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Israeli warplanes continued bombing Gaza into the night Friday after the U.N. called for an immediate end to the fighting between Israel and Hamas militants. |
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A CIA missile strike on New Year's Day in northern Pakistan has killed two top Al Qaeda terrorists, FOX News has learned. |
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A new international naval force under American command will soon begin patrols to confront escalating attacks by Somali pirates after more than 100 ships came under siege in the past year, the U.S. Navy said Thursday. |
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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the European Union of moving too slowly to help negotiate an end to the gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine, as a deal to dispatch EU pipeline monitors appeared to unravel Thursday. |
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A strong earthquake shook Costa Rica on Thursday, killing a child and sending frightened residents running into the streets of the capital as windows shattered and walls cracked. |
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Hundreds of passengers on a Swiss-owned cruise ship were stricken with severe vomiting and diarrhea caused by a mysterious ailment, Brazilian health officials said. |
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Gu Gu the panda has struck again, mauling someone who jumped a barrier to retrieve a child's toy, in his third attack on a visitor at the Beijing zoo. |
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An eccentric loner in Britain hoarded so much trash he had to burrow through it to get around his home then got lost in the maze of tunnels Friday and died of thirst. |
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A British man suspected of sexually abusing a teen fell to his death while trying to run from a group of five vigilantes, a prosecutor said Thursday. |
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Manchester United star Cristiano Ronaldo escaped injury Thursday after crashing his sports car in a tunnel on the way to training. |
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Pakistan fired the national security adviser hours after Indian media quoted him as saying the surviving Mumbai attacker was Pakistani. |
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Two top leaders of a polygamous community in western Canada have been arrested and charged with practicing polygamy, British Columbia's attorney general said Wednesday. |
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The country that gave the world chewing gum is getting gummed up: The average square yard of Mexico City sidewalk has 70 blobs of discarded chew. |
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The chairman of an Indian technology giant resigned Wednesday just weeks after the World Bank admitted, in the wake of a series of stories by FOX News, that it had banned his firm as a vendor last February for improper financial dealings. |
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The attorney for Nazi hit man Heinrich Boere says a German court has ruled that his client is medically unfit for trial. |
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Dominican authorities have deported nearly 500 Haitians who sought refuge at a church to avoid being repatriated. |
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Turkey's police detained dozens in simultaneous raids, widening a probe into an alleged plot by secularists to overthrow the Islamic-rooted government. |
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A young Papua New Guinea woman was burned to death in what authorities fear is the latest witchcraft killing in the remote and lawless interior of the country. |
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Some villages try to beat the credit crisis by printing do-it-yourself community currencies. |
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Masked gunmen opened fire, tossed a grenade at a Mexican television station as it aired its nightly newscast, leaving behind a message warning the station about its coverage of drug gangs. |
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Turkey was holding a suspicious shipment bound for Venezuela from Iran because it contained lab equipment capable of producing explosives, a customs official said Tuesday. |
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The EU says its officials have arrived in Kiev on a mission to help restore Russian natural gas supplies to Europe. |
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A negotiator for Somali pirates says they have released an oil-laden Saudi supertanker that was hijacked Nov. 15 in the Indian Ocean. |
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A trio of Canadian adventurers said Friday they have set a new record for fastest trek across Antarctica to the South Pole, after suffering through whiteout conditions, temperatures as low as minus 40 and a steady diet of deep-fried bacon and butter. |
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American troops in Iraq will be allowed to drink beer without fear of court-martial for this year's Super Bowl an exception to a strict military ban on drinking alcohol in combat zones. |
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A Colombian drug baron was assassinated in his hospital bed in Madrid Thursday night by a professional hitman. |
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A Budapest school security guard is them main suspect in a double murder at the school he worked. |
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Masked youths clashed with police in central Athens Friday in the first major test of the Greek government's vow to crack down on violent protesters after nationwide riots last month. |
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A Post Office worker was shot dead Friday in England and his father seriously injured during an armed robbery at their village post office by three balaclava-clad men. |
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A pair of suspected burglars was caught, carrying their loot, by London police officers who followed footprints they had unwittingly left in the snow. |
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A plan to create a new foothold in Gaza for the Palestinian Authority and to bring in international monitors was being drawn up by diplomats Friday as a U.N. cease-fire call was dismissed by both sides, the Times of London reports. |
