out of Afghanistan if it does not get reinforcements from other countries, Harper's office said.
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Japan kills whales as protesters pull out: report (AFP)
Posted: January 31st, 2008, 11:21pm EST
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AFP - Japanese harpoonists killed five whales in one day after protesters who had halted the hunt in Antarctic waters were forced to return to port to refuel, an Australian report said Friday.
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EU says "enormous" progress made in trade talks with SKorea (AFP)
Posted: January 31st, 2008, 11:16pm EST
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AFP - The European Union made "enormous progress" in its latest round of free trade talks with South Korea but some sticky issues are still unresolved, the chief EU negotiator said Friday.
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Mexico creates special prosecutor post (AP)
Posted: January 31st, 2008, 10:37pm EST
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AP - Mexico has created a new federal position to prosecute violence against women and human exploitation, as rights groups urge the government to do more to investigate the killings of women, especially along the U.S. border. -
Tunisia, Angola through to African Nations Cup quarter-finals (AFP)
Posted: January 31st, 2008, 10:23pm EST
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AFP - The 2004 champions Tunisia and Angola sealed the last two quarter-final places at the African Nations Cup on Thursday.
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Chaotic rush to board trains in China (AP)
Posted: January 31st, 2008, 9:43pm EST
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AP - Hundreds of thousands of desperate travelers, some hoisting terrified children or baggage over their heads, pushed their way onto trains Thursday as service resumed after the worst winter storms in decades paralyzed China.
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Suicide bomber kills Afghan official (AP)
Posted: January 31st, 2008, 9:42pm EST
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AP - A suicide bomber blew himself up Thursday in a mosque in southern Afghanistan, killing a deputy provincial governor and five other people in another blow to President Hamid Karzai's U.S.-backed government.
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Japan hangs three death-row inmates (AP)
Posted: January 31st, 2008, 9:35pm EST
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AP - Japan executed Friday three prisoners on death row, the Justice Ministry announced. -
US military deaths in Iraq at 3,942 (AP)
Posted: January 31st, 2008, 7:52pm EST
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AP - As of Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008, at least 3,942 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians. At least 3,204 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
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Opposition lawmaker killed in Kenya (AP)
Posted: January 31st, 2008, 5:32pm EST
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AP - A policeman shot and killed an opposition lawmaker Thursday in what authorities say was a crime of passion over a woman. But machete-wielding protesters convinced it was an assassination clashed with police, leaving at least three dead.
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Biggest corruption trial in Macau's history concludes (AFP)
Posted: January 29th, 2008, 10:49pm EST
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AFP - The biggest corruption trial in Macau's history was set to conclude Wednesday, threatening to expose the murky underworld behind the booming gambling city's gleaming facade.
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Iran sentences Baha'is to prison (AP)
Posted: January 29th, 2008, 10:46pm EST
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AP - Iran on Tuesday said more than 50 followers of the minority Baha'i faith were convicted of distributing propaganda against the country's Islamic regime, state media reported. -
Winter storm chaos grips China (AP)
Posted: January 29th, 2008, 10:38pm EST
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AP - Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers desperate to get home for the Chinese New Year shivered in the cold under a sea of umbrellas outside train stations Tuesday, as the worst winter storms in half a century paralyzed China.
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Venezuela gunmen captured after standoff (AP)
Posted: January 29th, 2008, 9:32pm EST
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AP - Gunmen who held dozens of hostages inside a Venezuelan bank for more than a day fled in an ambulance but were caught Tuesday along a roadside, where they surrendered and freed their last five captives.
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Study: Afghanistan could fail as a state (AP)
Posted: January 29th, 2008, 9:03pm EST
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AP - Afghanistan risks sliding into a failed state and becoming the "forgotten war" because of deteriorating international support and a growing violent insurgency, according to an independent study.
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UK watchdog criticizes racy Ryanair ad (AP)
Posted: January 29th, 2008, 7:54pm EST
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AP - An advertisement portraying a scantily clad schoolgirl seductively twirling her hair is offensive, a British watchdog agency said Wednesday in demanding that low-cost airline Ryanair not run it again. -
Poor Haitians resort to eating dirt (AP)
Posted: January 29th, 2008, 7:43pm EST
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AP - It was lunchtime in one of Haiti's worst slums, and Charlene Dumas was eating mud. With food prices rising, Haiti's poorest can't afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies. Charlene, 16 with a 1-month-old son, has come to rely on a traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt from the country's central plateau.
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Absence of Nigerian judge stalls Pfizer drug case: lawyer (AFP)
Posted: January 29th, 2008, 6:40pm EST
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AFP - A Nigerian court in the northern city of Kano Tuesday adjourned a criminal case against US drug giant Pfizer to February 4 due to the absence of the judge, the defence lawyer said.
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Aid agencies taking donations for Haiti (AP)
Posted: January 29th, 2008, 6:12pm EST
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AP - The following aid agencies are accepting contributions to help Haiti's poor. The list is from InterAction, a coalition of aid agencies, which can be contacted at InterAction at 202-667-8227 or http://www.interaction.org. -
Bush ignores Afghan school violence (AP)
Posted: January 29th, 2008, 4:29pm EST
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AP - In his State of the Union address, President Bush called Afghanistan a young democracy where children go to school and Afghans are hopeful. But he didn't mention the violence that has killed 147 students and teachers, and closed 590 schools in the last year almost as many as the 680 the U.S. has built.
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'Sports trivia' may go from Australia citizenship test: minister (AFP)
Posted: January 28th, 2008, 10:06pm EST
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AFP - Australia will review its citizenship test only six months after its introduction, in part because of its emphasis on past sporting heroes, Immigration Minister Chris Evans said Tuesday.
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Hamas polices Gaza border with Egypt (AP)
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 8:18pm EST
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AP - A smattering of Hamas-affiliated security forces, many of them bearded and dressed in blue camouflage uniforms, fanned out on both sides of the breached Gaza-Egypt border Sunday to jointly police the crossing with Egyptian guards.
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Prince Charles will not attend Olympic games: Tibet rights group (AFP)
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 8:15pm EST
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AFP - Prince Charles will not be attending the opening ceremony of this year's Olympic Games in Beijing, he told a group that campaigns against human rights abuses in Tibet in a letter disclosed Monday.
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Blair wants Mideast peace in 2008 (AP)
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 8:08pm EST
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AP - Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair told the final session of the World Economic Forum on Sunday that he wants an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal and a pact on climate change by the end of 2008.
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Kenya death toll near 800 in a month (AP)
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 7:46pm EST
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AP - Gangs of youths armed with machetes and clubs fought running battles with police on Sunday and burned tribal rivals alive in their homes in western Kenya, pushing the death toll from a month of escalating ethnic violence to nearly 800.
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US military deaths in Iraq at 3,934 (AP)
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 7:30pm EST
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AP - As of Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008, at least 3,934 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians. At least 3,200 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
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Protests in Lebanon leave 7 dead (AP)
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 6:15pm EST
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AP - Protesters angry about electricity rationing clashed with Lebanese troops Sunday in Beirut's worst riots in a year, leaving seven people dead, hospital and security officials said.
