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BBC News
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French police are questioning five men suspected of links to al-Qaeda's branch in Algeria, reports from France say.
They are part of a group of eight held in France earlier this week, reports quoting police officials say. Three other men have since bee..
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CNN
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The Paris suburbs were cleaning up Tuesday after two nights of rioting that caused widespread destruction and left scores of police injured, according to the authorities and French media reports. The violence -- which erupted after two teenagers on a moto..
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CNN
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Pakistan's armed forces killed at least 35 militants in North Waziristan on Monday, two days after President Bush said he was "troubled" by reports al Qaeda was gaining strength in Pakistani tribal areas. The deaths, in fighting that was still under way,..
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BBC News
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A United Nations peacekeeping patrol has been hit by an explosion in southern Lebanon, reports say.
An explosion hit an armoured patrol vehicle transporting Spanish peacekeepers from the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil).
At least two peacekeeper..
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BBC News
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Palestinian gunmen from militant group Hamas have attacked pro-Fatah forces near the Gaza-Israel border, killing at least eight people, reports say.
Pro-Fatah security officials described the attack as a major Hamas ambush on a Presidential Guards trai..
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BBC News
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Lawyers in Sudan's Darfur region are investigating reports of slavery during the conflict, the BBC has learned.
"There are many cases of abductions," a Sudanese lawyer told the BBC.
They are too afraid of possible reprisals from either militias or s..
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USA Today
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Envoys at talks on North Korea's nuclear program neared a tentative agreement after marathon talks, the Associated Press reports from Beijing. It says that Chinese officials said today that the reported "draft agreement" could set the stage for Pyongyang..
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BBC News
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Reports from Kenya say police have shot dead at least 12 people amid protests across the country.
Members of the illegal Mungiki sect were protesting after the discovery of the beheaded body of the wife of the sect's leader at the weekend.
Youths bl..
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BBC News
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Two foreign contractors, a Briton and a Kenyan, working for the UN in Somalia have been seized by unknown gunmen in southern Somalia, reports say.
They were doing work for the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation.
The incident happened on a road bet..
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BBC News
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Fires have broken out in the Tibetan city of Lhasa amid reports of rioting, as rare street protests led by Buddhist monks appeared to gather pace.
One eyewitness told the BBC how large groups of people were setting fire to cars and shops and destroying..
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BBC News
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Egypt has started choking off supplies to its border zone with Gaza in an attempt to discourage Palestinians from pouring into the area, reports say.
The people of Gaza have been crossing freely into Egypt for a sixth day after militants destroyed the..
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CNN
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U.N. envoy Ibrahim Gambari said Monday that recent reports of dissidents arrested in Myanmar were "extremely disturbing" and called on the country's military junta to immediately halt its crackdown. "It runs counter to the spirit of mutual engagement betw..
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MSNBC
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They tend to overreact to a lot of things. They maneuver around town very aggressively, they've got weapons pointed at people, they cut people off, of course their speeds -- I mean a whole bunch of things they do fairly consistently. But when it comes to..
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www.newsdeskspecial.co.uk
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Reports from Rangoon suggest soldiers are mutinying. It is unclear the numbers involved. Reports cite heavy shooting in the former Burmese capital.
The organisation Helfen ohne Grenzen (Help without Frontiers) is reporting that "Soldiers from the 66th..
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Washington Post
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The suspected terrorist cell that allegedly attempted three car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow last weekend was dominated by foreign-born physicians working in British hospitals, according to British officials and news reports.
As many as five of t..
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USA Today
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Reports of 20 beheaded bodies found south of Baghdad earlier this week were untrue and may have been fabricated by insurgents aiming to incite violence and revenge killings, the U.S. military said Saturday.
On Thursday, many international and Iraqi med..
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CNN
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The former Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, may have received up to $2 billion in confidential payments from a British defense firm, BAE Systems, over a period of nearly 20 years, according to two British media repo..
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FOX News
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Conflicting reports are emerging about the extent of a Turkish military operation across its southern border to chase Kurdish terrorists who operate out of bases in northern Iraq.
According to an Associated Press report that cited two anonymous Turkish..
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FOX News
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The Interior Ministry is trying to gain custody of what it thinks may be the body of Abu Ayyub al-Masri, a senior Iraqi official said Wednesday amid widespread skepticism over reports that the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq had been killed.
A police offici..
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Al Jazeera
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Earlier, the Iraqi authorities said they were investigating reports that al-Masri had been killed in a battle within his own group.
Iraq's interior ministry said on Tuesday it had received intelligence information on al-Masri's apparent death, and tha..
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