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CNN
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A fluffy white polar bear cub that has captured German hearts is making her first public appearance Tuesday at the Nuremberg City Zoo. Flocke (FLOCK-uh), whose name means "snowflake" in German, was born at the zoo in December. She gained international att..
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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.
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Yahoo News
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The Dutch government agreed on Friday a total ban on the wearing of burqas and other Muslim face veils in public, justifying the move on security grounds...
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CNN
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She came. She curtsied. She conquered. Chic Carla Bruni-Sarkozy -- like a cross between a Catholic schoolgirl and Jackie O according to one fashion writer -- won the hearts of the British public, and the media, with her grace and the demure grey outfits s..
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CNN
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Meteorologists at Germany's national weather service and pollsters from the central statistics office joined teachers, bankers and sanitation workers in a wave of warning strikes across the public service sector on Thursday. The walkouts started hours ahe..
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CNN
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A heavy overnight snowstorm blanketed Jerusalem and other parts of the Holy Land in white on Wednesday, closing schools and stores and grounding public transportation. The sense of excitement among Israelis, used to warm Middle Eastern weather, was palpab..
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SF Gate
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A fire broke out in a planter box at Dublin City Hall this morning, prompting authorities to close the building to the public for the day, officials said.
City Hall was empty at the time and no one was injured in the blaze, which was reported at 5:32 a..
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CNN
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Cecilia Sarkozy, explaining the reasons for her divorce from France's president, told a newspaper she wanted to flee the harsh public spotlight on a complex relationship for the tranquility of the shadows. Nicolas and Cecilia Sarkozy announced Thursday th..
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SF Gate
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Reviving a confrontation over the role of religion in public life, Turkey's ruling party tried unsuccessfully Monday to have its candidate, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, elected president in the first round of parliamentary balloting.
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FOX News
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Rizana Nafeek, a 19-year old housemaid from Sri Lanka, is on death row because the baby in her care died while she was bottle-feeding him. If her appeal is turned down, she will taken to a public square to be publicly beheaded.
The Sri Lankan governmen..
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CNN
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The show is over: The Berlin zoo's fast-growing polar bear cub, Knut, won't be appearing anymore with the keeper who raised him. The zoo said Monday that it has ended 7-month-old Knut's twice-daily public appearances with keeper Thomas Doerflein.
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CNN
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How ill is Kim Jong Il? Talk of the reclusive North Korean leader's health emerged anew this week when he made a rare public appearance Tuesday in a surprise meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi in Pyongyang. Chinese television footage showed..
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Al Jazeera
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Political analysts say the public service strike, which began on June 1, has turned into a demonstration of workers' power ahead of a leadership meeting this year that could see the ANC name a successor to Mbeki.
Union threat
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BBC News
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Thousands of public sector workers have joined one of South Africa's biggest strikes, with trains not running and few commuters seen in Johannesburg.
People in red T-shirts are gathering for 40 marches countrywide, as public sector trade unions warned..
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Washington Post
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In the downtown Environmental Sanitation Bureau, 100 public toilet cleaners sat at rapt attention in neat rows, red armbands pinned to the sleeves of their immaculate purple jumpsuits.
The small army of mostly migrant workers who help keep Beijing clea..
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CNN
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Unionized workers are set to join striking public servants in South Africa on Wednesday in a sympathy protest that threatens to bring Africa's economic powerhouse to a standstill.
Tens of thousands of municipal workers from garbage collectors to licens..
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News.com.au
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KNUT the polar bear cub appeared unfazed by the media scrum surrounding his public debut at Berlin Zoo today.
The three-and-a-half-month old white cub padded gingerly round his new enclosure to the gasps and sighs of onlookers.
Fortified by a breakf..
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CNN
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Government supporters broke up a public protest Tuesday by prisoners' wives who intermittently shouted "Freedom! Freedom!" as they marched through a neighborhood in the capital to mark the crackdown that put their loved ones behind bars.
More than 40 g..
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CNN
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Oprah Winfrey opened her second school for poor South African youth Friday, an innovative, environmentally friendly institution she hopes will be a model for public education.
The Seven Fountains Primary School was funded by Oprah's Angel Network, a pu..
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Guardian Unlimited
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North Korea celebrated leader Kim Jong-il's 65th birthday today with the expected mix of public marches, lavish personal praise and fierce anti-US rhetoric. "Your birth as a bright star over Mount Paektu was the greatest event as it promised the happin..
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