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Fourteen more members of a doomsday cult in southern Russia left a cave Tuesday after waiting inside for the end of the world since November, authorities said. The group included two children, ages 8 and 14, Dmitry Eskin of Russia's Emergency Situations M..
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CNN
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Priests have tried unsuccessfully to persuade members of a doomsday cult to leave a cave in southern Russia where they remain barricaded inside despite the intervention of their leader. The cult members -- including four children -- holed themselves up in..
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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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Members of the feared religious police in Saudi Arabia are for the first time due to stand trial over the deaths in their custody of two men.
The deaths, which occurred a few weeks ago, sparked a media uproar, leading to calls for a re-evaluation of th..
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BBC News
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The US appears to have rejected draft proposals by Germany for G8 members to agree tough measures in greenhouse gas emissions, leaked documents have shown.
Wide-ranging US amendments to a draft communique prepared ahead of June's G8 in Germany summit c..
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BBC News
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The last remaining members of a Russian cult who had barricaded themselves inside a cave, waiting for the end of the world, have come out.
The eight men and a woman left the cave reportedly overcome by the stench from the bodies of two people who had d..
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CNN
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The U.S. military held a "Day of Reflection" on Friday for troops in Japan after allegations that two U.S. service members committed sexual assaults on the southern island of Okinawa. The goal is to emphasize professionalism and core military values, the..
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CNN
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Egyptian security forces have raided the houses of Muslim Brotherhood members and arrested more than 90 people from the banned political group, the Muslim Brotherhood said Wednesday on its Web site.
The Islamic group said the raids happened in six prov..
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BBC News
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Members of South Africa's governing ANC are voting to elect a party leader in a contest between President Thabo Mbeki and his arch-rival Jacob Zuma.
The vote at the party's conference comes after two days of debate that revealed the deep divisions...
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BBC News
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Detained Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has met members of her political party for the first time in more than three years.
Ms Suu Kyi is reported to be optimistic about the chances of reconciliation with the military junta.
Earlier s..
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SF Gate
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Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki refused Sunday to accept the resignations of six Cabinet members, keeping open the door for a possible return of Sunni ministers whose departure last week caused a crisis in his unity government.
Members of the Sunni bloc..
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BBC News
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European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has told EU members not to block progress towards an EU treaty.
Mr Barroso warned against taking a tough line into negotiations, telling member states that opposition to the treaty was not in their inte..
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BBC News
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Vietnam is voting for new members to the National Assembly in an election unlikely to have much effect on the Communist government's policies.
The vast majority of the candidates are Communist Party members and the rest have been screened by the author..
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CNN
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Voters went to the polls Sunday to elect new members to Vietnam's National Assembly in a Communist Party-controlled election that is unlikely to have a major impact on the direction of government policy.
Eighty-three percent of the candidates are party..
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CNN
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Former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt is forced to sleep chained by her neck as punishment for having tried to escape from her rebel captors five times, an escaped hostage told family members of the dual French-Colombian citizen.
Deploring th..
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