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UN: Pakistan Floods Displace 1 Million More People
Voice of America
Photo: AP Pakistani villagers arrive at a safe place after fleeing their flooded village in Thatta near Hyderabad, Pakistan 26 Aug., 2010. The United Nations says new floods in southern Pakistan have displaced about one million people since Wednesday, ...
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U.N. rights body rebukes France for mistreating Roma
Reuters
GENEVA Aug 27 (Reuters) - A United Nations human rights body rebuked France on Friday for its crackdown on Roma and urged the government to try to integrate members of the EU's biggest ethnic minority rather than send them to eastern Europe. ...
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'Rebirth of our nation': Kenyans celebrate new constitution
ABC Online
Cheered on by hundreds of thousands of jubilant Kenyans waving national flags, President Mwai Kibaki has signed a new constitution that curbs his sweeping powers and strengthens civic rights. In a ceremony full of military pomp and traditional dance, ...
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China Remains Silent on Possible Kim Jong Il Visit
Voice of America
Photo: AP The Chinese government maintains silence about reports that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is in China. News organizations, including Chinese media, report heavy security and high-level motorcades in a northeastern Chinese city where Mr. Kim ...
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Trapped Chilean miners sing national anthem in footage from inside mine
The Guardian
The first video footage of the 33 Chilean miners who have been trapped underground for three weeks shows the men in good spirits, singing the national anthem and chanting, "Long live Chile, and long live the miners." The men shot the video with a ...
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US welcomes release of American detained by N.Korea
AFP
WASHINGTON — The United States welcomed the release of an American citizen as he headed home Friday with former US president Jimmy Carter, who obtained an amnesty deal from North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il. "We welcome the release of Aijalon Mahli Gomes ...
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AFP
Canada arrests 3 in Qaeda bomb plot, 1 India-born
Economic Times
TORONTO: An India-born man and a Pakistani contestant of Canada's version of "American Idol" were among three people arrested as part of a major al-Qaeda terror plot to bomb targets within and outside the country. The three suspected homegrown ...
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Russia will build disputed road: Putin
Sydney Morning Herald
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday insisted that Russia must build a new motorway between Moscow and St Petersburg that was suspended by President Dmitry Medvedev after protests. Medvedev on Thursday ordered the suspension of plans to build the ...
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Slashed Muslim cabby tells Bloomberg he's proud of NYC
New York Post
By SALLY GOLDENBERG, JAMIE SCHRAM and BILL SANDERSON America is still his dream country, and New York his dream city -- despite the nightmare Ahmed Sharif suffered at the hands of a knife-wielding maniac drunk with anti-Muslim rage. ...
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New York Post
Nails removed from 'abused' maid
BBC News
Doctors have removed 13 nails and five needles from a Sri Lankan housemaid who said her employer in Saudi Arabia hammered them into her body. LP Ariyawathie, 49, told staff at Kamburupitiya Hospital her employer inflicted the injuries as a punishment. ...
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NATO kills Afghan children, loses three soldiers
AFP
KABUL — Three US soldiers were killed Friday in attacks in Afghanistan, NATO said, as Afghan authorities accused international forces of killing six children during an air assault on Taliban positions. Amid a surge in military deaths, ...
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AFP
"We're about to crash," BA passengers told in error
Reuters
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - British Airways apologized to passengers after an emergency message warning they were about to crash into the sea was played by mistake. About 275 passengers were on the London Heathrow to Hong Kong flight on Tuesday evening ...
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UK in for 'new wave' of terror, says expert
Economic Times
LONDON: Amid concerns over Prime Minister David Cameron's security during his recent visit to Afghanistan, an expert today warned of a 'new wave' of terror in Britain due to the impending release of radicalised prisoners from British jails in the near ...
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Miracle Oz mum's 2 hours of loving cuddles brings dead son back to life!
Oneindia
London, Aug 27 (ANI): In an incident of miraculous survival, an Oz mother brought her premature baby to survival with her cuddles, after he was declare dead. Kate Ogg, whose son Jamie is five months old now, was born at 27 weeks weighing 2lb along with ...
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Aquino vows punishment over deaths
Aljazeera.net
The president of the Philippines has toughened his stance in response to China's outrage over a botched hostage rescue operation in Manila in which eight Hong Kong tourists were killed last week. Benigno Aquino called the carnage "ghastly" and admitted ...
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Aljazeera.net
Netanyahu may be a latter-day Gorbachev
Ha'aretz
The Soviet leader was elected to fix Communism and ultimately dismantled it. Netanyahu is showing similar inclinations. By Aluf Benn The opening of the direct talks with the Palestinians again raises the question: Who is Benjamin Netanyahu? ...
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Ha'aretz
Hamid Karzai says Afghanistan withdrawal plans have boosted Taliban
Telegraph.co.uk
Barack Obama's announcement that American troops will begin pulling out of Afghanistan in July 2011 has boosted Taliban morale Hamid Karzai has said. By Ben Farmer in Kabul The Afghan president also said there would be no progress in the nine-year-long ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Samantha Cameron leaves hospital
BBC News
Samantha Cameron has been discharged from hospital in Cornwall following the birth of her daughter Florence, a hospital spokesman has confirmed. The prime minister's wife spent three nights in the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro after giving birth by ...
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National Union of Mineworkers one of largest unions in South Africa
CNN International
Johannesburg, South Africa (CNN) -- Another powerful union in South Africa is threatening to join the massive strike that has already crippled the country. The National Union of Mineworkers said Friday it will join the public sector strike next week if ...
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CNN International
Bollywood gives Nepal's beleaguered Maoists a break
Sify
When they fought an armed war for 10 years that killed over 16000 people, Nepal's Maoist guerrillas sought to ban Hindi films in the Hindu kingdom to establish their nation's own, distinct cultural identity. But now, with the war over and struggling ...
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