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Israeli aircraft attacked more than 50 targets in Gaza on Friday believed to be terrorist sites, according to the Israel Defense Forces. |
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Gas should start flowing again through the Ukraine from Russia immediately after a deal was reached for EU monitors to supervise the system, the EU says. |
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Vice President-elect Joe Biden and Sen. Lindsay Graham arrived in Islamabad Friday afternoon for scheduled talks with senior Pakistani government officials on a variety of regional issues, according to a U.S. Embassy spokesman. |
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Fighting in northern Sri Lanka between government and rebel forces escalated on several fronts Friday, while Tamil Tiger rebels killed seven people in a roadside bombing. |
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Ssangyong Motor Co., South Korea's fifth largest automaker, filed for bankruptcy Friday, citing the company's worsening finances. |
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A suspected Colombian drug boss was shot dead Thursday in a hospital in Madrid, CNN sister station CNN+ reported, citing police sources. |
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Britain's accident prone "Octopus UFO" is just one of hundreds of unexplained sightings in the same area where a wind turbine was wrecked over the weekend, according to the latest reports. |
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Gunmen shot and killed a food monitor for the United Nations' World Food Program on Thursday, the second killing of a WFP humanitarian worker in Somalia in three days, a spokesman for the agency said Thursday. |
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A Zimbabwe court ruled Friday that seven activists, including a freelance journalist, must remain in custody as they await trial for a series of bombings. |
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Pirates holding a Saudi-owned supertanker off the coast of Somalia have set the vessel free, according to Andrew Mwangura of the Kenya Seafarers Association. |
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Fourteen people have died and another 22 are missing after a 6.2-magnitude earthquake Thursday in north central Costa Rica, officials said Friday. |
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Three explosions rocked Pakistan's second largest city Friday, according to Lahore police. |
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The Israeli military says it carried out air attacks on 40 targets in Gaza and killed 15 Hamas fighters in battles overnight and Saturday morning. |
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Vice President-elect Joe Biden and Sen. Lindsey Graham arrived in Kabul on Saturday for meetings with U.S. military commanders and Afghan leaders, a U.S. military spokesman said. |
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Pirates holding a Saudi-owned oil supertanker off the coast of Somalia have set the vessel free after receiving a ransom payment, a piracy monitor in neighboring Kenya said Saturday. |
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Zimbabwe's central bank will introduce a $50 billion note -- enough to buy just two loaves of bread -- as a way of fighting cash shortages amid spiraling inflation. |
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Thirty-two people were killed and 25 others injured when a bus skidded off a rain-slicked mountain road and tumbled into a ravine in northern Peru early Saturday, a transit police spokesman told CNN. |
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Seventeen people have been killed and 30 wounded in clashes between Sunni and Shia groups in villages in the Hangu District in northwest Pakistan, police said Saturday. |
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Slavery may seem like a quaint notion in a 21st century world, but that distinction is lost on up to 40,000 Brazilians who find themselves toiling for no real wages and can't leave the distant work camps where they live. |
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Gu Gu is not your typical soft and cuddly giant panda. |
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The number of people killed and missing following last week's earthquake in Costa Rica continued to climb, government officials said. |
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Videos purportedly shot by Britain's Prince Harry and including offensive language prompted an official apology Saturday from the prince and the royal family. |
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Hundreds of militants, believed to be foreign fighters, launched attacks on various military check posts in Pakistan's border with Afghanistan Saturday night and early Sunday morning, military officials said. |
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As Israeli soldiers moved further into Gaza City amid heavy shelling Sunday morning, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told his Cabinet that his country was close to reaching the goals of its military offensive in Gaza but "further patience is needed." |
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Zimbabwe's main opposition party has asked organizations such as the United Nations to help find 11 supporters who were allegedly abducted by government agents, a party spokesman said. |
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President Bush rejected several Israeli requests last year for weapons and permission for a potential airstrike inside Iran, the author of an investigative report told CNN. |
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An outspoken Saudi human rights advocate who was imprisoned without charge for nearly eight months was freed this weekend, according to a fellow human rights activist. |
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A militia killed a ranger in a Democratic Republic of Congo park where authorities are trying to protect endangered gorillas threatened by civil war, the park said. |
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A British Royal Marine was killed Sunday in southern Afghanistan when an explosion struck his patrol in Helmand province, the Ministry of Defense said. |
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A Nigerian militant group released pictures Sunday of two Britons identified as captive oil workers, saying the men were "alive and well" and that more such Western workers would be taken hostage if the country does not stop exporting its oil wealth. |
