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It was a year of extremes, starting with the aftermath of the assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto and ending with a global financial crisis that engulfed millions across the world.
The year 2008 saw the eruption of the war in Georgia just as the Olympics opened with a glittering ceremony in Beijing....
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It was a year of extremes, starting with the aftermath of the assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto and ending with a global financial crisis that engulfed millions across the world.
The year 2008 saw the eruption of the war in Georgia just as the Olympics opened with a glittering ceremony in Beijing....
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Around 30,000 people fleeing battles between United Nations-backed Congolese troops and Tutsi rebels are pouring into refugee camps near the eastern city of Goma, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said Wednesday as fierce fighting continued.
UN helicopter gunships and armoured vehicles have been supporting Congolese troops north of Goma,...
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The Clinton County Sheriff’s Department issued an Amber Alert for two youngsters who went missing.14-year-old Christina Alley from Lathrop disappeared Friday, October 17th at approx 2:30 p.m. She was last seen while attending a high school football game in Lathrop, Missouri, said Maj. John Farmer, the chief deputy for the Sheriff’s...
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Russia's foreign minister added his voice to the controversy over South Ossetia's status hopes on Thursday. Georgia's separatist province, he said, has no intention of joining Russia, news agencies reported.
Sergei Lavrov interrupted a press conference in Poland, where he was discussing US missile defence plans, to clarify Moscow's...
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Five people, including an army officer, were killed Wednesday in India's Jammu and Kashmir state by suspected Islamic militants who had infiltrated across the border from Pakistan, police said.
Security forces had killed one of the militants who were holed up in a house in a residential area on the outskirts of Jammu city, the...
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A Russian court on Friday denied granting parole to former Yukos oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, news agencies reported.
Khodorkovsky, 45, once Russia's richest man, applied for parole having served over half of an eight-year jail term for large-scale tax evasion charges against his former oil empire Yukos.
"The court ruled...
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Pakistan's erstwhile strongman Pervez Musharraf resigned as president Monday, succumbing to pressure from the new ruling coalition to quit or face impeachment by parliament.
Born in Delhi on August 11, 1943 to educated parents, Musharraf came to Pakistan with his family after the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947.
He...
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the 120th day of 2008 with 246 to follow.The moon is waning. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include publisher William Randolph Hearst in 1863; bandleader and composer Edward Kennedy "Duke"...
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A British terrorist suspect in an alleged plot to blow up
trans-Atlantic commercial jetliners managed to escape from a mosque
when his police escorts allowed him to say prayers on their way back to
the prison, police investigators said Monday.
Rashid Rauf, a British citizen of Pakistani origin, escaped from
guards on Saturday...
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 According to a statement released on Thursday by the world’s
web search leader, Google, it was unlikely U.S. antitrust authorities would
seek to impose conditions on its $3.1 billion acquisition of advertising
company Double-Click.
David Drummond, Google's chief legal officer, told reporters
he did not expect the Federal Trade...
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It was a year of extremes, starting with the aftermath of the assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto and ending with a global financial crisis that engulfed millions across the world.
The year 2008 saw the eruption of the war in Georgia just as the Olympics opened with a glittering ceremony in Beijing. It...
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A Ugandan government official on Friday confirmed that the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia will pull out should Ethiopia stick to its promise of withdrawing its troops before the end of the year.
"If the Ethiopians pull out ... the AU force will pull out because it will not have adequate numbers," James...
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The Zimbabwe government was backtracking Friday on remarks by President Robert Mugabe this week that there was "no cholera" in the country.
George Charamba, Mugabe's official spokesman, said that Mugabe's assertion was "sarcasm," meant to highlight "the absurdity" of what the regime sees as Western moves...
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Congolese rebels and government officials were in the Kenyan capital Nairobi Monday for talks aimed at cementing a ceasefire in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The talks mark the first direct conversation between the government and Tutsi rebel group the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP), which...