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Survivors detail Suharto-era massacres (AP)
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 5:02pm EST
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AP - Hiding out in the dense, humid jungle, Markus Talam watched Indonesian soldiers herd manacled prisoners from trucks, line them up and mow them down with round after round of automatic weapons fire.
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Iraqi army reinforcements reach Mosul (AP)
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 2:28pm EST
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AP - Iraqi soldiers reached the northern city of Mosul on Sunday for an operation against al-Qaida in Iraq, days after some 40 people were killed in a house explosion followed by a suicide attack against a senior police official.
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Region faces 'doom and gloom' if Taliban prevail: Karzai (AFP)
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 2:24pm EST
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AFP - Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai said his country along with Pakistan faces "gloom and doom" from Taliban insurgents, and called for the world to "join hands" to defeat the Islamist rebels.
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Brazil carnival star eyes surgery record (AP)
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 2:18pm EST
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AP - Brazilian model Angela Bismarchi will dance nearly nude ahead of a 300-person drum corps in next month's Carnival parade, hoping her sculpted beauty as a "percussion queen" will lead her samba group to the championship.
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Indonesia's ex-dictator Suharto dies (AP)
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 2:08pm EST
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AP - Former Indonesian President Suharto, a Cold War ally of the United States whose brutal military regime killed hundreds of thousands of left-wing political opponents, died Sunday. He was 86.
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Kenya death toll near 800 in a month (AP)
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 1:58pm EST
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AP - Gangs of youths armed with machetes and clubs fought running battles with police on Sunday and burned tribal rivals alive in their homes in western Kenya, pushing the death toll from a month of escalating ethnic violence to nearly 800.
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Merkel's party suffers heavy losses in key state election: exit polls (AFP)
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 1:45pm EST
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AFP - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party lost a key state election Sunday after a bitterly divisive campaign dominated by crime and immigration, exit polls indicated.
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Women lose in Mexico Indian rights gain (AP)
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 1:35pm EST
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AP - Women in this Indian village high in the pine-clad mountains of Oaxaca rise each morning at 4 a.m. to gather firewood, grind corn, prepare the day's food, care for the children and clean the house. -
Mozambique to forcibly evacuate 10,000 from floods (Reuters)
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 1:19pm EST
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Reuters - Mozambique will forcibly evacuate 10,000 people who have defied calls to leave areas at risk of flooding, the government said on Sunday as an advancing tropical cyclone threatened to swell floodwaters. -
French bank accuses trader of hacking (AP)
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 12:07pm EST
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AP - Societe Generale said Sunday that a trader who evaded all its controls to bet $73.5 billion more than the French bank's market worth on European markets hacked computers and "combined several fraudulent methods" to cover his tracks, causing billions in losses.
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Shark bites man on deck off Australia (AP)
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 10:22am EST
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AP - A 200-pound mako shark attacked a fisherman on his boat deck, biting him on the leg after the man reeled it in while fishing off Australia's east coast Sunday, an official said. -
Egypt tries to control Gaza border chaos (AP)
Posted: January 27th, 2008, 10:06am EST
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AP - Egyptian forces brandishing electrified batons stopped Gaza cars from crossing the breached border Sunday and tightened security at checkpoints to try to confine Palestinians who moved freely into Egypt for a fifth straight day.
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EU to launch Chad peacekeeping force Monday: diplomats (AFP)
Posted: January 25th, 2008, 3:30pm EST
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AFP - The European Union will on Monday launch a peacekeeping force for Chad and the Central African Republic, diplomats and officials said Friday.
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Musharraf vows free elections during visit to Britain (AFP)
Posted: January 25th, 2008, 3:24pm EST
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AFP - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Friday challenged anyone to prove how February 18 parliamentary elections could be rigged and vowed they would be held on time.
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Killer expelled from Swedish med school (AP)
Posted: January 25th, 2008, 3:15pm EST
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AP - A medical student convicted in a 1999 murder with neo-Nazi links has been expelled from Sweden's leading medical school in a case that sparked debate over whether a killer can become a doctor after having paid his debt to society. -
Musharraf champions rights, but only with limits (Reuters)
Posted: January 25th, 2008, 3:07pm EST
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Reuters - Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf cast
himself as a champion of human rights and free expression on
Friday -- then turned on a journalist who questioned him and
said rights should have limits.
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With Federer gone, 2 new guys in final (AP)
Posted: January 25th, 2008, 2:56pm EST
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AP - One Australian Open finalist is a Muhammad Ali lookalike who has dazzled the crowds with his enthusiasm and his ability to change the pace of a match.
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Marriages fall victim to Kenya violence (AP)
Posted: January 25th, 2008, 2:12pm EST
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AP - He doesn't call. He doesn't write. His cell phone has been switched off for weeks. After 17 years, Naomi Kering's husband is gone one more intertribal marriage fallen victim to the violence that has followed Kenya's disastrous presidential election.
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Spanish driver who killed teen sues (AP)
Posted: January 25th, 2008, 2:10pm EST
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AP - A speeding motorist who killed a teenage cyclist is suing the boy's parents over damage to his luxury car, the government says. -
Egypt takes steps to close Gaza border (AP)
Posted: January 25th, 2008, 11:59am EST
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AP - Thousands of Palestinians pushed their way into Egypt past human chains of guards with riot shields after a bulldozer wrecked another section of fence along the Egypt-Gaza border.
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Plea in Venezuela cash suitcase scheme (AP)
Posted: January 25th, 2008, 11:55am EST
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AP - A Venezuelan man pleaded guilty Friday in a scheme to cover up the source of $800,000 seized in a suitcase in Argentina that was allegedly sent by Venezuelans as a donation to Cristina Fernandez's presidential campaign. -
Last German WWI veteran dies at 107 (AP)
Posted: January 25th, 2008, 11:55am EST
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AP - It was an American, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who famously reflected that "old soldiers never die; they just fade away."
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Bad weather ends Bangladesh Islamic meet (AFP)
Posted: January 25th, 2008, 11:50am EST
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AFP - Two million people scrambled to leave a huge Muslim congregation near the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka late Friday after bad weather forced its premature end, police said.
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Beirut bomb kills anti-terror officer (AP)
Posted: January 25th, 2008, 11:02am EST
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AP - A car bomb Friday killed one of Lebanon's top terrorism investigators who was probing assassinations of prominent anti-Syrian figures and a series of other attacks in recent years.
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Iraq announces major offensive in Mosul (AP)
Posted: January 25th, 2008, 10:58am EST
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AP - Shaken by two days of deadly bombings, the government said Friday it would dispatch several thousand more security forces to Mosul in a "decisive" bid to drive al-Qaida in Iraq from its last major stronghold.
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Italy president to decide on early vote (AP)
Posted: January 25th, 2008, 10:53am EST
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AP - Discussions Friday between the Italian president and political leaders could determine if the country will face early elections or an interim government following the resignation of Premier Romano Prodi.
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Zimbabwe sets March 29 vote, opposition cries foul (Reuters)
Posted: January 25th, 2008, 10:34am EST
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Reuters - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said
on Friday general elections would be held on March 29 and the
opposition said the date was a blow to mediation efforts to end
the country's economic and political turmoil.
