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BBC News
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One of Turkey's best known singers, Bulent Ersoy, has gone on trial charged with attempting to turn the public against military service.
The charges were brought after she suggested it was not worth sacrificing soldiers' lives in Turkey's conflict with t..
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BBC News
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A French prosecutor has asked judges to bring manslaughter charges against US airline Continental over the crash of an Air France Concorde in 2000.
The prosecutor also recommended similar charges against two Continental employees and two French officia..
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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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FOX News
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The six Muslim leaders who were removed from a US Airways flight last fall after passengers thought they were acting suspiciously will not include those passengers in their lawsuit against the airline and police, an attorney for the imams said Wednesday...
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USA Today
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Protesters with black hoods and bandanas covering their faces showered police with rocks and beer bottles Saturday, before the heavily armored officers drove them back with water cannon and tear gas during a rally against an upcoming Group of Eight summit..
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Al Jazeera
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Katsav's tenure as president seems to be ending in disgrace after he was forced to take leave of absence following sexual misdemeanour charges being levelled against him.
Authorities have since said they intend to indict him on suspicion he raped a for..
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Yahoo News
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Uganda scrapped an adultery law Thursday that campaigners said discriminated against women.
Uganda's Constitutional Court ordered the changes to the Penal Code, under which it was legal for a married man to have an affair with an unmarried woman but ag..
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Daily Mail
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The daughter of a church minister who made false allegations of rape against four separate men has been jailed for two years...
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Telegraph
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An air stewardess is claiming religious discrimination against an airline which she says banned her from taking the Bible to Saudi Arabia...
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ABC News
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More than 20,000 supporters of an Islamic alliance rallied Sunday, demanding the government withdraw changes to a controversial rape statute that they say go against Islam...
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CBC
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As the world watched deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein being sentenced to death for crimes against humanity, Iraqi-Canadians struggled to determine what it meant for the future of their homeland...
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Al Jazeera
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Iraq has put its security forces on alert and is also expected to impose curfew in Baghdad and three other provinces ahead of Sunday's verdict in the trial of Saddam Hussein...
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SF Gate
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Novak Djokovic will leave the looking ahead to others. If he's to be believed, the No. 3-ranked Djokovic has more immediate concerns than a possible French Open semifinal against No. 2 Rafael Nadal or final against No. 1 Roger Federer.
First things fir..
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BBC News
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European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has given details of what he has called a "detailed roadmap" in the struggle against climate change.
He told the European Parliament that Europeans wanted "a vision and a plan of action".
Mr Barroso..
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CNN
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Prosecutors on Thursday plan to divulge evidence they gathered over the past eight months against three young men who will not be charged in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. The evidence was deemed insufficient for prosecution.
Prosecutors will d..
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BBC News
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France faces a second day of travel chaos as transport unions continue a strike in protest against President Nicolas Sarkozy's pension reforms.
More trains were running than on Wednesday, but millions of people still struggled to get to work.
Rail a..
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BBC News
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France is suffering travel chaos after transport and energy workers broadened a strike in protest against President Nicolas Sarkozy's pension reform.
Rail services were severely disrupted and energy production reduced in the open-ended action over cuts..
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Yahoo News
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The U.N. General Assembly voted for the 16th straight year Tuesday to urge the United States to end its trade embargo against Cuba, whose foreign minister accused the U.S. of stepping up its "brutal economic war" to new heights.
The 192-member world bo..
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CNN
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Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto took to Karachi's bustling city streets in an armored motorcade for protection against the throngs of supporters celebrating her arrival Thursday. Shortly after her plane landed at Karachi International Airpo..
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BBC News
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Pakistan's Supreme Court is to rule on whether a government amnesty lifting corruption charges against former PM Benazir Bhutto is legal.
The amnesty was one of Ms Bhutto's conditions for her return to Pakistan next Thursday ahead of a possible power s..
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