| 17 October 2006 10:48 |
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 US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has warned North Korea that a second nuclear test would be a provocative act that could only deepen its isolation. » |
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| 17 October 2006 10:42 |
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The United States' population will hit 300 million on Tuesday morning, just 39 years after it reached 200 million, the US Census Bureau estimates.  » |
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| 17 October 2006 09:43 |
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert plans to voice Israel's concern over Iran's nuclear program when he meets President Vladimir Putin during a visit to Moscow beginning on Tuesday, Reuters reported. » |
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| 16 October 2006 12:25 |
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 Suspected Shi'ite militiamen killed 46 Sunni Arab in a weekend rampage of revenge killing in the city of Balad, north of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, reported RFE/RL citing leading world news agencies. » |
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| 16 October 2006 11:47 |
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 Israeli police say there is enough evidence to charge President Moshe Katsav with rape and wire-tapping, BBC reported. » |
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| 15 October 2006 05:53 |
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 Ukrainian nationalist fighters who battled both Soviet and Nazi forces during World War II rallied in their country's capital on Saturday, demanding the same financial and moral recognition as Red Army veterans. |
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| 14 October 2006 10:06 |
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 An open letter to the Pope from 38 top Muslim clerics in various countries accepts his expressions of regret for his controversial speech on Islam. » |
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| 07 October 2006 23:18 |
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 Anna Politkovskaya, a prominent Russian journalist known as a fierce critic of the Kremlin's actions in Chechnya, has been found dead in Moscow. » |
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| 07 October 2006 22:43 |
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Tensions mounted over North Korea's threat to test its first atomic bomb, with shots ringing out Saturday along the border with South Korea and Japan warning of harsh sanctions if Pyongyang goes nuclear, AP reported. » |
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| 07 October 2006 09:34 |
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 Timed to take place as Hungary's parliament voted, the country's opposition parties have staged a rally to keep up the pressure on the prime minister. Thousands gathered in the streets near the parliamentary buildings in the capital - united in their anger over Ferenc Gyurcsany's admission of lying. Fidesz, the main opposition party, accuses the prime minister of not allowing people to vote based on the facts in the last election, Euronews reported. » |
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| 06 October 2006 09:42 |
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 Kyrgyz and Russian special forces wrapped up joint anti-terrorism exercises in the poor Central Asian nation's volatile south Thursday, as Moscow seeks to regain influence in the strategic region marred by Islamic insurgency and political instability. |
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| 02 October 2006 13:52 |
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As is abundantly clear, Kazakhstan desperately wants to chair the OSCE in 2009. And, given that many OSCE members look at Kazakhstan as a potential supplier of much-needed oil and natural gas and feel that it’s potential value more than make up for its shortcomings in the reforms and human rights department, it has seemed as if Kazakhstan would be able to coast into the chairmanship. As Joshua Kucera reports at EurasiaNet though, the US is not so keen on a Kazakh chairmanship so soon. » |
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| 02 October 2006 13:48 |
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The senior United Nations envoy to Afghanistan has condemned a suicide attack outside the Interior Ministry in Kabul city that reportedly resulted in more than a dozen deaths and wounded over 50 other people. » |
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| 16 September 2006 17:01 |
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Thousands of U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops on Saturday launched a large-scale anti-Taliban operation in five Afghan provinces, the coalition said. » |
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| 15 September 2006 14:45 |
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Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov and his counterparts from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will discuss energy cooperation and approve the organization's 2007 budget at a meeting in the Tajik capital, the Russian Foreign Ministry official spokesman said. » |
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