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Gates gives Forum optimism (AP)
Posted: January 25th, 2008, 7:29am EST
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AP - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates announced Friday at the World Economic Forum that his foundation would give $306 million to use green technology and farming techniques to boost millions out of hunger and poverty.
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Egypt cheers films critical of police (AP)
Posted: January 25th, 2008, 3:43am EST
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AP - One of Egypt's latest hit films opens with scenes of police brutally beating pro-democracy protesters and ends with angry masses storming a police station where demonstrators are tortured. The audiences cheer.
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NZ: Japan whalers heading for its waters (AP)
Posted: January 24th, 2008, 9:41pm EST
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AP - Japan's whaling fleet was heading toward New Zealand-controlled waters in Antarctica, in breach of an agreement that it would remain in Australian waters during this year's whale hunt, a minister said Friday. -
Israel eases Gaza blockade for a day (AP)
Posted: January 22nd, 2008, 1:50am EST
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AP - Israel eased a blockade of Gaza imposed in retaliation for militant rocket attacks, allowing in some food and fuel Tuesday after the U.N. warned that international food aid to the impoverished territory may have to be suspended by the weekend.
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French employers' group chief hails 'revolutionary' deal (AFP)
Posted: January 22nd, 2008, 1:37am EST
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AFP - A deal struck last week on labour market reform between French employers and trade unions was "revolutionary", the head of the country's MEDEF employers' group said in an interview published Tuesday.
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Australian state compensates 'stolen' Aborigines: official (AFP)
Posted: January 22nd, 2008, 12:41am EST
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AFP - An Australian state Tuesday approved millions of dollars in compensation for members of the "stolen generation" of Aborigines just weeks after the federal government rejected similar demands.
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Kalou inspires Ivory Coast as Michel's Lions maul Namibia at African Nations football Cup (AFP)
Posted: January 22nd, 2008, 12:19am EST
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AFP - Ivory Coast lived up to their billing as serious title contenders with victory in Monday's crunch African Nations Cup game against fellow regional giants Nigeria.
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US helping Pakistan tackle extremism 'in its own way': envoy (AFP)
Posted: January 22nd, 2008, 12:09am EST
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AFP - The United States is working to help Pakistan deal with extremism "in its own way," a top US diplomat for the region said here.
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England rugby hopeful Cipriani on a steep learning curve (AFP)
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 11:38pm EST
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AFP - England hopeful Danny Cipriani admits he is on a steep learning curve as he tries to oust Jonny Wilkinson from the number ten jersey for the Six Nations opener against Wales on February 2.
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France says new Iran resolution imminent (AP)
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 11:08pm EST
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AP - The U.N. Security Council's five permanent members and Germany are expected to agree Tuesday on a new resolution to pressure Iran over its nuclear program, a French diplomat said. But a U.S. official said differences over the issue remain.
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Support for new Australian PM grows: survey (AFP)
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 10:41pm EST
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AFP - The popularity of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has grown since the Labor leader's election late last year, according to a new poll published Tuesday.
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Paraguay nominates first woman candidate (AP)
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 10:33pm EST
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AP - Paraguay's ruling party nominated a woman as its presidential candidate on Monday, a first for the South American nation, but the candidacy of Education Minister Blanca Ovelar still faces a court challenge.
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New Zealand says farewell to Hillary (AP)
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 10:07pm EST
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AP - Sherpas laid prayer scarves on Sir Edmund Hillary's coffin as thousands across New Zealand bid farewell to the Mount Everest conqueror Tuesday. An honor guard held ice axes aloft as his casket was carried through their lines.
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UN envoy applauds cut in Iraq violence (AP)
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 8:37pm EST
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AP - The top U.N. envoy in Iraq on Monday welcomed recent improvements in security and tentative steps towards national reconciliation, urging all parties to maintain the positive momentum.
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Congo government, rebels in peace accord (AP)
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 5:26pm EST
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AP - Government negotiators and rebel groups reached a deal to end fighting in the vast country's restive east, where some 800,000 people had to flee their homes over the last year, officials said Monday.
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Probe: Iraqi teen bomber sent by family (AP)
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 4:18pm EST
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AP - His father was a senior member of al-Qaida in Iraq. His mother promised him they would meet again in paradise.
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Israel to ease Gaza blockade for a day (AP)
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 3:47pm EST
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AP - Israel said Monday it will ease a blockade of Gaza imposed in retaliation for militant rocket attacks, allowing some food and fuel in for one day. The announcement followed a U.N. warning that international food aid to the impoverished territory may have to be suspended by the weekend.
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Chinese insurer Ping An to raise $22B (AP)
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 5:25am EST
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AP - A major Chinese insurer has announced plans to raise up to $22 billion (euro15.0 billion) for acquisitions at a time when U.S. and European banks, battered by mortgage losses, want infusions of Asian capital to replenish their balance sheets.
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British PM calls for radical world reforms to reflect rise of Asia (AFP)
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 5:16am EST
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AFP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called Monday for the radical reform of world institutions to help meet the new challenges of the 21st century, and take more account of the rise of Asia.
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British soldier killed in Afghan blast (AP)
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 5:03am EST
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AP - An explosion struck a NATO patrol vehicle outside a former Taliban town in southern Afghanistan, killing one British soldier and wounding five others, officials said Monday.
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3-way standoff fuels Mideast violence (AP)
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 5:00am EST
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AP - Israel looks powerless to stop the barrage of rockets from Hamas-ruled Gaza. The Islamic militants, choked by a blockade of their territory, find it increasingly difficult to hold on to power. And moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is facing growing pressure to suspend peace talks because of Israel's strikes in Gaza.
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Kenyans hacked to death with machetes (AP)
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 4:14am EST
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AP - Several people were beaten and hacked to death with machetes in a Nairobi slum Sunday in renewed ethnic fighting over Kenya's disputed election, residents said.
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US: Armor-piercing bomb attacks down (AP)
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 4:09am EST
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AP - A suicide bomber apparently targeting a senior security official blew himself up inside a funeral tent Monday, killing 18 people in the latest of a series of deadly attacks chipping away at the notion of a calmer Iraq.
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Liberian ex-rebel confesses to killings (AP)
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 3:31am EST
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AP - One of Liberia's most notorious rebel commanders, known as Gen. Butt Naked, has returned to the nation his troops terrorized to confess, saying he is responsible for 20,000 deaths. -
Daughter of Scottish dynasty on sex charge in Australia (AFP)
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 2:58am EST
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AFP - A young woman descended from a Scottish dynasty granted the Cocos Islands by Britain's Queen Victoria went on trial in Australia Monday charged with sexually assaulting her soldier lover.
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Bomb destroys car in Beirut (AP)
Posted: January 21st, 2008, 1:25am EST
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AP - A grenade explosion set ablaze a parked car belonging to the wife of Lebanon's assistant military prosecutor and damaged several other vehicles in Beirut early Monday but caused no injuries, police said.
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Castro on ballot in Cuba parliament vote (AP)
Posted: January 20th, 2008, 9:39pm EST
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AP - Cubans ratified a slate of parliamentary candidates on Sunday including Fidel Castro, the ailing 81-year-old leader who has not been seen in public for nearly 18 months.
