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MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) - Russia's state-controlled gas monopoly said a deal to monitor gas exports via Ukraine would be signed on Friday, allowing for the resumption of supplies to Europe cut off by Moscow's price row with Kiev.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Israel pushed ahead with its two-week-old offensive in the Gaza Strip on Friday, defying a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has requested a meeting with President Robert Mugabe in a last-ditch effort to salvage a power-sharing deal, an opposition spokesman said Friday.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Some prisoners held indefinitely without charge by U.S. forces in Iraq may not be freed or given trials, even though U.S. forces lost the authority to hold them at the beginning of this year, a U.S. military spokesman said.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China plans to impose production controls on melamine, the cheap industrial ingredient at the center of a milk-contamination scandal that shocked China and the rest of the world last year, a newspaper said Friday.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Friday Pakistan had sent India a response to evidence from the Mumbai attacks, as U.S. vice president-elect Joe Biden arrived on a trip aimed at easing tension in South Asia.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese officials have apologized to a Belgian journalist who was beaten while trying to report on AIDS in central Henan province and offered some compensation for damaged and stolen possessions, his television station said.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi Army patrol killed five Iraqi soldiers Friday in the northern town of Baiji, 180 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
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HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A bomb killed three U.S. soldiers in southern Afghanistan on Friday, hours after a suicide bomber killed 10 Afghan civilians and two Afghan policemen in a separate attack in the south, officials said.
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HAVANA (Reuters) - With music and dance, but absent Fidel Castro, Cuba marked on Thursday the 50th anniversary of the former leader's triumphant arrival in Havana after ousting a U.S.-backed dictator in a guerrilla uprising.
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MADRID (Reuters) - One of the heaviest snowfalls in decades closed Madrid airport and brought traffic in the Spanish capital to a standstill on Friday. Airports operator AENA said all flights were halted at Barajas airport from 11:50 a.m. (5:50 am. EST), adding to the misery of passengers already suffering weeks of delays and cancellations due to industrial action by Iberia pilots.
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali pirates took a $3 million ransom and freed on Friday a Saudi supertanker seized in the world's biggest ship hijacking, an associate of the gang said.
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PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) - The son of one of Italy's most infamous Mafia bosses was back in prison on Friday to serve the rest of his sentence for mob membership, after enjoying a year-long break thanks to a legal technicality, police said.
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COLOMBO (Reuters) - Anger over the assassination of an outspoken Sri Lankan newspaper editor grew on Friday with the opposition forcing parliament to close early and hundreds of protesters demonstrating in the capital.
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COLOMBO (Reuters) -- Sri Lankan troops on Friday handed the Tamil Tiger rebels their second major defeat in a week, capturing the strategic Elephant Pass, and are now gunning for the separatists' last stronghold, the president said.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Israel rejected a U.N. resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Friday and warplanes and tanks pounded the Palestinian enclave. |
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MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) - The European Union sought to finalize details on Friday of a gas monitoring deal to allow the resumption of gas supplies to Europe via Ukraine, which have been cut off for days over a pricing row. |
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Friday Pakistan had sent India a response to evidence from the Mumbai attacks as U.S. vice president-elect Joe Biden arrived on a trip aimed at easing tension in South Asia. |
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has requested a meeting with President Robert Mugabe in an effort to salvage a power-sharing deal, an opposition spokesman said on Friday. |
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Some prisoners held indefinitely without charge by U.S. forces in Iraq may not be freed or given trials, even though U.S. forces lost the authority to hold them at the beginning of this year, a U.S. military spokesman said. |
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MIAMI (Reuters) - The son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor was sentenced on Friday to 97 years in prison for mutilations and executions carried out in Liberia, in the first U.S. prosecution for torture committed abroad. |
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HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A bomb killed three U.S. soldiers in southern Afghanistan on Friday, hours after a suicide bomber killed 10 Afghan civilians and two Afghan policemen in a separate attack in the south, officials said. |
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali pirates freed a Saudi supertanker seized in the world's biggest ship hijacking for a $3 million ransom on Friday, an associate of the gang said. |
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HAVANA (Reuters) - With music and dance, but absent Fidel Castro, Cuba marked on Thursday the 50th anniversary of the former leader's triumphant arrival in Havana after ousting a U.S.-backed dictator in a guerrilla uprising. |
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PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) - The son of one of Italy's most infamous Mafia bosses was back in prison on Friday to serve the rest of his sentence for mob membership, after enjoying a year-long break thanks to a legal technicality, police said. |
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LIMA (Reuters) - Lori Berenson, a U.S. citizen serving a 20-year sentence in Peru for aiding leftist guerrillas, arrived in Lima on Friday after years in remote prisons to get health care during a complicated pregnancy.
