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BBC News
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A group of Liberian women refugees who have held naked protests by the roadside are to be deported from Ghana, a minister has told the BBC.
Hundreds of the women were arrested on Monday and taken away from a refugee camp in 10 buses, witnesses say...
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BBC News
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Pakistan's former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, will stand for parliament in a by-election, a party spokesman says.
Mr Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-N party is currently in negotiations over joining a coalition government.
His party won the second..
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SF Gate
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Rebel soldiers shot and critically wounded East Timor's president and opened fire on the prime minister Monday in a failed coup attempt in the recently independent nation. A top rebel leader was killed during one of the attacks.
President Jose Ramos-Ho..
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CNN
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Assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was laid to rest alongside her father in her ancestral home of Garhi-Khuda Baksh after a chaotic funeral procession and scenes of violence in Pakistan on Friday. Hundreds of thousands of people in the surr..
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SF Gate
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A suicide bomber blew himself up Tuesday at a checkpoint near the offices of two prominent lawmakers, including a former prime minister. The attack killed two guards.
The lawmakers, former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and Sunni politician Saleh Mutlaq, w..
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CNN
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Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan rejected reports of an apparent cease-fire offer from Kurdish separatists Tuesday after arriving in Baghdad for talks with Iraqi leaders aimed at defusing tensions along the countries' shared border. Babacan was respon..
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USA Today
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A U.N. envoy met with Burma's top leader and his deputies Tuesday in a bid to end the country's political crisis, as the junta's foreign minister defended a deadly crackdown on democracy advocates that provoked global revulsion.
Ibrahim Gambari, the U...
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Bloomberg
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A U.S. military strike on Iran would have ``catastrophic consequences,'' Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Losyukov said.
``Bomb attacks on Iran would be a wrong move leading to catastrophic consequences,'' Losyukov said in an interview with ne..
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USA Today
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday warned against the use of force in Iran and against unilateral sanctions to punish Tehran for its nuclear program.
"We are convinced that no modern problem has a military solution, and that applies to t..
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USA Today
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Iraq's prime minister lashed out at American criticism, saying Wednesday that no one has a right to put timetables on his elected government.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki blamed the U.S. presidential campaign for the recent tough words from the Bush..
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BBC News
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French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has arrived in the Iraqi capital Baghdad for a visit at the invitation of the country's president.
The visit marks the first time a French minister has been to Iraq since it opposed the US-led invasion in 2003...
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USA Today
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Turkey's prime minister, a devout Muslim, has said he has no intention of changing the secular, pro-Western orientation that was laid down by national founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in 1923.
Now Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who won a new mandate..
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BBC News
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The battle against the terror threat posed to the UK could last for 15 years, the new security minister has told the Sunday Telegraph.
Former navy chief Admiral Sir Alan West said the UK was fighting a "disparate core" of people, primarily based abroad..
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BBC News
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More than 30 senior officials from the Palestinian militant group Hamas have been detained by Israeli forces in overnight raids in the West Bank.
Those taken, mainly in Nablus, include the Palestinian education minister, three lawmakers and three mayor..
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FOX News
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Israeli airstrikes targeted Hamas for a fifth straight day Saturday, hitting a rocket squad and two workshops in Gaza, and the defense minister warned militants who attack Israel they should be "very afraid."
But Defense Minister Amir Peretz also said..
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CNN
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An Egyptian-brokered truce ended within hours early Monday when shooting resumed between rival Hamas and Fatah militias, leaving two gunmen dead and 10 others wounded, Palestinian security sources said. Violence between the factions left four dead on Sund..
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United Press International
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Russia's foreign minister Wednesday warned the United States not to take military action against Iran. "The Russian foreign minister said Wednesday U.S.-led multinational foreign forces in Iraq must not conduct military operations outside the country,..
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Times Online
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America’s refusal to give Baghdad’s security forces sufficient guns and equipment has cost a great number of lives, the Iraqi Prime Minister said yesterday...
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CNN
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Iraq's higher education minister turned in his resignation Wednesday citing the government's inability to protect teachers...
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BBC News
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has ordered a stop to all operations against "people who carry weapons" in the country.
This comes a day after he promised to continue to pursue criminals and outlaws in all provinces.
Last week there was intense fi..
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