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Secret Vatican archives on Pope Pius XII's controversial World War II pontificate will not be made public for at least another "six or seven years," the papal spokesman said Thursday.
"Before then, it is unrealistic to think (they) will be made accessible to researchers," Father Federico Lombardi was quoted as...
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Israeli President Shimon Peres gave the green light Monday for the country to hold new elections, telling parliament that consultations he had held with political parties led him to conclude that no legislator had enough backing to form a coalition government.
The president had completed the consultations earlier Monday, a day after...
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Germany and China have resumed dialogue, with junior ministers leading talks on strategic issues, while consultations on human rights are set for next month, the German Foreign Ministry said Friday.
The resumption of the regular rounds of talks was announced in June by Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and his German counterpart...
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Moscow will not let itself be drawn into a confrontation with the West, a senior Russian diplomat said Wednesday, one day before a top-level Russian-German meeting.
"We haven't broken off dialogue. We haven't pulled back the hand (of friendship)," ambassador to Berlin, Vladimir Kotenyev, said in an interview with Deutsche...
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The European Union on Monday called on three Indian states to lower their high import duties on spirits and wine, saying they contravene World Trade Organization (WTO) rules.
India's states of Goa, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu represent some of the country's largest markets for wines and spirits.
And these states apply a variety of...
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US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice was en route to Tbilisi on Friday, as Russia's military continued to occupy two Georgian provinces despite a ceasefire agreement obliging them to leave.
Rice was set to meet with members of the Georgian leadership to discuss the implementation of a ceasefire plan for the region, and humanitarian...
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South Ossetia has appealed to its ally Russia for military aid in violent fighting with Georgian troops who surrounded the capital Friday.
"Heavy fighting in and around Tskhinvali is ongoing," the South Ossetian Press and Information Committee reported. "The people of South Ossetia request the president and the...
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The military junta which overthrew Mauritania's government must return that government to power for any future elections to count as valid, officials in Brussels said Thursday after coup leaders promised a poll.
The EU's executive, the European Commission, has "taken note" of the promise, but insists that "those...
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 After the news that he has been on the front line during the past ten weeks was leaked causing a major media excitement, Britain’s Prince Harry will be withdrawn from the Afghan front line, the British agency Press Association (PA) said Friday.The news regarding the Prince’s current mission on the front was first released by the US...
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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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 Poland wants to rebuild its relationship with the EU and Russia, but it
will withdraw all 900 of its troops from Iraq by the end of 2008, new
Prime Minister Donald Tusk said in his first address to the Polish
parliament on Friday.
"We will conduct this operation keeping in mind that our commitment
to our ally, the United...
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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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 The situation in the Middle East and ethnic integration of migrants top
the agenda when German Chancellor Angela Merkel meets French President
Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday.
Sarkozy is bringing Prime Minister Francois Fillon and other
members of his cabinet with him to Berlin for the talks, which form
part of regular Franco-German...
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China's ruling Communist Party sees the signing of four economic agreements with Taiwan on Tuesday as a small step on the path that it hopes will lead to eventual unification with the island state, a leading scholar said.
"In this situation the main aims are to promote economic, trade and cultural exchanges across the Strait, and...
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A ship loaded with international pro-Palestinian activists intent on breaking Israel's blockade of the coastal salient docked in Gaza Wednesday morning, despite a vow by Israeli officials not to let the vessel enter the enclave's territorial waters.
"The Dignity," with 27 people on board, including Western human- rights...
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Israeli President Shimon Peres completed consultations with parliamentary factions Monday, preparing the ground for early elections in the politically turbulent country before March.
A day after Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni informed him that she was unable to form a government, Peres was expected to announce to Knesset speaker...
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Israeli President Shimon Peres gave the green light Monday for the country to hold new elections, telling parliament that consultations he has held led him to conclude that no legislator has enough backing to form a new coalition.
Peres held the consultations with political factions after Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni informed him...
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Nine Chinese oil workers have been kidnapped by an unknown group in Sudan, state media said on Monday.
The nine workers were seized at an oil field in Southern Kordofan State close to Sudan`s strife-torn Darfur region, the official Xinhua news agency quoted Chinese embassy officials as saying.