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Congolese President Joseph Kabila has sacked his military chief of staff in the wake of rebel gains in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
State television late Monday night said that General Didier Etumba Longomba, the navy chief, would take over from General Dieudonne Kayembe.
Rebel Tutsi general Laurent Nkunda's...
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The Congolese army and Tutsi rebels have been involved in some of the worst clashes for a week despite rebel leader Laurent Nkunda telling a United Nations envoy that he supports peace in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN said Monday.
"Yesterday we had a lot of clashes in Riwindi (125 kilometres north of Goma, the...
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Emergency aid is not reaching many of the tens of thousands of civilians displaced by fighting between rebels and government troops in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned Wednesday.
The World Food Programme (WFP) has provided food to the displaced living in refugee camps around Goma, the...
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A regional summit on the conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo is to take place in Nairobi Friday, a Kenyan foreign ministry official said Wednesday as small-scale fighting between rebels and pro-government militia continued for a second day.
"There will be a summit on Friday," Patrick Wamoto, Head of the...
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Nairobi/Goma (dpa) - A United Nations aid convoy taking supplies behind rebel lines in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo is not enough to meed the needs of hordes of desperate refugees, aid organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) warned Tuesday.
Tens of thousands of civilians remain displaced after rebel Tutsi general...
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Calm has returned to the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a spokesman for the United Nations peacekeeping mission said Thursday after four days of fighting that saw Tutsi rebels come close to taking the city of Goma.
General Laurent Nkunda, leader of the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP), Wednesday...
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At least 26 people have been killed in a wave of suicide car bomb attacks in Somalia, hospital and government officials said Wednesday.
Five near-simultaneous suicide bomb attacks, including one on an Ethiopian embassy and one on a United Nations compound, rocked the breakaway northern state of Somaliland and the semi-autonomous...
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Five suicide bomb attacks, including one on an Ethiopian embassy and one on a United Nations compound, rocked Somalia Wednesday, witnesses and the UN said.
Witness Farhaan Omaye told Deutsche Presse Agentur dpa that three near-simultaneous bombs went off in in Hargeysa, in the breakaway northern state of Somaliland.
The Ethiopian...
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At least 25 people have been killed in a wave of suicide car bomb attacks in Somalia, hospital officials said Wednesday.
Five near-simultaneous suicide bomb attacks, including one on an Ethiopian embassy and one on a United Nations compound, rocked the breakaway northern state of Somaliland and the semi-autonomous state of...
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Most of the estimated 30,000 children abducted by Ugandan rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) during its two- decade-long war with the government were sold to fight in Sudan's restive Darfur province, Uganda's Daily Monitor reported Wednesday.
The children were first forced by the LRA to fight and commit atrocities. Afterward,...
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Somali insurgents have said they will take their fight to Kenya if the neighbouring nation carries out a plan to train Somali government troops.
Kenyan Foreign Affairs Minster Moses Wetangula recently offered to provide training to around 10,000 troops currently taking a hammering in Somalia's bloody Islamist insurgency.
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Somali Islamist insurgent group al-Shabaab, which last month ordered the closure of Mogadishu's main airport, said Thursday it may allow air traffic to once again land.
"Our decision to close the airport is not Holy Koran verse; we can change our decision to close the airport if the people come to negotiate," Sheikh...
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Tensions are rising at the sprawling Dadaab refugee camp complex in North-West Kenya as a massive influx of Somali refugees fleeing a brutal insurgency across the border stretches the facilities to breaking point, a UN official said Thursday.
The complex, made up of three separate camps stretching over 50 square kilometres, now hosts...
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Aid agency Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has shut down two offices in eastern Chad and evacuated its staff after armed robberies, the charity said Thursday.
MSF said that all activities in Ade and Goz Beida had been suspended indefinitely, leaving 70,000 people without access to health services.
"The fact that MSF is being...
