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SF Gate
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The Beijing Olympic torch will be carried along San Francisco's waterfront and briefly pass through the Marina District, according to city officials who announced the specific route today.
The long-anticipated announcement about the torch's planned rou..
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International Herald Tribune
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Leaders from a variety of cultural and religious backgrounds announced a new United Nations initiative Monday to resolve the conflict between the West and the Muslim world...
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BBC News
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The Australian government has announced it will issue its first formal apology to Aboriginal people when parliament resumes next month.
Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin said the apology would be the first item of business when the new legislat..
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CNN
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Britain's Work and Pensions Secretary Peter Hain announced Thursday he would resign amid a campaign finance investigation. The Cabinet minister announced his resignation after Britain's Electoral Commission, which is investigating Hain for failing to decl..
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CNN
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The Russian presidential election will take place on March 2, the upper chamber of Russia's parliament, the Federation Council, announced Monday, as opposition leader Garry Kasparov continued his five-day jail term. The election date has been unofficially..
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BBC News
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Saudi Arabia has announced an overhaul of its judicial system, including the allocation of $2bn for training judges and building new courts.
The reforms, by royal decree, will lead to the creation of a supreme court, an appeals court and new general co..
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BBC News
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Pakistan is to hold its presidential election on 6 October, the Election Commission has announced.
The last day for filing nominations has been set for 27 September, commission spokesman Kanwar Muhammad Dilshad said.
President Gen Pervez Musharraf h..
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Guardian Unlimited
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The QC who led the inquiry into the "baby-harvesting" scandal at Alder Hey hospital is to investigate the unauthorised use of body tissue from Sellafield nuclear workers, the government announced today.
Reacting swiftly to the overnight revelation that..
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Guardian Unlimited
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The Bernard Matthews plant at the centre of the bird flu outbreak will not face prosecution by the government's food regulators, it was announced today.
The outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of the disease occurred at the firm's plant in Holton, Suffo..
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The Australian
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THE Dutch government has announced that it would seek a way of banning the wearing of burqas and other Muslim face veils in public places, possibly becoming the first European country to impose such a ruling...
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