Reuters - Serbia's pro-Western president Boris
Tadic won re-election on Sunday, narrowly defeating nationalist
challenger Tomislav Nikolic, the independent polling
organization CESID said.
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Tadic wins Serb presidential election: pollsters (Reuters)
Posted: February 3rd, 2008, 3:43pm EST
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Israelis fire into Lebanon, killing 1 (AP)
Posted: February 3rd, 2008, 3:42pm EST
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AP - Israeli forces opened fire across the Lebanese border late Sunday, killing one person and wounding another, Lebanese security officials said.
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Colombian rebels vow to release 3 (AP)
Posted: February 3rd, 2008, 3:11pm EST
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AP - In its latest gesture to push for a high-profile prisoner swap, Colombia's main leftist rebel army says it will free three ailing politicians it has held for more than six years.
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Egypt-Gaza border resealed (AP)
Posted: February 3rd, 2008, 3:10pm EST
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AP - Egyptian police sealed Gaza's border with huge metal spikes and shipping containers Sunday, restoring a tight blockade after a breach that allowed hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to cross freely for 12 days.
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Ten-man Ghana battle back to reach African Nations Cup semi-finals (AFP)
Posted: February 3rd, 2008, 3:07pm EST
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AFP - Ghana had one man sent-off but still moved a step closer to a record-equalling fifth African Nations Cup title with a thrilling 2-1 quarter-final success over Nigeria here on Sunday.
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Bhutto autobiography details threats (AP)
Posted: February 3rd, 2008, 2:15pm EST
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AP - In an autobiography being published after her assassination, Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto says she was warned that four suicide bomber squads would try to kill her, one led by Osama bin Laden's 16-year-old son. -
Bullard gets his just rewards as Fulham win at last (AFP)
Posted: February 3rd, 2008, 2:07pm EST
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AFP - Jimmy Bullard ended Fulham's miserable winless run with a stunning late free-kick that clinched a 2-1 victory against Aston Villa on Sunday.
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Chad rebels say they seized eastern town (AP)
Posted: February 3rd, 2008, 1:41pm EST
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AP - Tanks rolled through the streets of Chad's capital on Sunday, turning it into a battle zone littered with bodies while fighting between government forces and rebels also raged in an area that is home to some 420,000 refugees near the border with war-ravaged Darfur.
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Kenya opposition wants AU peacekeepers (AP)
Posted: February 3rd, 2008, 1:23pm EST
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AP - Kenya's opposition leader on Sunday called for international peacekeepers to help restore calm in a country once considered one of the most stable on the continent, as weeks of violence linked to the disputed presidential election gathered frightening momentum.
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Africa quakes kill at least 40: officials, hospitals (AFP)
Posted: February 3rd, 2008, 1:16pm EST
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AFP - Two strong earthquakes shook the African Great Lakes region on Sunday, killing at least 34 people in Rwanda and six in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to officials and hospital sources.
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New law allows Baathists to reclaim jobs (AP)
Posted: February 3rd, 2008, 1:08pm EST
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AP - Iraq's presidency council on Sunday issued a controversial law that allows lower-ranking former Baath party members to reclaim government jobs, the final step for the first U.S.-backed benchmark approved by parliament.
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Kenya's divisions aren't only tribal (AP)
Posted: February 3rd, 2008, 1:02pm EST
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AP - When Steve Maina finishes a round of golf at Kenya's exclusive Windsor club, a waistcoated waiter hurries over with a tall iced drink while armed guards watch discreetly from the shrubbery, a few minutes' drive from one of Nairobi's oldest slums.
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Amazon research raises tough questions (AP)
Posted: February 3rd, 2008, 12:08pm EST
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AP - Julio Tota stood atop a 195-foot steel tower in the heart of the Amazon rain forest, watching "rivers of air" flowing over an unbroken green canopy that stretched as far as the eye could see.
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Egypt closes breached border with Gaza (AP)
Posted: February 3rd, 2008, 11:47am EST
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AP - Egyptian troops closed the last breach in Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip Sunday, ending 12 days of free movement for Palestinian residents of the blockaded territory, witnesses and Hamas security officials said.
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Israeli defense minister won't resign (AP)
Posted: February 3rd, 2008, 6:14am EST
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AP - Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Sunday that he would not pull his faction from the government over its handling of the 2006 war against Hezbollah guerillas, an announcement that removed any immediate threat to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's administration.
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Sydney bishops to boycott Anglican meet over gays (AFP)
Posted: February 3rd, 2008, 2:13am EST
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AFP - Bishops in Australia's largest city Sydney are pulling out of the Anglican Church's top global meeting this year in a dispute over gay bishops and same-sex marriages, their archbishop said.