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MIAMI (Reuters) - The son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor was sentenced on Friday to 97 years in prison for mutilations and executions carried out in Liberia, in the first U.S. prosecution for torture committed abroad.
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VARA BLANCA, Costa Rica (Reuters) - Rescue helicopters ferried stranded tourists on Friday from a picturesque volcanic area in Costa Rica where a strong earthquake killed around a dozen people.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Israel pressed on with a punishing Gaza offensive and Hamas sent more rocket salvoes into southern Israeli towns in a two-week-old war that continued to defy international efforts to stop it.
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VARA BLANCA, Costa Rica (Reuters) - Rescue helicopters ferried stranded tourists on Friday from a picturesque volcanic area in Costa Rica where a strong earthquake killed around 14 people.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - An ailing Singapore tycoon jailed briefly last year for trying to buy a kidney has received one in a transplant from a hanged murderer, the Straits Times newspaper reported on Saturday.
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KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President-elect Joe Biden arrived in Afghanistan on Saturday to meet political and military leaders in the war-torn country, which will become a top foreign policy priority of the new administration.
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali pirates freed a Saudi supertanker seized in the world's biggest ship hijacking for a $3 million ransom on Friday, an associate of the gang said.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has not exhausted its diplomatic options in its attempt to bring the Mumbai attack plotters to justice and would take further steps only if Pakistan does not act, India's foreign minister said on Saturday.
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MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) - The European Union will hold talks with Russia on Saturday to finalize a gas monitoring deal to allow the resumption of gas supplies to Europe via Ukraine, which have been cut off for days over a pricing row.
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Somali pirates have released an Iranian-chartered vessel which was seized off the coast of Yemen in November, Iranian media reported on Saturday.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz has arrived in Morocco after undergoing medical tests in the United States to which he will return, the Saudi state news agency SPA said late Friday.
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LIMA (Reuters) - A bus plunged 1,640 feet off an Andean mountain highway in heavy rain on Saturday, killing at least 33 people and injuring 23, police said.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened on Saturday to expel a U.S. diplomat he said may have advised opposition leaders on how win a vote on whether the leftist can run for re-election.
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MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) - Russia and the European Union signed an accord on Saturday aimed at restoring Russian gas supplies via Ukraine, whose cut-off has plunged large parts of Europe into a midwinter energy crisis.
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SAN MIGUEL, Costa Rica (Reuters) - Rescue workers dug into collapsed hillsides on Saturday searching for bodies and possible survivors two days after a strong earthquake killed 20 people.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened on Saturday to expel a U.S. diplomat he said may have advised opposition leaders on how win a vote on whether the leftist can run for re-election.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Israel and Hamas vowed to fight on on Sunday, ignoring international calls to stop the Gaza conflict which entered a 16th day with heavy clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - Japan and South Korea will likely steer clear of simmering disputes and seek closer economic ties during the Japanese premier's visit to Seoul from Sunday, as the two countries battle fallout from the global financial crisis.
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KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Less than three years after a long and bloody civil war ended, tourists are returning to Nepal and its spectacular mountain scenery in record numbers despite a global economic slowdown.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has not exhausted its diplomatic options in its attempt to bring the Mumbai attack plotters to justice, India's foreign minister said Saturday.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - A leading Saudi campaigner for political rights has been released without charge after eight months in detention, a rights activist said on Sunday.
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PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Japan gave another $21 million to Cambodia's Khmer Rouge tribunal Sunday and called on regional rival China to contribute as well despite Beijing's backing for Pol Pot's "Killing Fields" regime.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu has called on all South Africans to join his weekly fasting in protest at the humanitarian crisis in neighboring Zimbabwe, the 702 radio station reported Sunday.
