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An explosives-packed pickup blew up a police security checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 30 people and wounding ...
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AP - Now is not the right time for the U.S. to move forward on a once-celebrated deal for civilian nuclear cooperation with Russia, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday.
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AP - A Hamas official says the militant group promises to deliver a letter to captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit from his father.
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DAMASCUS, Syria -- Syrian President Bashar Assad announced Thursday that his country has handed over proposals for peace with Israel to Turkish mediators and would wait for Israel's response before holding any face-to-face negotiations. Assad said the document was intended to serve as a basis...(more)
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AFP/File - US Vice President Dick Cheney arrived in Ukraine on Thursday as a bitter row between pro-Western political forces in the ex-Soviet republic threatened to bring down the government.
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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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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas pledged Friday to try to reach a final status peace agreement with Israel by the end of the year - but he admitted the goal, set by U.S. President George W. Bush, might not be achieved.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korea needs $503 million in food aid between now and November 2009 to avoid famine, which could be hampered by China's unwillingness to grant food export licenses, the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday.
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BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand's prime minister declared a state of emergency Tuesday in Bangkok to restore order after overnight clashes between government opponents and supporters left one person dead and 43 injured. Samak Sundaravej called it the "softest means available" to end the violence. But...(more)
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AP - Thailand's prime minister refused again on Thursday to cede to protesters determined to oust him, but offered an unconventional compromise a referendum on his fate aimed at ending the political crisis that has paralyzed the government and raised fears of economic chaos.
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Indian opposition parties say that a secret letter from the State Department shows that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh lied about a controversial deal on nuclear power.
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AFP - The Philippines has sent 1,000 troops to guard food aid in its troubled south, officials said Friday, as the Red Cross warned of a "humanitarian crisis" after a surge in separatist violence and the halting of a peace process.
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