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CNN
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Six pirates who hijacked a French luxury yacht off the coast of Somalia are now in custody in France, a diplomatic official said Wednesday. The six men are being held at the Paris court where they are being questioned, said an official from the French Min..
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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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Speaking at a high-level meeting, Musharraf restated his pledge to step down as army chief before taking the oath of office as president, the official said. That date had been scheduled for November 15 before Musharraf imposed the emergency order on Satur..
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Google Associated Press
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A Vatican official suspended after being caught on hidden camera making advances to a young man says he is not gay and was only pretending to be gay as part of his work.
In an interview published Sunday, Monsignor Tommaso Stenico told La Repubblica dai..
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CNN
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China knew about problems with magnets on toys as long ago as March, an industry official said on Wednesday, following a second massive recall of Chinese-made Mattel toys due to hazards from small, powerful magnets. Mattel Inc. the largest U.S. toy compan..
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Washington Post
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On April 24, 2003, a board member of Chiquita International Brands disclosed to a top official at the Justice Department that the king of the banana trade was evidently breaking the nation's anti-terrorism laws.
Roderick M. Hills, who had sought the me..
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FOX News
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Something like open warfare has broken out between U.S. diplomats at the United Nations and top officials of the controversy-ridden United Nations Development Program, the U.N.’s flagship anti-poverty agency.
At bottom, the issue involves UNDP operat..
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BBC News
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Chinese Vice-Premier Huang Ju, one of the most senior leaders in China, has died aged 68 in Beijing, the official Xinhua news agency has reported.
Huang was in charge of financial and economic policymaking in the Politburo, China's highest decision-mak..
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BBC News
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Humanitarian aid is failing to reach almost two-thirds of those affected by the fighting in the Somali capital, a key UN official has warned.
The country now represents a worse displacement crisis that Sudan's Darfur region, John Holmes said.
Aid gr..
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CNN
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A U.S. submarine has collided with a Japanese merchant vessel, a senior U.S. Navy official told CNN...
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BBC News
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The Irish language (Gaeilge) is set to get official status in the EU on 1 January, bringing the total to 23...
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SF Gate
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The British government says a senior intelligence official in the Cabinet office has been suspended after secret government documents were left on a commuter train.
The documents on al-Qaida and Iraq were found by a passenger on a London commuter train..
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BBC News
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Chinese officials will hold talks with the Dalai Lama's representatives, state media says, in the first meeting since rioting broke out in Tibet last month.
Xinhua news agency quoted an official as saying a meeting would take place "in coming days"...
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CNN
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There was still no official results Tuesday from the weekend's presidential vote in Zimbabwe, but an election monitoring group projected that opposition candidate Morgan Tsvangirai was leading President Robert Mugabe. Tensions are high in the southern Afr..
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BBC News
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Zimbabwe is standing on a "precipice" as official results from Saturday's general election start to trickle in, the opposition has said.
Leading Movement for Democratic Change official Tendai Biti says party leader Morgan Tsvangirai has won 60% of the..
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CNN
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A whale that got lost and swam hundreds of miles up the Amazon River died after a failed effort to capture it and transport it back to the ocean, an environmental official said Wednesday. The 5.5-meter (18-foot) minke whale had become stranded on sandbars..
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CNN
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A doomsday cult leader whose followers are barricaded inside a cave in southern Russia will be taken to the site in an attempt to secure the release of several children, according to a government official.
The 29 cult members -- including four children..
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Washington Post
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Assistant Secretary of State Christopher R. Hill completed a surprise two-day trip to Pyongyang early today, becoming the highest-ranking U.S. official to travel there since the crisis over North Korea's nuclear ambitions began nearly five years ago.
H..
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FOX News
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North Korea fired a short-range missile toward waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan, a South Korean intelligence official said Tuesday, amid signs of progress in ending North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
The North "fired the short-range mi..
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BBC News
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Some official merchandise for the 2008 Olympics in China has been made using child labour, forced overtime and low wages to boost profits, a report says.
Playfair - an alliance of world trade unions - has condemned "severe workers' rights violations" i..
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