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Somali pirates on Wednesday hijacked a South Korean cargo ship with 21 crew onboard but failed in an attempt to seize a Greek vessel in the Gulf of Aden, a maritime official said.
"Pirates attacked a fully loaded South Korean bulk carrier en route from Europe to Asia and successfully hijacked her," Noel Choong of the...
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The Red Cross on Wednesday issued an emergency
appeal to donors for 26.6 million dollars for food aid to Zimbabwe,
saying millions in the politically and economically unstable country
faced hunger. The International Federation of the Red Cross
and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in Geneva the funds would help those
already in need...
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Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai
was canvassing for support for his bid to lead the country Thursday as
the European Union sounded the alarm over ongoing political violence in
the southern African country. Tsvangirai was in the West
African state of Senegal to meet with President Abdoulaye Wade, who has
advocated in...
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 Over 6,000 Kenyans have fled to eastern Uganda from the on-going
violence after last month's disputed general election that saw
incumbent president Mwai Kibaki re-elected for a second term, UN and
government sources said Saturday.
Most of the displaced are huddled in camps around the border towns
of Malaba and Busia and aid...
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 The UN General Assembly held a minute of silence on Wednesday in
commemoration of those killed in the twin bombing attacks in Algiers,
which claimed more than 60 lives, including UN personnel.
The 192-nation assembly was called to pay tribute to its staff
killed in Tuesday's attacks, which UN officials now said totaled...
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 The International Labour Organization (ILO), the Food and Agriculture Organization(FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development agreed on Tuesday to create global partnership which aims to reduce the huge number of children working in agriculture.The initiative was launched to mark the UN World Day Against Child...
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The European Union must put all hopes of building a closer relationship with Israel on hold until the fighting in the Gaza Strip ends, a group of leading aid agencies said Wednesday.
It would be "inconceivable" for the EU to work for closer ties with Israel at a time when the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip has been...
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The death toll in Zimbabwe from cholera has continued to rise and at least 1,174 people have died in the latest epidemic, an official with the UN's Children Fund said Tuesday.
In all, some 23,712 cases of the disease have been reported, leaving the mortality rate at over 5 per cent, well above the acceptable 1 per cent during an...
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A Kremlin bill proposing a longer presidential term was overwhelmingly approved by Russia's upper house of parliament on Monday, in the final legislative step of amendment to Russia's constitution.
The bill extending the presidential term from four to six years was endorsed by all 142 members of the Federation Council, Russian news...
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Zimbabwe faces potential "catastrophic" results if humanitarian efforts against cholera are not provided soon, an official with the Red Cross said Tuesday, as the UN confirmed that at least 978 people have died of the disease since August.
The UN statistics are generally seen as the minimum number of deaths and it is assumed...
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The Czech Republic's largest carmaker, Skoda Auto, a unit of Volkswagen AG, plans to cut its working week to four days in the first half of 2009 due to falling demand in Western Europe, a company spokesman confirmed Friday.
The company agreed on the plan with trade unions late Thursday in a bid "to preserve employment,"...
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Opponents of the Turkish Ilisu dam seized rooms in the Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG (OeKB) in Vienna on Wednesday, calling on the bank to pull out of the project on ecological and cultural grounds.
Austrian, German and Swiss export guarantees worth an estimated 450 million euros (577 million dollars) underpin the financing of the...
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Injury and violence were responsible for 900,000 children's deaths each year, 90 per cent of which were accidental, a United Nations report released Wednesday said.
The leading cause of death resulting from an injury was road traffic accidents, followed by drowning and fires or burns.
War made up only 2.3 per cent of child-injury...
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Olympic television broadcasts from 2014 onwards could be aired by private networks in Europe instead of the state-run stations which covered the Games for the last 50 years, a German television executive said on Wednesday.
Dieter Gruschwitz, the head of sports at the ZDF state network, said that such a scenario was not out of the...
