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BBC News
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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has opened high-level talks at the climate change conference in Bali with a call to action.
He said that if no action were taken, the world would face impacts such as drought, famine and rising sea levels...
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Reuters
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has changed his country's name, redesigned its flag and rejigged its coat of arms in his drive for a socialist state.
Now the leftist reformer, highly popular for redistributing oil income, is seeking to move the countr..
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News.com.au
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IRAN overnight showed off for the first time a new fighter jet said to be modelled on the American F-5 but built using domestic technology, state media reported.
The "Azarakhsh" (Lightning) jet - one of the first to be home-produced by Iran - made a su..
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BBC News
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Members of the feared religious police in Saudi Arabia are for the first time due to stand trial over the deaths in their custody of two men.
The deaths, which occurred a few weeks ago, sparked a media uproar, leading to calls for a re-evaluation of th..
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Al Jazeera
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Ahmad al-Harthi, director of the meteorology department, said: "Oman is normally affected by tropical cyclones from time to time, but this is one of the severest since the 1977 storm, bearing in mind we have records going back to 1890."
A weather serv..
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CNN
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro discussed details of his recent health problems for the first time Wednesday, telling his countrymen in a written message that he underwent several operations, some of which were unsuccessful, but that his condition has now stabi..
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News.com.au
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A MAN slashed by a razor-wielding thug raced against time to get to hospital before he bled to death...
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CBS News
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For a national symbol so intimately linked to China's international image, the Great Wall is in a pretty sorry state...
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New Yorker
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American Airlines Flight 45—departing Charles de Gaulle at 10:40 A.M., arriving J.F.K. at one each afternoon—is a tourist’s delight: timed just right to avoid late checkout, leaving time for one last Kir Royale at Les Deux Magots. On August 22nd, th..
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MSNBC
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Eighteen years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev was named TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year for leading the political revolution that tore down the Iron Curtain and broke apart the Soviet Union. This year, Vladimir Putin, the man who restored Russia to a leading..
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BBC News
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Detained Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has met members of her political party for the first time in more than three years.
Ms Suu Kyi is reported to be optimistic about the chances of reconciliation with the military junta.
Earlier s..
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MSNBC
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That time, at least, “the floods happened after we harvested our crops,” she said from her new home — a mud hut much like her last one, but shared with 20 people instead of four.
This time, Amongin’s cassava, potato and groundnut crops were was..
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CNN
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More than seven years after most of the world marked the start of the 21st century, Ethiopia is putting the finishing touches to its own millennium bash. Using the Julian calendar, an ancient system of measuring time abandoned by the West in the 16th cent..
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SF Gate
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Stolen again. Last time, it was a museum curator who staged a Hollywood-worthy theft of Impressionist paintings by Monet and Sisley before landing in a French prison. This time, the five masked gunmen who snatched the canvases are still at large.
As a..
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CNN
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The upper house of Japan's Parliament elected a Democratic Party lawmaker as its president Tuesday, the first time an opposition member has held the post. The upper house chose Satsuki Eda in a unanimous vote at the start of a special session following th..
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BBC News
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Turkey is swearing in a new parliament with attention focusing on 20 pro-Kurdish deputies, represented for the first time since 1991.
The new deputies say they want reconciliation and a peaceful solution to the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which has claim..
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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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Guardian Unlimited
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Gordon Brown has presided over a surge in support for the Labour Party that today breaks through the politically symbolic 40 per cent barrier for the first time in nearly two years.
As David Cameron faces the first signs of a shadow cabinet revolt afte..
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BBC News
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Liberia's former President Charles Taylor has appeared at his war crimes trial in The Hague for the first time.
Wearing a blue suit and a yellow tie, Mr Taylor, 59, turned up after the judge had explained why his trial would again be delayed - until 20..
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Guardian Unlimited
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It's an easy target, but it's time to stop mocking the States. They could sure teach the Brits a thing or two.
Once again, this time for a report commissioned by the broadcaster itself, the ostensibly neutral BBC stands accused of a sneaky preference f..
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