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New Honduras leaders reject Zelaya's return (04 July 12:44) |
| The head of the Organization of American States said Friday he has found no willingness among leaders of Honduras' interim government to return President Jose Manuel Zelaya to power.
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Myanmar denies U.N. chief a visit with Suu Kyi (04 July 12:27) |
| United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon was denied permission to see Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, reporters traveling with the secretary-general said Saturday.
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Ex-Iranian president seeks to free detainees (04 July 07:48) |
| Iranians worried about their loved ones detained in the protests that followed the presidential election got the ear of a former president, who wants the detainees released, an Iranian refor... |
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Report: North Korea test-fires more missiles (04 July 07:18) |
| North Korea fired a pair of mid-range missiles toward the Sea of Japan, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Saturday.
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Mexican elections are referendum on Calderon (04 July 04:41) |
| Mexican President Felipe Calderon will wake up a lame duck Monday. How lame will depend largely on nationwide midterm elections Sunday.
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3 kids among 6 killed in London high-rise fire (04 July 04:15) |
| Six people were killed, including three children, when a fire broke out in a high-rise apartment building in south London on Friday, officials said. The fire started on the fourth floor, eve... |
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Video: Honduran protester bus tires shot out (04 July 12:55) |
| Honduran soldiers shot out the tires of buses headed for a demonstration in support of ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya, a video obtained by CNN shows.
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Fake Tamiflu 'out-spams Viagra on Web' (03 July 10:01) |
| The number of Internet scammers offering fake anti-swine flu drug, Tamiflu has surpassed those selling counterfeit Viagra, a UK body said Friday.
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Top-ranking British soldier killed in Afghanistan (03 July 09:24) |
| The commander of a British regiment has become the country's highest ranking soldier to be killed in action since 1982's Falklands War after a roadside bomb attack in Afghanistan.
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Marines targeting Taliban in Afghan push (03 July 08:50) |
| U.S. Marines on Friday continued to lead a major push against militants in southern Afghanistan in an attempt to rout the Taliban from their stronghold in Helmand province, Marine Capt. Will... |
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TV gameshow offers atheists 'salvation' (03 July 07:16) |
| A Turkish television show is offering contestants what it claims is the "biggest prize ever" -- the chance for atheists to convert to one of the world's major religions.
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Report: UK embassy staff in Iran 'face trial' (03 July 07:04) |
| A top Iranian cleric said Friday some of the arrested employees from the British Embassy in Tehran would be put on trial, Iranian Students News Agency reported. The employees have been accus... |
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Zakaria: Iran regime a 'naked dictatorship' (03 July 06:39) |
| Three leading Iranian reformists who have rejected the results of last month's election questioned the legitimacy of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government Wednesday.
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Analysis: Air France crash mystery deepens (03 July 06:31) |
| If there was ever any question over the importance of finding the black boxes from Air France flight 447 then there is certainly none now.
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North Korea unwilling to talk, British envoy says (03 July 05:14) |
| North Korea is demonstrating an unwillingness to resume negotiations on its nuclear activities, the British ambassador to the country said Friday.
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13,000 Air India employees strike over pay (03 July 04:58) |
| About 13,000 employees at state-run Air India walked off the job Friday for two hours after the airline failed to pay their monthly wage.
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Thrown pig leads to religious riots in India (03 July 04:01) |
| Three people have been killed in religious rioting in southern India between Muslims and Hindus, police said Friday.
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Pakistan: Suspected U.S. drone attack kills 15 (03 July 12:36) |
| A suspected U.S. drone attack killed at least 15 people in northwest Pakistan Friday morning, Pakistani officials said.
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Suu Kyi trial postponed as U.N. chief arrives (03 July 12:18) |
| Officials in Myanmar are delaying the resumption of the trial of Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a spokesman for her political party says. No reason was given.
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OAS chief to seek resolution in Honduras (03 July 09:40) |
| The Secretary General of the Organization of American States, Jose Miguel Insulza, will travel to Honduras as part of a diplomatic attempt to restore deposed Honduran President Jose Manuel Z... |
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FBI interviews detail Saddam's fear of Iran (03 July 08:49) |
| In 2004, even after being captured by U.S. forces, Saddam Hussein told an FBI interrogator he believed Iran was a greater threat to Iraq than the United States, according to newly released F... |
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Official: U.S. soldier sold to Afghan clan (03 July 08:13) |
| A U.S. soldier has been captured by militants in Afghanistan, the U.S. military and the Taliban said Thursday.
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Looking for Mr. Right -- in India (03 July 05:26) |
| Shweta Gupta knows exactly what kind of groom she wants: he should be educated, well settled and live in a good location --- one that must be in India.
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Survivor still haunted by 1971 air crash (03 July 05:13) |
| Juliane Koepcke is not someone you'd expect to attract attention. Plainly dressed and wearing prescription glasses, Koepcke sits behind her desk at the Zoological Center in Munich, Germany, ... |
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Report: Air France plane crashed intact (03 July 12:21) |
| The Air France plane that crashed last month with 228 people aboard "did not break up or become destroyed in flight," the French air investigation agency announced Thursday.