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Pakistani military attacks militants (AP)
Posted: January 20th, 2008, 4:09pm EST
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AP - The Pakistani military pounded an extremist stronghold Sunday near the Afghan border where a rebel leader blamed for the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is believed to be hiding, officials and witnesses said.
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UK says Russia harassing its officials (AP)
Posted: January 17th, 2008, 1:44am EST
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AP - A British cultural organization accused Russian authorities on Wednesday of harassing its staff and said it had temporarily closed its offices in St. Petersburg.
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Stolen Australian boomerang returns home (Reuters)
Posted: January 17th, 2008, 1:24am EST
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Reuters - Proving boomerangs really do come back, an Australian town was on Thursday celebrating the return of a boomerang stolen from an outback museum by an American tourist 25 years ago. -
Schools crisis entrenches inequality in South Africa (AFP)
Posted: January 17th, 2008, 1:20am EST
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AFP - Headmaster Kenneth Mabuza takes a deep breath as he reels off some of the problems facing students at Ibhongo High School, in the heart of South Africa's biggest township Soweto.
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UN chief lauds reduction in Iraq attacks (AP)
Posted: January 17th, 2008, 1:09am EST
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AP - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday welcomed the reduction in attacks across Iraq and called for similar improvements in the political arena.
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Islamic militants overrun Pakistani fort (AP)
Posted: January 17th, 2008, 12:25am EST
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AP - In an embarrassing battlefield defeat for Pakistan's army, Islamic extremists attacked and seized a small fort near the Afghan border, leaving at least 22 soldiers dead or missing.
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Chile congress backs pensions for all (AP)
Posted: January 17th, 2008, 12:23am EST
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AP - Chile's congress backed a pension reform bill Wednesday to ensure the country's landmark social security program for the first time covers every citizen. -
Russia warns Kosovo on independence (AP)
Posted: January 16th, 2008, 11:28pm EST
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AP - Russia warned Kosovo's leaders Wednesday that if they declare independence the territory will never become a member of the United Nations or other international political institutions.
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Machines keeping Suharto alive (AP)
Posted: January 16th, 2008, 11:02pm EST
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AP - Former Indonesian dictator Suharto's care during his two-week hospitalization has sparked quiet debate on end-of-life issues in this predominantly Muslim nation.
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Hostage letters recount jungle hell (AP)
Posted: January 16th, 2008, 7:16pm EST
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AP - A satchel of letters carried out of the jungle by two women freed by Colombian rebels details the heart-wrenching suffering and depredation of the hostages they left behind.
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Kenya police chief says protesters shot (AP)
Posted: January 16th, 2008, 3:35pm EST
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AP - The police chief in this opposition stronghold said she ordered her officers to fire on a rioting crowd, saying she was forced to because police were overwhelmed during protests over disputed elections.
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Suicide attack kills 8 in Iraq (AP)
Posted: January 16th, 2008, 3:34am EST
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AP - A women wearing a belt strapped with explosives blew herself up near a popular market and a Shiite mosque in restive Diyala province north of the capital Wednesday, killing eight civilians and wounding seven others, police said.
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Bird flu cull begins in eastern India (AFP)
Posted: January 16th, 2008, 3:31am EST
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AFP - Health officials in eastern India began the slaughter of tens of thousands of chickens Wednesday, a day after New Delhi confirmed an outbreak of the deadly avian flu in the region.
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Israel to evacuate 2 settler outposts (AP)
Posted: January 16th, 2008, 3:24am EST
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AP - Israeli forces were on their way Wednesday to evacuate two settler outposts in the West Bank, officials said, amid U.S. insistence such encampments be dismantled to pave the way for a peace deal with the Palestinians. -
High-seas whaling standoff draws in Tokyo, Canberra (AFP)
Posted: January 16th, 2008, 3:16am EST
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AFP - A high-seas standoff between Japanese whalers and militant anti-whaling activists in the icy waters of the Antarctic drew the governments of Australia and Japan into the fray Wednesday.
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Opposition figure heads Kenya parliament (AP)
Posted: January 16th, 2008, 3:14am EST
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AP - Legislators chose an opposition member as parliament speaker in a close vote Tuesday, giving a victory to foes of Kenya's president as they prepared for mass protest rallies that raised fears of new violence over last month's disputed election.
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Bus bombing kills 23 in Sri Lanka (AP)
Posted: January 16th, 2008, 3:12am EST
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AP - A roadside bomb ripped through a packed civilian bus Wednesday, killing 23 people in southeastern Sri Lanka as the government officially withdrew from a tattered cease-fire with Tamil Tiger rebels.
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Jesuits to choose new superior (AP)
Posted: January 16th, 2008, 3:08am EST
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AP - The Jesuits, one of the world's largest Roman Catholic religious orders, are meeting in Rome to elect a new leader and chart a future amid a decline in their numbers and lingering tensions in their relationship with the Vatican. -
Egypt's stalled reforms haunt Bush trip (AP)
Posted: January 16th, 2008, 3:06am EST
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AP - Egypt was meant to be a test case for President Bush's push for greater democracy in the Middle East. But stalled reforms and bitterness over the jailing of hundreds of dissidents are haunting his visit here Wednesday.
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Cambodia bars US actress from holding Darfur ceremony: official (AFP)
Posted: January 16th, 2008, 2:31am EST
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AFP - Actress Mia Farrow has been barred from holding a ceremony at a notorious Khmer Rouge prison as part of a campaign to pressure China to end abuses in Darfur, a Cambodian official said Wednesday.
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Castro looks frail, alert in new photos (AP)
Posted: January 16th, 2008, 1:33am EST
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AP - Fidel Castro looked frail but alert and even playful in a series of official photographs taken during a meeting with Brazil's president on Tuesday, the first images of the ailing Cuban leader released in about three months.
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St. Lucia welcomes Taiwan's leader (AP)
Posted: January 16th, 2008, 12:07am EST
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AP - Singing schoolchildren and red carpets welcomed Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian to St. Lucia on Tuesday for his first visit since the small Caribbean island shifted diplomatic ties to Taipei instead of rival China.
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Thai soldier beheaded, 7 others killed (AP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 9:52pm EST
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AP - Suspected Muslim insurgents exploded a bomb that left at least 27 people injured in a southern Thai market Tuesday, officials said, a day after rebels ambushed a military patrol and killed eight soldiers.
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Take That lead Brit award nominations (AFP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 9:38pm EST
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AFP - Pop group Take That's comeback hit another high note on Tuesday as they jointly led the nominations for the Brit Awards, the annual music prizes organised by the British Phonographic Industry.
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Bush seeks stronger ties with arms deal (AP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 9:00pm EST
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AP - President Bush delivered a sophisticated weapons sale for Saudi Arabia on Monday, trying to bolster defenses against threats from U.S. adversary Iran and muster support in this oil-rich kingdom for a long-stalled Mideast peace agreement.
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Attack on Kabul luxury hotel kills 6 (AP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 7:22pm EST
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AP - Militants stormed Kabul's most popular luxury hotel Monday, killing at least six people as they hunted down Westerners who cowered in a gym a coordinated assault that could signal a new era of brazen Taliban attacks.
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Guatemala swears in new president (AP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 6:21pm EST
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AP - Alvaro Colom was sworn on Monday in as Guatemala's first leftist president in more than 50 years, promising to fight poverty in a nation where half the people live on less than $1 a day.
