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BBC News
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MI6's former chief has denied that the intelligence service murdered Diana, Princess of Wales.
At the inquest into her death, Sir Richard Dearlove insisted he had not been aware of MI6 assassinating anyone during his 38-year career there.
Jurors hav..
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MSNBC
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North and South Korea began regular freight train service across their heavily armed border Tuesday for the first time in more than a half century, in another symbolic step in their reconciliation.
The 12-car train carried construction materials to a N..
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Lexington Herald-Leader
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As a woman bitten by a rattlesnake during a church service in London struggled to breathe, hospital employees made derogatory comments about her religious beliefs rather than providing proper care, contributing to her death, a lawsuit charges.
The case..
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BBC News
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A senior Vatican cardinal has inaugurated a low-cost charter flight service which aims to transport Catholic pilgrims to holy sites.
The first flight from Rome to Lourdes in France took off at 1130 (0930 GMT), using a small charter airline owned by the..
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Bloomberg
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Deran Garabedian is so fed up with the London Underground's erratic service that he'd rather walk 30 minutes to work. He's incensed that fares are going up as much as a third next year...
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BBC News
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Service levels at Heathrow Airport are "a national embarrassment", Giovanni Bisignani, head of International Air Transport Association (Iata) has said.
He also criticised the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), saying it was allowing Heathrow to increase c..
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BBC News
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The passenger train service between Calcutta in India and the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, has resumed after an interval of more than 40 years.
Trains travelled in both directions on Monday - the first service since the 1965 war between India and Paki..
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BBC News
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Attitudes to the United States are improving, an opinion poll carried out for the BBC World Service suggests.
The average percentage of people saying that the US has a positive influence has risen to 35% from 31% a year ago, according to the survey...
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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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The U.S. military held a "Day of Reflection" on Friday for troops in Japan after allegations that two U.S. service members committed sexual assaults on the southern island of Okinawa. The goal is to emphasize professionalism and core military values, the..
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BBC News
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The first regular rail service for more than 50 years has begun operating across the heavily fortified border between North and South Korea.
The flower-strewn cargo train, carrying raw materials for an industrial zone, left South Korea early in the mor..
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BBC News
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A funeral service including Jewish prayers is being held at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris for Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger.
The former Archbishop of Paris, who died on Sunday aged 80, was born Aaron Lustiger to Polish Jews who had settled in France bef..
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Al Jazeera
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He admitted concealing his service with the German army in the Balkans but always denied knowing of Nazi war crimes committed there at the time, including deportations of thousands of Greek Jews.
Tainted past
As UN secretary-general, Waldheim prea..
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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
Union leaders had pro..
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Washington Post
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The former KGB agent whom British prosecutors have accused of poisoning another former agent in London said Thursday that the British intelligence service MI6 was a likely suspect in the killing.
At an 85-minute news conference in Moscow, Andrei Lugovo..
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FOX News
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Kate McCann marked the 14th day of the search for her missing daughter Madeleine by attending a church service Thursday, while Portuguese police released a local Russian computer expert questioned in connection with the case.
Police were also checking..
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BBC News
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Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov has been questioned by Russia's security service on suspicion of making extremist comments.
Mr Kasparov, 44, is now an opposition activist and was briefly detained during recent protests against President Vlad..
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BBC News
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A memorial service has taken place in South Africa for Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer, whose death in Jamaica last month is believed to be murder.
Several hundred mourners were at the service at a school in Cape Town, where Woolmer's wife and two s..
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Yahoo News
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Russia's foreign spy service released previously classified files on Monday on a double agent who, under the codename "Britt", passed secrets to Moscow from inside British intelligence in the 1940s.
The rare glimpse behind the scenes of Russian espiona..
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Canada.com
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The telecommunications company Telus Corp. began offering adult content to its Canadian cellphone customers this month...
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