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Hospital: Teen killed by Israeli tank fire (02 July 11:32) |
| A 17-year-old girl was killed and another person was injured on Thursday by Israeli tank fire at the El Marej refugee camp east of Gaza City, hospital sources said.
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Medvedev: Moscow ready for better U.S. ties (02 July 09:08) |
| In an upbeat and optimistic video blog, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says that, after a period in which Russian-U.S. relations "declined to a level practically on a par with the Cold Wa... |
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U.N. nuclear watchdog elects new head (02 July 09:04) |
| The United Nations nuclear watchdog agency elected Yukiya Amano as its new director general Thursday, it announced.
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Attacks, arrests slowing online news from Iran (02 July 07:25) |
| Bloody attacks and midnight arrests, combined with a regime growing more technologically savvy, have begun stemming the flow of online information from dissidents in Iran, activists and huma... |
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Report: North Korea test fires 4 missiles (02 July 07:08) |
| North Korea test fired what appeared to be two short-range missiles off its east coast on Thursday, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported.
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Report: North Korea test fires 3 missiles (02 July 06:25) |
| North Korea test fired what appeared to be two short-range missiles off its east coast on Thursday, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported.
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'Miracle' plane crash survivor back in France (02 July 03:43) |
| A teenage girl who survived a plane crash off the Comoros islands by clinging to wreckage in the Indian Ocean has flown back to Paris on a ministerial plane.
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Report: North Korea test fires two missiles (02 July 03:38) |
| North Korea test fired what appeared to be two short-range missiles off its east coast on Thursday, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported.
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Love hotel business zooms despite downturn (02 July 02:22) |
| Even in the midst of Japan's deepest economic recession since World War II, the country's love hotel industry is thriving.
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Indian court: Gay sex is legal (02 July 02:16) |
| An Indian court on Thursday ruled that consensual sex between adults of the same gender is legal in the country, attorneys said.
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Amnesty: Israel killed hundreds of Gaza civilians (02 July 02:06) |
| Israeli troops killed hundreds of unarmed civilian adults and children, broke laws and committed war crimes during their winter offensive in Gaza, Amnesty International said in a scathing re... |
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Nicaraguan capital's mayor dead (02 July 09:21) |
| The mayor of Nicaragua's capital, three-time world boxing champion Alexis Arguello, was found dead in his home early Wednesday morning from a gunshot wound to his chest. He was 57.
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Newsweek reporter in Iran said to 'confess' (02 July 08:44) |
| A reporter for Newsweek magazine who was arrested in Tehran has confessed to doing the bidding of Western governments, the semi-official Fars News Agency reported Wednesday.
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Ousted Honduran leader delays return (02 July 08:11) |
| The Organization of American States passed a resolution early Wednesday condemning a military-led coup that ousted Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya this week.
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French teen recovers after plane crash (02 July 05:19) |
| A French teenager was recovering in hospital Wednesday, one day after she survived a plane crash off the Comoros islands in which 152 other people are feared to have died.
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U.S. launches 'major operation' in Afghanistan (02 July 04:08) |
| U.S. troops have launched a "major operation" against Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan, U.S. military officials in Afghanistan announced early Thursday. About 4,000 Americans, mostly... |
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Supermarket tycoon becomes Panama leader (02 July 02:53) |
| Ricardo Martinelli, a multimillionaire owner of a supermarket chain, was inaugurated Wednesday as president of Panama.
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Latin American group condemns Honduran coup (02 July 02:11) |
| The Organization of American States passed a resolution early Wednesday condemning a military-led coup that ousted Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya this week.
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Teen plane crash survivor recovers in hospital (01 July 11:51) |
| A French teenager was recovering in hospital Wednesday, one day after she survived a plane crash off the Comoros islands in which 152 other people are feared to have died.
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Oil company rejects damning Amnesty report (01 July 10:52) |
| Nigeria's state oil company rejected criticism from a leading human rights group Wednesday, calling an Amnesty International report "inaccurate."
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France: Yemen plane 'black box' not found (01 July 09:51) |
| Rescue workers locate the downed Yemenia Airways plane's distress signals, but not its flight data recorders, France's Foreign Ministry says. "The jet distress beacons were found, instead of... |
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Experts: Opposition movement in Iran not over (01 July 08:32) |
| The chants, the clashes, the outrage, the blood -- for more than two weeks, the world watched as the fallout from Iran's presidential elections unraveled from peaceful demonstrations to gove... |
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Iraq: BP, Chinese win lucrative oil contract (01 July 07:27) |
| Iraq awarded a lucrative oil contract to BP and China National Petroleum Corp., government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said Wednesday, while rejecting other companies' offers for other oil fiel... |
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Iraq: 35 dead after Kirkuk car bombing (01 July 06:08) |
| The death toll from a huge blast in northern Iraq rose to 35, local security officials said Wednesday.
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Karadzic trial faces further delay (01 July 05:54) |
| The trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is unlikely to start before September, the judge at his Yugoslav war crimes tribunal said Wednesday.
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