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Parts of the 14-page code require that reports be balanced and unbiased and prohibit media from falsifying or misrepresenting information. |
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Israel will step up its offensive on the Gaza Strip, and dropped leaflets there Saturday warning residents of its plan. |
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A pirate and a port town resident say five Somali pirates who released a Saudi supertanker have drowned with their share of a reported $3 million ransom after their small boat capsized. |
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Sydney couple Steve and Leigh Buttel claim unwanted guests including maggots in their wedding bed and bedroom invasions by bats turned their wedding into a bride's worst nightmare. |
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While Russia and Ukraine find new ways to disagree about restoring gas supplies to Europe mothers and their newborn infants shiver as they crowd into the one maternity ward left with any heat in the main hospital in Sofia, Bulgaria. |
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A 56-year-old Canadian man is charged with attempting to smuggle into Australia 22 pounds of cocaine, with a street value of $2.45 million, using forklift batteries. |
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Israel pounded rocket sites and tunnels Saturday while its planes dropped leaflets warning of an escalation, and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas predicted a 'waterfall of blood' unless all parties adhere to the U.N.'s cease-fire. |
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Israeli troops battled Palestinian gunmen in a suburb of Gaza City Sunday in one of the fiercest ground battles so far as Israel's military inched toward Gaza's population centers and residents braced for an expansion of the offensive. |
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President Hugo Chavez said Saturday he may expel a top U.S. Embassy official for allegedly plotting against his government from Puerto Rico. |
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Indian police arrested the chief financial officer of embattled outsourcing giant Satyam Computer Services Ltd. on Saturday, the third executive to be charged in a massive fraud scandal that threatens to roil India's flourishing tech industry. |
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EU monitors are deploying to gas pumping stations across Ukraine as Russia prepares to resume gas supplies to Europe. |
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At least 40 militants were killed and scores of others wounded as security forces repulsed an attack by about 600 fighters in northwestern Pakistan. |
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Teams of EU monitors deployed Sunday at natural gas transit sites along Ukraine's vast pipeline network, but still no gas flowed to a freezing Europe. |
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The Iraqi military says a senior insurgent commander accused of several bombings and assassinations has been captured in Baghdad. |
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An Indonesian passenger ferry sank in a storm with about 250 passengers and 17 crew onboard after being struck by seven-foot waves, officials said. |
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Security forces used tear gas and batons to repel anti-Israel protesters who tried to attack a U.S. consulate in Pakistan on Sunday. |
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The body of a Somali pirate who drowned just after receiving a huge ransom washed onshore with $153,000 in cash, a resident said Sunday, as the spokesman for another group of pirates promised to soon free a Ukrainian arms ship. |
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Britain's Prince Harry is coming under criticism from lawmakers, Muslim groups and the Pakistani public for video footage of him using offensive and racist language. |
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Police in central China seized a man suspected of killing eight people, including a 2-year-old boy who was slain with an ax, state media reported Sunday. |
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Israeli warplanes pounded the homes of Hamas leaders as ground troops crept closer to the Gaza Strip's densely-populated urban center Monday. |
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Russian gas supplies to Europe are expected to be restarted at 2 a.m. EST Tuesday. |
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French prosecutors say the trial of Continental Airlines and five people over the 2000 crash of a Concorde jet that killed 113 people will begin outside Paris next February. |
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Usama bin Laden's former driver has been released from a Yemeni prison after serving out his sentence, according to his lawyer. |
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Large waves and heavy rain slowed the search for about 250 people missing and feared dead in a ferry accident. |
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A snorkeler was bitten by a shark, a day after two surfers were attacked in separate incidents across Australia. |
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A married couple has spoken of their shock after being turned down to adopt on the grounds that one of them is too fat. |
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Construction workers have unearthed a World War II-era mass grave containing what are believed to be the remains of 1,800 German men, women and children near Poland's border with Germany, authorities said. |
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Militias under the command of a former Congolese vice president rampaged through Central Africa Republic raping hundreds of women and men, war crimes prosecutors alleged. |
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The American State Department is arranging the evacuation of about 150 Americans and their family members trapped in Gaza. |
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Islamic insurgents fired mortar rounds on the presidential palace in Mogadishu. |
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The World Bank allowed the U.N. to enter into a $6 million deal with a corrupt company even after it had banned the Indian tech firm from doing business with the Bank. |
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As investigators start sifting through the financial implosion of Satyam Computer Services what experts are calling 'India's Enron' some of the most uncomfortable questions can only be answered inside the marble fortress of the World Bank. |