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's security chief has warned foreigners that "outlaws" might target them if President Omar Hassan al-Bashir was indicted for war crimes, state media reported on Sunday.
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JAKARTA, Jan 11 (Reuters ) - An Indonesian ferry with 250 people on board has sunk in the country's east, Indonesia's transport minister told Reuters on Sunday.
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COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan troops fought toward the shrinking strongholds of the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels on Sunday, the military said, seeking a crushing battlefield victory to end one of Asia's longest insurgent ground wars.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian special forces have killed a Taliban commander involved in recruiting suicide bombers and foreign fighters in Afghanistan, Australia's Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Fighting between rival Somali Islamist groups and hardline insurgents on Washington's foreign terrorist list killed dozens of people north of the capital Mogadishu on Sunday, witnesses said.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Cardinal Pio Laghi, the Vatican peace envoy dispatched by Pope John Paul to Washington in 2003 in an effort to avert the U.S-led invasion of Iraq, died on Sunday, an assistant said. He was 85.
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KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President-elect Joe Biden met Afghan President Hamid Karzai and military leaders on Saturday in Afghanistan, which will become a top foreign policy priority of the new administration.
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SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen has freed Osama bin Laden's former driver after he served out his prison term following his return home from the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in November, his lawyer said on Sunday.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - U.N. peacekeepers in south Lebanon found suspected explosives hidden in a garbage truck in front of their base on Sunday, the peacekeeping force said in a statement.
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SUVA (Reuters) - Fiji declared a state of emergency and curfews after severe storms and flooding struck the Pacific island nation, sweeping away up to seven people and forcing thousands to evacuate homes, local media said Monday.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - Leaders of Japan and South Korea met on Monday to seek economic cooperation amid the global financial crisis and discuss regional issues such as how to move forward talks on ending Pyongyang's nuclear arms program.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli leaders trying to find a knockout blow for Hamas militants defying a 17-day-old assault on the Gaza Strip have thrown army reservists into battle.
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PARE-PARE, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesian rescue teams were desperately searching for more survivors on Monday as scores remained missing after a ferry carrying 250 passengers and 17 crew sank in stormy seas at the weekend in the country's east.
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CINCHONA, Costa Rica (Reuters) - Rescue workers with dogs were threatened by mudslides on Sunday as they searched among collapsed houses for survivors of an earthquake that killed more than 20 people in a Costa Rican town last week.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China will launch a pre-Lunar New Year crackdown on food safety, the Health Ministry said on Monday, focusing on illegal use of additives after a milk scandal last year killed at least six babies and made thousands sick.
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(Reuters) - A U.S. investigation into potential sanctions violations has expanded to involve nine European banks, the Financial Times said.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A 107-year-old Chinese woman who was afraid to marry when she was young has decided to look for her first husband and hopes to find a fellow centenarian so they will have something to talk about, a Chinese paper reported.
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SUVA (Reuters) - Fiji declared a state of emergency and curfews after severe storms and flooding struck the Pacific island nation, killing eight people and forcing thousands to evacuate homes, officials said on Monday.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A series of bomb attacks in Baghdad Monday killed at least four people and wounded nearly 20, police said.
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MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) - Russia sent a delegation to Brussels on Monday for new talks on saving a deal to restore Russian gas supplies to Europe via Ukraine, and its gas export monopoly said Ukraine had signed a new copy of the deal.
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran called on U.S. President-elect Barack Obama on Monday not to repeat what it said were false accusations leveled against the Islamic Republic by the outgoing administration in Washington.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso said on Monday he would not resign despite a series of public opinion polls showing support for him falling below 20 percent as he tries to revive the recession-hit economy.
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BLOEMFONTEIN (Reuters) - South Africa's appeals court on Monday overturned a judge's decision to dismiss graft charges against ruling ANC leader Jacob Zuma, opening the way for prosecutors to put him on trial.
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A Sudanese opposition leader on Monday called on Sudan's president to hand himself over to the International Criminal Court, saying he should take responsibility for war crimes in Darfur.
