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In this file photo taken Friday, Oct. 23, 2009, pro-democracy activists hold pictures of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, who was arrested after co-authoring a bold manifesto urging civil rights and political reform, outside the U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong.
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Nobel Prize winners urge China to free Liu Xiaobo
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Continue reading the main story Related stories Liu Xiaobo: 20 years of activism Six states to miss Nobel ceremony UN chief's China stance attacked Two Nobel Peace Prize laureates have called on China to release dissident Liu Xiaobo before he is awarded the prize himself on Friday. Archbishop Desmond Tutu and former Czech President Vaclav Havel...
 
 
The Spanish economy may be dangerously close to meltdown this week but one area at least -...
By DAVID RIEFF AFP/ Getty Images A Mexican soldierguarded packages of marijuana outside a...
On 11 November 1939, Irish diplomat Francis Cremins cabled home to Dublin from neutral...
 
Maharashtra govt announces Rs 1000 cr compensation to farmers
Nagpur, Dec 5 (ANI): Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has announced a compensation of Rs 1000 crore to farmers who lost their crops due to untimely rains in the state.  Chavan said that such destructive rainfall affected many areas...
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Five Maoists arrested in West Bengal
Kolkata, Dec 5 (ANI): In a major boost to anti-Maoist operation, a Special Task Force (STF) of West Bengal arrested five Maoists including a senior rebel.  Three top leaders and a Maoist supporter were nabbed from Maidan...
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A faction of Egyptian opposition Wafd Party members protest their party's decision to boycott the parliamentary election run-offs, at the party's headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010.
Continue reading the main story Related stories Ruling party set for awkward win in Egypt Egypt elections: Viewpoints Q&A;: Egypt's parliamentary election Egyptians are set to vote in a second round of parliamentary elections, a week after the first...
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In this Nov. 28, 2008 file photo, a man rides a pedicab decorated with a Google advertisement on a sidewalk in Beijing. Internet users in China were unable to access search giant Google Inc.'s main Web site or its Chinese service, and the company said Thursday, June 25, 2009, it was investigating.
Continue reading the main story Wikileaks Revelations Cables at a glance Britain still a useful US ally? Has Wikileaks cost lives? Bumpy ride ahead for US diplomats...
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Pranab: why should there be two JPCs?
Special Correspondent Kolkata: There can hardly be two joint parliamentary committees on the same issue, Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said, pointing out that the Public Accounts Committee, now examining the report of the Comptroller and...
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9th Plenary meeting of the General Assembly, Integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic; social and related fields: and follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit: draft resolution  Statement by His Excellency Mr. Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Briefly hailed as more popular than Churchill, Nick Clegg may well now be the most hated man in Britain. Effigies burnt in the street, dog mess through his letterbox, bike rides abandoned over fears for his safety. "I never imagined it would be any...
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Stranded passengers queue in front of an Iberia Spanish air company counter at Rome's international Fiumicino airport, Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010.
Thousands of stranded British tourists hope to start returning home as air traffic controllers go back to work Stranded passengers rest at Madrid's Barajas airport after flights were cancelled. Photograph: Juan Medina/Reuters...
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U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., talks with news media at the Associated Press bureau in Olympia, Wash., on Monday, Feb. 16, 2009. Murray is making an annual visit to the Washington State Capitol campus.
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The Chevrolet Volt is unveiled at a General Motors centennial celebration in Detroit, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008.
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 Catherine Zeta-Jones and husband, Michael Douglas arrive at the 73rd Annual Academy Awards Sunday March 25 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.  (js1)
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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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Founder and editor of the WikiLeaks website, Julian Assange, faces the media during a debate event, held in London in this July 27, 2010 file photo
 
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