Russia summons the UK ambassador after Britain defies a Russian ban over British Council offices.
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ABU DHABI (Reuters) - President George W. Bush heads to Saudi Arabia on Monday to encourage active support for Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking by the Arab powerbroker and seek help in maintaining American pressure on Iran.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's main Sunni Arab bloc said on Monday it was ready to return to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's Shi'ite-led administration in an effort to revive the national unity government that collapsed last year.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani security forces killed 23 tribal militants but lost seven of their own men in fighting after the tribesmen ambushed a paramilitary troop convoy in northwest Pakistan, an army officer said.
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Michigan is preparing to vote in its US presidential primary, with Romney and McCain the leading Republican rivals.
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AP - Tony Romo can go wherever he wants with Jessica Simpson now.
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Reuters - Russia's Foreign Ministry summoned the
British ambassador on Monday after Britain defied a Kremlin
order and reopened its cultural offices in a row that has
soured already-poor relations between the two powers.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Foreign Ministry summoned the British ambassador on Monday after Britain defied a Kremlin order and reopened its cultural offices in a row that has soured already-poor relations between the two powers.
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Militants kill at least seven Pakistani soldiers in a tribal area near the Afghan border, the military says.
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LONDON (Reuters) - South African double amputee Oscar Pistorius, who runs with carbon fiber blades attached to his legs, will not be allowed to compete at this year's Beijing Olympics.
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The first major winter storm of 2008 threatened to drop a foot of snow or more on some areas of Massachusetts, prompting state ...
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Malawi announces that it is cutting diplomatic ties with Taiwan to focus on cementing its relationship with China.
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Reuters - South African double amputee Oscar
Pistorius, who runs with carbon fiber blades attached to his
legs, will not be allowed to compete at this year's Beijing
Olympics.
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President Bush visits Saudi Arabia, a nation that has struggled to maintain good relations with Washington and rein in Islamic radicals at home. The al-Qaida attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 sparked animosity and suspicion toward Saudi Arabia, the country of origin for many of the hijackers.
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Peter Hain faces new calls to step down today after it was announced that he would face a full parliamentary investigation over allegations that he failed to declare £100,000 of political donations.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- The African nation of Malawi has cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan in favor of relations with China, which has been using its rising political and economic clout to reduce the number of countries who recognize the island....
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Reuters - Israel and the Palestinians opened on
Monday their most serious peace talks in seven years, urged by
U.S. President George W. Bush to reach a deal within a year
despite heavy public skepticism.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel and the Palestinians opened on Monday their most serious peace talks in seven years, urged by U.S. President George W. Bush to reach a deal within a year despite heavy public skepticism.
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Charges against the man investigating South African police chief Jackie Selebi are dropped.
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AFP - US President George W. Bush was heading to regional powerhouse and close ally Saudi Arabia on Monday to rally support for his Middle East peace drive and his campaign to isolate archfoe Iran.
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RIYADH (AFP) - US President George W. Bush was heading to regional powerhouse and close ally Saudi Arabia on Monday to rally support for his Middle East peace drive and his campaign to isolate archfoe Iran.
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AP - The body of a 3-year-old boy was recovered in the search for four children allegedly thrown from a coastal bridge by their father, authorities said.
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BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Suspected Muslim insurgents killed eight soldiers - leaving one beheaded - in a bomb and shooting attack Monday in restive southern Thailand, army and police officials said....
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JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli and Palestinian negotiators took on the most contentious issues in their bitter conflict on Monday under a U.S.-backed effort to hammer out a final peace deal by the end of the year....
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AP - Suspected Muslim insurgents killed eight soldiers leaving one beheaded in a bomb and shooting attack Monday in restive southern Thailand, army and police officials said.
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JERUSALEM (AP) -- Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told a powerful parliamentary panel on Monday that Israel rejects "no options" to block Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, a meeting participant said....
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How serious is the United Nations about much-touted reform of its scandal ridden, multi-billion-dollar procurement system? To hear senior U.N. officials tell it, very serious.
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The French PM is to meet police in Corsica after a suspicious fire damaged the island's parliament.
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AP - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told a powerful parliamentary panel on Monday that Israel rejects "no options" to block Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, a meeting participant said.
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NAIROBI (AFP) - The Kenyan government on Monday rejected a mediation mission by former UN chief Kofi Annan to try to end political unrest and sent a stern warning to the opposition ahead of nationwide protests.
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Recently released Colombian hostage Clara Rojas was reunited Sunday with her 3-year-old son, who was fathered by one of her guerrilla captors but taken away from her months after he was born.
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A man who witnessed the murder of a U.S. aid official and his driver in Khartoum has contacted police investigators, Sudan's justice minister said on Monday.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Opposition leader Nawaz Sharif said Monday that U.S-backed anti-terror operations have left Pakistan "drowned in blood," issuing some of his harshest criticism yet of President Pervez Musharraf....
