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MOSCOW, July 16 — Ninety years after the Bolsheviks executed the last czar and his family, Russian investigators said Wednesday that DNA analysis confirmed categorically that remains found in a pit last year in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg were those of the czar’s children Crown Prince Alexei and Grand Duchess Maria.
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PREAH VIHEAR, Cambodia, July 17 — Cambodia and Thailand sent more troops Thursday to a disputed border area around a spectacular 11th-century Hindu temple that stands atop a mile-high cliff. The buildup proceeded despite agreement by the two sides to hold talks next week to avoid military action.
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PREAH VIHEAR, Cambodia, July 17 — Cambodia and Thailand sent more troops Thursday to a disputed border area around a spectacular 11th-century Hindu temple that stands atop a mile-high cliff. The buildup proceeded despite agreement by the two sides to hold talks next week to avoid military action.
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PREAH VIHEAR, Cambodia, July 17 — Cambodia and Thailand sent more troops Thursday to a disputed border area around a spectacular 11th-century Hindu temple that stands atop a mile-high cliff. The buildup proceeded despite agreement by the two sides to hold talks next week to avoid military action.
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TOKYO — In a long, fabulous and cranky life, Shintaro Ishihara, the three-term governor of Tokyo, has specialized in the art of giving offense.
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TOKYO — In a long, fabulous and cranky life, Shintaro Ishihara, the three-term governor of Tokyo, has specialized in the art of giving offense.
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NAIROBI, July 17 — U.S. aid to Africa is becoming increasingly militarized, resulting in skewed priorities and less attention to longer-term development projects that could lead to greater stability across the continent, according to a report released Thursday by the advocacy group Refugees International.
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When it comes to hosting congressional delegations, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad likes to think of itself as the eHarmony of Iraq — lawmakers outline what they’re looking for, and officials try to set up the perfect date.
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GADDOPUR, India — On a muggy monsoon-drenched afternoon, Shakuntala, a rail-thin girl with bloodshot eyes, cooled her father’s visitors with a bamboo fan, trying to ward off the heat and the flies while they feasted on lentils, stewed chicken and hot bread.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - World powers should heed the worries of African and Arab states in responding to genocide charges against Sudan’s president, China’s envoy on Darfur said, warning that the court steps could imperil peace efforts.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict called for all religions to unite against terrorism and resolve conflicts peacefully on Friday and heard an Islamic leader urge Christians to overcome “misconceptions and prejudices” about Muslims.
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Nelson Mandela, who was instrumental in ending apartheid in South Africa and rose from prisoner to president, is celebrating his 90th birthday.
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The talks, including U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun, will take place on the sidelines of an Asian security meeting in Singapore that all the countries’ foreign ministers had already planned to attend, the official said.
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- Fionnan Sheahan in New York
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Britain has officially ratified the controversial Lisbon Treaty.
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BAGHDAD — Spc. Grover Gebhart has spent nine months at a small post on a Sunni-Shiite fault line in western Baghdad. But the 21-year-old soldier on his first tour in Iraq feels he’s missing the real war — in Afghanistan, where his brother is fighting the Taliban.
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Gas bills are set to rise by 66 per cent to more than £1,000 a year, families have been warned.
Once the cost of electricity is added to the mix, homeowners could be paying more than £1,600 a year for heat and light.
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CINCINNATI - New York Gov. David Paterson and civil rights organization the NAACP on Thursday condemned a magazine’s satirical cover depicting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and his wife as flag-burning radicals.
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Despite warnings that violence would soon follow — in the country where filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in 2004 for his short film that decried the treatment of women in Islam (”Submission”) — far-right, anti-immigration Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders released his anti-Quran film “Fitna” on the Internet on March 27, 2008.
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The trial of Michel Fourniret — who reportedly enlisted his wife’s help to seize virgin girls to rape and kill — began March 27, 2008, with Fourniet refusing to speak unless court went into closed session and refusing to let the press take his photograph. The Times of London reported the gory details:
“The couple resembled […]