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Iraq Struck by Series of Bombings Targeting Police
Voice of America
Photo: AP Iraqi officials say a series of apparently coordinated attacks across the country have killed at least 46 people. Most of the violence Wednesday appears to have targeted Iraqi security forces. It comes as the United States prepares to ...
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Chinese Airport Drew Safety Concerns Before Crash
New York Times
By SHARON LaFRANIERE BEIJING — China's largest passenger airline deemed nighttime landings at a new airport in northeastern China unsafe a year before a Henan Airlines jet crashed there on Tuesday night, killing 42 passengers and injuring 54 others. ...
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Manila siege victims flown home
BBC News
Victims of the Manila bus hijack have been flown back to Hong Kong, two days after the deadly siege which left eight tourists dead. Survivors, relatives of the victims and coffins carrying those who died left the Philippine capital after a ceremony at ...
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Pakistanis flee new monsoon floods in south
BBC News
Thousands of Pakistanis are fleeing their homes in southern coastal areas as floods sweep down from the north. Some 200000 people have been evacuated in the Thatta area of Sindh province, where dozens of villages are submerged. ...
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Trapped Chilean Miners: NASA, We Have a Problem
ABC News
By JEFFREY KOFMAN, LEE FERRAN and JESSICA HOPPER As the 33 men trapped in a Chilean mine enter their twentieth day of accidental captivity 2258 feet below ground, Chilean officials are looking for space-age help from NASA to keep the miners physically ...
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Abbott won't commit to costings demand
ABC Online
By Sarah Collerton Tony Abbott is relunctant to bow to one of the trio's key demands. (AAP: Mark Graham) Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says he is not yet willing to agree to a request by the three independent MPs to have access to Treasury advice on ...
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ABC Online
Jimmy Carter Arrives in North Korea
New York Times
Yao Ximeng/Xinhua, via AP A child greeted former President Jimmy Carter as he arrived in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Wednesday. By CHOE SANG-HUN SEOUL, South Korea — Former President Jimmy Carter arrived in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Wednesday on a ...
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New York Times
Pak alerts epidemic in country
Oneindia
Islamabad, Aug 25: Emergency measures, to avert epidemic in the country, have been announced in flood hit Pakistan on Tuesday, Aug 24. Waterborne diseases like cholera, diarrhea and dysentery were already spreading among the millions staying in relief ...
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Oneindia
Iran searching for new domestic uranium deposits
Washington Post
AP TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's nuclear chief says the priority after the September startup of Bushehr nuclear power plant wil be to search for new uranium deposits inside the country. Vice President Ali Akbar Salehi told the official IRNA news agency ...
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China's epic traffic jam 'vanished'
AFP
XINGHE COUNTY, China — Can a monster traffic jam spanning dozens of miles and leaving drivers stuck for days really disappear overnight? For days, Chinese and foreign media have issued reports explaining how thousands of vehicles were trapped in an ...
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AFP
Israeli FM says peace deal in one year unlikely
AFP
JERUSALEM — Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Wednesday that renewed peace talks with the Palestinians were unlikely to get anywhere within the one-year time frame set by the United States. "It's clear that the two sides are so ...
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AFP
'Despised' Zardari under vitriolic attack from US, UK media
Oneindia
Washington, Aug.25 (ANI): Under attack from various quarters in the country for his government's slow response to the catastrophic floods, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's apparent failure to handle the crisis has also earned him criticism from ...
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School terrorist project 'could have been educational'
ABC Online
An expert has defended a school assignment which asked students to plan a terrorist attack that would inflict the most number of civilian casualties. A teacher from the Kalgoorlie-Boulder Community High School issued year 10 students with the ...
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Gaza will be the ghost at Mideast talks banquet
Reuters
By Douglas Hamilton JERUSALEM, Aug 25 (Reuters) - It's the proverbial elephant in the room, the ghost at the banquet, the spectre no one wants to acknowledge. Even if Israel and the Palestinians can scale a mountain of scepticism and reach a peace ...
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Iraqi security to deteriorate after US troops pull out
Xinhua
by Wael Naguib, Abdel-Meguid Kamal CAIRO, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- As US military is about to pull out its troops from Iraq by the end of August, some Arab analysts feared security situation will deteriorate as the Iraqi forces still lack good training and ...
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Iran test fires new short-range missile
RIA Novosti
MOSCOW, August 25 (RIA Novosti) - Iran has successfully test fired a short-range Fateh 110 (Conqueror) missile, Isna news agency reported on Wednesday. The third-generation Fateh 110-class missile is an indigenous product, designed and built entirely ...
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