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Serbian authorities have put up wanted posters for war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic at police stations across the country in their search for the highest-ranking figure from the Bosnia-Herzegovina conflict to remain at large, according to Serbian media reports. |
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Rescue crews continued their search for 246 people still missing on Monday, a day after their ferry capsized off the coast of Indonesia. |
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Just as millions of Europeans struggling through cold winter temperatures thought a resolution had been reached in the Russia-Ukraine natural gas standoff, Russia said it will not proceed on a deal. |
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Australian commandos have killed a Taliban chief blamed for numerous attacks on coalition troops in southern Afghanistan, including one that killed an Australian soldier last week, the country's defense ministry announced. |
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Stocks of Satyam Computer Services Ltd., the Hyderabad-based company at the center of a massive corporate fraud case, surged Monday on news the new government-appointed board will pick a new chief operating officer. |
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Israeli aircraft and troops continued their assault on Gaza, despite an Israeli official's assessment that the two-week-old military operation might be in its final days. Nearly 900 people in Gaza and 13 Israelis have died since the conflict began on December 27. |
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Chinese authorities have arrested 60 people in connection with the country's tainted milk scandal that killed six infants and sickened nearly 300,000 more, state media reported. |
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Hope were rising Monday that Europe's natural gas supplies could return to normal after Russia's Gazprom said Ukraine had re-signed a deal on monitoring deliveries through its territories. |
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Taliban militants have shot dead two men in Pakistan's ungoverned tribal region, dumping their bodies in a village Monday with a note saying they were spies for the United States. |
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A Nepalese journalist who reported on women's rights and wrote several articles criticizing the dowry system was hacked to death in her room, a media rights group said Monday. |
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Australia opened an inquiry Monday into its worst ever naval disaster in a bid to discover exactly what happened. |
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It sounds far too good to be true: a salary of more than $100,000, a free home on a palm-fringed island and all the snorkeling you can be bothered with. |
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The mountain gorillas in a national park in Congo appear to be hanging on well despite such dangers as civil warfare and poaching, according to an ongoing census. |
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Vice President-elect Joe Biden on Monday met with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani in Baghdad, the president's office confirmed. |
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Colleagues and bloggers are praising a park ranger shot dead last week in Congo's Virunga National Park as a brave and committed protector of gorillas. |
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President-elect Barack Obama plans to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay as early as his first week in office to show a break from the Bush administration's approach to the war on terror, according to two officials close to the transition. |
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Rob Gauntlett's life was cut short at the age of 21 during a mountain expedition in France last weekend, but the young Briton is being remembered as a legend by his colleagues and friends. |
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One of the pirates who held a Saudi-owned oil supertanker off the coast of Somalia before releasing it for ransom over the weekend told CNN how four in his group drowned in an operation gone wrong. |
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A string of bombings around Iraq's capital has killed eight people, including three Iraqi soldiers who died when their weapons truck was hit, and wounded at least 32, the country's Interior Ministry said. |
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The rumble of artillery fire and the roar of ensuing explosions continued to roll through Gaza early Tuesday despite pronouncements by an Israeli official earlier that the military operation may be in its final days. |
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One of the pirates who held a Saudi-owned oil supertanker off the coast of Somalia before releasing it for ransom over the weekend told CNN how five in his group drowned in an operation gone wrong. |
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A string of bombings around Iraq's capital has killed eight people, including three Iraqi soldiers who died when their weapons truck was hit, and wounded at least 32, the country's Interior Ministry said. |
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Rob Gauntlett's life was cut short at the age of 21 during a mountain expedition in France last weekend, but the young Briton is being remembered as a legend by his colleagues and friends. |
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President-elect Barack Obama plans to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay as early as his first week in office to show a break from the Bush administration's approach to the war on terror, according to two officials close to the transition. |
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Russia signed an agreement Monday to restore gas supplies to Europe after Ukraine dropped conditions that had angered Moscow. |
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Vice President-elect Joe Biden on Monday met with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani in Baghdad, the president's office confirmed. |
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Colleagues and bloggers are praising a park ranger shot dead last week in Congo's Virunga National Park as a brave and committed protector of gorillas. |
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Russia has started pumping natural gas to Europe again through Ukrainian pipelines, a week after the gas flow was interrupted. |
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The rumble of artillery fire and the roar of ensuing explosions continued to roll through Gaza early Tuesday despite pronouncements by an Israeli official earlier that the military operation may be in its final days. |
