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BBC News
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US Navy ships are due to leave Burma's coastline because of the continued refusal of the government to allow them to help victims of Cyclone Nargis.
The navy said it would withdraw the four ships, carrying helicopters and landing craft, after 15 failed..
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BBC News
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is proposing the names of ministers in his new government, which will work with President Dmitry Medvedev.
Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin will be retaining his post and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also keeps his..
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BBC News
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Results from Serbia's elections point to a triumph for President Boris Tadic's pro-European Union bloc.
Mr Tadic claimed victory, with his bloc set to win nearly 40% of the vote, but he may need the support of at least one nationalist party for a major..
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SF Gate
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A U.N. official says the World Food Program is suspending cyclone aid to Myanmar because its government seized supplies flown into the country.
He says the WFP has no choice but to suspend the shipments until the matter is resolved.
WFP spokesman Pa..
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MSNBC
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In Beijing, the Chinese government said it was pleased with India's security preparations.
"I think the Indian government will take effective measures to ensure the smooth and safe relay in New Delhi this evening," said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesw..
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CNN
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Prospects of resolving Zimbabwe's two-week-old election crisis appeared dim Friday after a government spokesman said President Robert Mugabe would not attend a key weekend meeting with other regional leaders. It is a reversal for Mugabe, who said Thursday..
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MSNBC
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It's not new for the government to let private farmers take a crack at putting state land to good use. But this time the government is letting farmers more easily buy equipment and supplies at government stores, removing a key impediment to their success...
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CNN
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Zimbabwe's government has again delayed officially announcing results of the weekend's elections, raising fears of vote-rigging as security forces patrolled the streets. An electoral commission official abruptly stopped the long-awaited televised announce..
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CNN
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The government of Chad issued a communique Thursday that said rebels from Sudan had crossed into Chad. The communique, sent out from the capital N'Djamena, does not offer any other details. Chad is still recovering from a failed attempt last month by rebe..
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BBC News
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The diversion of water for the Beijing Olympics threatens the livelihoods of millions of people, a senior Chinese government official has said.
The official, An Qiyuan, from Shaanxi province, told the UK's Financial Times newspaper that people in north..
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CNN
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The future of Italy's prime minister was in doubt Thursday after he decided to risk a confidence vote in the Senate in a final bid to save his government. Romano Prodi, in office for 20 months, has only a slim chance of surviving the vote, and observers h..
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CNN
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Italian Premier Romano Prodi sought support for his teetering government in Parliament on Tuesday and said he would seek votes of confidence in both chambers after a coalition ally withdrew support. A loss in either chamber would force Prodi to resign...
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CNN
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Kosovo's assembly was expected Wednesday to approve a coalition government which strongly backs independence from Serbia. The Democratic Party of former rebel leader Hashim Thaci and its rival, the Democratic League of Kosovo, concluded negotiations this..
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Yahoo News
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About two dozen protesters angry over a rape case involving a Marine stormed the American Embassy on Sunday, hitting a U.S. government seal on the gate with fists and a brick before surprised policemen pushed them away, police and witnesses said.
The p..
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CNN
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President Vladimir Putin dissolved the Russian government Wednesday in a major political shakeup ahead of parliamentary elections in less than three months and a presidential vote next year, news agencies reported.
The dissolution is expected to result..
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Guardian Unlimited
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The government bowed last night to the outcry over its 'insulting' compensation plans for a young paratrooper horrifically injured in Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Defence has signalled for the first time that it will review the case of 23-year-old Lanc..
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CNN
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Hundreds of Greek fire victims crowded into banks to receive up to $17,732 in aid promised by the government, which has been accused of mishandling the disaster. With national elections scheduled for September 16 there is speculation that the government's..
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CNN
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A quick outburst of violence by relatives of 172 miners trapped in a flooded coal mine brought a tearful promise of Chinese government action Monday, even as state media said the miners' chances for survival were dwindling. Several mines in the hilly east..
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SF Gate
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This is a rare place in today's China. With no industrial pollution and a temperate climate, farms here produce some of the country's best fruits and vegetables - famous not only for their taste, but mainly because they are uncontaminated.
There are no..
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Newsday
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In a massive campaign that recalls the socialist engineering of an earlier era, the Chinese government has relocated 250,000 Tibetans - nearly one-tenth the population - from scattered rural hamlets to new "socialist villages," ordering them to build hous..
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