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An organization representing 900 Swiss companies has signed an agreement to crack down on commercial child sex tourism, an official with the Swiss Federation of Travel Agencies said Monday.
"We want our members to inform their clients and partners in different countries about the protection of children there," Sandra...
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German experts compiling a brief for the G20 summit in Washington are to call for a revision of the way banking executives are paid and a worldwide loan registry, sources told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa Friday.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck commissioned the experts to rapidly draft a set...
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Russia supports the idea of holding a summit of the world's greatest powers in 101 days' time to debate the reform of the global financial system, a Kremlin official said Friday.
"As I understand it, we support" a proposal from French President Nicolas Sarkozy to hold a summit of the world's 20 greatest powers 100 days after...
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German experts compiling a brief for the G20 summit in Washington called Friday in Berlin for a revision of the way banking executives are paid and also called for a worldwide loan registry.
They handed a report to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck.
Otmar Issing, a former chief economist of...
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Continuing fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has prompted the UN to make plans to transfer 60,000 displaced people to a new camp farther away from the front lines, officials said Friday.
The new site is located about 15 kilometres to the south-west of the existing camps. Most of the transferees will have to make...
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The European Commission on Wednesday proposed tough rules designed to improve the functioning of credit rating agencies, which have been partly blamed for the global financial crisis.
The proposals, put together by European Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy, are designed to "restore market confidence" by imposing...
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European Union leaders said Friday they were leading world efforts to reform global finance by agreeing on a common set of principles and on five specific recommendations to avert future credit crunches.
The common EU position, agreed after more than three hours of "intense" discussions over lunch in Brussels, is intended to...
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Eleven people were killed in a roadside bombing of a minibus on Thursday in the Russian capital of North Ossetia, news agencies reported.
The duty officer at the regional Interior Ministry said the crime looked to be a terrorist act.
An explosive hit the crowded minibus as it stopped outside the entrance to a movie theater and...
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At least five people were killed in the explosion of a mini-van on Thursday in the Russian city of Vladikavkaz, just across the border from South Ossetia where Russia fought a war with Georgia in August, news agencies reported
Another five people were injured in the blast outside the entrance to a movie theater and market on...
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The French presidency of the European Union has agreed to water down its proposals on how to reform the global financial system, diplomats said Tuesday.
The decision followed two hours of talks among EU finance ministers meeting in Brussels.
Sources familiar with the negotiations said France agreed to make changes to the wish list...
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A detailed French set of proposals on how to reform the global financial system was at the top of the agenda on Tuesday as European Union finance ministers met in Brussels.
The plans "can still be better, but it's a good start ... I think we'll turn them into European plans," Dutch Finance Minister Wouter Bos said as the...
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Eurozone finance ministers Monday faced the unenviable double task of trying to lead efforts to reform global capitalism while seeking a fix for their troubled economies.
The evening meeting in Brussels was the first in a series designed to prepare a common European position ahead of global talks on the financial crisis taking place...
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Two Jesuit priests died of knife wounds in Moscow, Russian news agencies said Wednesday.
Igor Kovalevsky, the general secretary of the Catholic Bishops' Conference, said the priests bodies were found in their central Moscow apartment late Tuesday.
Kovalevsky called the incident a "brutal murder."
Police at the scene...
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel called Tuesday for early reforms of world financial markets as she met with a panel of German experts who have been appointed to draw up proposals.
"Time is of the essence," said Merkel in Berlin, saying she wanted to take details with her to the G20 summit in Washington on November 15. The...
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It is the job of David Smith to keep on top of his box of index cards marked "serious buyers."
But as tight loans and tumbling prices keep a stranglehold on Britain's once buoyant property market, hardly any of his clients bother to ring back.
Estate agents like Smith are nostalgic about the days of the property boom when...
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In the first budget since Ireland's economic crash, Finance Minister Brian Lenihan is set to announce Tuesday 2 billion euros (2.7 billion dollars) in cuts aimed at tackling the "most difficult conditions in living memory."
