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Roma, on Move, Test Europe's 'Open Borders'
New York Times
Roma children play in front of a building in the Bucharest Roma suburb of Ferentari. By SUZANNE DALEY BUCHAREST, Romania — This city is full of stark, Soviet-era housing blocks, and the grimmest among them — gray towers of one-room apartments with ...
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New York Times
Cardinal sin – or message of hope?
The Guardian
I share the criticism of the Catholic church and Pope Ratzinger made by Stephen Fry (Letters, 15 September). But I wonder if they would extend their stance to rejection of state visits by other heads of theocratic states guilty of gross human rights ...
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Helping others
BBC News
By Michael Bristow BBC News, Beijing Trade not aid appears to be how China sees itself helping the world's poorest countries meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). China says its contribution to developing countries involves encouraging its own ...
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Security, Fraud Concerns Loom Ahead of Afghan Vote
New York Times
Musadeq Sadeq/AP By ALISSA J. RUBIN KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan's parliamentary elections on Saturday could determine whether a viable opposition remains in the legislature, but turnout — and the legitimacy of the second election in a year — hangs ...
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New York Times
Clinton: Peace talks are 'complicated,' will 'take time'
Jerusalem Post
By HERB KEINON Gov't rejects extended freeze, despite US, EU and Egyptian pressure; PA official tells 'Post' he has 'no explanation' for US optimism; Mubarak: I told PM not to restart building, but he said he had no choice. ...
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Tea Party wins rattle Republicans
ABC Online
Recent wins by Tea Party candidates have sparked talk of insurrection in Republican ranks and a furious debate about whether Tea Party candidates are too extreme to be elected in November. LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: In the United States, pundits are still ...
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India doesn't figure in world top-100 universities
Times of India
NEW DELHI: India is nowhere in the recently released world university rankings. The three rankings — Times Higher Education World University Rankings, Academic Ranking of World Universities compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, ...
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No China talks next week in US amid tension
The Japan Times
By KANAKO TAKAHARA Amid rising tension over Japan's detention of a Chinese fishing boat captain, the leaders of Japan and China have no plans to meet when they fly to New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly next week, a top government ...
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French Citizens Among 7 Seized in Niger
New York Times
By MAÏA de la BAUME PARIS — Seven people connected to a French nuclear company in Niger were kidnapped early Thursday near the country's uranium-rich mining zone. A French Foreign Ministry spokesman, Bernard Valero, said the seven, including five ...
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Imran Farooq's key role in Pakistani politics
BBC News
By Syed Shoaib Hasan BBC News, Karachi Dr Imran Farooq vanished from Pakistan in 1992 after security forces launched what was known as "Operation Clean-up" in the city of Karachi. He reappeared in London in 1999, when he claimed political asylum. ...
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BBC News
International Ozone Day celebrated
Indian Express
City-based Terre Policy Centre in collaboration with Club Vasundhara, UNEP Ozone Action Group and Safe Planet Campaign celebrated International Ozone Day on Thursday. The Safe Planet Film Festival organised by these organisations highlighted the ...
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Philippine president to receive bus hijacking report
AFP
MANILA — Philippine President Benigno Aquino is scheduled to receive Friday a report on a bus hijacking that killed eight Hong Kong tourists and tarnished the reputation of his 79-day-old government. Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said on the eve of ...
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AFP
Japan Cabinet Ministers Resign Ahead of Kan's Party Reshuffle
BusinessWeek
By Sachiko Sakamaki and Takashi Hirokawa Sept. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan's Cabinet resigned today ahead of his reshuffling of government posts that will make Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada the ruling party's No. 2 official. ...
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India with NAM in slamming IAEA report on Iran
Indian Express
Distancing itself from IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano's report on Iran and its pursuit of a nuclear programme, India today associated itself with a statement by the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) which criticised the language used in the IAEA chief's ...
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Carla Bruni 'uncovered plot by Rachida Dati to oust her from Elysee Palace'
Daily Mail
By Mail Foreign Service Carla Bruni uncovered a top level government plot to have her ousted from the Elysee Palace because she threatened President Nicolas Sarkozy's chances of re-election, a new book has claimed. The French First Lady was handed ...
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Daily Mail
EU trade deal with S Korea gets green light
Business Standard
The European Union (EU) today gave the go-ahead to a wide-ranging free trade deal with South Korea, its first with an Asian partner. Italy, the main country opposing the agreement, withdrew its objections in exchange for a concession that will see the ...
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13 killed, 19 injured in tribal clash in Kurram
Daily Times
LAHORE: At least 13 people were killed and 19 injured in a clash between two rival tribes in the Upper Kurram Agency, a private TV channel reported on Thursday. According to sources, the clashes between the two tribes, namely Mengal and Turi from ...
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Murdoch Banks on Rooney Hooker, Coke Binge for Paywall Plans
Bloomberg
By Kristen Schweizer - Thu Sep 16 23:01:53 GMT 2010 James Murdoch's plan to charge for online access to UK tabloid News of the World shows he's extending his paywall model even as advertisers flee websites of two of his other newspapers where Internet ...
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Technocracy unacceptable, democracy will be protected
Daily Times
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Thursday that the present coalition government and parliament had the mandate of the people and each member of parliament would protect democracy. He said technocracy would not be tolerated. ...
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