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GOMA, Congo (Reuters) - A Congolese airliner crashed into a market district in the eastern city of Goma on Thursday, killing at least 21 people on the ground, while the airline said most of the 79 passengers on board survived.
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By Philip Pullella
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pope Benedict arrived in Washington for his first papal visit to the United States on Tuesday after declaring himself “deeply ashamed” by a sexual abuse scandal tarnishing the Roman Catholic Church’s image here.
On his flight from Rome, the pope vowed to keep pedophiles out of the priesthood. The scandal of […]
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More than 70 people have been killed in blasts at three cities in Iraq, in one of the deadliest days there for weeks.
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The relative calm in predominantly Sunni areas has coincided with clashes between Shiite militia fighters and U.S.-Iraqi forces in Baghdad and the oil-rich southern city of Basra.
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JK Rowling yesterday testified before a packed courtroom in a lawsuit to block publication of a Harry Potter lexicon, telling a judge that the book amounts to a “wholesale theft” of nearly 20 years of her hard work.
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Silvio Berlusconi appeared to be heading for his third term in office last night after projections in Italy’s general election gave him and his allies a lead in the senate as well as in the lower house.
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LONDON (April 15) - China executed more people than any other country
in the world last year by putting at least 470 people to death, but
the number of executions in the country actually fell by more than
half compared to the year before, Amnesty International said.
In its annual report on worldwide executions, the human rights
group said Tuesday […]
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The media tycoon’s victory was confirmed after his centre-left opponent conceded defeat just six hours after the polls closed.
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LONDON - The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors house price balance fell in March to its lowest in the 30-year history of the survey, RICS said today, sending a strong signal that the housing market is cooling fast.
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This list, though hardly exhaustive, provides an overview of some of Africa’s major contemporary civil conflicts.
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Kazakhstan Oil & Gas News - Russia Today’s Kazakhstan Oil & Gas News Feed offers breaking news related to Kazakhstan’s oil industry
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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism
We Californians always have quakes on our mind to some degree or another: Retrofitting. Pinning down breakables with quake putty. Not hanging heavy paintings above the bed. And with some regularity, we’re told by scientists when, and with what probability, the next big temblor is going to strike. Such […]
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Public response to the idea as advanced in Tribune editorials has been overwhelmingly favorable. But, sorry, voters, you don’t deserve it.
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Well, one of the stories we’ve come across today is a study that claims the face can reveal whether a man or woman is after a long term relationship or a one night stand. Men and woman all over the world may well be reading about this study today in the hope of getting down […]
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“This is a routine security exercise,” one police officer said at a checkpoint in a township controlled by the MDC, which has called on Zimbabweans to stay at home indefinitely.
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There’s not much us Brits prefer doing than showing up the Americans at their own game. So when our TV stars decide to dip their toes in US waters and prove a success, it’s enough to make our hearts swell up and start mumbling the worlds to ‘Rule Britannia’.
In tribute, DS takes a look […]
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In an unprecedented move, the federal government plans to pay hog farmers up to $50-million in total to slaughter as many as 150,000 breeding swine.
Farmers will receive $225 for every hog they kill, so long as they agree to wipe out their entire breeding herd and stay out of the hog business for three years. […]
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April 14, 2008 — BAGHDAD - Iraq’s government has fired 1,300 police officers and soldiers because of their failure to perform during fighting last month with Shiite militia in the south of the country, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.
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The San Francisco Bay Area is not exactly a Republican stronghold, but presumptive GOP nominee John McCain said today he sees several possible cabinet members coming from the Bay Area’s tech community.
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In the mix of ideology, public relations and propaganda that distinguishes Chinese politics today, the tone of the rhetoric flowing from the government in Beijing is becoming more forceful, and perhaps understandably so. Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, back home after a 17-day overseas, diplomatic trip that took him to China on his last stop, […]