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SF Gate
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Most of London's sprawling transport network shut down Tuesday after maintenance workers walked off the job, arousing commuter anger and drawing warnings the strike will inconvenience millions of Britons.
Around 2,300 members of the National Union of R..
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USA Today
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Rescuers searched intensely through the night into morning Friday, combing rubble for any survivors after a powerful earthquake devastated cities and sent a church's soaring ceiling tumbling down on hundreds of worshippers in southern Peru.
Officials s..
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BBC News
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North Korea has shut down all five nuclear facilities at its main Yongbyon complex, International Atomic Energy Agency head Mohamed ElBaradei says.
IAEA monitors in North Korea had verified the four new closures, Mr ElBaradei told journalists in Malays..
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CNN
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Women in Myanmar not only have to watch out for pickpockets when they're commuting, shopping or walking down the street, but also hair thieves, a weekly journal reported Sunday.
Long-haired women in crowded areas have fallen victim to surreptitious hai..
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Seattle Times
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Before Mao Lijun's business exported tainted wheat products that may have killed U.S. pets, his factory sickened people and plants around here for years.
Farmers in this poor rural area 400 miles northwest of Shanghai had complained to local government..
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CTV
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A campus of Concordia University in Montreal was locked down Tuesday morning over what turned out to be a false report about an armed man on campus...
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CBS News
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The ancient chestnut tree that comforted Anne Frank while she was in hiding during the Nazi occupation of Holland must be cut down, the Amsterdam city council said Tuesday...
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BBC News
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Suspected Muslim insurgents in southern Thailand have burnt down three schools and shot and wounded a teacher...
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BBC News
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A Russian jet did shoot down an unmanned Georgian drone over the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia last month, UN monitors say.
The jet flew back into Russian airspace after the attack, a UN report says.
Russia has denied the charges - even thou..
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MSNBC
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How come all the houses didn't fall down, but the school did? And how come that happened in so many places?" demanded one father, whose two daughters were crushed to death.
"We want a memorial day for the children, but we also want criminal prosecution..
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SF Gate
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After a 19-month tryout by acting president Raul Castro, Cubans seem ready to focus on what his government will bring once Fidel Castro formally steps down as Cuba's all-powerful leader on Sunday.
Their expectations, already raised by Raul Castro's tal..
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BBC News
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Russian President Vladimir Putin should become prime minister after stepping down next year, his chosen successor Dmitry Medvedev says.
Mr Putin named Mr Medvedev, a first deputy prime minister, on Monday as his favourite for the presidency. Mr Putin i..
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BBC News
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A four-year-old girl was asked to take down the hood of her cardigan while visiting a seaside amusement arcade.
Karen Lewis's mother Cheryl, from Shrewsbury, said her daughter was upset following the incident at Les Harker's Amusements in Rhyl during a..
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MSNBC
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Residents warned not to let guard down
Torrential rains, battering waves and a storm surge of six to eight feet above normal were forecast, with some intensification possible before landfall.
“We often see that when a storm weakens, people let dow..
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CNN
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Residents and tourists hunkered down Sunday morning as Hurricane Dean, a Category 4 storm, roared through the western Caribbean on a collision course with Jamaica. A curfew was imposed Saturday evening and remained in effect Sunday morning, the police com..
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USA Today
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One of the two thrust reversers on an airliner carrying 186 people that crashed in a fireball was turned off when the plane landed, the jet's owner said, as officials tried to determine why it raced down a runway instead of slowing down.
The airline TA..
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FOX News
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U.N. inspectors have verified that North Korea has shut down four more nuclear facilities beyond its sole working reactor, the chief of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Wednesday.
"We have verified all the five nuclear facilities have been shut do..
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CNN
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North Korea is ready to start dismantling its nuclear programs following the shutdown its sole operating reactor, a North Korean diplomat said Sunday, as long as the United States lifts all sanctions against the communist nation. Kim Myong Gil, minister a..
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FOX News
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North Korea told the United States it shut down its nuclear reactor, the State Department said Saturday, hours after a ship cruised into port loaded with oil promised in return for the country's pledge to disarm.
If confirmed by a U.N. inspection team..
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CNN
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North Korea told the United States it shut down its nuclear reactor, the State Department said Saturday, hours after a ship cruised into port loaded with oil promised in return for the country's pledge to disarm. If confirmed by a U.N. inspection team hea..
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