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Strikers Snarl Transportation in France
New York Times
Commuters crowded onto a subway platform in Paris on Thursday as nationwide strikes tied up transit. By DAVID JOLLY PARIS — French workers sought on Thursday to test President Nicolas Sarkozy's resolve on a pension plan overhaul, walking off the job by ...
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Diplomats: Iran seeks seat on UN nuke agency board
The Associated Press
VIENNA — Diplomats say Iran is seeking a seat on the decision-making board of the same UN nuclear agency probing its activities for evidence that Tehran may be interested in making atomic weapons. Iran has sought such a position previously but has ...
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UN indispensable in rallying world to meet MDGs deadline
Xinhua
by Xinhua Writer Gu Zhenqiu UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 23(Xinhua) -- The United Nations was once again under the spotlight Wednesday when world leaders renewed their commitments at a high-level UN summit to reaching the global anti-poverty Millennium ...
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Iran to Build Own Air Defense System After Russia Withholds S-300 Missiles
Bloomberg
By Ladane Nasseri - Thu Sep 23 06:50:59 GMT 2010 Iran's Defense Ministry said the country will produce its own advanced anti-aircraft missile system similar to THE S-300 which Russia decided not to supply in compliance with international sanctions. ...
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Wen says China, US not rivals but partners
Xinhua
NEW YORK, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said here Wednesday that China and the United States were not competitors or rivals but partners in cooperation. Dialogue had always been the mainstay of ties between China and the US, ...
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Israel to examine UN report on Freedom Flotilla takeover - foreign ministry
RIA Novosti
TEL AVIV, September 23 (RIA Novosti) - Israel will examine a report by the UN Human Rights Council on the interception of an international Gaza-bound aid convoy by Israeli commandos, although the Israeli authorities consider it "biased, politicized and ...
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Security tightened in Jerusalem in the wake of rioting
Jerusalem Post
By JPOST.COM STAFF Large police presence in Old City, Succot events to proceed as planned after shooting of East Jerusalem resident by security guard causes violent clashes. Security in Jerusalem was tightened on Thursday, in police measures taken ...
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Arctic must remain zone of peace: Putin
Sydney Morning Herald
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called on Thursday for peace and co-operation in the Arctic as the Polar countries scramble to stake their claims over the region's energy-rich seabed. "We think it is imperative to keep the Arctic as a zone of peace and ...
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Web message says al Qaeda affiliate claims abduction
CNN International
(CNN) -- An al Qaeda claim of responsibility for the kidnapping of five French nationals in Niger has surfaced on Islamist websites. The message, purportedly from al Qaeda in Mahgreb, said it kidnapped five French nuclear experts who worked for Areva, ...
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'US runs Afghan force to hunt militants in Pakistan'
AFP
WASHINGTON — The Central Intelligence Agency runs an Afghan paramilitary force that hunts down Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants in covert operations in Pakistan, a US official said Wednesday. Confirming an account in a new book by famed reporter Bob ...
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AFP
Typhoon Fanapi kills 54 in China: state media
AFP
BEIJING — Typhoon Fanapi, one of the strongest storms to hit China in years, has left 54 people dead and 42 missing in flooding and landslides in the south of the country, state media said on Thursday. Xinhua news agency said 79000 people had been ...
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AFP
N.Korea reshuffles officials ahead of key meeting
AFP
SEOUL — North Korea announced a reshuffle of senior officials Thursday just days ahead of a key communist party meeting expected to pave the way for a power transfer from leader Kim Jong-Il to his son. Kang Sok-Ju, North Korea's first vice minister of ...
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AFP
Egypt accuses Israel of gall in nuclear row
AFP
VIENNA — Egypt accused Israel of gall Wednesday in a bitter exchange over nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation in the Middle East at a meeting of the UN atomic watchdog. Egypt's delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency conference said ...
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AFP
Pak ATC denies bail to Times Square bombing suspects
Sify
Pakistan's Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC) has rejected the bail applications of three persons accused of helping Pakistani-American Faisal Shahzad in his attempted car-bombing at Times Square in New York. Malik Muhammad Akram Awan, a judge of the ...
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Tajik authorities hunt ex-warlord in killings
The Associated Press
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan — Authorities in Tajikistan launched a major manhunt Wednesday for a former opposition warlord that they suspect of masterminding an attack on a military convoy last weekend that claimed 25 lives. Efforts to detain Mirzokhodzha ...
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