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Iranian authorities said Tuesday they arrested four citizens who were paid by the U.S. government to bring about a regime change. |
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South Korea has said it will send a delegation of nuclear experts to North Korea this week to survey its unused nuclear fuel rods and possibly buy them. |
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Officials say two men in Iran have been stoned to death for adultery and murder, while another escaped death only by digging his way out of the hole where he was buried to face a similar fate, according to media reports. |
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A former militia leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo will go on trial later this month, charged with drafting children to fight for his militia's military wing. It will be the first trial held by the International Criminal Court. |
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Deaths in Zimbabwe related to the cholera epidemic are approaching 2,000, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, and close to 40,000 people have been affected by the preventable water-borne disease. |
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Ethiopian forces propping up Somalia's transitional government have begun their withdrawal from the country, pulling out of two key bases in Mogadishu, eyewitnesses and officials said Tuesday. |
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Oil profits and poverty have mixed in Nigeria to deadly effect where multinational companies collide with locals living on less than $1 a day. CNN's Christian Purefoy visits the town of Rumuekpe where some locals have taken up arms, while others look for different solutions. |
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Two guerrillas fled their camp Tuesday deep in the forests of southern Colombia with two kidnap victims that they used in exchange for their freedom, a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense said Tuesday. |
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Somalia-based pirates on Tuesday released a Turkish-flagged ship carrying 4,500 tons of chemicals that was seized two months ago off Yemen's coast, the International Maritime Bureau told CNN. |
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Chilean inspectors stumbled upon hundreds of exotic animals from Peru destined for illegal trade while conducting what they thought was going to be a routine inspection of a fishing boat, the government said Tuesday. |
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Spain's National Court opened an official investigation into 14 former military officers in El Salvador accused of killing six priests, their housekeeper and her daughter in November 1989. |
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Dozens of suspected terrorists released by the United States from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are believed to have returned to terrorism activities, according to the Pentagon. |
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China surpassed the United States in 2008 as the world's top user of the Internet, according to a government-backed research group. |
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Fares increased by as much as 25 percent on mass transit in the Argentine capital, sparking a round of grumbling among some straphangers about the cost and paucity of coins necessary for city bus rides. |
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Three rockets fell on Israel from Lebanon for the second time in a week, striking open fields, Israeli police said Wednesday. Meanwhile, sporadic fighting continued as Israeli troops pushed into Gaza City and international efforts to end the conflict ramped up. |
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Police in southern New Zealand nabbed a would-be burglar after they posted security camera images of him trying to break into a safe on the popular social networking site, Facebook. |
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A top Zimbabwean human rights activist facing charges of recruiting people for insurgency training and terrorist bombings is a "threat to society" and must remain in custody, the country's attorney general said. |
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Frustrated European Union leaders lashed out Wednesday at the Russian and Ukrainian energy companies whose dispute over natural gas has stopped supplies to Europe for the past week. |
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Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has apparently released an audio message regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza. |
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Bolivia broke diplomatic relations with Israel over the Israeli incursion into Gaza, President Evo Morales said Wednesday. Morales also said his government will ask that Israeli President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert be declared war criminals. |
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Iran poses a significant threat to Iraq, but security has greatly improved in the war-ravaged country, according to a Pentagon report. |
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Iranian authorities arrested a woman Wednesday who worked as a secretary for two human rights groups funded by Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi. |
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From the noisy and lovable Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to the time-traveling DeLorean in "Back to the Future," flying cars have been a fixture of movies and science fiction that never quite cut it in the real world -- until now. |
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Police Wednesday arrested the suspected head of an Italian mafia murder squad following a two-day manhunt after he eluded police by crawling through sewer pipes, according to Italian media reports. |
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Bulgaria is a Turkish toilet, France is always on strike, Romania is a vampire theme-park and the UK... Well the UK doesn't exist. |
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The 90-year-old woman sits with her walker on a bed on a pile of rubble -- all that is left of her home. All around her are families in the same wasteland, their homes demolished by a city looking to clean up but with nowhere to rehouse residents. "It's like we were picked up and thrown away," said another homeless mom. |