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HONG KONG (AFP) - China Mobile said Monday its parent company, the country's largest handset operator, has temporarily terminated talks with the US-based Apple Inc. about introducing the iPhone to the Chinese market.
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KABUL (Reuters) - In a new effort to end the growing Taliban insurgency, a council of Afghan political and tribal leaders hopes to hold talks with elements of the Islamic group aimed at including them in the government.
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CHANAE, Thailand (AFP) - Separatist rebels killed eight Thai soldiers and tried to decapitate them after ambushing a military convoy in the restive Muslim-majority south, officials said Monday.
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SAN`A, Yemen (AP) -- Two men convicted of trying to kill the former U.S. ambassador to Yemen were ordered released by an appeals court on Monday....
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Greenpeace says it has chased off a factory ship from a Japanese whaling mission near Antarctica's coast.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- President Bush on Monday got a flavor of this cosmopolitan banking and business hub, whose glass skyscrapers and booming construction have turned it into the capital of Middle East bustle....
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Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius fails in his bid to compete at this year's Olympic Games in Beijing.
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Valorie Lewis, part of USA TODAY's All-USA Teacher Team, knows that society often places labels on kids, marking them for success ...
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President Bush on Monday got a flavor of this cosmopolitan banking and business hub, whose glass skyscrapers and booming construction have turned it into the capital of Middle East bustle.
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JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israelis and Palestinians opened talks on Monday on the most intractable issues of their conflict, with major obstacles still blocking a deal that US President George W. Bush hopes will be sealed within a year.
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ALMATY (AFP) - Kazakhstan has ended a long-running conflict with a group of top Western oil majors over ownership of the Kashagan oil field, one of the world's largest new deposits, state oil company Kazmunaigas said Monday.
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Senators John McCain and Hillary Clinton have emerged as nationwide leaders in their respective Republican and Democratic parties, despite early setbacks in the primary election campaign, according to two new opinion polls.
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A new video-teleconferencing system is allowing prisoners at a major U.S. military base in Afghanistan to speak with their relatives - the first time some detainees have talked to anyone outside the secretive facility in years, the Red Cross said Monday....
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Benazir Bhutto's political party said Monday it may work with Pakistan's president after elections next month despite the leader's apparent unpopularity and allegations elements within his government may have played a role in her death.
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Firms hired to carry out Gordon Brown's hospital "deep clean" warned today that the project could be a "£50 million flash in the pan" if measures are not taken to improve day-to-day cleaning.
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Police are treating the death of a teenage girl as "suspicious" after finding her body lying in the outbuilding of a farmhouse.
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A growing number of Americans are recognizing a need to develop their inner life if not as a spiritual practice, as a way to ...
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A January thaw featuring record-breaking warmth is about to become a distant memory as a nor'easter bears down on northern New England with the potential of more than a foot of snow in parts of the region.
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Gunmen killed an appeals court judge as he headed to work in the western Baghdad district of Mansour on Monday, police and the ...
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Family members said they would leave it to doctors to decide if former dictator Suharto should be removed from life support after almost all of his organ functions failed. Physicians described his condition as "very critical."
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The president was expected to praise small democratic advances in Gulf nations ruled by authoritarian family dynasties.
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The nationwide manhunt for a Marine wanted in the brutal slaying of a 20-year-old pregnant colleague who had accused him of rape ...
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The first Golden Globe of the night went to Cate Blanchett for her supporting role in "I'm Not There" and that pretty much said it all about the awards ceremony Sunday that was wiped out by the Hollywood writers strike.
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The Army Corps of Engineers has identified 180 residential and commercial properties along the 17th Street Canal in northeastern ...
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Federal mortgage fraud convictions have more than doubled in the past year, and the FBI expects a growth in foreclosure scams ...
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A feud between two U.S. cities over who owns the trademark "Ice Box of the Nation" is heating up.
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Gordon Brown is under growing pressure from his own party to remove Peter Hain from the Cabinet over his failure to declare £100,000 of political donations.
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Hospitals must not be allowed to take organs from dead patients without them having consented before every effort is made to help people "opt in" to the current donation system, a leading Anglican bishop has said.
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British stars triumphed at a rudimentary, frills-free Golden Globes last night as screen legends Julie Christie and Daniel Day Lewis picked up top acting honours and historical romance Atonement scooped the Golden Globe for best picture.
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An MP is to call for an investigation into how a senior police officer awaiting trial for murdering his wife came to be given bail.
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A Senior police officer given bail while awaiting trial for murdering his wife killed his mother-in-law with a shotgun before turning it on himself.
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