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CNN
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At least 500 people have been killed and thousands made homeless after a powerful tropical cyclone slammed into the southern coastal region of Bangladesh late Thursday, local government officials said Friday. Local government officials across the region t..
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Yahoo News
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Make a baby. Win a car. Don't be surprised if the streets are empty and curtains drawn in this central Russian region Wednesday as residents take up an offer by the regional governor to help stem Russia's demographic crisis.
Ulyanovsk Gov. Sergei Moroz..
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Reuters
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A new survey shows Arab attitudes toward American people, products and culture grew increasingly negative last year, a finding that underscores the need for a change in U.S. Mideast policy, a leading expert on the region said on Thursday...
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CBC
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Residents in southwestern B.C. will spend their weekend cleaning up in the wake of the third powerful storm to hit the region this week...
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Washington Post
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Voters in a breakaway Georgian region cast ballots Sunday in a referendum that separatist leaders hope will reaffirm their independence bid, but that Georgia has warned will only raise tensions...
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BBC News
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A Russian jet did shoot down an unmanned Georgian drone over the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia last month, UN monitors say.
The jet flew back into Russian airspace after the attack, a UN report says.
Russia has denied the charges - even thou..
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BBC News
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The president of the region surrounding the Italian city of Naples is going on trial with 27 others, over the city's ongoing rubbish crisis.
Antonio Bassolino, the president of Campania, is charged with defrauding the state and abuse of office. He has..
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BBC News
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The breakaway Abkhazia region in Georgia has called on the UN and other international bodies to recognise it as independent.
The appeal was made by the separatist Abkhaz parliament on Friday, a day after Russia said it was lifting trade restrictions on..
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CNN
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An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 struck northeast of Sulawesi, Indonesia, Thursday afternoon, a day after three major earthquakes struck the region, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Residents in Indonesia and other Indian Ocean na..
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USA Today
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Israel said Sunday it would expel refugees from Sudan's wartorn Darfur region, touching off hot debate over whether the Jewish state, founded after the Nazi genocide, has a duty to take in people fleeing persecution.
Israel has been grappling for month..
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BBC News
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Canada's prime minister has stressed his country's claims to the Arctic region on a trip there, days after Russia laid claim to the North Pole.
Correspondents say Stephen Harper's tour has taken on new urgency since Russian sailors dropped a flag on th..
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BBC News
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A high-level US delegation is travelling to the Middle East, after confirming plans for massive arms deals for allies in the region.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defence Secretary Robert Gates are due to meet Arab ministers at the Red Sea re..
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Al Jazeera
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The administration in the autonomous Kurdish region in the north of Iraq said on Wednesday that it had "not seen and approved the final text of the law". "We hope that the cabinet is not approving a text with which the KRG (Kurdish Regional Government)..
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Yahoo News
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Just when Portugal's Algarve thought it was ready to go up market, a government minister has sparked a
backlash with plans for a marketing campaign intended to broaden the region's appeal to everybody.
The "Allgarve" marketing campaign has raised crit..
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CNN
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Pope Benedict XVI will make his first trip to Latin America in May, a visit to Brazil to address the region's Roman Catholic bishops, the Vatican said Friday.
The pope will depart from Rome, Italy, on May 9 and remain in Sao Paulo, Brazil, until May 11..
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