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CNN
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China's foreign minister Wednesday rejected criticism of its human rights record, accusing the United States of "clinging to a Cold War mentality" and "practicing double standards." Yang Jiechi was responding to questions about a State Department report r..
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Washington Post
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Iraq has ordered $100 million worth of light military equipment from China for its police force, contending that the United States was unable to provide the materiel and is too slow to deliver arms shipments, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said yesterday...
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CNN
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An American man accused of raping his daughter and posting the videos on the Internet has agreed to be extradited from Hong Kong to the United States, his lawyer said Monday. Kenneth John Freeman, a former reserve sheriff's deputy on the U.S. Marshals Ser..
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Washington Post
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Russia and the United States sparred yet again Thursday, continuing a war of words that has raised tensions across the Atlantic.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, accepting an award for her contributions to German unification more than a decade and..
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New York Times
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President Vladimir V. Putin seemed to obliquely compare the foreign policy of the United States to the Third Reich in a speech on Wednesday commemorating the 62nd anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany.
The comments were the latest in a series of sh..
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FOX News
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China surpassed the United States as the world's second-largest exporter in the middle of last year, according to figures released Thursday by the World Trade Organization, and the Asian country is pulling further and further ahead.
Export growth from..
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Reuters
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The image of the United States has deteriorated around the world in the past year because of issues such as Iraq and prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, according to a poll by the BBC World Service released on Tuesday...
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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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VOA News
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The United States Thursday reiterated its sorrow over the deaths of Palestinian civilians in Israeli artillery fire in Gaza. But the State Department ruled U.S. support for what it said is a one-sided draft resolution condemning Israel presented by Arab s..
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Reuters
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Nicaraguans voted for a new president on Sunday with former Marxist guerrilla Daniel Ortega in with a strong chance of returning to power despite opposition from the United States, his Cold War enemy...
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Times Online
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THE SPECTRE of a nuclear race in the Middle East was raised yesterday when six Arab states announced that they were embarking on programmes to master atomic technology...
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Reuters
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The controversial interrogation technique known as waterboarding and used by the United States qualifies as torture, the U.N. human rights chief said on Friday.
"I would have no problems with describing this practice as falling under the prohibition of..
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CNN
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Former Vice President Al Gore said Thursday the United States is "principally responsible" for blocking progress at U.N. climate conference. Gore urged delegates at the conference to take urgent action to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases blamed for gl..
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SF Gate
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As a U.N. conference on global warming entered its final stretch, the United States and the European Union remained deadlocked Tuesday on whether countries should commit now to including specific cuts in climate-warming emissions in a new climate pact tha..
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SF Gate
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One day after California became the first state in the nation to ban toys containing toxic plastic softeners, supporters of the measure announced plans Monday to help at least nine other states - and perhaps even Congress - enact similar laws.
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Reuters
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, in one of his harshest attacks on the United States in seven years in power, accused Washington on Saturday of attempting to force its will on the world.
The White House said it was "surprised and disappointed" by Puti..
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CNN
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A U.S. delegation arrives in Beijing on Tuesday on a five-day fact-finding mission on food and drug safety amid a series of health scares about the "made in China" label. The United States stepped up inspections of imports from China after a chemical addi..
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BBC News
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has confirmed that the United States is planning a significant increase in military and defence aid to Israel.
The package would reportedly amount to more than $30bn (?14.8bn) over the next 10 years.
Mr Olmert desc..
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BBC News
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Gordon Brown is flying to the United States to meet President George Bush for the first time since he became prime minister.
Mr Brown reaffirmed the UK's close relationship with the US ahead of the visit saying he wanted to discuss how the two countrie..
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Washington Post
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The United States and the European Union have agreed to expand a security program that shares personal data about millions of U.S.-bound airline passengers a year, potentially including information about a person's race, ethnicity, religion and health...
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