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AP - Teams of heavily armed gunmen stormed luxury hotels, a popular tourist attraction and a crowded train station in at least seven attacks in India's financial capital, killing at least 78 people and wounding at least 200, officials said Thursday.
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President Pervez Musharraf's spokesman on Friday rejected reports that the embattled Pakistani leader was set to resign, even as another ally said back-channel talks were under way on ways to avoid his impeachment.
The spokesman, Rashid Qureshi, also called claims that Musharraf was seeking legal immunity in...(more)
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MOSCOW -- European Union monitors will deploy to regions surrounding South Ossetia and Abkhazia by next month and Russian troops will pull out after that, President Dmitry Medvedev said Monday. After talks with visiting French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Medvedev said that 200 EU monitors will...(more)
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Aleksander Dugin, a popular theorist in hard-line circles, advocates an alliance between the former Soviet Union and the Middle East. He says Georgia crisis could be start of a real conflict with U.S. Writer, political activist and father figure for contemporary Russian nationalism, Aleksandr Dugin is...(more)
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MONTROUIS, Haiti (Reuters) - Acute hunger and the rising cost of living could send a new wave of boat people from Haiti, where rising food prices set off deadly riots two weeks ago and drove the prime minister from office, officials and analysts say.
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The group's report says Iran continues to dodge questions about its alleged nuclear weapons research and has expanded its ability to produce radioactive material. BEIRUT -- Iran failed to resolve lingering questions about alleged nuclear weapons research and modestly expanded its ability to produce sensitive radioactive...(more)
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A rabbi and his wife were among five hostages found dead inside the remains of the Mumbai Jewish centre that was occupied by militants. A final assault by Indian commandos on Nariman House today culminated with soldiers blowing a hole in the outer wall. Two militants...(more)
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Russian news agencies say the Defense Ministry is claiming to have sunk a Georgian missile boat that was trying to attack Russian navy ships in the Black Sea.
Russia's Defense Ministry refused to comment on the Sunday reports to The Associated Press and Georgian officials could not...(more)
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Oct. 16 -- Far from pressing to uncover the truth, President lvaro Uribe's U.S.-backed government has hindered investigations into links between paramilitary groups and the country's political establishment, a leading human rights group said in a report released Thursday. Human Rights Watch, which...(more)
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Pakistan has named a new chief for its main intelligence service, an agency whose loyalties in the war on terror have long been a concern to the United States.
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HELSINKI, Finland -- A gunman opened fire at a vocational school for adults in western Finland on Tuesday before shooting himself, police said. Finnish media reported nine people were killed and the gunman was wounded. The shootings began just before 11 a.m. local time as...(more)
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AFP - Tamil Tiger rebels on Tuesday used aircraft to bomb a power plant in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo and an army camp in the north, their first air strikes in six weeks, the defence ministry said.
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