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Mohammad Khatami, who won presidential elections in 1997 and 2001 with landslides, gave the strongest signal yet on Monday that he was considering running in this year's race for the Iranian presidency.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Campaigners for the rights of black French people used a Barack Obama look-alike Monday in video clips denouncing what they say is discrimination by police who stop and search black people more than others.
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BELGRADE (Reuters) - A tax-free million euro reward is on offer to anyone helping Serbia with information leading to the arrest of its most wanted war crimes fugitive, Ratko Mladic, an official said on Monday.
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) - The final death toll in Costa Rica from a strong earthquake last week will likely rise to around 40 after an emergency official on Monday scaled back the number of people missing.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States circulated a draft Security Council resolution on Monday that would firm up a plan to deploy a U.N. peacekeeping force in war-torn Somalia to replace an existing African Union force.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - When the MBA students at India's top business schools began their studies their future was full of promise as companies tripped over each other to lure graduates.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Israel won renewed support from its key ally the United States on Monday when President George W. Bush said a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip depended on Hamas ending its rocket fire on Israeli towns.
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PARE-PARE, Indonesia (Reuters) - Driving rain on Tuesday hit the hunt for more survivors from an Indonesian ferry that sank off Sulawesi island at the weekend, with the number of survivors creeping up to 34, officials said.
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HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnamese authorities have found the H5N1 bird flu virus in a batch of chickens smuggled over the border from China, officials said on Tuesday, warning that two northern provinces remained affected.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Millions of Chinese migrant workers have begun jamming train stations to buy tickets home for the Lunar New Year break, but millions of others will be relying on scalpers to get away for the year's most important holiday.
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Ethiopian soldiers supporting Somalia's Western-backed interim government quit their main bases in Mogadishu Tuesday, witnesses said, prompting celebrations among many residents.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian state-controlled gas company, Gazprom, on Tuesday restarted pumping transit gas destined for European customers via Ukraine, a Gazprom official said.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - A reform-minded former financial minister left Japan's ruling party on Tuesday in a sign that unpopular Prime Minister Taro Aso's grip over his Liberal Democrats has weakened further, ahead of an election this year.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean officials will make a rare visit to North Korea on Thursday to check Pyongyang's progress in keeping to an international disarmament deal, in a trip that comes weeks after the North clamped down on its border.
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has arrested four Iranians accused of involvement in a U.S.-financed plot aimed at toppling its Islamic system of government, the judiciary said Tuesday.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Britain's Foreign Secretary said on Tuesday that he believed the Pakistan state did not direct the Mumbai attacks, contradicting accusations from the Indian government that state agencies were involved.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President-elect Joe Biden met Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad on Tuesday during a trip to discuss the future presence of 140,000 U.S. troops.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic has killed 1,937 people and a total of 38,334 have contracted the normally preventable disease, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
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DAKAR (Reuters) - Communications specialists from Africa's armies and the United States are working out how units from different countries can talk to each other as part of a future continental peacekeeping standby force.
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SUDZHA, Russia (Reuters) - Russia started pumping gas meant for Europe via Ukraine on Tuesday for the first time in nearly a week, but the European Union said little or no gas was flowing to countries suffering urgent energy shortages. |
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GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces pushed closer to the heart of the city of Gaza on Tuesday and Israel's top general said "there is still work ahead" against Hamas in a devastating 18-day-old offensive. |
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Britain's foreign minister said on Tuesday he believed the Pakistan state did not direct the Mumbai attacks, contradicting accusations from the Indian government that state agencies were involved. |
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President-elect Joe Biden met Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad on Tuesday to discuss withdrawing U.S. troops, seen as a major challenge for the incoming U.S. administration. |
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DAKAR (Reuters) - Communications specialists from Africa's armies and the United States are working out how units from different countries can talk to each other as part of a future continental peacekeeping standby force. |
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TOKYO (Reuters) - A reform-minded former cabinet minister quit Japan's ruling party on Tuesday in a sign that unpopular Prime Minister Taro Aso's grip over his Liberal Democrats has weakened further ahead of an election this year. |
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Ethiopian troops supporting Somalia's Western-backed government quit four of their main bases in Mogadishu Tuesday, heralding an uncertain new chapter for the anarchic Horn of Africa nation. |
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic has killed more than 2,000 people and almost 40,000 have contracted the normally preventable disease in Africa's worst outbreak in nearly a decade, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday. |
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean officials will make a rare visit to North Korea on Thursday to check Pyongyang's progress in sticking to an international nuclear disarmament deal, officials in Seoul said. |
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PARE-PARE, Indonesia (Reuters) - Scores of passengers on an Indonesian ferry that sunk at the weekend were not on the manifest, an official said on Tuesday, compounding confusion over the number of missing as bad weather hampered search efforts. |
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Tuesday that 61 former detainees from its military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, appear to have returned to terrorism since their release from custody.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mexican President Felipe Calderon left the door open on Tuesday to discussion of possible changes in the North American Free Trade Agreement a day after talks with U.S. President-elect Barack Obama.
