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ROME (Reuters) - Italy's lower house of parliament approved a proposal on Tuesday to halve state funding of political parties after a spate of scandals where politicians were accused of using the money for personal gain.
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine police on Tuesday defused an explosive device hidden in a theater where former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe was scheduled to speak the next day, the investigating judge said. Uribe, who cracked down on drug-running Marxist guerrillas as two-term president, was due...(more)
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Hundreds of LIRR retirees who scammed lucrative disability pensions in a massive $1 billion ripoff can avoid prosecution — and paying back their ill-gotten gains — if they admit guilt under an innovative amnesty program, the feds said Tuesday.
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An estimated 200,000 people braved heavy rain in the Japanese capital on Tuesday to take part in the opening of the record-breaking Tokyo Sky Tree.
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Bogus drugs and those containing the wrong chemical makeup could upend a decade of progress fighting the mosquito-transmitted disease, the U.S.-funded review said.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish teachers went on strike on Tuesday to protest against cuts in education spending that unions say will put 100,000 substitute teachers out of work but that the government says are needed to tackle the euro zone debt crisis.
