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Nepal's interim Prime Minister, Girija Prasad Koirala, has announced that he has resigned.
Correspondents say the move paves the way for the former rebel leader, Prachanda, who heads the Maoist party, to succeed Mr Koirala.
The Maoists emerged as the..
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unmadeinchina.org
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The terrible history of a small chinese village were are an ecologic disaster, many victims among the popolation...
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www.4burma.org
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The ruling junta refused the international help, and the ships were forced to came back...
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BBC News
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Three men have been charged over the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, investigators have said.
Politkovskaya, a prominent Kremlin critic, was shot dead outside her home in the capital on 7 October 2006.
Russia's Investigative Committ..
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BBC News
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One of Turkey's best known singers, Bulent Ersoy, has gone on trial charged with attempting to turn the public against military service.
The charges were brought after she suggested it was not worth sacrificing soldiers' lives in Turkey's conflict with t..
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SF Gate
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At least 80 percent of the habitat for giant pandas in China's earthquake-hit province was destroyed or damaged, a forestry official said Tuesday.
China's May 12 temblor centered in Sichuan devastated a vast area of wild habitat for endangered species,..
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BBC News
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An armed man has taken four people hostage in the city hall in the Dutch city of Almelo, about 150km (100 miles) east of Amsterdam, reports say.
A city council member and three others were reported to be among those being held by the owner of a restaur..
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BBC News
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Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin has said it is "far too early" to seek a solution to the Irish rejection of a European Union reform treaty.
He spoke ahead of talks by EU foreign ministers on how to respond to the Irish No vote on the Lisbon Treat..
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SF Gate
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Massive flooding across a broad stretch of southern China killed almost 60 people and forced 1.3 million others from their homes, state media reported Monday.
People were forced to flee their homes across nine provinces, including Sichuan, still reelin..
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SF Gate
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The top U.S. and South Korean trade envoys broke off talks without resolving a crisis over the resumption of American beef shipments that has shaken South Korea's pro-U.S. government.
South Korean Trade Minister Kim Jong-hoon, who flew into Washington..
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BBC News
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Japan is to partially lift sanctions against North Korea after it agreed to conduct a new probe into the issue of abducted Japanese nationals.
Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura said a ban on charter flights and travel between the two sides would be lift..
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BBC News
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US President George W Bush has been afforded a special audience with Pope Benedict XVI, on his final official visit to meet the pontiff.
The president spoke with the Pope in the medieval St John's Tower, a venue reserved for illustrious guests, before..
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BBC News
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Thousands of Pakistani lawyers and supporters are heading to Islamabad to demand the government reinstate judges fired by President Musharraf last year.
Crowds along the route cheered the motorcade of several hundred vehicles, which is due to arrive la..
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BBC News
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Two children in Spain have been admitted to a mental health institution to be treated for addiction to their mobile phones, Spanish media report.
The children, aged 12 and 13, were sent to the clinic by their parents, who said they could not carry out..
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BBC News
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Irish Justice Minister Dermot Ahern says substantial vote tallies across the country show the European Union Lisbon reform treaty has been rejected.
Tallies are not official, but Mr Ahern says it is clear the No vote is ahead in a vast majority of cons..
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MSNBC
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Anti-EU activists optimistic
And anti-EU activists expressed growing confidence they would triumph when official results are declared Friday afternoon.
"People felt a convincing case for the treaty had not been made, and they felt hectored and bulli..
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BBC News
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China and Taiwan have agreed to establish offices in each other's territory to facilitate travel amid warming bilateral ties.
The agreement came as delegations from both sides met in Beijing for the first formal talks for almost a decade.
They are a..
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BBC News
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People in the Irish Republic are voting in a referendum on whether to ratify the European Union reform treaty, in a poll anxiously watched across the EU.
All other 26 member states have left the issue to their parliaments, but Ireland is obliged to hol..
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SF Gate
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The British government says a senior intelligence official in the Cabinet office has been suspended after secret government documents were left on a commuter train.
The documents on al-Qaida and Iraq were found by a passenger on a London commuter train..
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