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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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CNN
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Kosovo on Monday began its campaign for global recognition a day after declaring independence from Serbia, but bitter divisions in the European Union and United Nations raised the specter of conflict over the Balkan territory. Facing severe economic probl..
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BBC News
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President Vladimir Putin has urged Russians to vote for his United Russia party in Sunday's parliamentary election, in a televised address.
"I ask you to come to the polls and vote for United Russia," he said.
President Putin, who cannot run for a t..
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Reuters
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Ecuador's leftist President Rafael Correa said Washington must let him open a military base in Miami if the United States wants to keep using an air base on Ecuador's Pacific coast.
Correa has refused to renew Washington's lease on the Manta air base,..
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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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CNN
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New British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, seeking to quash speculation that London may distance itself from Washington over Iraq, insisted on Sunday the United States was still Britain's number one ally. "It is the single most important bilateral rela..
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FOX News
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Something like open warfare has broken out between U.S. diplomats at the United Nations and top officials of the controversy-ridden United Nations Development Program, the U.N.’s flagship anti-poverty agency.
At bottom, the issue involves UNDP operat..
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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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TheSun.co.uk
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THE break-up of the United Kingdom became a stark possibility last night as thousands of English and Scottish voters demanded home rule...
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Canada.com
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Canada should repeal the law that allows parents to spank and physically discipline their children, United Nations special envoy Stephen Lewis told a world forum on child welfare yesterday...
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Reuters
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Rude immigration officials and visa delays keep millions of foreign visitors away from the United States, hurt the country's already battered image, and cost the U.S. billions of dollars in lost revenue, according to an advocacy group formed to push for..
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Globe and Mail
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The United States wants the Canadian Navy's help patrolling the high seas and searching cargo vessels for illicit nuclear material going to or from North Korea...
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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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CNN
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Bolivia announced Tuesday it will require visas for U.S. tourists beginning December 1, following through on a pledge to treat Americans much like they treat Bolivians entering the United States. Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca said U.S. citizens woul..
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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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