Disappearance of state agencies, tax increases, child benefit cuts and increases in hospital charges...
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Changes in world financial rules will be "the second building block" of German moves to rescue the financial system, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday in Berlin.
Announcing the "first building block," a bank revival programme to cost 100 billion euros (135 billion dollars), she said it would be based on a...
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Germany's government is to mount a 480-billion-euro (650-billion-dollar) rescue plan for German banks, Chancellor Angela Merkel announced in Berlin Monday.
She aimed to secure passage of the legislation by Friday, when the law on a "new constitution for the financial markets" would take immediate effect, she told a news...
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As Germany sought to calm the public with a "decisive" pledge about savings property lender Hypo Real Estate (HRE) came under pressure Monday from other banks and Berlin to sack its chief executive after HRE needed a vast bail-out.
Questions about the German government assurance of an estimated 1 trillion euros (1.4 trillion...
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The Austrian government is to raise guarantees on savings deposits to prevent funds from flowing to Germany but wants to coordinate with other European Union members on the issue, Vice Chancellor and Finance Minister Wilhelm Molterer said Monday.
Molterer initially made his proposal on television late Sunday after similar moves by...
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A border guard was shot dead in Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia on Monday, local agencies reported, while Russian troops said an explosion hit its convoy in a sign of ongoing violence in the EU-monitored border zones.
Abkhaz police chief for the Gali district, Laurens Kogonia, said border guard Mukhran Ashuba died in a shootout...
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The European Union's executive body on Wednesday called for tighter rules on bank security and supervision as the global financial storm showed no signs of abating.
"We have just approved a proposal for reform of the capital requirements of financial companies ... This important and far-reaching proposal will be followed very...
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European countries were Monday urged to step up cooperation and information exchange over threats linked to climate change such as floods, droughts and loss of biodiversity.
Vulnerable areas in Europe include coastal zones, mountainous regions, the Mediterranean and the Arctic, a new report said.
"This report makes strikingly...
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Russia's two leading stock exchanges will not resume trading until Friday, news agencies quoted Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin as saying.
The RTS and Micex markets remained mostly shut for the third day Thursday as stocks took their worst dive since the 1998 financial crisis.
Russian agencies quoted Kudrin saying on Thursday that...
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Russian prosecutors launched a flight safety inquiry on Tuesday into flagship carrier Aeroflot after a crash that killed 88 people, the general prosecutor's office said.
The Aeroflot Boeing 737 crashed near Russia's Ural mountains as it readied to land in the city of Perm on a flight from Moscow. Twenty-one foreigners and seven...
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The finance ministers of the 15 countries which share the euro gathered in Nice on Friday to find ways of avoiding a recession and to prevent a repeat of the turmoil seen on the financial markets.
Ministers were set to discuss the latest economic forecasts of the European Commission, which on Wednesday cut its 2008 growth forecast for...
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South Ossetia's leader denied reports Thursday that the separatist region of Georgia hoped to join Russia, news agency Interfax reported.
"Obviously, I was misunderstood," Edouard Kokoity said less than an hour after he was quoted by news agencies as saying "without doubt, we will become part of Russia."
But,...
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Two people were killed and at least three injured by an explosion on the beach in the Olympic host town of Sochi along the Black Sea, Russian agencies reported.
"At 10:35 am an unidentified device exploded at Loo beach, two people were killed," the head of the city's emergency situations ministry, Anatoly Sherbinin, was...
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Two people died in an explosion on a tourist beach in the Olympic host city of Sochi, drawing a strong reaction from authorities, Russian news agencies reported.
"At 10:35 am (0600 GMT) an unidentified device exploded at Loo beach, two people were killed and 13 injured including an 8-year-old girl," Interfax quoted an...
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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Monday that Russia should restore Soviet-era alliances with Cuba, news agencies reported.