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One of Italy's most-wanted mafia fugitives eluded capture Monday by climbing through a trap door and into the sewer as police closed in on his hideout in southern Italy, authorities said. |
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President Dmitry Medvedev allowed viewers to post comments on his video blog for the first time and received harsh feedback. |
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A rescue team guided by a survivor was dispatched into stormy Indonesian seas in search of dozens of people said to be still drifting alive after a ferry capsized with more than 250 on board, officials said. |
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A top Ukrainian official says Russia is trying hard to discredit Ukraine by sending natural gas intended for Europe on a technically impossible transit route over Ukraine's vast pipeline system. |
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Somali pirates have freed a Japanese-operated bulk carrier with 21 Filipino crewmen they seized in October, the third ship to be released in a week, Philippine officials said Tuesday. |
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An Australian state has launched a global search for candidates for "the best job in the world" earning a top salary for lazing around a beautiful tropical island for six months. |
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North Korea said Tuesday it will hold onto its nuclear arsenal until it is satisfied the U.S. is not hiding atomic weapons in South Korea. |
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Iran's foreign minister has called on all countries to cut diplomatic ties with Israel to show their support for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. |
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Two men convicted of adultery were stoned to death in northeastern Iran last month but a third convicted man managed to escape, Iran's judiciary spokesman said Tuesday. |
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An armed robber was killed by a waiter in a 'Kill Bill' style stabbing during an attempted raid on a Paris sushi restaurant.
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Iran says four Iranians have been tried on charges of seeking to topple the Islamic establishment, allegedly with the backing of the U.S. State Department and the CIA.
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An explosion ripped though a southern Russian government building, killing at least seven people and injuring more than 20.
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An Australian school owner has defended his failure to warn his class that a large shark was swimming close to teenagers on a popular New South Wales beach.
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An international physicians' group said that corruption is killing Zimbabweans and that President Robert Mugabe should be investigated for possible crimes against humanity.
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Pope Bendict XVI is launching new guidelines for those who claim the Virgin Mary has appeared to them, in an attempt to end false sightings around the globe, the U.K.s Daily Mail newspaper reported.
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Cats were eating rare birds on remote island, but getting rid of them just let the rabbits eat all the plants.
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A man doused himself with gasoline and set himself alight to protest the violence in the Gaza strip, a state-run news agency reported.
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German firefighters lost all their engines for a second time after their station burned to the ground in a fire they are believed to have set themselves, the Austrian Times reported.
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Maverick priest Fr. Peter Kennedy says he will lead a breakaway congregation if Brisbane's catholic Archbishop forces him to leave St. Mary's Church.
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Israel's chief negotiator will go to Egypt for 'decisive' talks on a cease-fire with Hamas, officials said Tuesday, as the sound of battles between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants rang out in the crowded streets of Gaza City.
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The ruling party's likely contender for Brazil's presidency in 2010 is putting a new face forward literally, according to local news reports.
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Israel's chief negotiator will go to Egypt for 'decisive' talks on a cease-fire with Hamas, officials said Tuesday, as the sound of battles between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants rang out in the crowded streets of Gaza City.
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Militants in Lebanon sent rockets crashing into northern Israel on Wednesday, while Israeli aircraft pounded a Gaza cemetery, Hamas weapons positions and tunnels used for smuggling, witnesses and the military said Wednesday.
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A recent string of shark attacks across Australia has rattled swimmers' nerves, but experts say fear not it's (relatively) safe to go in the water.
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A pan-Arab newspaper quotes Saudi Arabia's most senior Muslim cleric as saying it is OK for 10-year-old girls to marry.
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The leaders of several gas-starved European nations traveled to Ukraine and Russia on Wednesday, pressing them to restore supplies as the EU threatened both with legal action for halting energy deliveries in the midst of winter.
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Czech artist David Cerny admits $500,000 art project supposedly containing 27 art entries from around Europe to celebrate the Czech Republics presidency of the EU was a hoax.
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Pakistan's prime minister has downplayed the significance of an Indian dossier on the Mumbai attacks, saying it only contained information and "not evidence," state media reported.
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The U.N. agency that administers a school in Gaza where dozens of civilians were killed by Israeli mortar fire has admitted to employing terrorists to work at its Palestinian schools.
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The developer of a skyscraper slated to soar nearly two-thirds of a mile above Dubai says work on the project has been halted for a year because of market conditions.
