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CNN
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Israel's prime minister has set up a team to investigate why officials announced new settlements in disputed territory while Vice President Joe Biden was visiting...
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CNN
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The United Kingdom will send an additional 500 troops to Afghanistan in early December, bringing the British contingent there to more than 9,500, Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced Monday...
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CNN
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U.S. troops have launched a "major operation" against Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan, U.S. military officials announced today. About 4,000 Americans, mostly Marines, launched Operation Khanjar, or "strike of the sword." The push is the largest since the Pentagon began moving additional troops into the conflict this year, the Marines said...
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CNN
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An independent commission will start investigating the 2007 assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in July, the United Nations has announced...
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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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CNN
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Myanmar's ruling junta has announced a new election law that disqualifies pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from participating in upcoming national elections...
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CNN
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The Yemeni government announced Thursday an end to its military operations against rebels in the north in a long-awaited truce deal between the two...
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CNN
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Britain announced plans Saturday to host an international conference on Afghanistan, a summit designed to formulate plans for transferring power to and bolstering the power of local authorities...
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CNN
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A detainee at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will be transferred to Belgium, officials announced Friday...
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CNN
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Hours after Turkey and Armenia announced a tentative, Swiss-mediated peace deal, opposition politicians in Turkey were blasting the proposal...
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CNN
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Iraq's main Shiite parties Monday announced the formation of a new alliance that excludes the prime minister -- at least for now...
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CNN
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The United Nations nuclear watchdog agency elected Yukiya Amano as its new director general Thursday, it announced...
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CNN
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U.S. troops have launched a "major operation" against Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan, U.S. military officials in Afghanistan announced early Thursday...
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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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