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Gunmen storm Darfur prison, freeing 90 (AP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 5:41pm EST
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AP - Gunmen stormed a Darfur prison, setting free at least 90 detainees, officials and local media said Monday as sporadic violence continued to erupt throughout the western Sudanese region.
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Colombian boy's childhood of anguish (AP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 4:54pm EST
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AP - On April 16, 2004, an urbane lawyer being held hostage in a guerrilla camp deep in the Colombian jungle gave birth to a boy. The child was delivered by Caesarean section performed with a kitchen knife.
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Mideast peace negotiations inch forward (AP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 2:17pm EST
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AP - Palestinian and Israeli negotiators sat down Monday to address their toughest disputes, honoring promises made to President Bush during his visit last week.
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Saudi public leery of Bush (AP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 1:35pm EST
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AP - Saudi Arabia's warm official welcome for President Bush, the scion of a family with close ties to the kingdom's ruling family, masks his deep unpopularity among ordinary Saudis.
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Motorbike bomb kills 9 in Pakistani city (AP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 12:23pm EST
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AP - A bomb planted on a parked motorbike killed at least nine people and wounded 35 others Monday evening in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, police said. -
Andorra first up for Capello's England (AFP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 12:21pm EST
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AFP - Fabio Capello's first competitive match as England coach will be at Andorra in September after the fixtures were announced for their 2010 World Cup qualifying campaign on Monday.
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British defies order to shut NGO offices (AP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 11:54am EST
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AP - A British cultural organization reopened offices in two Russian cities Monday in defiance of an order to close, drawing an angry response from Russia, which called the decision a "deliberate provocation" and promised punitive measures.
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Sunni judge assassinated in Baghdad (AP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 11:38am EST
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AP - Gunmen assassinated a Sunni judge as he headed to work in Baghdad on Monday, while to the north, a booby-trapped house exploded as Iraqi police searched the building, killing at least two officers and trapping five beneath the rubble, authorities said.
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2 dead in attack on luxury Kabul hotel (AP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 11:35am EST
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AP - Militants with suicide vests, grenades and AK-47 rifles attacked Kabul's most popular luxury hotel Monday evening, killing at least two people in a coordinated assault rarely seen in the Afghan capital, witnesses and a Taliban spokesman said.
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Sudan "bombs" Darfur rebels as violence hampers aid (Reuters)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 11:28am EST
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Reuters - Sudanese government planes bombed rebel positions in Darfur, rebels and international sources said on Monday of the latest violence that has turned parts of West Darfur into a "no go" zone for aid workers. -
Gulf prankster possible message source (AP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 10:12am EST
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AP - A threatening radio message at the end of a video showing Iranian patrol boats swarming near U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf may have come from a prankster rather than from the Iranian vessels, the Navy Times newspaper has reported.
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Israel won't accept nuke weapons in Iran (AP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 8:12am EST
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AP - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told a powerful parliamentary panel on Monday that Israel rejects "no options" to block Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, a meeting participant said.
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Apple, China Mobile call off iPhone launch talks (Reuters)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 3:56am EST
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Reuters - Apple Inc and China Mobile
(0941.HK) have called off talks to launch the U.S. firm's
popular iPhones in China, dashing speculation the device will
hit the country's store shelves soon.
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Tsonga dumps Murray out of Australian Open (AFP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 3:48am EST
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AFP - Britain's great tennis hope Andy Murray became the first major casualty of the Australian Open Monday, crashing out in the first round to Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
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Bush gets flavor of Dubai (AP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 3:33am EST
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AP - President Bush, on his first visit to this oil-rich kingdom, delivered a major arms sale Monday to a major ally in a region where the U.S. casts neighboring Iran as a menace to stability.
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Activists threaten to ram Japanese whalers (AFP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 3:27am EST
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AFP - The militant environmental group Sea Shepherd said Monday that it had located the Japanese whaling fleet near Antarctica and threatened to ram them if they resumed slaughtering the giant sea creatures.
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Iraqi appeals court judge killed (AP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 3:26am EST
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AP - Gunmen killed an appeals court judge as he headed to work in the western Baghdad district of Mansour on Monday, police and the deputy justice minister said.
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China says democracy hurts Kenya (AP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 3:22am EST
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AP - The election-related violence that has killed hundreds in Kenya is proof that Western-style democracy is a bad fit for Africa, said China, which has been under fire for its friendly relations with authoritarian leaders on the continent. -
US envoy meets former Taliban commander (AP)
Posted: January 14th, 2008, 3:08am EST
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AP - The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan flew to a town previously held by the Taliban in the heart of the world's largest poppy-growing region and told the ex-militant commander now in charge there that Afghans must stop "producing poison."
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Freed Colombia hostage reunited with son (AP)
Posted: January 13th, 2008, 11:33pm EST
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AP - Recently released Colombian hostage Clara Rojas was reunited Sunday with her 3-year-old son, who was fathered by one of her guerrilla captors but taken away from her months after he was born.
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French offer Saudi nuclear energy help (AP)
Posted: January 13th, 2008, 8:18pm EST
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AP - France's president offered Saudi Arabia help in exploring a possible civilian nuclear energy program as the French leader began a visit to the oil-rich kingdom on Sunday.
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Gallery owner battles for art in Baghdad (AP)
Posted: January 13th, 2008, 12:57pm EST
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AP - The owner's balance sheet shows losses of up to $400 a month a sum considered a good monthly wage.
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Web, crackdowns weakening Mafia's grip (AP)
Posted: January 13th, 2008, 12:25pm EST
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AP - When it came down to business, Cosa Nostra could always count on fear.
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Croatian parliament approves PM Sanader's cabinet (Reuters)
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 3:16pm EST
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Reuters - Croatia's new parliament approved on Saturday a centre-right coalition cabinet proposed by Prime Minister-designate Ivo Sanader and dominated by his conservative Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ). -
Soldiers find front line at Iraq house (AP)
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 3:14pm EST
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AP - Barely out of a four-day battle, the soldiers scanned palm-dotted farmland from the roof of a small house, kneeling to avoid a sniper's bullet. A pair of Apache gunships hovered above and the occasional thud of artillery shells shook the ground.
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Iraq to reinstate Saddam party followers (AP)
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 3:12pm EST
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AP - Iraq's parliament passed a benchmark law Saturday allowing lower-ranking former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party to reclaim government jobs, the first major piece of U.S.-backed legislation it has adopted.
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Pakistan expels writer for NY Times (AP)
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 2:21pm EST
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AP - Pakistan has expelled an American journalist who wrote in The New York Times Magazine about the rise of pro-Taliban militants in this key U.S. ally, a media rights group said Saturday. -
With nuke rebirth come new worries (AP)
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 2:02pm EST
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AP - Global warming and rocketing oil prices are making nuclear power fashionable, drawing a once demonized industry out of the shadows of the Chernobyl disaster as a potential shining knight of clean energy. -
Gorilla sanctuary is Congo war front (AP)
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 1:19pm EST
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AP - Not far from a hillside where several mountain gorillas shot dead last summer lie buried, park ranger Innocent Mburanumwe peers across a primordial canopy of treetops into what may be the most dangerous game reserve on earth.
