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BBC News
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South Korea's incoming president wants to scrap a ministry handling relations with North Korea, his aides say.
Lee Myung-bak, who takes office on 25 February, will merge the Unification Ministry with the Foreign Ministry.
Four other ministries are b..
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FOX News
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An explosion in a coal mine in Russia's Arctic killed seven people and left three missing, the Emergency Situations Ministry said Tuesday.
The blast hit the Komsomolskaya mine in Vorkuta, about 1,200 miles northeast of Moscow, on Monday evening. There..
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BBC News
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A blast has destroyed a section of one of the main gas pipelines in Ukraine exporting Russian gas to Europe, Ukraine's emergencies ministry says.
It says about 30m (98ft) of the Urenhoi-Pomary-Uzhhorod pipeline was damaged by the explosion.
Russia's..
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Guardian Unlimited
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The Ministry of Defence plans to open its "X-Files" on UFO sightings to the public for the first time. Officials have not yet decided on a date for the release of the reports, which date back to 1967, but it is hoped to be within weeks.
The move follow..
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CNN
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Fire broke out in a Moscow nightclub early Sunday, killing 10 people, an Emergency Situations Ministry spokesman said.
The cause of the blaze had not been determined, but some witnesses said it broke out during a "fire show" that was part of the club's..
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Ananova
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Switzerland's Agriculture Ministry has called on the country's farmers to stop feeding their cows cannabis. Several recent adverts have promoted feeding hemp to farm animals even after a March 2005 law banning its use. The Agriculture Ministry has n..
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CNN
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Israel's attorney general has determined that there is enough evidence to charge Israeli President Moshe Katsav with sex crimes, including rape, which stem from allegations from four of his former female employees, the justice ministry said Tuesday...
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Yahoo News
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France successfully shot its new M51 submarine-launched ballistic missile over the Atlantic on Thursday in its first experimental test flight, the Defense Ministry said...
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BBC News
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The Russian foreign ministry has summoned the UK ambassador amid an escalating row over the reopening of two British Council offices.
The Council's branches reopened on Monday despite a government ban.
Russia called the move a "provocation" and said..
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International Herald Tribune
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Germany's Justice Ministry is sounding out U.S. authorities over whether they would be willing to cooperate with legal proceedings against suspected CIA agents sought in the alleged kidnapping of a German citizen, an official said Thursday.
The ministr..
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CNN
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The Getty Museum has reached a compromise with Italy after a bitter dispute over antiquities in its collection that Rome says were looted, the Italian Culture Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. The museum will return 40 artifacts to Italy, fewer t..
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CNN
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The German defense ministry said Tuesday that it has dismissed an instructor who told a soldier to imagine confronting hostile blacks in New York's Bronx while firing a machine gun.
The instructor was let go under a provision that permits immediate sep..
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BBC News
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At least 20 people have been killed by fire which swept through an old people's home in southern Russia, the country's emergencies ministry says.
The fire, at a home in the village of Kamychevatskaya, in the Kuban region, near the Black Sea, also injur..
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BBC News
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A gas blast has ripped through a coal mine in Siberia where 168 people were said to be working, Russian emergency ministry officials say.
They said 21 miners - at least three of them injured - had been rescued after methane exploded at the Ulyanovskaya..
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