'We need to rebuild position in Cuba and other countries,' Putin said
during a meeting with his deputy Igor Sechin on his return from talks
in Havana. The head of Russia's federal security...
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Sergei Kislyak, Russia's deputy foreign minister, was named the country's new ambassador to Washington, news agencies reported Tuesday.
Kislyak, 57, has headed difficult negotiations with the United States
in recent months over Washington's plan to install parts of a missile
defence shield in Eastern Europe.
The countries'...
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Two Russian submersibles plumbed the depths of
Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia on Tuesday, diving a record 1,680 metres
(5,512 feet) in one of the world's largest lakes. 'It is a
world record for deep-water submersion in fresh water,' an organizer
told news agencies Itar-Tass on the barge fielding expedition that was
to last...
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Britain's Prince William played a key role in a major anti-drug smuggling operation involving a Royal Navy warship in the North Atlantic which resulted in the seizure of cocaine worth at least 40 million pounds (80 million dollars), it emerged Wednesday.The prince, 26, sat alongside the pilot of a Lynx helicopter which provided...
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 Dmitry Medvedev was sworn in Wednesday as Russian president
by his powerful mentor, Vladimir Putin, AFP reports. The inauguration of Russia’s new
president took place at midday in the Andreyevsky hall of the Kremlin palace.
The question is whether the 55-year-old ex-KGB officer, who
led Russia
for eight years, is willing to...
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 Trevor Rees, the only survivor of the crash which killed
Diana, Princess of Wales, said Wednesday that he is not involved in “any
conspiracy to suppress the truth.”
The former bodyguard, formerly known as
Trevor Rees-Jones, was sitting in the front seat on August 31, 1997 and
suffered serious head injuries in the car accident....
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 President Vladimir Putin upheld the candidature of First Deputy Prime
Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Monday to succeed him in office when his
presidency ends in March.
Putin meeting with party leaders Monday, including United Russia
which won by a landslide in the recent parliamentary election, said he
"fully and completely...
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 Kosovo topped the agenda at talks between German Chancellor Angela
Merkel and Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi at Meseberg near Berlin
Tuesday.
"Here Europe will have a large responsibility but we are completely
of one view...that we want to push through a coordinated and united
European position," Merkel...
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 Prime Minister Gordon Brown has launched an international
campaign to help and improve the world’s poorest countries’ health problems.
The International Health Partnership (IHP) is trying to
re-enforce health systems in the developing world and make it easier for
struggling third-world nations.
"Our vision today is that we...
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The water and sewage systems are collapsing in the Gaza Strip, while hospitals were running on backup generators and access to the wounded remained very limited, aid agencies warned on the 13th day of fighting in the enclave.
"Nearly all sewage and water pumps are now out of operation due to lack of electricity and diminished...
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India Thursday criticized Pakistan for its "flip-flop" over the citizenship of sole surviving Mumbai attacker Ajmal Amir Qasab and its "recalcitrance" in failing to bring the perpetrators of the terrorist attacks to justice.
"He (Qasab) has told us quite categorically where he comes from, where he has received...
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Pakistan said Wednesday that information received from India about the Mumbai terrorist attacks was being "seriously examined."
"Pakistan remains fully determined in its investigations to uncover full facts pertaining to the Mumbai incident and is cognizant of the need for establishing legally tenable evidence,"...
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As prayers and candlelight vigils were held Friday to mourn the victims of the deadly tsunami that struck Indian coasts four years ago, survivors complained of unfulfilled promises of rehabilitation.
A total of 12,405 people lost their lives in the tsunami in India in the coastal districts of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh,...
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The global financial crisis has hit Vietnam's traditional craft villages, an industry leader said Friday.
Many workshops have gone bankrupt or are on the brink of shutting down because of slowing international exports, said Vo Quoc Tuan, chairman of Vietnam's Craft Village Association.
"Of more than 2000 traditional craft...
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