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BUNIA, Congo (Reuters) - Ugandan rebels have killed more than 500 people in northeast Congo since September, and the violence has multiplied since a Ugandan-led offensive tried to flush them out of the bush, U.N. officials said Tuesday.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish chemical tanker hijacked off the coast of Yemen last year has been released by its Somali hijackers, a source from the company which owns the ship said on Tuesday.
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RIGA (Reuters) - Hundreds of youths destroyed police vehicles, smashed windows and looted stores in Latvia's capital Tuesday when an anti-government protest turned into a riot.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran poses a significant threat to the long-term stability of Iraq and continues to support violent Shi'ite militias opposed to the Baghdad government, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.
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ROME (Reuters) - A leading Italian rabbi Tuesday accused Pope Benedict of wiping out 50 years of progress in Catholic-Jewish dialogue and announced that Italian Jews will boycott an annual Church celebration of Judaism.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Israel's senior general said more work lay ahead in the 18-day offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday and Israeli tanks and troops edged closer to the heart of the city of Gaza.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's leftist president, Hugo Chavez, may have a tough time convincing voters to pass a referendum next month that would allow him to run for re-election, two polls show.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Tuesday that 61 former detainees from its military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, appear to have returned to terrorism since their release from custody. |
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mexican President Felipe Calderon left the door open on Tuesday to discussion of possible changes in the North American Free Trade Agreement a day after talks with U.S. President-elect Barack Obama. |
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BUNIA, Congo (Reuters) - Ugandan rebels have killed more than 500 people in northeast Congo since September, and the violence has multiplied since a Ugandan-led offensive tried to flush them out of the bush, U.N. officials said Tuesday. |
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish chemical tanker hijacked off the coast of Yemen last year has been released by its Somali hijackers, a source from the company which owns the ship said on Tuesday. |
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Until the financial crisis hit, Shahin Kerimov sent money home from his job in Russia to his family in Azerbaijan. Now his wages have stopped, they have to wire him cash to buy food.
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ROME (Reuters) - A leading Italian rabbi Tuesday accused Pope Benedict of wiping out 50 years of progress in Catholic-Jewish dialogue and announced that Italian Jews will boycott an annual Church celebration of Judaism.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mexican President Felipe Calderon said on Tuesday he was willing to look at U.S. concerns over trade but denied he had discussed renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement with U.S. President-elect Barack Obama.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police have broken up a motorcycle gang which snatched toddlers while they were playing or sleeping to sell for as little as $125 in faraway provinces, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Few Somalis expressed hope for the future Wednesday after Ethiopian troops quit bases in Mogadishu and Islamist insurgents said they would launch more attacks.
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CHAMAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan reopened a supply route for Western forces in Afghanistan Wednesday after protesters angry about military searches for militants lifted a blockade, a government official said.
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MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) - Russia and Ukraine face another day of sparring over gas supplies on Wednesday and two European Union states launched fresh diplomacy to end a dispute that has left their economies without Russian gas for one week.
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PARE-PARE, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesian disaster investigators are focusing on the weather as the cause of a weekend ferry sinking, an official said, as desperate relatives of the missing chartered boats on Wednesday to join the search.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Pakistan has deployed additional troops along the border with India since the Mumbai attacks, but India has not responded in a similar manner, the Indian army chief said on Wednesday.