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Egypt, which has hosted peace talks with leaders from Israel and the Palestinian Authority and has acted as an intermediary between Hamas and Israel, wants to hold a summit in Kuwait on Sunday, the eve of previously scheduled Arab economic summit there. |
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A man who his attorney says was the youngest prisoner sent to the Guantanamo Bay detention center -- captured in Pakistan at 14 -- was ordered freed by a federal judge Wednesday. |
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Men on motorcycles with machine-guns abducted three workers of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the southern Philippines Thursday morning, officials said. |
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For the first time, a senior Bush administration official has publicly described a detainee's treatment at the U.S. Navy Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as torture, according to a published report. |
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China has become the world's third-largest economy, surpassing Germany and closing rapidly on Japan, according to government and World Bank figures. |
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Israeli troops have completed their withdrawal from Gaza after a three-week military campaign against Hamas militants, the Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday. |
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In one of his first acts in office, President Obama has ordered the U.S. government to suspend prosecutions of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay for 120 days, a military spokesman said Tuesday. |
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Washington awoke Tuesday crowded and excited with the inauguration of a new president that's only a few hours away. |
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Kumi Naidoo has only just decided what he'll eat for breakfast. It's an important decision; it will be his last meal in 21 days. |
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BHP Billiton, the world's largest mining company, said Wednesday it will cut about 6,000 jobs due to the deteriorating outlook in the global nickel market. |
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Hours after meeting cycling champion and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced his government would devote about $3.8 million in new funding to cancer research. |
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Russian energy giant Gazprom resumed pumping natural gas to Europe via Ukraine on Tuesday, a Gazprom spokesman told CNN. |
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Singapore's economy is likely to shrink in 2009 more than the government had forecast earlier this month, according to the Ministry of Trade and Industry. |
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Israeli troops have completed their withdrawal from Gaza after a three-week military campaign against Hamas militants, the Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday. |
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In one of his first acts in office, President Obama has ordered the U.S. government to suspend prosecutions of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay for 120 days, a military spokesman said Tuesday. |
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Washington awoke Tuesday crowded and excited with the inauguration of a new president that's only a few hours away. |
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Kumi Naidoo has only just decided what he'll eat for breakfast. It's an important decision; it will be his last meal in 21 days. |
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BHP Billiton, the world's largest mining company, said Wednesday it will cut about 6,000 jobs due to the deteriorating outlook in the global nickel market. |
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Hours after meeting cycling champion and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced his government would devote about $3.8 million in new funding to cancer research. |
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Russian energy giant Gazprom resumed pumping natural gas to Europe via Ukraine on Tuesday, a Gazprom spokesman told CNN. |
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Singapore's economy is likely to shrink in 2009 more than the government had forecast earlier this month, according to the Ministry of Trade and Industry. |
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In one of his first acts in office, President Obama has ordered the U.S. government to suspend prosecutions of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay for 120 days, a military spokesman said Tuesday. |
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Israeli troops have completed their withdrawal from Gaza after a three-week military campaign against Hamas militants, the Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday. |
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Kumi Naidoo has only just decided what he'll eat for breakfast. It's an important decision; it will be his last meal in 21 days. |
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Asian markets dropped Wednesday, following the cue of their Western counterparts a day earlier. |
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BHP Billiton, the world's largest mining company, said Wednesday it will cut about 6,000 jobs due to the deteriorating outlook in the global nickel market. |
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Hours after meeting cycling champion and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced his government would devote about $3.8 million in new funding to cancer research. |
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Russian energy giant Gazprom resumed pumping natural gas to Europe via Ukraine on Tuesday, a Gazprom spokesman told CNN. |
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Singapore's economy is likely to shrink in 2009 more than the government had forecast earlier this month, according to the Ministry of Trade and Industry. |
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In one of his first acts in office, President Obama has ordered the U.S. government to suspend prosecutions of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay for 120 days, a military spokesman said Tuesday. |
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Israeli troops have completed their withdrawal from Gaza after a three-week military campaign against Hamas militants, the Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday. |
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Kumi Naidoo has only just decided what he'll eat for breakfast. It's an important decision; it will be his last meal in 21 days. |
