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Two top al Qaeda terrorists have been killed in a U.S. missile strike on a building in northern Pakistan on New Year's Day, according to two senior U.S. officials. |
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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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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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A suicide bomb attack in southwestern Afghanistan killed 10 people, including a local police chief, at a fruit market Friday morning, according to the provincial governor. |
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Fuel pumps across India ran dry Friday as a strike by workers at state-run oil companies entered a third day. |
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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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India's main stock exchange -- the BSE SENSEX -- delisted Satyam Computer Services from its indices Thursday, a day after the company's chairman resigned saying he had inflated the company's profits for years. |
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Electronic components maker TDK Corp. said Thursday it will slash 8,000 jobs worldwide and shut down four of its plants as it readies to post its biggest annual net income loss. |
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Two coalition soldiers and three Afghan civilians were killed in southern Afghanistan Thursday in a suicide attack, the NATO-led military force in Afghanistan said. |
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A woman in rural Papua New Guinea was bound and gagged, tied to a log and set ablaze on a pile of tires this week, possibly because villagers suspected her of being a witch, police said Thursday. |
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Police have told CNN that there have been several blasts in Lahore, Pakistan's second biggest city. |
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Gu Gu, a panda at the Beijing Zoo, has tasted the flesh of an unwitting intruder to his pen for the third time. Zhang Jiao, 28, told CNN he fell into the panda pen earlier this week while trying to catch a small toy thrown by his young son. |
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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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Indian forces gunned down two suspected insurgents Saturday in Assam, killing one of them, a day after a bomb explosion in the remote northeastern state, the federal home ministry said. |
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Separatist rebels bombed an electricity transmission tower in the southern Philippines on Saturday, according to military spokesperson Lt. Stefani Cacho. |
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Facing intense government pressure, Indian oil workers agree to call off a three-day strike and go back to work, the Oil and Petroleum Ministry announces. |
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The chief financial officer of India's Satyam Computer Services Ltd. was arrested Saturday, the third person taken into custody in a scandal that began when the company's chairman admitted inflating profits with "fictitious" assets and non-existent cash. |
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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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A rescue operation is underway in eastern Indonesia on Sunday after a passenger ferry capsized with about 250 people on board, the rescue chief told CNN. |
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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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It is not your normal Afghan battlefield, but it is one the whole country is watching. |
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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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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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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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A Singapore lawmaker was in intensive care Monday after a man set him on fire at a community event, a hospital official told CNN. |
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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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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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The U.S. State Department on Monday said that sanctions will be placed on 13 people and three companies "for their involvement in the A.Q. Khan nuclear proliferation network." |
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A U.N. official said Monday that the global economic crisis is hurting efforts to clear land mines in Afghanistan, one of the world's most heavily mined countries. |
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Japan's current account surplus, a leading gauge of international trade, dropped 66 percent in November from the year before, a sharp decline reflecting the global economic slump, the government announced Tuesday. |
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Tokyo's Nikkei tumbled nearly 5 percent Tuesday after new government figures showed a dramatic decline in Japan's international trade amid a global financial slowdown and slow demand for Japanese goods. |
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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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The body of journalist Uma Singh, pictured, who was hacked to death in southeastern Nepal, has been cremated as protests continue against her killing. |
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A brand of imported pet food is being pulled off store shelves in China after reports of dogs being sickened by it, a company official said Tuesday. |
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China's exports declined for the second straight month in December, a byproduct of the global economic crisis, Chinese state media reported Tuesday. |
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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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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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Three former wartime allies were reunited at the White House for one last time when President George W. Bush awarded America's top civilian honor to the former prime ministers of Britain and Australia. |
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Hanso Devi moved to New Delhi from Rajasthan with just one hope -- to make a better life for herself and her family. |
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A worker was severely injured Wednesday when a bomb, believed to be left over from World War II, went off at a construction site in Okinawa, police said. |
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Asian markets tumbled Thursday after a sell-off on Wall Street, with the Nikkei slumping more than 5 percent in afternoon trading after Japan's finance ministry reported a record drop in November machinery orders. |
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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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Asian markets tumbled Thursday after a sell-off on Wall Street, with the Nikkei closing 4.9 percent lower after Japan's Cabinet office reported a record drop in November machinery orders, another sign of the ongoing recession. |
