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Iraq 'independent' as US combat operations end
BBC News
Iraq's prime minister has said the country is "independent" as the US formally ends combat operations. Nouri Maliki said the country's security forces would now deal with all threats, domestic or other. US Vice-President Joe Biden is in Iraq on an ...
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Hurricane Earl threatens Labor Day beach vacations
USA Today
By Laura Bly, USA TODAY As an intensifying Hurricane Earl barrels north through the Caribbean, forecasters say the Category 4 storm could threaten Labor Day beach getaways anywhere from the Outer Banks to Cape Cod. The hurricane brought strong winds ...
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China prods N.Korea on economic reform
AFP
BEIJING — China has pressed North Korea to speed up economic reforms in a summit encounter that underscored Beijing's concerns about its impoverished and wayward ally, experts said Tuesday. Many analysts said North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il's five-day ...
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Chilean mine company owners to be questioned over causes of collapse
The Guardian
The owners of Chile's San Esteban mining company face questioning by a government committee today over safety failures that led to the accident which trapped 33 miners underground. Co-owners Alejandro Bohn and Marcelo Kemeny will be asked to explain ...
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Dutch still holding two men over air security scare
Reuters
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch police are still holding two men arrested at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam who triggered a security scare after boarding a Europe-bound flight from the United States, the prosecutor said on Tuesday. ...
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Slovakians search for answers after gun rampage
AFP
BRATISLAVA — Shocked residents of a Bratislava suburb were searching for answers Tuesday after a local man killed seven people and wounded 13 others in an unexplained gun rampage. Police declined to speculate on why the 48-year-old man from Devinska ...
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Gaddafi in 'black Europe' warning
BBC News
Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi says the EU should pay Libya at least 5bn euros (£4bn; $6.3bn) a year to stop illegal African immigration and avoid a "black Europe". Speaking on a visit to Italy, Col Gaddafi said Europe "could turn into Africa" as ...
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Abbas seeks active US mediation in Mideast talks
The Associated Press
RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Palestinian president said Tuesday he will seek active US mediation in negotiations with Israel that are resuming in Washington this week. President Barack Obama is hosting Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...
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German angst over immigration
BBC News (blog)
I am in Germany, preparing a profile of the Pope - but all the talk is about a politician and banker who has caused outrage by his comments on immigration. Thilo Sarrazin has written a book called Germany Abolishes Itself. ...
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BBC News (blog)
Kidnapped Russian pilots released
Indian Express
on Sunday in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, were freed by security forces after a clash with their kidnappers. Abdel-Hameed Moussa Kasha, Governor of the province, was quoted as saying by the official Sudan Media Center that security forces fought ...
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Four Ugandan peacekeepers killed in Mogadishu
AFP
MOGADISHU — Four Ugandan soldiers with the African Union forces in Somalia were killed Monday when hardline insurgents fired a mortar shell at one of their bases, the force's spokesman said. The AU troops, protecting Somalia's embattled government ...
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Armed militias: a quandary for Lebanon, US
The Associated Press
BEIRUT — It started with a dispute over a parking space and erupted into a four-hour street war between Hezbollah and a rival militia, with masked snipers running through alleyways and rocket-propelled grenades exploding in the middle of a Beirut ...
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Attacks on US Soldiers in Afghanistan Intensify
New York Times
By ROD NORDLAND KABUL, Afghanistan — Five American service members were killed in attacks in eastern and southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, according to the NATO-led international forces. Four died in roadside bombs in eastern Afghanistan — three in a ...
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Flood relief falls short in Sindh
Asia Times Online
By Simon Roughneen LARKANA, Sindh province - It is 40 degrees Celsius in the mid-afternoon. Buffalo submerge themselves in floodwaters covering farmland to cool off. Only their heads are above water as they snort and shake to dismiss the morass of ...
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Indonesia Volcano Calmer After Sudden Eruptions
Voice of America
Photo: AP The Indonesian volcano Mount Sinabung in North Sumatra appears to be calming down. Approximately 29000 people have been evacuated from around the mountain but there are reports that some villagers have already returned to their homes. ...
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Russian mission in Minsk attacked
Times of India
MOSCOW: Russian Embassy in Belarus' capital Minsk was attacked by petrol bombs by unidentified assailants on Tuesday, provoking a strong reaction from Moscow which termed it "outrageous". Unknown assailants threw two petrol bombs into the premises of ...
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New photos show Fidel Castro with US journalist
Washington Post
AP HAVANA -- Cuba has released pictures of Fidel Castro with an American magazine correspondent and a Washington-based Latin American policy expert. The images of the 84-year-old with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic and Julia Sweig from the Council on ...
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Wikileaks Founder Assange Questioned By Swedish Police
Wall Street Journal
STOCKHOLM (DOW JONES)--Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was questioned Monday evening by Swedish police for allegedly molesting two Swedish women, Assange's lawyer said Tuesday. "He told the police he was totally innocent," Leif Silbersky said. ...
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Dead Rising 2 - Case Zero
Gaming Age Online
A neat bit of DLC to introduce players to Dead Rising 2, but not quite a flawless first impression. The people who like to reference Dead Rising 2: Case Zero as the first sign of the "paid demo" apocalypse for gamers will hopefully come to realize that ...
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Rwanda's hate laws 'ban dissent'
BBC News
Rwanda's government should review two laws banning the promotion of genocide ideology and sectarianism, Amnesty International says. The campaign groups says the vague wording has enabled their misuse to criminalise dissent. The government was widely ...
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