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BBC News
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Celebrations are taking place across Israel to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state.
Fireworks, concerts and an aerial display were among the events laid on, while Israeli families prepared picnics and barbecues for the national holid..
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MSNBC
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Iran has begun installing 6,000 new centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant in Natanz, state television quoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying Tuesday.
Iran already has about 3,000 centrifuges operating in Natanz, and the new announcement i..
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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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SF Gate
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Russia's parliamentary elections, which the pro-Kremlin United Russia party won handsomely, were "not fair" and failed to meet international democratic standards, according to observers from two leading European organizations.
The groups' scathing asse..
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BusinessWeek
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The President declares a state of emergency, but his army is no longer so popular and the U.S. may withdraw military aid
Pakistan's political crisis has reached its predictable zenith, with President Pervez Musharraf declaring a state of emergency on N..
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BBC News
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Europe's seas are in a "serious state of decline" as a result of coastal development, overfishing and pollution from agriculture, warn scientists.
The continent's regional seas will deteriorate even further unless action is taken to curb the threats, t..
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Guardian Unlimited
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A group of journalists at a state-controlled broadcast news agency in Russia have resigned en masse in one of the few open rebellions in recent years against censorship imposed by the Kremlin.
Eight reporters from the Russian News Service said they cou..
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BBC News
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The body of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin is to lie in state in Moscow ahead of a funeral on Wednesday.
His body will be viewed in the Church of Christ the Saviour, a cathedral rebuilt during his presidency and a symbol of the post-communist e..
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SF Gate
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The Russian Academy of Sciences, historic home to Russia's brightest scientists, rejected a government demand Wednesday that it cede more control to the state, instead adopting a charter that preserves its centuries-old autonomy.
The almost-unanimous d..
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CNN
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Wildlife authorities investigating why thousands of birds fell from the sky over a town in remote southwestern Australia have ruled out infectious diseases but are no closer to figuring out what killed them, a state official said Friday...
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New York Times
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A legislative commission recommended on Tuesday that New Jersey become the first state to abolish the death penalty since states began reinstating their capital punishment laws 35 years ago. Its report found “no compelling evidence” that capital punis..
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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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BBC News
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The death toll in Burma has reached nearly 4,000 people following a cyclone that hit the country on Saturday, state media say.
It says 3,969 people have been killed and almost 3,000 more are missing. Earlier on Monday, state media said the death toll s..
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BBC News
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Former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan has made his first appearance at Cambodia's genocide tribunal.
He is seeking to be released from detention while waiting for the start of his trial, which is expected to take place later this year.
Khie..
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BBC News
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The EU has said it will launch a full investigation of the state bailout plan of troubled UK bank Northern Rock.
Northern Rock was given emergency government funding last year, after it was hard hit by the credit crunch.
In February, the government..
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BBC News
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Zimbabwe's police chief has warned he will not let opposition "puppets" take power in elections later this month, state media reports.
Augustine Chihuri said President Robert Mugabe's redistribution of white-owned land would never be reversed.
Mr Mu..
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BBC News
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The BBC has learnt of allegations of state-sanctioned violence in Kenya during the recent post-poll crisis.
Sources allege that meetings were hosted at the official residence of the president between the banned Mungiki militia and senior government figur..
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BBC News
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Five men are to appear in court in China charged with producing fake receipts that could have cost the state billions of dollars, state media said.
The men are accused of forging over one million receipts worth a total of $147bn (�72bn) at a factory..
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BBC News
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Pakistan will hold elections before 15 February, state television has quoted President Pervez Musharraf as saying.
Gen Musharraf has been under pressure to honour the parliamentary poll date, originally scheduled for January, since imposing emergency r..
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BBC News
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A massive rescue operation is under way in the southern Mexican state of Tabasco after rains caused the worst flooding there in more than 50 years.
More than one million people are believed to be affected, with 300,000 thought to be trapped in their ho..
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