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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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In one of his first acts in office, U.S. President Barack Obama orders the U.S. government to suspend prosecutions of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay for 120 days, a military spokesman says. |
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Thailand's Senate will investigate allegations that the country's military abused Muslim refugees fleeing Myanmar, a leading senator said, in the latest of several probes into the issue. |
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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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Asian markets dropped Wednesday, following the cue of their Western counterparts a day earlier. |
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China has recorded its third bird flu death of 2009 after a 16-year-old boy died in central China on Tuesday. The Ministry of Health says that although further infections were possible, there wouldn't be a large-scale outbreak, media reported. |
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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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Lawmakers in Tibet have approved March 28 as a day to mark the freeing of serfs in the troubled region, a move that a Dalai Lama representative said Tuesday did not address problems facing the area "realistically and seriously." |
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The Taliban claimed responsibility for a roadside bomb that killed at least two police officers in Kandahar Tuesday, while coalition troops said they killed 22 militants, including two Taliban commanders, in raids elsewhere. |
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Japan's top automaker Toyota reshuffled its leadership Tuesday after posting its first loss as as public company, with Akio Toyoda, the grandson of the company's founder, becoming president. |
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An Australian author was sentenced Monday to three years in prison in Thailand after falling foul of a Thai law that makes it a crime to insult the country's royal family. |
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In one of his first acts in office, U.S. President Barack Obama orders the U.S. government to suspend prosecutions of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay for 120 days, a military spokesman says. |
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Thailand's Senate will investigate allegations that the country's military abused Muslim refugees fleeing Myanmar, a leading senator said, in the latest of several probes into the issue. |
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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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Asian markets dropped Wednesday, following the cue of their Western counterparts a day earlier. |
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China has recorded its third bird flu death of 2009 after a 16-year-old boy died in central China on Tuesday. The Ministry of Health says that although further infections were possible, there wouldn't be a large-scale outbreak, media reported. |
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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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Lawmakers in Tibet have approved March 28 as a day to mark the freeing of serfs in the troubled region, a move that a Dalai Lama representative said Tuesday did not address problems facing the area "realistically and seriously." |
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The Taliban claimed responsibility for a roadside bomb that killed at least two police officers in Kandahar Tuesday, while coalition troops said they killed 22 militants, including two Taliban commanders, in raids elsewhere. |
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Japan's top automaker Toyota reshuffled its leadership Tuesday after posting its first loss as as public company, with Akio Toyoda, the grandson of the company's founder, becoming president. |
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An Australian author was sentenced Monday to three years in prison in Thailand after falling foul of a Thai law that makes it a crime to insult the country's royal family. |
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In one of his first acts in office, U.S. President Barack Obama orders the U.S. government to suspend prosecutions of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay for 120 days, a military spokesman says. |
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Thailand's Senate will investigate allegations that the country's military abused Muslim refugees fleeing Myanmar, a leading senator said, in the latest of several probes into the issue. |
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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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Asian markets dropped Wednesday, following the cue of their Western counterparts a day earlier. |
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China has recorded its third bird flu death of 2009 after a 16-year-old boy died in central China on Tuesday. The Ministry of Health says that although further infections were possible, there wouldn't be a large-scale outbreak, media reported. |
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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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Lawmakers in Tibet have approved March 28 as a day to mark the freeing of serfs in the troubled region, a move that a Dalai Lama representative said Tuesday did not address problems facing the area "realistically and seriously." |
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The Taliban claimed responsibility for a roadside bomb that killed at least two police officers in Kandahar Tuesday, while coalition troops said they killed 22 militants, including two Taliban commanders, in raids elsewhere. |
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Japan's top automaker Toyota reshuffled its leadership Tuesday after posting its first loss as as public company, with Akio Toyoda, the grandson of the company's founder, becoming president. |
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An Australian author was sentenced Monday to three years in prison in Thailand after falling foul of a Thai law that makes it a crime to insult the country's royal family. |
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In one of his first acts in office, U.S. President Barack Obama orders the U.S. government to suspend prosecutions of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay for 120 days, a military spokesman says. |
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Thailand's Senate will investigate allegations that the country's military abused Muslim refugees fleeing Myanmar, a leading senator said, in the latest of several probes into the issue. |
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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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Asian markets dropped Wednesday, following the cue of their Western counterparts a day earlier. |
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China has recorded its third bird flu death of 2009 after a 16-year-old boy died in central China on Tuesday. The Ministry of Health says that although further infections were possible, there wouldn't be a large-scale outbreak, media reported. |
