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CNN
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Two passenger trains collided in eastern China's Shandong province Monday morning, killing at least 70 and injuring 420, according to China's official news agency. One train on its way from Beijing to Qingdao, a city in eastern China, derailed and crashed..
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BBC News
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Peruvian officials say they have run out of tents and urgently need at least 40,000 more to house victims of the devastating earthquake two weeks ago.
Aid agencies said many survivors in the Ica region were living on the streets in unhygienic condition..
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Yahoo News
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A Chinese court has jailed a farmer for 13 years for trading in state-protected swans and their meat, Xinhua news agency reported Friday.
Zhang Yuelin, 48, from the northern province of Henan, had bought 38 dead swans and one kg of swan meat late last..
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CNN
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Iran on Sunday announced it was partially suspending cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency while hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the latest U.N. Security Council sanctions would not halt the country's nuclear enrichment "even for a..
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News.com.au
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AN Italian journalist kidnapped in Afghanistan has been handed over to embassy officials after two weeks in captivity and days after his driver was executed, an Afghani news agency said.
Taliban military commander Mullah Dadullah said Daniele Mastrogia..
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CNN
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This has been the world's warmest winter since record-keeping began more than a century ago, the U.S. government agency that tracks weather reported Thursday.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said the combined global land and..
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BBC News
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An African leader has dismissed the UN's food agency as a "waste of money" and called for it to be scrapped.
President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal spoke out days after the UN announced an emergency plan to bring soaring world food prices under control...
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MSNBC
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A strong earthquake rattled East Timor on Wednesday, and an Indonesian monitoring agency said it had the potential to trigger a tsunami — but there were no immediate reports of large waves.
The earthquake had a magnitude of 6.2, the U.S. Geological S..
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MSNBC
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In a rare move, President Bush has sent a letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, the North’s official news agency said Thursday without giving further details about the message.
US nuclear envoy Christopher Hill delivered the letter to North Kore..
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BBC News
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Severe flooding in North Korea has destroyed more than one-tenth of the country's farmland, according to the state news agency KCNA.
"As of 14 August, more than 11% of rice and maize fields were submerged, buried or washed away," Ri Jae-Hyon, director..
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CNN
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Forty-seven children in Haiti have been reunited with their parents after being kept in inhumane conditions at an adoption center for up to two years, an international aid agency said Friday.
Now ages 2 to 7 years, the children were "given away" by the..
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BBC News
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The former head of China's State Food and Drug Administration, Zheng Xiaoyu, has been executed for corruption, the state-run Xinhua news agency reports.
He was convicted of taking 6.5m yuan ($850,000; �425,400) in bribes and of dereliction of duty at..
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USA Today
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Members of the U.N.'s nuclear agency on Monday approved sending experts to North Korea to supervise the shutdown of the North's plutonium-producing reactor, a diplomat said.
The International Atomic Energy Agency's board of governors approved the missi..
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USA Today
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The U.N. nuclear watchdog and North Korea have reached an agreement on how the agency will monitor and verify shutdown of the country's main nuclear reactor, a top official said Friday.
A team from the International Atomic Energy Agency returned Friday..
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CNN
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After months of stalled negotiations between North Korea and the international community, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Monday it will send a team to Pyongyang next week to discuss how the agency's inspectors will verify the promised shutdown of the coun..
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BBC News
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The US has welcomed North Korea's decision to invite International Atomic Energy Agency monitors to discuss shutting down a key nuclear reactor.
White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said the offer was a "good step". But the IAEA said it had not yet re..
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SF Gate
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The former head of China's top food and drug safety agency was sentenced to death Tuesday after pleading guilty to corruption and accepting bribes, according to the state-controlled news media.
Zheng Xiaoyu, who served as director of China's Food & Dru..
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SF Gate
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Inspectors for the International Atomic Energy Agency have concluded that Iran appears to have solved most of its technological problems and is beginning to enrich uranium on a far larger scale than before, according to the agency's top officials.
The..
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USA Today
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Iran has started enriching small amounts of uranium gas at its underground plant and is already running more than 1,300 of the machines used in the enrichment process, according to an International Atomic Energy Agency document obtained Wednesday by the A..
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Ynet News
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The Iranian news agency said an upcoming dramatic announcement on Iran's nuclear "rights" would be made on February 11. The report was accompanied by a series of announcements heralding alleged Iranian technological and medical breakthroughs, including..
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