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CNN
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A major earthquake shook western Indonesia on Wednesday afternoon, killing at least three and injuring 25 others, officials in the country told CNN.
The magnitude 7.5 quake's epicenter was about 195 miles (315 km), south-southeast of Banda Aceh, on the..
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BBC News
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The duration of heatwaves in Western Europe has doubled since 1880, a study has shown.
The authors of the research also discovered that the frequency of extremely hot days has nearly tripled in the past century.
The study shows that many previous as..
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FOX News
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Tehran was set to launch a 24-hour news channel in response to Western giants’ “stranglehold” on the market, feeding to the masses a steady stream of headlines on Iran’s nuclear program amid high tensions, the Fars News Agency reports.
"Press T..
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CNN
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Al Qaeda still has plans to target Western countries involved in the Iraq war, Osama bin Laden's chief deputy warns in an audiotape released Tuesday to answer questions posed by followers. The voice in the lengthy file posted on an Islamic Web site could..
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MSNBC
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A powerful earthquake struck western Indonesia on Wednesday, injuring at least three people and damaging several buildings, officials said. No tsunami was detected.
The quake, which had a preliminary magnitude of 7.6, struck under the island of Simeulu..
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MSNBC
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U.S. and other Western installations are at risk of terrorist attack in Africa’s most-populous nation, and U.S. citizens should exercise vigilance in the West African nation, the U.S. Embassy said Thursday.
Nigeria, which has never suffered an attack..
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CNN
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The diplomatic troika leading new talks on Kosovo says that dividing the territory remained an option if Serbs and Albanians agreed to it. Western policy on Kosovo has previously ruled out partition as a potential spark for regional conflict. Any partitio..
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CNN
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Scores of people have been arrested in a traditionally Tibetan area of western China following public calls for the return of Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, reports said Friday.
Police and army reinforcements were sent to the town of..
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Los Angeles Times
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JUST WHEN IT SEEMED that Western images of Africa could not get any weirder, the July 2007 special Africa issue of Vanity Fair was published, complete with a feature article on "Madonna's Malawi." At the same time, the memoirs of an African child soldier..
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Al Jazeera
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The fate of Western Sahara belongs to the Sahrawi people," Mohamed Abdelaziz, the Polisario chief said on Friday in an interview with Al Jazeera.
Referendum
"We are not opposed to having the Moroccan proposal presented to the Sahrawi people within..
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CNN
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Russia has staged a remarkable comeback in recent years. Gone are the days, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when the Kremlin depended on Western handouts to keep its fragile economy afloat. (Special Report: Eye on Russia)
The country has emerge..
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CNN
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Landslides triggered by heavy rains in western China buried a village and knocked a bus off a highway, killing a total of 21 people, news reports said Saturday.
A mudslide late Friday swept through the village of Heba in Garze, an ethnic Tibetan region..
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FOX News
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A man was arrested and charged for allegedly burying alive his 6-day-old twin daughters near his home in western India. The baby girls later died, police said Friday.
Samantsinh Sodha wanted a son but his wife gave birth to baby girls last week in Nakh..
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BBC News
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Emergency aid is finally trickling through to thousands of people stranded by the devastating tsunami which struck the western Solomon Islands.
At least 22 people died in Monday's disaster but the toll is set to rise, as many others are still missing...
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Yahoo News
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Beijing will rate restaurants, cafes and bars that serve Western food, aiming to help the expected influx of foreign visitors for the 2008
Olympic Games make more informed choices, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
"This move aims to improve Beijing'..
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www.theothersideofkim.com
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When it comes to any analysis of the problems facing Africa, Western society, and particularly people from the United States, encounter a logical disconnect that makes clear analysis impossible. That disconnect is the way life is regarded in the West (it..
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BBC News
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Power cuts have struck several countries in Western Europe, leaving millions of people without electricity...
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