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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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Lawmakers in Tibet have approved March 28 as a day to mark the freeing of serfs in the troubled region, a move that a Dalai Lama representative said Tuesday did not address problems facing the area "realistically and seriously." |
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The Taliban claimed responsibility for a roadside bomb that killed at least two police officers in Kandahar Tuesday, while coalition troops said they killed 22 militants, including two Taliban commanders, in raids elsewhere. |
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Japan's top automaker Toyota reshuffled its leadership Tuesday after posting its first loss as as public company, with Akio Toyoda, the grandson of the company's founder, becoming president. |
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An Australian author was sentenced Monday to three years in prison in Thailand after falling foul of a Thai law that makes it a crime to insult the country's royal family. |
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In one of his first acts in office, U.S. President Barack Obama orders the U.S. government to suspend prosecutions of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay for 120 days, a military spokesman says. |
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Thailand's Senate will investigate allegations that the country's military abused Muslim refugees fleeing Myanmar, a leading senator said, in the latest of several probes into the issue. |
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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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Asian markets dropped Wednesday, following the cue of their Western counterparts a day earlier. |
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China has recorded its third bird flu death of 2009 after a 16-year-old boy died in central China on Tuesday. The Ministry of Health says that although further infections were possible, there wouldn't be a large-scale outbreak, media reported. |
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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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Lawmakers in Tibet have approved March 28 as a day to mark the freeing of serfs in the troubled region, a move that a Dalai Lama representative said Tuesday did not address problems facing the area "realistically and seriously." |
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The Taliban claimed responsibility for a roadside bomb that killed at least two police officers in Kandahar Tuesday, while coalition troops said they killed 22 militants, including two Taliban commanders, in raids elsewhere. |
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Japan's top automaker Toyota reshuffled its leadership Tuesday after posting its first loss as as public company, with Akio Toyoda, the grandson of the company's founder, becoming president. |
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An Australian author was sentenced Monday to three years in prison in Thailand after falling foul of a Thai law that makes it a crime to insult the country's royal family. |
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In one of his first acts in office, U.S. President Barack Obama orders the U.S. government to suspend prosecutions of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay for 120 days, a military spokesman says. |
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Thailand's Senate will investigate allegations that the country's military abused Muslim refugees fleeing Myanmar, a leading senator said, in the latest of several probes into the issue. |
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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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Asian markets dropped Wednesday, following the cue of their Western counterparts a day earlier. |
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China has recorded its third bird flu death of 2009 after a 16-year-old boy died in central China on Tuesday. The Ministry of Health says that although further infections were possible, there wouldn't be a large-scale outbreak, media reported. |
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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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Lawmakers in Tibet have approved March 28 as a day to mark the freeing of serfs in the troubled region, a move that a Dalai Lama representative said Tuesday did not address problems facing the area "realistically and seriously." |
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The Taliban claimed responsibility for a roadside bomb that killed at least two police officers in Kandahar Tuesday, while coalition troops said they killed 22 militants, including two Taliban commanders, in raids elsewhere. |
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Japan's top automaker Toyota reshuffled its leadership Tuesday after posting its first loss as as public company, with Akio Toyoda, the grandson of the company's founder, becoming president. |
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An Australian author was sentenced Monday to three years in prison in Thailand after falling foul of a Thai law that makes it a crime to insult the country's royal family. |
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In one of his first acts in office, U.S. President Barack Obama orders the U.S. government to suspend prosecutions of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay for 120 days, a military spokesman says. |
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Thailand's Senate will investigate allegations that the country's military abused Muslim refugees fleeing Myanmar, a leading senator said, in the latest of several probes into the issue. |
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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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Asian markets dropped Wednesday, following the cue of their Western counterparts a day earlier. |
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China has recorded its third bird flu death of 2009 after a 16-year-old boy died in central China on Tuesday. The Ministry of Health says that although further infections were possible, there wouldn't be a large-scale outbreak, media reported. |
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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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Lawmakers in Tibet have approved March 28 as a day to mark the freeing of serfs in the troubled region, a move that a Dalai Lama representative said Tuesday did not address problems facing the area "realistically and seriously." |
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The Taliban claimed responsibility for a roadside bomb that killed at least two police officers in Kandahar Tuesday, while coalition troops said they killed 22 militants, including two Taliban commanders, in raids elsewhere. |
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Japan's top automaker Toyota reshuffled its leadership Tuesday after posting its first loss as as public company, with Akio Toyoda, the grandson of the company's founder, becoming president. |
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An Australian author was sentenced Monday to three years in prison in Thailand after falling foul of a Thai law that makes it a crime to insult the country's royal family. |
