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CNN
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A powerful earthquake hit off the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island Monday afternoon, the U.S. Geological Survey's Web site reported. The quake was centered about 160 kilometers (100 miles) south-southwest of Padang and had a magnitude of 7.0, making it..
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MSNBC
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The death toll in a massive gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China rose to 105 Friday, making it the nation's second deadliest mining disaster this year, state media reported.
Rescuers from among 15 crews sent to the mine in Shanxi province's H..
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MSNBC
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Officials at six hospitals in Karachi reported 136 dead and around 250 wounded, making it one of the deadliest bombings in Pakistan's history. Karachi police chief Azhar Farooqi said that 113 people died, including 20 policemen, and that 300 people were w..
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CNN
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President Vladimir Putin dissolved the Russian government Wednesday in a major political shakeup ahead of parliamentary elections in less than three months and a presidential vote next year, news agencies reported.
The dissolution is expected to result..
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BBC News
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Iran's military has fired dozens of missiles during a military exercise in central Iran, state-run TV reported...
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BBC News
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Almost 900 students have been buried by collapsed buildings during an earthquake in south-western China, state media reports.
President Hu Jintao urged "all-out" efforts to rescue victims of the quake, which hit 92km (57 miles) from Chengdu, Sichuan's..
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MSNBC
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Rescue crews were sent Friday to find a commercial airliner carrying 46 people that disappeared in southwestern Venezuela. Officials feared the worst after residents reported hearing a crash in the mountains.
The flight was reported missing 30 minutes..
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BBC News
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China is facing its worst drought in a decade, with water in parts of the Yangtze River at the lowest level in 142 years, state media has reported.
Millions of people were short of water, and dozens of ships had run aground in the river since October,..
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BBC News
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At least 27 people have died and about a dozen are reported missing after a fire at a warehouse in South Korea.
Hundreds of firefighters have been drafted in to battle the blaze in Icheon, 80km (50 miles) south of the capital, Seoul.
Thick, toxic sm..
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CNN
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Recently divorced French President Nicolas Sarkozy doesn't appear to be hiding his latest love interest. He visited Disneyland Paris with supermodel-turned-singer Carla Bruni this weekend, the respected weekly L'Express reported on its Web site Sunday...
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BBC News
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Rescuers are searching for eight sailors reported missing after a powerful storm hit the Sea of Azov and parts of the Black Sea on Sunday.
Russian officials say four ships have sunk, including an oil tanker, and four others are in danger of breaking up..
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BBC News
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Chinese emergency teams are searching for 172 miners trapped in a flooded coal mine, state media has reported.
Officials told Xinhua news agency the workers have only a slim chance of survival in the mine, in Xintai city 450km (280 miles) south of Beij..
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BBC News
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Two people are reported dead and 70 injured after an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 hit the south-western Chinese province on Yunnan on Sunday.
The epicentre was in the city of Pu'er, and thousands are now being evacuated from the region, which is..
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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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CNN
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A 65-year-old railwayman who fell into a coma following an accident in communist Poland regained consciousness 19 years later to find democracy and a market economy, Polish media reported on Saturday.
Wheelchair-bound Jan Grzebski, whom doctors had giv..
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USA Today
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A strong earthquake shook southwest China's Yunnan province early Sunday, killing two and injuring hundreds, state media reported.
The 6.4-magnitude quake at 5:34 a.m. was centered in the old downtown of the Hani and Yi Autonomous County of Ning'er in..
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BBC News
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China has sentenced the former head of the State Food and Drug Administration to death after he was convicted of corruption, state media has reported.
Zheng Xiaoyu was convicted on charges of taking bribes and of dereliction of duty, Xinhua news agency..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Portuguese police hunting for three-year-old Madeleine McCann are investigating the possibility of a British abductor, it was reported today.
Madeleine, from Leicester, disappeared from the family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Algarve, on Thursd..
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CNN
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Searchers in Cameroon on Saturday were working to track down a missing Nairobi-bound Kenya Airways flight reported to have gone down in a forested area southwest of the Cameroonian capital of Yaounde.
Media in Africa, including Cameroon's state radio,..
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FOX News
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An Athens-to-Strasbourg flight made an emergency landing in Munich on Monday morning, after a bomb threat was reported, a German air traffic control spokeswoman said.
The plane landed at 10:45 a.m. at a special area of the airport set aside for emergen..
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