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CNN
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Two passenger trains collided in eastern China's Shandong province Monday morning, killing at least 70 and injuring 420, according to China's official news agency. One train on its way from Beijing to Qingdao, a city in eastern China, derailed and crashed..
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Yahoo News
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The agency at the centre of Ontario's lottery scandal should compensate cheated customers by giving away free tickets for a $1.1-billion jackpot, says a lawyer who's taking the province to court on behalf of a disgruntled lottery enthusiast.
Bryan McPh..
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CNN
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Northern Ireland's major Protestant and Catholic parties have hailed a deal to form a power-sharing government as a "new era of politics" to end three decades of sectarian conflict in the British province.
Monday's breakthrough followed the first face-..
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Yahoo News
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Canada's westernmost province announced a radical plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions by one third over 13 years as part of its contribution to curb global warming. British Columbia also vowed to create the world's longest hydrogen highway, from the..
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SF Gate
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At least 80 percent of the habitat for giant pandas in China's earthquake-hit province was destroyed or damaged, a forestry official said Tuesday.
China's May 12 temblor centered in Sichuan devastated a vast area of wild habitat for endangered species,..
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MSNBC
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A powerful typhoon targeted China’s booming eastern province of Zhejiang and financial hub Shanghai on Tuesday, prompting the evacuation of tens of thousands of people as ships and boats were called back to port.
Typhoon Wipha was 270 miles southeast..
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USA Today
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Floods and landslides killed 30 people in a central China province, with the rain-swollen Yangtze River that cuts through the province at dangerously high levels, a government website and state media said Tuesday.
The flooding in Hubei province also le..
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Al Jazeera
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A cyclone struck Baluchistan, Pakistan's southwest province on Tuesday, three days after a storm destroyed Karachi, the nation's biggest city, killing around 230 people.
HomelessKhuda Bakhsh Baluch, the relief commissioner for Baluchistan province, sa..
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CNN
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Setting up possibly another showdown with Russia, U.S. President George W. Bush has said "the time is now" to grant independence to the Serbian province of Kosovo and called on Moscow not to slow down the process.
"I happen to believe it's important to..
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CNN
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A strong earthquake rattled southwestern China's Yunnan Province early Sunday, and the country's state-run Xinhua news agency reported the temblor collapsed homes and caused injuries.
Two people died, news services reported, quoting Xinhua. The Reuters..
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FOX News
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Iraq's prime minister and two top American officials flew to the blistering western desert Saturday in a rare joint outing to highlight gains there in the fight against insurgents, hours before the military reported the deaths of eight U.S. troops.
One..
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Al Jazeera
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More remains are expected to be found near 65 of the graves which were uncovered in Putumayo province on the Ecuadorean border late on Friday.
A total of 211 bodies have been recovered from the province since last year, but Friday's find by agents fro..
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Yahoo News
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President Boris Tadic will ask major powers to delay further talks on the fate of Serbia's breakaway..
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