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In one of his first acts in office, U.S. President Barack Obama orders the U.S. government to suspend prosecutions of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay for 120 days, a military spokesman says. |
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Thailand's Senate will investigate allegations that the country's military abused Muslim refugees fleeing Myanmar, a leading senator said, in the latest of several probes into the issue. |
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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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Asian markets dropped Wednesday, following the cue of their Western counterparts a day earlier. |
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China has recorded its third bird flu death of 2009 after a 16-year-old boy died in central China on Tuesday. The Ministry of Health says that although further infections were possible, there wouldn't be a large-scale outbreak, media reported. |
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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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Lawmakers in Tibet have approved March 28 as a day to mark the freeing of serfs in the troubled region, a move that a Dalai Lama representative said Tuesday did not address problems facing the area "realistically and seriously." |
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The Taliban claimed responsibility for a roadside bomb that killed at least two police officers in Kandahar Tuesday, while coalition troops said they killed 22 militants, including two Taliban commanders, in raids elsewhere. |
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Japan's top automaker Toyota reshuffled its leadership Tuesday after posting its first loss as as public company, with Akio Toyoda, the grandson of the company's founder, becoming president. |
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An Australian author was sentenced Monday to three years in prison in Thailand after falling foul of a Thai law that makes it a crime to insult the country's royal family. |
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In one of his first acts in office, U.S. President Barack Obama orders the U.S. government to suspend prosecutions of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay for 120 days, a military spokesman says. |
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Thailand's Senate will investigate allegations that the country's military abused Muslim refugees fleeing Myanmar, a leading senator said, in the latest of several probes into the issue. |
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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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Asian markets dropped Wednesday, following the cue of their Western counterparts a day earlier. |
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China has recorded its third bird flu death of 2009 after a 16-year-old boy died in central China on Tuesday. The Ministry of Health says that although further infections were possible, there wouldn't be a large-scale outbreak, media reported. |
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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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Lawmakers in Tibet have approved March 28 as a day to mark the freeing of serfs in the troubled region, a move that a Dalai Lama representative said Tuesday did not address problems facing the area "realistically and seriously." |
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The Taliban claimed responsibility for a roadside bomb that killed at least two police officers in Kandahar Tuesday, while coalition troops said they killed 22 militants, including two Taliban commanders, in raids elsewhere. |
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Japan's top automaker Toyota reshuffled its leadership Tuesday after posting its first loss as as public company, with Akio Toyoda, the grandson of the company's founder, becoming president. |
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An Australian author was sentenced Monday to three years in prison in Thailand after falling foul of a Thai law that makes it a crime to insult the country's royal family. |
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In one of his first acts in office, U.S. President Barack Obama orders the U.S. government to suspend prosecutions of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay for 120 days, a military spokesman says. |
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Thailand's Senate will investigate allegations that the country's military abused Muslim refugees fleeing Myanmar, a leading senator said, in the latest of several probes into the issue. |
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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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Asian markets dropped Wednesday, following the cue of their Western counterparts a day earlier. |
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China has recorded its third bird flu death of 2009 after a 16-year-old boy died in central China on Tuesday. The Ministry of Health says that although further infections were possible, there wouldn't be a large-scale outbreak, media reported. |
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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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Lawmakers in Tibet have approved March 28 as a day to mark the freeing of serfs in the troubled region, a move that a Dalai Lama representative said Tuesday did not address problems facing the area "realistically and seriously." |
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The Taliban claimed responsibility for a roadside bomb that killed at least two police officers in Kandahar Tuesday, while coalition troops said they killed 22 militants, including two Taliban commanders, in raids elsewhere. |
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Japan's top automaker Toyota reshuffled its leadership Tuesday after posting its first loss as as public company, with Akio Toyoda, the grandson of the company's founder, becoming president. |
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An Australian author was sentenced Monday to three years in prison in Thailand after falling foul of a Thai law that makes it a crime to insult the country's royal family. |
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In one of his first acts in office, U.S. President Barack Obama orders the U.S. government to suspend prosecutions of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay for 120 days, a military spokesman says. |
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Thailand's Senate will investigate allegations that the country's military abused Muslim refugees fleeing Myanmar, a leading senator said, in the latest of several probes into the issue. |
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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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Asian markets dropped Wednesday, following the cue of their Western counterparts a day earlier. |
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China has recorded its third bird flu death of 2009 after a 16-year-old boy died in central China on Tuesday. The Ministry of Health says that although further infections were possible, there wouldn't be a large-scale outbreak, media reported. |
