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Ivorian soldiers drive into the barricaded street where the Independent Electoral Commission headquarters is located in the Deux Plateau neighborhood of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010. Ivory Coast's president said Tuesday he plans to contest some results of a presidential poll already marred by opposition accusations of violence and voter fraud. Full results of Sunday's runoff poll have not been released, but a spokesman for President Laurent Gbagbo's campaign said he plans to contest votes in three regions of the country's rebel-held north. In those areas, he said, supporters of Gbagbo's opponent tried to steal ballot boxes and take Gbagbo supporters hostage.
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4 Killed In Attack On Ivory Coast Candidate Office
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) - Armed men attacked a presidential candidate's office in Ivory Coast overnight, provoking fear and uncertainty on Thursday, the day after the electoral commission missed a deadline to issue results from a tight presidential runoff. Unidentified men armed with automatic weapons attacked an office of presidential challenger...
Pedestrians pass a branch of The Royal Bank of Scotland in London, Tuesday, April 7, 2009.
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Royal Bank of Scotland cleared of wrongdoing by FSA
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Continue reading the main story Related stories RBS half-year profits hit £1.1bn Santander buys 318 RBS branches Ex-RBS boss banned from bank work The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has been cleared any wrongdoing in the years running up the to financial crisis by the UK's financial watchdog. After...
A picture of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is shown in this photo of the cover of the Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010 edition of the New York Post, photographed in New York, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010. Police ratcheted up the pressure on Assange on Wednesday, asking European officers to arrest him on rape charges as his organization continued to embarrass the Obama adminstration with a stream of leaked diplomatic cables.
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Swedish High Court refuses WikiLeaks founder appeal
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden's highest court has refused permission to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to appeal against an arrest order issued over alleged sexual crimes, the court said Thursday. Assange has denied the allegations, which were made earlier this year after he visited the Nordic state....
An Airbus A380 superjumbo of Australian Qantas airline starts at the airbus plant in Hamburg, northern Germany, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010.
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Exploding Qantas A380 engine had a 'potential defect', air safety bureau reports
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THE Trent900 engine that exploded over Indonesia on the Qantas Airbus A380 QF32 from Singapore to Sydney had a potential manufacturing defect with an oil tube connection, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau has reported. In a statement issued...
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Wikileaks: UK allowed US to use cluster bomb 'loophole'
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By Stuart Hughes and Caroline Hawley BBC News Continue reading the main story Wikileaks Revelations Key issues Has Wikileaks cost lives? Bumpy ride ahead for US diplomats UK criticised in cables...
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WikiLeaks cables condemn Russia as 'mafia state'
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Kremlin relies on criminals and rewards them with political patronage, while top officials collect bribes 'like a personal taxation system' US and other western diplomats believe the Russian government is a corrupt 'mafia state', according to WikiLeaks cables Photograph: Yuri Kochetkov/EPA...
In this photo released by Spanish National Police, a police officers walk with a person they arrested, in white t-shirt, during a raid early morning in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010. Police arrested seven people in Spain and three in Thailand in an international operation against a group suspected of forging passports for an al-Qaida-linked Islamic terrorist group, the Spanish Interior Ministry said Wednesday.
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10 held in Spain & Thailand for 26/11 attacks
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LONDON/MUMBAI: An international anti-terror operation netted seven people in Spain and three in Thailand between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning: all of those arrested allegedly worked with terror groups, including Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), in staging the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai that killed 166. The Mumbai Police Crime Branch said it was...
In this photo taken Sept. 15, 2009, a forest in the Amazon is seen being illegally burnt, near Novo Progresso, in the northern Brazilian state of Para.
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Brazil: Amazon deforestation lowest rate on record
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Deforestation in the Amazon forest fell to its lowest level on record, the Brazilian government said on Wednesday, marking what could be a watershed in the conservation of the world's largest rain forest. A family travels by canoe on the Maranon river in the Pacaya Samiria National Reserve in the Amazon jungle March 28, 2008....
Protesters chant "Fraud" as they take part in a small demonstration of about 100 opposition activists in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Nov. 29, 2010. Protesters clashed with police Monday, setting fire to cars, tires and two schools used as polling stations in riots sparked by alleged widespread fraud by the ruling party in Egypt's parliamentary elections. Posters in Arabic show a photo of senior ruling party lawmaker Ahmed Ezz and reads "Loser, Loser, Loser".
