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SF Gate
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Taiwan's new president took office Tuesday and set the tone for his administration's policy on rival China: better economic and political ties but no plans for unification with the mainland.
The inauguration of Ma Ying-jeou, 57, represents a clear brea..
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MSNBC
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The Russian prosecutor-general's office on Tuesday announced a forgery investigation has been opened against the campaign of an opposition candidate for the presidential election.
Prosecutor-general spokeswoman Tatiana Chernyshova said on state televis..
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MSNBC
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A package bearing homemade bombs blew up Thursday in a lawyer’s office on a stylish boulevard in central Paris, killing the woman who opened it. The motive for the unusual attack remained unclear.
The building also housed an unrelated law firm co-fou..
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CNN
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Torrential rain caused flash floods and brought transport chaos on Friday as the Met Office issued severe weather warnings for vast swathes of the country. Forecasters said the downpours could dump up to 4 inches (10 centimeters) of rain in less than 24 h..
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BBC News
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Plans to offer more drug treatments to sex offenders to try to stop them committing more crimes are being announced by the Home Office.
The treatment involving libido-reducing drugs or anti-depressants would be given on a voluntary basis.
Parents wi..
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Yahoo News
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed to rewrite the country's post-World War II pacifist constitution while he is in office...
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AOL News
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The U.S. government's office in central Iraq came under mortar fire early Saturday, an attack that touched off a blaze in part of the complex, Iraqi police said. There was no immediate word on damage or casualties...
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BBC News
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A US government agency that has exposed corruption in Iraqi reconstruction projects will close in 2007...
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BBC News
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Envoys of the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, are going to China for talks with officials, the Dalai Lama's office says.
Two Tibetan envoys are to arrive in Beijing on Saturday for talks on ending the crisis in Tibetan areas of China...
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CNN
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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said he intends to remain in office and work with the new government, despite the trouncing that the country's parliamentary elections handed his ruling party and calls by the opposition to step down. In an interview p..
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CNN
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Britain's relations with Russia deteriorated further Wednesday as the UK Foreign Office confirmed the detention of the director of the British Council office in St Petersburg. "We can confirm that last night Stephen Kinnock was followed, stopped and subse..
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CNN
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British Foreign Secretary David Miliband pulled out of a meeting with his Saudi Arabian counterpart in London Monday, but the Foreign Office insisted it was for personal reasons and not a snub.
Miliband has just adopted a baby son and is taking time of..
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FOX News
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Britain has asked the United States to release five British residents from the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Foreign Office said Tuesday.
Foreign Secretary David Miliband has written to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice asking that the..
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CNN
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President Nestor Kirchner made a public show of support Monday for his embattled economy minister, who was embarrassed by discovery of a paper bag full of cash in her office bathroom. Felisa Miceli was included in the president's party on Monday as they t..
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CNN
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Argentina's economy minister said Saturday she committed no crime by hiding a bag stuffed with US$64,000 in cash in her office bathroom. Police conducting a routine security check found the brown bag containing the cash in a bathroom cabinet inside Felisa..
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BBC News
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Members of Italy's Jewish community have been protesting outside a lawyer's office in Rome where a former Nazi officer has begun work.
Shouts of "Murderer!" greeted Erich Priebke, 93, as he arrived for his first day on the back of a scooter.
A court..
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USA Today
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Prime Minister Tony Blair's office denied reports Thursday that Britain had struck a deal to allow the Lockerbie bomber to complete his prison sentence in Libya, but acknowledged that authorities were considering a second appeal from the convicted attacke..
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CNN
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A former opposition lawmaker who supported a foe of President Mikhail Saakashvili was found dead in his office in the Georgian capital on Monday, bound and gagged with tape, television news reports said.
Zviad Tsekhladze, a businessman who had not been..
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BBC News
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The government is considering giving police officers across the UK "stop and question" powers under new anti-terror laws, says the Home Office.
The proposal, allowing police to ask people about their identity and movement, is among measures being consi..
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CNN
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived in Baghdad on Saturday for meetings with Iraqi government officials, an official in the Iraqi prime minister's office told CNN.
The agenda on what will likely be Blair's final Iraq visit as prime minister inclu..
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