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BBC News
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has signalled he will not support a US plan for a missile defence system in Europe, at the start of key US-Russia talks.
He urged Washington "not to force" a planned deployment of a radar in the Czech Republic and inter..
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Herald Tribune
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They call it "Plan B."
As Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez further tightens control of the South American country's economy, wealthy Venezuelans who once thought they could live with his socialist edicts are turning to their backup plan - flight to the..
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SF Gate
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Senior American officials are saying that NATO leaders have agreed to fully endorse U.S. missile defense plans for Europe over Russian objections. And President Bush's plan is getting another boost, with Czech officials announcing an agreement to install..
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CNN
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NATO allies have agreed to put off a plan to put Ukraine and Georgia on track to join the military alliance. But NATO did invite Albania and Croatia on Thursday to become members.
NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer says the alliance is commit..
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BBC News
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The EU has said it will launch a full investigation of the state bailout plan of troubled UK bank Northern Rock.
Northern Rock was given emergency government funding last year, after it was hard hit by the credit crunch.
In February, the government..
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BBC News
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Two major parties in Turkey say they will submit a joint plan to parliament to ease a ban on the Islamic headscarf in universities.
The Islamist-rooted governing AK Party and the nationalist MHP say it is an issue of human rights and freedoms.
The t..
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BBC News
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Aboriginal elders are threatening to ban tourists from one of Australia's landmarks over a plan to curb child sex abuse in Aboriginal communities.
The threat to close Uluru, or Ayers Rock, comes amid growing alarm.
Some 50 community, church and indi..
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USA Today
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President Bush's plan to have countries that are major polluters develop their own global warming strategies gets a full hearing today, as other Group of Eight leaders push for caps on greenhouse-gas emissions.
Bush's national security and environmenta..
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FOX News
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Sharp differences between the United States and Russia over President Bush's plan to build a missile defense system on Moscow's doorstep are likely to dominate talk during Bush's European tour.
Bush, who left Monday at the start of an eight-day trip to..
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USA Today
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Sharp differences between the United States and Russia over President Bush's plan to build a missile defense system on Moscow's doorstep are likely to dominate talk during Bush's European tour.
Bush, who left Monday at the start of an eight-day trip to..
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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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BBC News
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Russia says a new draft UN resolution supporting a plan for supervised independence for Kosovo is unacceptable and has hinted it could be vetoed.
The new text softens some of the original language and also proposes a new special envoy to help refugees..
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BBC News
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The International Whaling Commission annual meeting has seen deadlock on its second day over Greenland's plans to expand its whale hunt.
But proposals from indigenous groups in the US, Caribbean and Russia passed.
Subsistence whaling rights are give..
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BBC News
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The UN has sharply criticised Iraq's human rights record, in the two months since a new security plan was launched in and around the capital, Baghdad.
The UN mission for Iraq said Iraqi authorities had failed to guarantee the basic rights of about 3,00..
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USA Today
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Norway wants to cut its net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050 in the world's toughest national plan for fighting global warming, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday.
He said that Norway, the world's number five oil exporter, wanted..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Home Office officials are considering a plan for the early release of 2,500 prisoners in an attempt to ease overcrowding in Britain's jails.
Whitehall sources last night confirmed the existence of the scheme, but said there were no present plans to act..
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Independent
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The most potent threats to life on earth - global warming, health pandemics, poverty and armed conflict - could be ended by moves that would unlock $7 trillion - $7,000,000,000,000 (£3.9trn) - of previously untapped wealth, the United Nations claims toda..
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Houston Chronicle
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A U.N. envoy on Friday unveiled his long-awaited plan for Kosovo, a proposal recommending internationally supervised statehood for the contested province where separatists fought a bloody war with Serbia in the late 1990s...
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Yahoo News
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Indian authorities plan to release 47 leopards into the wild with electromagnetic chips planted in their tails but will haul them back to captivity if they attack people, The Hindustan Times reported on Tuesday...
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Billings Gazette
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Sen. Conrad Burns said at a debate Tuesday night that President Bush does have a plan for winning the war in Iraq, but he isn�t about to share it with the world...
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