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CNN
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Zimbabwe's High Court has postponed a ruling on a petition to force release of vote results until Tuesday, the opposition said.
Zimbabwe's High Court convened a hearing Monday to consider the Movement for Democratic Change's petition calling for the re..
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USA Today
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Britain and France have stripped more harsh language from a U.N. Security Council draft resolution that would authorize a 26,000-strong peacekeeping force for Darfur in an attempt to win passage for the proposal this week.
The draft resolution, obtaine..
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BBC News
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A woman who punished three children in her care by ramming sticks down their throats and making them eat their own vomit has been jailed for 14 years.
Eunice Spry, 62, from Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, was convicted at Bristol Crown Court last month,..
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FOX News
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The United Nation's first all-female peacekeeping force — made up of 105 Indian policewomen — is set to deploy to the troubled west African country of Liberia, an official said Friday...
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BBC News
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The Lebanese army has said it is prepared to use force to disarm gunmen and restore order across the country.
It follows a week of clashes between supporters of the Western-backed government and the Hezbollah-led opposition.
At least 60 people are b..
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BBC News
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The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, is setting up a task force to tackle the global food crisis.
Mr Ban said the world faced "widespread hunger, malnutrition and social unrest on an unprecedented scale" because of soaring food prices...
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CNN
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Britain's Prince William received his Royal Air Force pilot's wings at a graduation ceremony Friday. His father, Prince Charles, presented the wings to his son and 24 other graduating students at the ceremony, held at the Cranwell Air Force base in northe..
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BBC News
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Rebels in Chad have said they are at war with the French-led European Union peacekeeping force which is due to be deployed in the coming weeks.
The rebels accused French military planes of flying over their positions and passing intelligence to the gov..
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National Geographic
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A temporary, 30-ranger gorilla-protection force has been deployed in the troubled African park where at least five mountain gorillas were killed, execution style, in July.
The emergency measure is intended to end the attacks on endangered gorillas in t..
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Reuters
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, in one of his harshest attacks on the United States in seven years in power, accused Washington on Saturday of attempting to force its will on the world.
The White House said it was "surprised and disappointed" by Puti..
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USA Today
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Boris Berezovsky, the exiled Russian tycoon who has emerged as one of the Kremlin's most vocal opponents, called Friday for the use of force to oust President Vladimir Putin and claimed he has support from some in the country's political elite.
In resp..
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FOX News
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Israel air force fighter planes scrambled Wednesday to intercept a U.S. airliner after it lost communications with air controllers, security officials said.
The Continental passenger plane was flying in from the U.S. when it lost contact. Following ant..
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Canada.com
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With interest in spirituality on the rise and church attendance in a freefall, a week-long National Post series considers the state of Canadian Christianity and whether the way forward may in fact be the way backward...
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Times Online
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A POLICE force failed to investigate properly the violent robbery of a showjumper which led to murder because its officers were busy inquiring into stolen chickens...
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Guardian Unlimited
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A once-secret program that enabled thousands of U.S. military pilots to practice dogfighting against Soviet-designed MiG fighter jets was detailed Thursday by the Air Force as part of the first public acknowledgment of the program's existence...
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