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Drilling reaches trapped Chilean miners; rescue won't begin before Tuesday
Globe and Mail
Although they have now plunged a large rescue hole deep into a Chilean mine, workers are unlikely to begin raising any of the 33 men trapped below before Tuesday evening, a senior Chilean mining official said Saturday. At about 8 am Saturday, ...
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Globe and Mail
Wife to meet imprisoned Nobel winner today
Indian Express
The wife of the world's newest Nobel Peace Prize winner was kept from seeing her dissident husband in prison Saturday and instead is expected to see him Sunday and give him the news of his award. Police kept reporters away from the prison where ...
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Fiery Musharraf Slams US Assessment of Pakistan
ABC News
By JOSHUA MILLER Pervez Musharraf, the former Pakistani president and general who came to power in coup in 1999 and resigned in 2008, slammed harsh US assessments of Pakistan's fight against militants in an exclusive interview with "This Week" anchor ...
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Toxic sludge reservoir damage could lead to repeat of Hungarian flood
The Guardian
A wall in the Hungarian reservoir that burst last week triggering a flood of toxic sludge is close to collapse, the country's prime minister warned yesterday. Viktor Orban described the situation as dramatic and warned that a repeat of last week's ...
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The Guardian
No breakthrough at climate talks
BBC News
By Roger Harrabin BBC Environment analyst, Tianjin UN climate talks in China have ended without a major breakthrough and with angry words about the US from Beijing. At the talks in Tianjin, China blamed the US for failing to meet its responsibilities ...
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New Obama NSA bullish on India
Hindustan Times
National Security Advisor Jim Jones became the third top ranking official, after Larry Summers and Rahm Emmanuel, to exit the Obama administration, stepping down on Friday to be replaced by his deputy Tom Donilon. It's a development that India will ...
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Iran halts Western spying on its nuke plants
Daily Times
TEHRAN: Iran has put paid to Western spying on its nuclear facilities by ensuring that its physicists and engineers are better looked after, atomic energy chief Ali Akbar Salehi said. Salehi, who is also a vice president, said that in the past Western ...
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Chinese premier's Eurasian visit further deepens co-op: FM
Xinhua
ISTANBUL, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's four-nation Eurasian tour has scored marked achievements and further deepened China-Europe cooperation, said Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, who described the visit as "a great complete success. ...
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Xinhua
Emerging Asia must move to end crisis-era spending: IMF
AFP
WASHINGTON — Asian governments should move more quickly to withdraw crisis-era spending, the International Monetary Fund said on Saturday, eyeing creeping inflation in the region. "The main policy challenge for the region remains to manage the exit ...
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AFP
Ghazi shrine 'suicide bomber' returns home
Daily Times
By Atif Raza KARACHI: The investigation of the Abdullah Shah Ghazi shrine blasts entered a new phase on Saturday after the alleged suicide bomber returned home, sources said on Saturday. Unofficial reports had claimed on Friday that the suicide bomber ...
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Men gangraped by women in Zimbabwe
Times of India
LONDON: Women in Zimbabwe are said to be abducting and raping men for ritual purposes. In the past 11 months six men have been gang-raped by women, and according to the police the figure could be much higher, as victims are often too embarrassed to ...
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Thousands protest gay pride march in Serbia
The Associated Press
BELGRADE, Serbia — Several thousand supporters of the far-right protested Saturday in downtown Belgrade against a planned gay pride march, as fears mounted about possible violence during the event Sunday. The protest was organized by a conservative ...
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VIEW: Is there a death wish in Pakistan? —SP Seth
Daily Times
At times one wonders if the Pakistani state has a death wish! To be more precise, if its ruling elites (of all descriptions) are vying with each other to bring down their country. The question arises from the unseemly and potentially destructive ...
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