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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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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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CNN
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Authorities in Indian Kashmir have begun poisoning stray dogs in an anti-rabies program that aims to kill some 100,000 dogs in the region's main city, officials said Thursday. Animal rights activists vowed to go to court in a bid to stop the slaughter pla..
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CNN
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German zookeepers in Nuremberg will bottle-feed a four-week-old polar bear and rear it away from its mother after concerns the mother would eat her cub, officials said Thursday. The cub, which doesn't yet have a name, was being cared for at Nuremberg City..
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New York Times
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Hundreds of Buddhist monks marched through rain-washed streets for the third day in Myanmar’s main city yesterday, taking the lead in monthlong protests that the military junta has so far been powerless to contain.
They prayed at the gold-spired Shwe..
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BBC News
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Members of an Australian television comedy show have been arrested and charged after breaching the tightest security the city has ever seen.
The team from the satirical show The Chaser's War on Everything were stopped within yards of the hotel where US..
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BBC News
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The prison system in Mexico City has begun permitting gay prisoners to have conjugal visits from their partners.
The city authorities accepted a recommendation by a human rights commission which said the visits would help to end discrimination.
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Forbes
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For 900 years, Moenjodaro, a city in what is now Pakistan, was the urban hub of a thriving civilization, the New York or London of its day. Around 1700 B.C., residents suddenly abandoned the Indus Valley city, and it was lost in the sands of time until ar..
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BBC News
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A teenage boy has died after being shot outside a school in the Canadian city of Toronto, police said.
Officials said the 14-year-old died in hospital after being shot at the CW Jefferys Collegiate Institute.
Police forced students to remain in thei..
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CNN
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Mexico City lawmakers voted to legalize abortion Tuesday, a decision likely to influence policies and health practices across Mexico and other parts of heavily Roman Catholic Latin America.
The proposal, approved 46-19, with one abstention, will take e..
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CNN
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Australia's largest city dimmed on Saturday night as businesses and homeowners switched off the lights to draw attention to global warming.
The normally gleaming white sails of the Sydney Opera House darkened, and so did the iconic harbor bridge and ch..
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Los Angeles Times
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The squat, tan buildings with barred windows can be reached only by driving well outside the city to a flat stretch of desert on the edge of the hills. The site is surrounded by an array of antiaircraft artillery emplacements, each with one or two soldier..
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www.smdailyjournal.com
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Belmont is set to make history by becoming the first city in the nation to ban smoking on its streets and almost everywhere else...
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SF Gate
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A newspaper editor was found dead in a hotel room in this Pacific resort city, a day after running stories about organized crime and corruption in the city government...
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BBC News
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An armed man has taken four people hostage in the city hall in the Dutch city of Almelo, about 150km (100 miles) east of Amsterdam, reports say.
A city council member and three others were reported to be among those being held by the owner of a restaur..
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BBC News
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The president of the region surrounding the Italian city of Naples is going on trial with 27 others, over the city's ongoing rubbish crisis.
Antonio Bassolino, the president of Campania, is charged with defrauding the state and abuse of office. He has..
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MSNBC
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The death toll from a devastating cyclone has risen to almost 4,000, a Myanmar state radio station said Monday.
The radio station broadcasting from the country's capital Naypyitaw said that almost 3,000 more people are unaccounted for in a single town..
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CNN
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The contest to be London's mayor, running a city of around 13 million people, has come at a crucial moment in British politics. It could help determine the outcome of the next general election. But the contest is essentially one between two highly individ..
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MSNBC
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Beijing will implement a series of temporary measures to stop construction and close heavy industries, all aimed at cleaning the city’s notoriously polluted air when the Olympics begin in four months.
All digging and pouring of concrete on constructi..
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BBC News
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Millions of people in Pakistan's largest city have been without electricity, following a power outage.
Pakistan's state-run utility said it had cut supplies to Karachi because the city's power company had not paid its bills. Outages occurred in the mor..
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