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The United States' use of the phrase "war on terror" may have backfired, Britain's foreign secretary said Thursday.
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Venezuelan lawmakers on Wednesday approved amendments to the constitution that would allow President Hugo Chavez to run for re-election indefinitely, the final step before the proposal goes before voters in a referendum.
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The decision by President Hugo Chavez's socialist government comes about a week after it expelled the Israeli ambassador in Caracas and seven embassy staff members to protest the Jewish state's actions in Gaza.
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A U.S. Joint Forces Command report says Pakistan and Mexico could collapse under a worst-case scenario.
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A Mafia fugitive who narrowly eluded arrest this week by fleeing though a small town's sewer system was captured Wednesday as he scrambled across a rooftop in another daring escape bid, police said.
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An American student accused of killing her British roommate in Italy is taking legal action to block a book about her sex life on the grounds it will influence her murder trial this week.
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Iran has signed a $1.76 billion deal with China to develop the North Azadegan oil field in southwestern Iran near the Iraq border, the country's official news agency reported.
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A German chain of coffee shops has stopped an ad campaign that featured an ancient slogan co-opted by the Nazis for use on the gate to the Buchenwald concentration camp.
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People in Duisburg, Germany, and across the world, are angry after police admitted to removing an Israeli flag that hanging in a student's window during a pro-Palestinian protest, Spiegel Online reported.
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Latvia's president said Wednesday authorities have lost touch with voters in the Baltic state, after demonstrators fought street battles with police in the capital city Riga.
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A military defense lawyer says prosecutors are seeking to suspend all war crimes trials until they get more guidance from President Obama's administration after a military judge adjourned the Guantanamo Bay war crimes court on Tuesday.
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A pair of explosions struck separate convoys in Baghdad, killing five Iraqi civilians and wounding two American soldiers.
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An Al Qaeda affiliate in Algeria closed a base earlier this month after an experiment with unconventional weapons went awry, a senior U.S. intelligence official said Monday.
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Police used tear gas, plastic bullets and a water cannon on Tuesday to break up a protest by university students against President Hugo Chavez's attempt to eliminate term limits.
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Saddam Hussein's luxury yacht will be towed from Greece to a port in southern Iraq after the resolution of a legal dispute over its ownership, the Iraqi government said Tuesday.
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The U.N. chief inspected the devastation in Gaza on Tuesday, leading a moment of silence at the smoldering U.N. headquarters, as the territory's militant Hamas rulers held victory rallies amid the ruins.
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Iraq's vice president on Tuesday accused the prime minister of grabbing power in the south and obstructing efforts to rebuild there after years of war, allegations that intensified the campaign to decentralize the government.
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The U.S. Embassy in Abu Dhabi has announced that its consulate in the neighboring city of Dubai will be closed Wednesday due to security information provided by authorities.
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Walter Egger never had much luck with lotteries. That all changed Tuesday, when he won the raffle of a luxury villa worth more than $1 million in Austria's southern province of Carinthia.
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A British man discovered wedged in a chimney naked was sentenced to two months in prison on charges of attempted burglary, the Telegraph reported on Tuesday.
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Russian natural gas began flowing into Europe on Tuesday after a nearly two-week cutoff that left large parts of the continent shivering and underscored its vulnerability and dependence on Russia's energy.
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Hundreds of people rallied in the Chechen capital Tuesday to protest the slaying of a lawyer who opposed the early release of a Russian army officer convicted of strangling an 18-year-old Chechen woman.
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Google, Holy See firm up deal to give pope, church officials in Rome their own section on video-sharing site.
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More than 1,500 Rwandan troops crossed the border into eastern Congo on Tuesday to join Congolese forces in an effort to oust Hutu rebels who participated in Rwanda's genocide and have long been at the heart of the region's conflict, officials said.
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A German woman missing for 12 years and recently discovered in a Swiss forest was asked Tuesday by authorities to leave the umbrella-and-tarpaulin shelter she has made her home for the last year.
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Two thousand years of Peru-based Supe civilization wiped out by double blow of huge quake, flooding.
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A convicted killer has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the grisly murder of his brother, whom he skinned and hacked up before scattering his remains along a highway.
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Across Kenya, neighbors engulfed in political violence only a year ago came together Tuesday to celebrate the U.S. presidential inauguration of Kenya's favorite son, Barack Obama.
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While much of the world celebrated the arrival of the new American president on Tuesday, some regions saw angry protests.