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Opposition wins big in Taiwan poll (AP)
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 1:06pm EST
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AP - Taiwan's opposition Nationalist Party won a landslide victory in legislative elections Saturday, giving a big boost to its policy of closer engagement with China two months before a presidential poll it now seems poised to win.
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Greenpeace says located, chasing Japanese whalers (AFP)
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 2:45am EST
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AFP - A Greenpeace protest ship located Japan's whaling fleet in Antarctic waters and is pursuing it to stop the hunt for the giant sea creatures, the environmental group said Saturday.
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Greenpeace finds Japan's whalers (AP)
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 2:25am EST
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AP - A Greenpeace ship on Saturday confronted a Japanese whaling fleet that had initially planned to hunt protected humpbacks, the environmentalists said setting off the latest round of cat-and-mouse in a sometimes dangerous feature of the hunting debate.
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Pentagon releases video of Iran clash (AP)
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 2:19am EST
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AP - Recent clashes between Iranian and U.S. Navy forces in the Persian Gulf reflect Iran's shifted military strategy to use its Revolutionary Guard's fast boats more aggressively in the region, the top U.S. military officer said Friday.
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Bush visits biblical holy sites (AP)
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 1:54am EST
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AP - Immersed for two days in the intense and arcane world of Mideast peacemaking, President Bush looked relieved Friday to see something of the landscape that all the fighting is about. Obviously moved, he even giggled, too.
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In Kuwait, Bush turns focus to Iraq war (AP)
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 1:50am EST
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AP - President Bush said Saturday he is open to the possibility of slowing or stopping plans to bring home more U.S. troops from Iraq, defying domestic demands to speed the withdrawals. Updated on war developments, Bush said the U.S. presence in Iraq will outlast his presidency.
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Suharto suffers multiple organ failure (AP)
Posted: January 11th, 2008, 11:51pm EST
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AP - Former Indonesian dictator Suharto showed slight signs of improvement, doctors said Saturday, a day after he suffered organ failure and was placed on a ventilator with dangerous signs of infection in his lungs.
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Chavez irks Colombia by defending rebels (AP)
Posted: January 11th, 2008, 11:05pm EST
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AP - Clara Rojas, one of two hostages freed after years held captive by Colombian rebels, gave birth to her son nearly four years ago by kitchen-knife Caesarean and has not seen him since he was taken from the jungle at 8 months old.
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Change of command made at Guantanamo (AP)
Posted: January 11th, 2008, 10:05pm EST
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AP - The commander of the Guantanamo Bay detention center, Navy Rear Adm. Mark H. Buzby, is leaving for a new assignment after six months at the U.S. naval station in Cuba, the Pentagon announced Friday. -
Former suspect's mom wants Aruba probe (AP)
Posted: January 11th, 2008, 9:59pm EST
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AP - The mother of a former suspect in the disappearance in Aruba of American teenager Natalee Holloway said Friday she hopes a probe will bring closure for all the families involved. -
Bush: US should have acted on Auschwitz (AP)
Posted: January 11th, 2008, 9:05pm EST
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AP - A teary-eyed President Bush stopped in front of an aerial photo of Auschwitz on Friday at Israel's Holocaust memorial and said the U.S. should have sent bombers to prevent the extermination of Jews there.
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UN assails Sudan peacekeeper attack (AP)
Posted: January 11th, 2008, 8:52pm EST
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AP - The United Nations Security Council opened the door Friday to new economic, political or military sanctions against Sudan because of an attack by its troops on a U.N. peacekeeping convoy earlier this week.
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Kenya's violence strikes at its runners (AP)
Posted: January 11th, 2008, 1:48pm EST
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AP - When world marathon champion Luke Kibet goes running, he likes to focus on finishing first. But on one run during Kenya's postelection upheaval, the 25-year-old star had something else on his mind: staying alive.
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Chavez presses for more hostage rescues (AP)
Posted: January 11th, 2008, 10:29am EST
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AP - Basking in praise for winning the freedom of two hostages, President Hugo Chavez pressured Colombia's U.S.-allied leader to let him try to free more captives and perhaps even search for ways to end his neighbor's decades-long civil conflict.
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Militant group claims Nigeria tanker blaze (AFP)
Posted: January 11th, 2008, 10:28am EST
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AFP - A prominent militant group in the oil-rich Niger Delta said it planted an explosive device that set a tanker on fire Friday in Nigeria's main oil hub, Port Harcourt.
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Correction: Queen of Spades review (AP)
Posted: January 11th, 2008, 10:26am EST
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AP - In an Oct. 28 review of the Vienna State Opera's new production of Tchaikovsky's "The Queen of Spades," The Associated Press erroneously reported it was Neil Shicoff's first appearance on an opera stage in Austria since the summer, when he canceled performances at the Salzburg Festival. The AP also misspelled the name of set and costume designers Johannes Leiacker and Marie-Luise Strandt. -
Kenya opposition calls 3 days of protest (AP)
Posted: January 11th, 2008, 10:22am EST
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AP - Kenya's main opposition party said Friday it plans three days of mass rallies next week to protest President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election, which has sparked waves of deadly violence across the East African nation. Police said they would not permit the protests.
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Commanders tout success of Iraq strikes (AP)
Posted: January 11th, 2008, 9:49am EST
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AP - One of the largest bombing campaigns of the war destroyed extremists' "defensive belts" south of Baghdad, allowing American soldiers to push into areas where they have not been in years, a top commander said Friday.
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Indonesia's Suharto has multiple organ failure (Reuters)
Posted: January 11th, 2008, 9:43am EST
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Reuters - Indonesia's former president Suharto
has suffered multiple organ failure and is on a ventilator,
doctors said, while the Vice President had been summoned to his
bedside to witness the 86-year-old's death.
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Suharto suffers multi-organ failure (AP)
Posted: January 11th, 2008, 9:30am EST
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AP - Suharto suffered multi-organ failure and was placed on a ventilator Friday, doctors said, as family members rushed to the former Indonesian dictator's bedside. Physicians called his deteriorating health "alarming."
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Bush visits Kuwait to promote peace deal (AP)
Posted: January 11th, 2008, 9:24am EST
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AP - President Bush sought Arab support on Friday for a U.S.-backed Mideast peace deal, but the Bush administration said not to expect a "blinding flash" of Arab support for the restarted Israel-Palestinian negotiations.
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Bush: US should have bombed Auschwitz (AP)
Posted: January 11th, 2008, 6:07am EST
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AP - President Bush had tears in his eyes during an hour-long tour of Israel's Holocaust memorial Friday and told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that the U.S. should have bombed Auschwitz to halt the killing, the memorial's chairman said.
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Myanmar's Suu Kyi meets with junta (AP)
Posted: January 11th, 2008, 5:08am EST
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AP - Detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with a representative of Myanmar's ruling junta Friday for the first time in nearly two months, a government official said.
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Race-hate fears prompt Australian school security boost: official (AFP)
Posted: January 11th, 2008, 2:42am EST
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AFP - Jewish, Muslim and other schools in Australia at risk of race-hate attacks will receive millions of dollars in special funding to improve their security, the government said Friday.