No group has claimed responsibility...
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A Hong Kong doctor has been arrested after pictures of semi-naked women taken during consultations at his clinic were found at his home, a news report said Friday.
The 29-year-old general practitioner was arrested after a woman patient complained she saw a digital camera trained on her during a consultation, the South China Morning...
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The Philippine Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed one justice and suspended another for two months over a bribery scandal at the country's second highest court.
Court of Appeals Justice Vicente Roxas was dismissed after he was found guilty of grave misconduct, dishonesty, undue interest and conduct prejudicial to the interest of...
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Saudi Arabia and Singapore have reached an agreement to allow any number of flights between Singapore and the eastern Gulf city of Damman, the Transport Ministry said Friday.
The increase was reached after two days of consultations between the ministry and Saudi Arabia's General Authority of Civil Aviation.
Under the agreement,...
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Pakistan's ruling coalition Thursday evening formally announced that it had decided to impeach embattled President Pervez Musharraf, a move that could send the country into yet another political crisis.
"It has become imperative to move for impeachment under article 47 (of the constitution) against General Musharraf," said...
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 Leaders of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) were meeting Sunday to
chose a successor to assassinated leader Benazir Bhutto and decide
whether to boycott crucial upcoming parliamentary elections.
The nine-member central executive committee of the PPP were meeting
at the Bhutto family ancestral home in Naudero in the southern...
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 North Korea's uranium-enrichment programme is among the issues
hindering the meeting of a year-end deadline for Pyongyang to declare
its nuclear programme, South Korean Foreign Minister Song Min Soon said
Thursday.
The deadline could pass unfulfilled as problems have cropped up not
only with North Korea laying out its nuclear...
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 Pakistan's caretaker Prime Minister Mohammedmian Soomro has asked the
Commonwealth to delay a decision on whether to suspend his country's
membership over the current state of emergency, the foreign ministry in
Islamabad said Wednesday.
The 53-member grouping of Britain and its former colonies and
Mozambique "should have a...
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 Ichiro Ozawa, the head of Japan's largest opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), offered his resignation on Sunday over internal party criticism about his discussion of Japan's Afghan mission policy with Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda.
Ozawa was the object of sharp criticism from within his own party for not immediately...
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Sri Lankan rebel chief Velupillai Prabhakaran vowed to fight on after suffering one of the biggest losses in the 25-year armed struggle to carve out an independent homeland for minority Tamils in the northern and eastern parts of the country.
As rebels mourned the death of a key political leader Sunday, police also found five...
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 According to a recent statement issued in Beijing, North Korea agreed to desist nuclear operations and disable its U.S. supervised facilities at its Yongbyon complex by December 31, at the same time promising not to divulge any technology or transfer any nuclear materials.The nuclear plant at Yongbyon is an experimental five-megawatt...
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The Polish football federation announced Wednesday four candidates for its new president, amid a decision from FIFA and UEFA not to recognize a decision to suspend the federation's leadership.
A spokesman said the federation's delegates will vote for the new president on October 30. The four candidates are: Tomasz Jagodzinski,...
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Despite South African President Thabo Mbeki's
assessment that the stalled talks between Zimbabwe's political parties
taking place in Pretoria were going 'very well' there were signs
Tuesday that the current impasse could drag on. In a
characteristically positive assessment of the situation, Mbeki, the
regional mediator in...
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 Merck & Company settled to pay over 650 million dollars in order to resolve the allegations that it had overcharged the government for four of its most popular drugs and that it had bribed doctors to prescribe its drugs.The Justice Department announced that the company settled for the two different lawsuits that charged it that it...
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 The UN Security Council said Friday it supported the Middle East peace
conference held in Annapolis, Maryland, earlier in the week, but
stopped short of adopting a formal resolution of support submitted by
the United States.
The US withdrew the resolution during a closed-door session after
it was circulated to the council's 15...
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 A parliament session on Friday for Lebanese lawmakers to elect a new
head of state before a midnight deadline was cancelled to pave way for
more consultations, leaving the country facing the prospect of a power
vacuum.
"The session is cancelled till next Friday," speaker of parliament Nabih Berri said in a...
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