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Asian markets dropped Wednesday, following the cue of their Western counterparts a day earlier. |
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BHP Billiton, the world's largest mining company, said Wednesday it will cut about 6,000 jobs due to the deteriorating outlook in the global nickel market. |
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Hours after meeting cycling champion and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced his government would devote about $3.8 million in new funding to cancer research. |
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Russian energy giant Gazprom resumed pumping natural gas to Europe via Ukraine on Tuesday, a Gazprom spokesman told CNN. |
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Singapore's economy is likely to shrink in 2009 more than the government had forecast earlier this month, according to the Ministry of Trade and Industry. |
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In one of his first acts in office, President Obama has ordered the U.S. government to suspend prosecutions of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay for 120 days, a military spokesman said Tuesday. |
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Israeli troops have completed their withdrawal from Gaza after a three-week military campaign against Hamas militants, the Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday. |
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Kumi Naidoo has only just decided what he'll eat for breakfast. It's an important decision; it will be his last meal in 21 days. |
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Asian markets dropped Wednesday, following the cue of their Western counterparts a day earlier. |
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BHP Billiton, the world's largest mining company, said Wednesday it will cut about 6,000 jobs due to the deteriorating outlook in the global nickel market. |
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Hours after meeting cycling champion and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced his government would devote about $3.8 million in new funding to cancer research. |
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Russian energy giant Gazprom resumed pumping natural gas to Europe via Ukraine on Tuesday, a Gazprom spokesman told CNN. |
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Singapore's economy is likely to shrink in 2009 more than the government had forecast earlier this month, according to the Ministry of Trade and Industry. |
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In one of his first acts in office, President Obama has ordered the U.S. government to suspend prosecutions of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay for 120 days, a military spokesman said Tuesday. |
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Israeli troops have completed their withdrawal from Gaza after a three-week military campaign against Hamas militants, the Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday. |
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Kumi Naidoo has only just decided what he'll eat for breakfast. It's an important decision; it will be his last meal in 21 days. |
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Asian markets dropped Wednesday, following the cue of their Western counterparts a day earlier. |
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BHP Billiton, the world's largest mining company, said Wednesday it will cut about 6,000 jobs due to the deteriorating outlook in the global nickel market. |
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Hours after meeting cycling champion and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced his government would devote about $3.8 million in new funding to cancer research. |
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Russian energy giant Gazprom resumed pumping natural gas to Europe via Ukraine on Tuesday, a Gazprom spokesman told CNN. |
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Singapore's economy is likely to shrink in 2009 more than the government had forecast earlier this month, according to the Ministry of Trade and Industry. |
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In one of his first acts in office, President Obama has ordered the U.S. government to suspend prosecutions of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay for 120 days, a military spokesman said Tuesday. |
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Israeli troops have completed their withdrawal from Gaza after a three-week military campaign against Hamas militants, the Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday. |
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Kumi Naidoo has only just decided what he'll eat for breakfast. It's an important decision; it will be his last meal in 21 days. |
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Asian markets dropped Wednesday, following the cue of their Western counterparts a day earlier. |
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BHP Billiton, the world's largest mining company, said Wednesday it will cut about 6,000 jobs due to the deteriorating outlook in the global nickel market. |
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Hours after meeting cycling champion and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced his government would devote about $3.8 million in new funding to cancer research. |
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Russian energy giant Gazprom resumed pumping natural gas to Europe via Ukraine on Tuesday, a Gazprom spokesman told CNN. |
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Singapore's economy is likely to shrink in 2009 more than the government had forecast earlier this month, according to the Ministry of Trade and Industry. |
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In one of his first acts in office, President Obama has ordered the U.S. government to suspend prosecutions of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay for 120 days, a military spokesman said Tuesday. |
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Israeli troops have completed their withdrawal from Gaza after a three-week military campaign against Hamas militants, the Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday. |
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Kumi Naidoo has only just decided what he'll eat for breakfast. It's an important decision; it will be his last meal in 21 days. |
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Asian markets dropped Wednesday, following the cue of their Western counterparts a day earlier. |