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Iranian TV airs video of Gulf encounter (AP)
Posted: January 10th, 2008, 10:22am EST
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AP - Iran aired video Thursday of its boats and U.S. naval ships in the Persian Gulf in an apparent attempt to show that there was no confrontation between the vessels.
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Drastic decline in one of Britain's rarest breeding ducks (AFP)
Posted: January 10th, 2008, 10:13am EST
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AFP - One of Britain's rarest birds has seen a drastic decline in its population over the last 12 years, a new survey has shown Thursday.
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Scout: Islamic militant attacked prez (AP)
Posted: January 10th, 2008, 10:12am EST
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AP - The 15-year-old Boy Scout who saved the president of this Indian Ocean archipelago from a knife-wielding attacker said Thursday the assailant shouted "God is Great" before the assault.
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Former UN chief to lead Kenya mediation (AP)
Posted: January 10th, 2008, 10:02am EST
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AP - The African Union said Thursday that former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is taking over mediation in Kenya's disputed presidential election after days of international pressure failed to bring both sides together for talks.
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Man Utd to tour South Africa (AFP)
Posted: January 10th, 2008, 10:00am EST
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AFP - Manchester United will tour South Africa in the close season this summer, the club announced on Thursday.
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US launches airstrike south of Baghdad (AP)
Posted: January 10th, 2008, 9:34am EST
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AP - U.S. bombers and jet fighters unleashed 40,000 pounds of explosives during a 10-minute airstrike Thursday, flattening what the military called safe havens for al-Qaida in Iraq on the southern outskirts of the capital.
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24 killed, 70 hurt in Pakistan bombing (AP)
Posted: January 10th, 2008, 9:24am EST
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AP - A suicide bomber blew himself up among police deployed outside a court in eastern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 24 people and wounding more than 70, officials and witnesses said.
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Salad dodgers fight slummy mummies for Aussie dictionary honour (AFP)
Posted: January 10th, 2008, 2:53am EST
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AFP - A cyberathlete might not suffer boomeritis as he or she is probably a digital native, but could be at risk of globesity, according to Australia's top dictionary.
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French use happiness as economic measure (AP)
Posted: January 10th, 2008, 1:48am EST
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AP - What price happiness? French President Nicolas Sarkozy is seeking an answer to the eternal question so that happiness can be included in measurements of French economic growth.
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India's Tata Motors unveils $2,500 car (AP)
Posted: January 10th, 2008, 1:45am EST
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AP - India's Tata Motors on Thursday unveiled its much anticipated $2,500 car, an ultracheap price tag that suddenly brings car ownership into the reach of tens of millions of people across the world.
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Bush strongly warns Iran on naval clash (AP)
Posted: January 9th, 2008, 11:10pm EST
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AP - President Bush on Thursday predicted that a Mideast peace treaty would be completed by the time he leaves office, and named a U.S. Air Force general to oversee compliance with a U.S.-backed peace plan.
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Australia questions community after lonely death (Reuters)
Posted: January 9th, 2008, 10:42pm EST
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Reuters - The death of elderly man in his Sydney apartment, which went undiscovered for more than a year, had Australians questioning their loss of community spirit on Thursday. -
Colombian rebels detail hostage location (AP)
Posted: January 9th, 2008, 10:36pm EST
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AP - Colombian rebels on Wednesday provided a pickup location for two women they have held hostage for years, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said, and the Colombian government gave him the green light to launch a rescue mission.
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Talks end with Western Sahara stalemate (AP)
Posted: January 9th, 2008, 9:35pm EST
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AP - The latest round of U.N.-led peace talks between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front ended in stalemate Wednesday, with the two sides agreeing to try again in March to resolve a 32-year dispute for control of Western Sahara. -
US military deaths in Iraq at 3,921 (AP)
Posted: January 9th, 2008, 9:16pm EST
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AP - As of Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2008, at least 3,921 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians. At least 3,183 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
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Darfur peacekeeping set back by 6 months (AP)
Posted: January 9th, 2008, 9:00pm EST
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AP - U.N. peacekeeping forces lack the troops and equipment necessary to improve the situation in violence-wracked Darfur and will continue to be ineffective until mid-2008, the U.N. peacekeeping chief cautioned Wednesday.
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Ex-rebel leader elected Kosovo premier (AP)
Posted: January 9th, 2008, 3:06pm EST
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AP - A former rebel leader was elected Kosovo's prime minister Wednesday, vowing that the province is only weeks away from independence and calling on Serbia to give up its claim to the territory.
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2 nations opt out of UN force for Darfur (AP)
Posted: January 9th, 2008, 12:40pm EST
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AP - Sweden and Norway have dropped plans to send about 400 troops to the U.N. peacekeeping force in Darfur because of opposition from Sudan's government, a Swedish Foreign Ministry official said Wednesday. -
Olmert: No peace unless attacks stop (AP)
Posted: January 9th, 2008, 12:29pm EST
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AP - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Wednesday that "there will be no peace" unless attacks are halted from all parts of the Palestinian territories, including those not controlled by his negotiating partners in the Palestinian leadership. But he said that both sides "are very seriously trying to move forward" on a deal.
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African Union chief meets political leaders in Kenya crisis talks (AFP)
Posted: January 9th, 2008, 12:13pm EST
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AFP - African Union chief John Kufuor shuttled between Kenyan leaders Wednesday to try to resolve political deadlock following post-election violence that left 600 dead and displaced a quarter of a million.
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Pakistan rejects nuclear watchdog's worries (Reuters)
Posted: January 9th, 2008, 11:59am EST
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Reuters - Pakistan rejected on Wednesday
remarks by the U.N. nuclear watchdog chief that Pakistan's
nuclear arsenal could fall into the hands of Islamist
militants, and allayed the fears of a U.S. senator visiting
Islamabad.
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Rockets hit Israel before Bush arrival (AP)
Posted: January 9th, 2008, 11:43am EST
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AP - The Israeli military fired at Palestinian militants in Gaza on Wednesday, killing three people, after a rocket hit a house in a battered Israeli border town just as President Bush began his Mideast peace mission.
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Sudan denies attack on UN in Darfur (AP)
Posted: January 9th, 2008, 11:39am EST
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AP - Sudan denied Wednesday that its army opened fire on a convoy of U.N. peacekeepers attacked in Darfur barely a week into their new mission.
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Kenyan leader says vote results final (AP)
Posted: January 9th, 2008, 11:29am EST
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AP - Hundreds of Kenyans fearing new political violence fled the country's west Wednesday, but the president urged refugees not to abandon their homes and insisted he would hold onto power despite allegations he stole an election.
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Iranian TV: Pentagon video, audio fake (AP)
Posted: January 9th, 2008, 11:13am EST
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AP - Iran accused the United States on Wednesday of fabricating video and audio released by the Pentagon showing Iranian boats confronting U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf.
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Ex-CIA agent Philip Agee dead in Cuba (AP)
Posted: January 9th, 2008, 11:04am EST
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AP - Former CIA agent Philip Agee, a critic of U.S. foreign policy who infuriated American intelligence officials by naming purported agency operatives in a 1975 book, has died, state media reported Wednesday. He was 72.