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Fidel Castro's absence from the 50th anniversary of the Cuban revolution and a prolonged halt to his output of newspaper columns have raised concerns that the health of the 82-year-old former leader may be declining.
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's army said on Wednesday it had bombed rebel positions in Darfur, a rare admission of air attacks in the western region.
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MALBORK, Poland (Reuters) - Polish authorities have unearthed the remains of 1,800 bodies and expect to find even more in a mass grave first discovered three months ago and believed to date back to the final days of World War Two.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO said on Wednesday it had further tightened its rules of engagement in Afghanistan to cut civilian casualties but accused the Taliban of causing the vast majority of the hundreds of civilian deaths seen last year.
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MIAMI (Reuters) - The fate of former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was placed in the hands of a U.S. appeals court on Wednesday, as he fought another round to avoid extradition on money laundering charges in France.
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TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexican teenagers as young as 15 are killing rivals for a few hundred dollars in a brutal drug war on the U.S. border that is increasingly sucking in young people.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece launched a major rescue operation in the Aegean on Wednesday to save 53 illegal migrants whose ship was endangered by rough seas.
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese security agents arrested an influential opposition leader late on Wednesday, his family said, two days after he called on Sudan's president to hand himself into the International Criminal Court.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden called on Muslims to rise in a jihad (holy struggle) against the Israeli offensive in Gaza and accused Arab leaders of collusion with Israel, in an audio tape issued on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The incoming Barack Obama administration should be ready for early challenges from North Korea as it tries to test Obama and sunder the six-party talks over the North's nuclear ambitions, President George W. Bush's top Asia adviser said on Wednesday.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Ceasefire negotiations intensified on Wednesday as Israeli forces kept up the pressure on Hamas Islamists in the Gaza Strip, where the Palestinian death toll rose above 1,000 after 19 days of air and ground attacks.
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese security agents arrested an influential opposition leader late Wednesday, his family said, two days after he called on Sudan's president to hand himself into the International Criminal Court.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - The commander of a U.N. peacekeeping force urged Lebanon and Israel to exercise restraint after at least three rockets were fired into northern Israel from Lebanon on Wednesday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband called Thursday for a rethink of the strategy against terrorism, saying the notion of a "war on terror" was misleading and mistaken.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden called on Muslims to rise in a jihad (holy struggle) against the Israeli offensive in Gaza and accused Arab leaders of collusion with Israel, in an audio tape issued on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The incoming Barack Obama administration should be ready for early challenges from North Korea as it tries to test Obama and sunder the six-party talks over the North's nuclear ambitions, President George W. Bush's top Asia adviser said on Wednesday.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Bouncing a small boy on her knee and listening attentively to residents' complaints, Capt. Pricilla de Oliveira Azevedo is the new face of policing in Rio de Janeiro.
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NADOR, Morocco (Reuters) - Slimane Betmaki smiles at the memory of the terror he inflicted on Spanish villagers on behalf of former dictator Francisco Franco.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean nuclear envoys were set for a rare visit to North Korea Thursday aimed at advancing sputtering disarmament talks, days after it issued tough terms for ending its atomic ambitions.
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Ethiopian forces supporting Somalia's interim government withdrew completely from Mogadishu Thursday, witnesses and a local government official said.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Three Red Cross workers, including an Italian and a Swiss national, were kidnapped on Thursday by suspected Muslim rebels on a southern Philippine island, officials said.
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KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistani police arrested more than a dozen Islamist militants in the southern city of Karachi Thursday after a fierce gunbattle following a pre-dawn raid on their hideout, officials said.
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MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) - European states saw little prospect of renewed gas supplies from Russia on Thursday, although Moscow and Kiev said they were ready to meet for further talks aimed at resolving the stand-off.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan said Thursday that security forces had closed five training camps run by Lashkar-e-Taiba, the group blamed for the Mumbai attacks, and arrested 124 of its leaders and those of a related Islamic charity.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said it completed a troop pullout from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip Wednesday, starting its relationship with U.S. President Barack Obama by quitting Palestinian land devastated by its 22-day offensive.
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