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Suspected Taliban militants killed six alleged U.S. spies in a lawless region of northwest Pakistan where U.S. missile attacks have targeted al-Qaida hideouts, police said Tuesday.
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The Afghan government has sent NATO headquarters a draft agreement that would give Afghanistan more control over future NATO deployments in the country including the deployment of some U.S. troops, officials said Tuesday.
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Two Burmese men who were lost at sea for 25 days after a fishing boat they were in sank off the southeast coast of Indonesia were found alive, floating in an oversized icebox.
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A military defense lawyer says prosecutors are seeking to suspend all war crimes trials until they get more guidance from President Obama's administration after a military judge adjourned the Guantanamo Bay war crimes court on Tuesday.
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A pair of explosions struck separate convoys in Baghdad, killing five Iraqi civilians and wounding two American soldiers.
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An Al Qaeda affiliate in Algeria closed a base earlier this month after an experiment with unconventional weapons went awry, a senior U.S. intelligence official said Monday.
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Police used tear gas, plastic bullets and a water cannon on Tuesday to break up a protest by university students against President Hugo Chavez's attempt to eliminate term limits.
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Saddam Hussein's luxury yacht will be towed from Greece to a port in southern Iraq after the resolution of a legal dispute over its ownership, the Iraqi government said Tuesday.
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The U.N. chief inspected the devastation in Gaza on Tuesday, leading a moment of silence at the smoldering U.N. headquarters, as the territory's militant Hamas rulers held victory rallies amid the ruins.
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Iraq's vice president on Tuesday accused the prime minister of grabbing power in the south and obstructing efforts to rebuild there after years of war, allegations that intensified the campaign to decentralize the government.
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The U.S. Embassy in Abu Dhabi has announced that its consulate in the neighboring city of Dubai will be closed Wednesday due to security information provided by authorities.
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Walter Egger never had much luck with lotteries. That all changed Tuesday, when he won the raffle of a luxury villa worth more than $1 million in Austria's southern province of Carinthia.
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A British man discovered wedged in a chimney naked was sentenced to two months in prison on charges of attempted burglary, the Telegraph reported on Tuesday.
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Russian natural gas began flowing into Europe on Tuesday after a nearly two-week cutoff that left large parts of the continent shivering and underscored its vulnerability and dependence on Russia's energy.
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Hundreds of people rallied in the Chechen capital Tuesday to protest the slaying of a lawyer who opposed the early release of a Russian army officer convicted of strangling an 18-year-old Chechen woman.
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Google, Holy See firm up deal to give pope, church officials in Rome their own section on video-sharing site.
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More than 1,500 Rwandan troops crossed the border into eastern Congo on Tuesday to join Congolese forces in an effort to oust Hutu rebels who participated in Rwanda's genocide and have long been at the heart of the region's conflict, officials said.
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A German woman missing for 12 years and recently discovered in a Swiss forest was asked Tuesday by authorities to leave the umbrella-and-tarpaulin shelter she has made her home for the last year.
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Two thousand years of Peru-based Supe civilization wiped out by double blow of huge quake, flooding.
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A convicted killer has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the grisly murder of his brother, whom he skinned and hacked up before scattering his remains along a highway.
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Across Kenya, neighbors engulfed in political violence only a year ago came together Tuesday to celebrate the U.S. presidential inauguration of Kenya's favorite son, Barack Obama.
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While much of the world celebrated the arrival of the new American president on Tuesday, some regions saw angry protests.
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Suspected Taliban militants killed six alleged U.S. spies in a lawless region of northwest Pakistan where U.S. missile attacks have targeted al-Qaida hideouts, police said Tuesday.
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The Afghan government has sent NATO headquarters a draft agreement that would give Afghanistan more control over future NATO deployments in the country including the deployment of some U.S. troops, officials said Tuesday.
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Two Burmese men who were lost at sea for 25 days after a fishing boat they were in sank off the southeast coast of Indonesia were found alive, floating in an oversized icebox.
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A military defense lawyer says prosecutors are seeking to suspend all war crimes trials until they get more guidance from President Obama's administration after a military judge adjourned the Guantanamo Bay war crimes court on Tuesday.
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A pair of explosions struck separate convoys in Baghdad, killing five Iraqi civilians and wounding two American soldiers.
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An Al Qaeda affiliate in Algeria closed a base earlier this month after an experiment with unconventional weapons went awry, a senior U.S. intelligence official said Monday.
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