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US: Iraq operation meets less resistance (AP)
Posted: January 9th, 2008, 10:46am EST
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AP - Nine American soldiers were killed in the first two days of a new offensive to root out al-Qaida in Iraq fighters holed up in districts north of the capital, the U.S. military reported Wednesday.
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Australian ship leaves to track Japanese whalers (AFP)
Posted: January 9th, 2008, 2:27am EST
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AFP - An Australian government ship has left on a mission to track Japan's whaling fleet and gather evidence for a potential international court case against Tokyo, an official said Wednesday.
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Stiglitz says GDP may be poor indicator of economy (AFP)
Posted: January 8th, 2008, 3:41pm EST
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AFP - Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel laureate economist tapped to head a new French study, said Tuesday he sees gross domestic product (GDP), the most often cited yardstick, as an imperfect indicator.
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Lovestruck Sarkozy fends off critics (AP)
Posted: January 8th, 2008, 3:27pm EST
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AP - President Nicolas Sarkozy hinted Tuesday he may soon marry former model Carla Bruni, but polls suggest he's heading toward divorce with some of the voters who put him in power.
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Sudan troops fire on UN convoy in Darfur (AP)
Posted: January 8th, 2008, 3:25pm EST
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AP - Sudanese troops shot at a "clearly marked" United Nations convoy in Darfur, apparently mistaking it for a group of rebels in the first attack against the peacekeeping mission since it began this month, U.N. officials said Tuesday.
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US analyzing recordings of Iranians (AP)
Posted: January 8th, 2008, 3:14pm EST
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AP - The U.S. military has video and audio recordings of Iranian boats that threatened to blow up U.S. Navy vessels in the Strait of Hormuz and plans to release them, the top Navy commander in the Mideast said Tuesday. President Bush described the confrontation as a "provocative act."
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Turkey's Kurds angry after blast (Reuters)
Posted: January 8th, 2008, 2:36pm EST
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Reuters - Clearing debris from a
bombing, residents of the largest city in Turkey's mainly
Kurdish southeast say they are weary of the violence blighting
their region and that more democracy and economic growth are
the only answers.
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Benazir Bhutto's son meets the media (AP)
Posted: January 8th, 2008, 1:49pm EST
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AP - Sweating slightly, the son of slain Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto slipped into the basement of a swanky London hotel, took his place behind a bank of microphones and looked up. Cameras flashed. He barely blinked.
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Obama family in Kenya watches US vote (AP)
Posted: January 8th, 2008, 1:41pm EST
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AP - At the end of a dusty, dirt road lined with mango and mimosa trees, Barack Obama's Kenyan relatives sat outside on plastic chairs surrounded by chickens and drying corn kernels, listening to radio reports from New Hampshire.
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Rivals make concessions in Kenya (AP)
Posted: January 8th, 2008, 4:38am EST
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AP - Kenya's president named half his Cabinet Tuesday, angering opposition leaders who accuse him of stealing the recent election and undermining mediation attempts for a power-sharing agreement to end violence that has left more than 500 dead.
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Maldives leader survives attack (AP)
Posted: January 8th, 2008, 4:33am EST
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AP - The Maldives president, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, survived an assassination attempt Tuesday when a teenage boy grabbed the knife of an attacker who jumped out of a crowd of people greeting the president, a government spokesman said. -
Imperial Tobacco extends offer for Altadis (AFP)
Posted: January 8th, 2008, 4:33am EST
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AFP - Imperial Tobacco said Tuesday it had handed shareholders in Franco-Spanish cigarette maker Altadis an extra week to accept its takeover bid worth 12.8 billion euros (18.8 billion dollars).
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SAfrica's ANC confirms Zuma as candidate (AP)
Posted: January 8th, 2008, 4:18am EST
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AP - The ruling African National Congress said Tuesday that party president Jacob Zuma would be its candidate for national elections in 2009 despite his pending trial on charges of corruption, money laundering, fraud and racketeering. -
Sony BMG drops music copy protection (AP)
Posted: January 8th, 2008, 3:26am EST
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AP - Sony BMG will start selling music downloads in the copy-protection-free MP3 format later this month in North America, as even the last holdout among the major record labels crumbled to the growing trend. -
Bomb kills Sri Lankan minister (AP)
Posted: January 8th, 2008, 3:13am EST
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AP - A Sri Lankan government minister was killed Tuesday in a roadside bombing near the capital that was blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels, the military said. Seven other people were wounded.
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Indian prosthetic inventor dies at 80 (AP)
Posted: January 8th, 2008, 2:57am EST
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AP - Dr. Pramod Karan Sethi, inventor of a low-cost prosthetic foot that has helped millions of people in developing and war-torn countries, has died. He was 80. -
Police: Rocket from Lebanon hits Israel (AP)
Posted: January 8th, 2008, 2:48am EST
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AP - A rocket fired from Lebanon struck northern Israel overnight, police said Tuesday. It was the second rocket attack on Israel from Lebanon since the summer 2006 war with Hezbollah guerrillas. -
Afghan bomb kills coalition 2 soldiers (AP)
Posted: January 8th, 2008, 2:29am EST
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AP - A roadside bomb killed two soldiers from the U.S.-led coalition in eastern Afghanistan, and a suicide bomber on a motorcycle attacked a border police patrol in the south, killing a policeman, officials said.
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Taiwan says can't match China's aid offer to Malawi (Reuters)
Posted: January 8th, 2008, 1:31am EST
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Reuters - Taiwan cannot match China's reported $6 billion aid offer to Malawi, but hopes a legacy of goodwill can convince the African nation not to switch allegiance to its giant neighbor, a government spokeswoman said on Tuesday. -
Japan new-borns visit relatives as cuddly rice bags (Reuters)
Posted: January 7th, 2008, 10:49pm EST
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Reuters - New-born babies in Japan who can't make it round to visit all their relatives can now send them proxies instead - cuddly bags of rice. -
Colombia rejects more hostage missions (AP)
Posted: January 7th, 2008, 9:26pm EST
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AP - The government will not permit future international missions to win the release of rebel-held hostages after an effort led by Venezuela last month failed to retrieve three captives, Colombia's foreign minister said Monday. -
Baghdad bombings kill al-Qaida opponent (AP)
Posted: January 7th, 2008, 7:48pm EST
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AP - The U.S. military launched a countrywide offensive Tuesday against al-Qaida in Iraq's efforts to regroup and intensify suicide strikes on civilians who have sided with the Americans against the terror group.
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Kenyan rivals make concessions (AP)
Posted: January 7th, 2008, 4:02pm EST
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AP - Kenya's president and his chief rival made key concessions Monday to end their election dispute, calling off protests and agreeing to talks under pressure from the United States as the death toll from a week of violence neared 500.
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War crimes trial opens with grisly video (AP)
Posted: January 7th, 2008, 3:10pm EST
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AP - The war crimes trial of Charles Taylor, Liberia's former president, heard its first testimony Monday and saw video of victims telling of being sexually assaulted or dismembered by rebels who plundered West African diamond fields.
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Thousands stranded by Australian floods: officials (AFP)
Posted: January 7th, 2008, 4:32am EST
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AFP - Thousands of Australians are stranded by floodwaters and some could remain isolated for up to a week after torrential rains hit the country's east coast, emergency officials said Monday.