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CNN
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Israeli defense officials say they have identified an unlikely new threat to national security -- Facebook. A new list of rules announced Thursday aims to prevent soldiers and Defense Ministry employees from revealing classified information on social netw..
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CNN
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A "national electrical emergency" has been declared in South Africa where power cuts are affecting millions of people and casting doubt over plans to host the football World Cup in 2010. Authorities on Friday outlined steps to combat the problem that is s..
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Washington Post
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Canada's government yesterday set aside 25 million acres of wilderness -- 11 times the size of Yellowstone National Park -- for conservation, a move that environmentalists called one of North America's most important acts of nature preservation.
The la..
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BBC News
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A national day of mourning is being held in Finland after an 18-year-old man went on a gun rampage at his school and killed seven pupils and a teacher.
The gunman, reportedly identified as Pekka-Eric Auvinen, shot himself in the head and later died in..
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CNN
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Spain might at last get words for its national anthem following complaints by athletes who want something to sing at big competitions.
Spanish competitors hug, hum or gaze mutely at the sky while their national anthem, known as the Royal March, is play..
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Reuters
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Serbia's ultranationalist Radical Party claimed victory in national elections on Sunday, in a voter rejection of Western appeals for closer cooperation on the arrest of war criminals and on Kosovo...
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BBC News
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Service levels at Heathrow Airport are "a national embarrassment", Giovanni Bisignani, head of International Air Transport Association (Iata) has said.
He also criticised the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), saying it was allowing Heathrow to increase c..
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BBC News
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A national census, which was a vital step in the ending of years of civil war in Sudan, has begun.
It will help determine the way power and wealth is shared between Sudan's north and the oil-rich south ahead of next year's national polls.
The census w..
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BBC News
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Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki is expected to call for national reconciliation as he addresses parliament's state opening.
It comes a week after President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga agreed to share power.
The deal followed weeks o..
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BBC News
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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has emerged as the top candidate in the vote for the national executive committee (NEC) of South Africa's governing party.
African National Congress (ANC) members voted in the 80-member NEC after sacked Deputy President Jacob..
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BBC News
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Delegates from the African National Congress are due to vote on who becomes the next leader of South Africa's ruling party.
President Thabo Mbeki is locked in a bitter struggle for the leadership against his former ally, Jacob Zuma.
Mr Zuma is a fav..
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CNN
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French commuters faced a sixth day of travel headaches Monday as transit unions continued a strike which was costing the national rail authority an estimated 20 million euros ($29 million) a day. Fewer than half of the 700 high-speed TGV trains were runni..
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Guardian Unlimited
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With deep divisions between its French and Dutch speakers, not to mention a ludicrously complex administrative system, it's a wonder Belgium has stayed united for so long. Now, after 156 days without a national government, the country is heading for meltd..
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CNN
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European leaders were pushing ahead with plans for a new treaty that would reshape the European Union's institutions despite opinion polls showing that a vast majority of people in the main member states believe the treaty should be put to national votes...
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BBC News
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South African prosecutors have said they have obtained an arrest warrant for national police chief Jackie Selebi, but will not act on it yet.
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said the warrant would not be executed until its new acting director..
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CNN
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A small Sunni Arab bloc ended its boycott of Iraq's parliament Saturday, boosting the appearance of national unity just days before key reports are due in Washington on Iraq's progress. Saleh al-Mutlaq, who leads the National Dialogue Front, told CNN that..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Plans for every young person in Britain to enrol in a national volunteering scheme that could become compulsory are at the centre of a government report into improving social cohesion.
The possibility of mandatory community service is put forward today..
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BBC News
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China has unveiled its first national plan for climate change, saying it is intent on tackling the problem but not at the expense of economic development.
The 62-page report reiterated China's aim to reduce energy use by a fifth before 2010 and increas..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Civil liberties groups are warning that the details of every Briton could soon be on the national DNA database, raising fresh concerns of a 'surveillance society'. Controversial plans being studied by the government would see the DNA of people convicted o..
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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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