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Egypt's Brotherhood pulls out of election
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Cairo: Egypt's top two opposition movements on Wednesday pulled out of parliamentary elections, citing widespread fraud, after they were all but shut out in a first round of voting. The move by the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood, the strongest opposition force in the country, and the smaller, secular liberal Wafd party is a blow to this top US...
Children react during a snowball fight in Lyon, central France, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010. Heavy snow and subzero temperatures swept across Europe, killing at least eight homeless people in Poland, closing major airports in Britain and Switzerland, and causing delays to rail and road traffic across the continent.
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Bitter cold in Europe kills 8, halts air traffic
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8:08 AM Thursday Dec 2, 2010 Share Email Print Are you a Kiwi who has been hit by Europe's cold snap? Expand Shrink Heavy snow and subzero temperatures swept across Europe, killing at least eight homeless people in Poland, closing major airports in Britain and Switzerland and causing hundreds of highway accidents....
 
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A man leaves an unemployment agency in Madrid, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2009.
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Spain brought some calm to financial markets, after selling €2.4bn of three-year bonds to investors, in a sale that was 2.2 times oversubscribed. The sale, though, was not a success, since the beleaguered country had to pay 3.7% to lure investors,...
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LONDON - World stock markets and the euro climbed Thursday on hopes the European Central Bank will boost its efforts to support the 16-nation eurozone economy, which has been rocked by fears the debt crisis will force new bailouts. Improved signs of...
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The bid logo is seen during the official presentation of the Russia's bid to host the soccer World Cup championships, during the unveiling of the bid in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Oct. 9, 2009. Russia unveiled its plans to host one of the upcoming World Cup soccer championships with a joint bid to host either the 2018 or 2022 events, ready for the successful bid to be announced by FIFA on Dec. 2, 2009.
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FIFA will take the most far-reaching decision in international sport on Thursday when its executive committee votes on the host nations for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. England, who are bidding to host the event in 2018, suffered a late blow when a...
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South Korean health officials wearing protective gears prepare to slaughter pigs at a farm where the foot-and-mouth disease was found in Ganghwa Island, South Korea, Monday, April 12, 2010. South Korea is slaughtering about 6,000 more cows and pigs to stop the spread of foot-and-mouth disease.
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South Korea has began culling more than 55,000 animals in an attempt to contain an outbreak of foot-and-mouth (FMD)disease in the country. The culling began on Thursday in areas near the southeastern city of Andong where the first cases were...
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Opposition presidential candidate Alassane Ouattara gestures after casting his vote for president at a polling station in the Cocody neighborhood of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010. Ivorians went to the polls Sunday in a long-overdue presidential election that many hope will reunite the country eight years after a civil war divided it in two. Voters are choosing between president Laurent Gbagbo and the man he accuses of being behind the rebellion that sought to topple him, Alassane Ouattara.
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Abidjan, Ivory Coast (CNN) -- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is warning against interference with the Ivory Coast electoral commission after a midnight deadline passed without the announcement of results. In a statement Wednesday Ban...
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Firefighters surround a Qantas passenger plane which made an emergency landing in Singapore's Changi International Airport after having engine problems on Thursday Nov. 4, 2010 in Singapore.
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Qantas has launched preliminary legal action against Rolls-Royce, the manufacturer of the engine that exploded on one of its A380 superjumbos in mid-air last month. The airline said today it has filed a statement of claim in a federal court that will...
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Workers prepares portraits of U.S. President Barack Obama, right, and Chinese President Hu Jintao, left, for an exhibition of paintings of state leaders attending the G20 Summit, at an art gallery in Beijing, China, Wednesday, April 1, 2009.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - An invitation to dinner at the White House could help coax Chinese President Hu Jintao to stomach tougher pressure on ally North Korea when he visits Washington next month. Chinese President Hu Jintao speaks during his meeting...
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Senior officials of Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party, NDP, from left, Ali Eddin Hilal, Ahmed Ezz and Safwat el-Sherif attend a press conference with an Egyptian flag and the NDP's logo in the background, at the party's headquarters in Cairo, Egypt Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010. Egypt's top two opposition movements on Wednesday pulled out of parliamentary elections after they were all but shut out in a first round of voting, in a surprise response to widespread allegations of fraud.
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