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BBC News
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has denounced what he called fresh plots to destabilise his government, after he closed an opposition TV channel.
He urged supporters to be on alert for a coup attempt and threatened a second TV network, Globovision...
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BBC News
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The Quartet of major powers mediating in the Middle East peace process has called on Arab states to honour aid pledges to the Palestinians.
The call was made after talks in London between the UN, US, EU and Russia.
US officials say only about a fift..
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BBC News
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The Serbian government has called on President Boris Tadic to dissolve parliament and hold an early election.
It comes after Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica announced the collapse of his coalition government at the weekend.
Ministers had failed to..
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CNN
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The Italian army was called in early Monday to help clear piles of trash that went uncollected for more than two weeks in the Naples area, while residents in a city suburb set up roadblocks to protest the reopening of a garbage dump. Before dawn, army eng..
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CNN
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Kenya's opposition party has called for a new presidential election to settle a disputed vote that has sparked days of deadly riots, while protesters gathered on street corners in the capital's slums to prepare for a rally on Friday. Anyang Nyongo, Secret..
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CNN
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Kenya's opposition party has called off Thursday's banned public rally and urged its supporters to go home, but hopes to stage another one next week. Supporters and leaders of Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement had been blocked from getting to the..
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MSNBC
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Speakers also called on quickly developing nations, such as China, to rein in high levels of pollution.
Binsar Bakkara / APA delegate to the U.N. climate conference walks past a sign put up by an environmental group Wednesday in Bali.The most poignant..
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CNN
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Tropical Storm Noel's top winds began weakening Monday morning, but the heavy rains dumped on Haiti and the Dominican Republic flooded roads and homes as the storm moved westward across the Caribbean Sea. The National Hurricane Center in Miami called Noel..
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BBC News
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy has called on the world to be "firm" with Sudan if it refuses to co-operate with efforts to end the conflict in Darfur.
He said "silence was killing" in the troubled region, as he opened talks in Paris between the world..
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BBC News
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Nigeria's trade unions have called off their general strike over a recent rise in petrol prices, after talks with government officials.
Union leaders said they had accepted the government's proposal to freeze petrol prices for at least a year.
The g..
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CNN
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A former prime minister won the Labor Party primary over a relative political newcomer, party officials said early Wednesday, in a race between two ex-military officers who both called on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to step down.
Party director-general..
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FOX News
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A man attacked his 51-year-old mother with a samurai-style sword Tuesday, nearly amputating one of her arms, police said.
The man called police shortly after 10 a.m. Tuesday, saying he was suicidal, and asked police to meet him, said Cpl. Debbi Carlson..
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SF Gate
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Geroan's chain-saw shop doesn't officially exist. Nor does the motorbike workshop next door, or the rickety wooden shack called a supermarket.
These small business ventures are located along a dirt road known as the Trans-Iriri highway, an illegal high..
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CNN
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Thousands of people marched Saturday in the capital's annual gay-rights parade, days after the education minister called for a ban on the "propagation of homosexuality" in Poland's schools.
About 5,000 demonstrators marched from parliament through down..
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BBC News
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Nicolas Sarkozy has called for urgent action to get the European Union out of its constitutional "paralysis".
He made the call as he met German Chancellor Angela Merkel for talks in Berlin, capping a whirlwind first day as the new president of France...
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CNN
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Turkey's Parliament on Thursday approved July 22 as the date for new general elections, which were called as a way out of a government crisis that developed from a dispute over political Islam.
Parliament approved the date unanimously -- with all 458 v..
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Guardian Unlimited
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A 15-year-old schoolboy is among eight people presumed dead today after rescuers called off the search for survivors of a capsized oil rig vessel.
Royal Navy divers called off the search after the anchor-handling tug, the Bourbon Dolphin, sank 100 mile..
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CNN
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao called for improved ties with Japan on Thursday in a speech to the Japanese parliament, but urged Tokyo not to forget its past military aggressions in Asia.
Wen arrived in Japan on Wednesday on what he called an "ice-melting"..
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BBC News
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Journalists and relatives have called for a probe into the murder of a prominent television reporter in the Mexican resort of Acapulco.
Amado Ramirez, a correspondent for TV news network Televisa, was shot dead on Friday as he left a radio station...
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Los Angeles Times
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HERE, on an island that might be called Camelot, the winds of democracy have blown in like the waft from a landfill.
This 3-mile-long stretch of granite crags, flowered meadows, neat cottages and well-behaved Guernsey cows 80 miles off Britain's coast..
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