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CNN
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Almost 4,000 people have died and another 3,000 remain missing in Myanmar as a result of this weekend's devastating cyclone, state media reported Monday. The soaring death toll was announced as the reclusive southeast Asian country's ruling military junta..
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CNN
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice promised Tuesday to push for the resumption of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process that was sidetracked by a new wave of violence. Rice was in Cairo, Egypt, as part of a whirlwind tour of the Middle East ahead of..
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BBC News
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Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA has announced it is suspending sales of crude to Exxon Mobil, in response to legal action brought by the US firm.
President Hugo Chavez has said he will no longer do business with Exxon which he says is not welcome i..
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MSNBC
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Donors began committing funds from around the world Monday for the moribund Palestinian economy amid a renewed international push for a Palestinian state, with the European Union promising $650 million in 2008.
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad i..
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BBC News
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Large numbers of troops and police are enforcing a state of emergency in Georgia's capital Tbilisi, following clashes with opposition protesters.
All rallies in the country are banned and only state TV can broadcast news.
President Mikhail Saakashvi..
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New York Times
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 — Guards working in Iraq for Blackwater USA have shot innocent Iraqi civilians and have sought to cover up the incidents, sometimes with the help of the State Department, a report to a Congressional committee said today.
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CNN
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Blackwater USA guards have used deadly force weekly in Iraq and have inflicted "significant casualties and property damage," according to a congressional staff report released Monday that cites internal company and State Department documents.
Blackwat..
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USA Today
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State Department officials did little to rein in private security guards who frequently shot at and sometimes killed innocent civilians in Iraq, according to a congressional report released Monday.
In two incidents in which guards from Blackwater USA k..
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Telegraph
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ran has threatened to retaliate with missile attacks if Western forces launch raids against the Islamic state's nuclear programme — putting on a defiant show of military force to back up the message.
The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, addres..
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USA Today
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The United States soon will begin training officers of a Palestinian security service to better protect officials visiting the West Bank, the State Department said Sunday.
The training is part of a U.S. effort to bolster moderate Palestinian President..
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CNN
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Pakistan's embattled president Gen. Pervez Musharraf will not impose a state of emergency -- a move that would bolster military rule and suspend democratic freedoms -- a senior government official told CNN Thursday. The decision comes after two days of co..
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BBC News
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Tony Blair is heading to the Middle East for the first time as special envoy for the region, trying to build foundations for a Palestinian state.
The former prime minister will visit Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian town of Ramallah in the West Bank...
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Washington Post
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The 37-year-old computer science student was racing against a deadline. Just one day after picking up his visa from the U.S. Embassy in Qatar, he boarded a plane with his wife and five small children. The family flew to Chicago, caught a night's sleep at..
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BBC News
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Armed members of a Nigerian Islamist group known as the Taleban have stormed a police station in the northern city of Kano, killing at least 13 people.
A police source told the BBC there were between 300 and 500 people, some of whom were heavily armed...
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Los Angeles Times
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'AS SOON AS certain topics are raised," George Orwell once wrote, "the concrete melts into the abstract and no one seems able to think of turns of speech that are not hackneyed: Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, a..
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MSNBC
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North Korea agreed Tuesday after arduous talks to shut down its main nuclear reactor and eventually dismantle its atomic weapons program, just four months after the communist state shocked the world by testing a nuclear bomb. The deal marks the first c..
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BBC News
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The "whole state apparatus" of Sudan is implicated in crimes against humanity in Darfur, the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor has said.
Luis Moreno-Ocampo's report into the crisis in western Sudan, due on Thursday, coincides with a visit..
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MSNBC
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wound up a weekend trip to spur Israeli-Palestinian talks with a one-on-one meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Monday morning, and Olmert was scheduled to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas later in t..
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BBC News
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The president of Chad has declared a nationwide state of emergency, saying it was needed to restore order after the recent coup attempt in the capital.
In a speech broadcast on state media, Idriss Deby said the emergency powers would be in effect for 1..
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CNN
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Tuesday and dropped in on the volatile northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, a U.S. Embassy spokesman in Baghdad confirmed. She then visited Baghdad to meet with Iraqi officials and wi..
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