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Merkel must reach out to leftist rivals after poll triumph
Full Article Reuters
23 Sep 2013

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces the daunting prospect of persuading her center-left rivals to keep her in power after her conservatives notched up their best election result in more than two decades but fell short of an absolute majority. Even her political foes acknowledged the chancellor was the big winner of the first...

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, chairwoman of the Christian Democratic party CDU, returns a German flag as she is congratulated by supporters on the stage at the party headquarters after the national elections in Berlin Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013.
photo: AP / Markus Schreiber

updated 23 Sep 2013; published 23 Sep 2013
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'C'est chic!' CDU celebrates Angela Merkel's election win
updated 22 Sep 2013; published 22 Sep 2013
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Raw: Big Election Win for Germany's Merkel
updated 22 Sep 2013; published 22 Sep 2013
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Merry Merkel: Conservatives lead in German vote with 'super result'
updated 22 Sep 2013; published 22 Sep 2013
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Merkel: Das ist ein super Ergebnis
updated 21 Sep 2013; published 21 Sep 2013
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Angela Merkel: „Geben Sie beide Stimmen der CDU!"
updated 23 Sep 2013; published 23 Sep 2013
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Merkel Romps To Victory In German Election
Deadly typhoon blows into China
Full Article Belfast Telegraph
23 Sep 2013

A powerful typhoon that slammed into southern China with winds that blew cars off the road has caused more deaths, bringing the toll in Asia to at least 33. Typhoon Usagi, which was the season's strongest storm at its peak, forced hundreds of flight cancellations and shut down shipping and train lines before weakening to a tropical depression over...

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Vehicles cross a flooded street in Manila, Philippines Sunday Sept. 22, 2013. Usagi, the most powerful typhoon of the year swept through the Luzon Strait separating the Philippines and Taiwan on Saturday.
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updated 29 Sep 2011; published 29 Sep 2011
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CCTV footage of devastating typhoon sweeping Hong Kong
updated 20 Sep 2013; published 20 Sep 2013
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Usagi Typhoon Hits China And Philippines
updated 29 Sep 2011; published 29 Sep 2011
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Typhoon Nesat Sweeps Past Hong Kong
updated 22 Sep 2013; published 22 Sep 2013
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TYPHOON USAGI - 提醒香港! Still 115 MPH Gust...
updated 12 Aug 2013; published 12 Aug 2013
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Typhoon Labuyo : Utor Damage Reports , Southern China Next Update #12
updated 20 Sep 2013; published 20 Sep 2013
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Super Typhoon Usagi Alert!
Gunfire heard at Kenya shopping complex where 68 people killed
Full Article The Irish Times
23 Sep 2013

Heavy and sustained gunfire was heard at the Nairobi shopping mall where at least 68 people were killed by a Somali Islamist group, a witness said today, suggesting an assault by Kenyan security forces. As the siege entered its third day, a witness at the scene heard heavy and sustained gunfire for about five minutes. The blast of gunfire was...

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Kenya security personnel take cover outside the Westgate Mall after shooting started inside the mall early Monday morning, Sept. 23, 2013.
photo: AP / Sayyid Azim

updated 23 Sep 2013; published 23 Sep 2013
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NEWS:Terror Attack In Kenya Shopping Mall Killed 68 And hurts More Than 200 Peoples
updated 22 Sep 2013; published 22 Sep 2013
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Nairobi Mall Shooting Kenya. Westgate Mall Shooting 59 Dead In Terrorist Attack PTC News 21-9-2013
updated 21 Sep 2013; published 21 Sep 2013
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Nairobi Shooting: 39 Dead In Mall Gun Fight Kenya Shooting Nairobi Terrorist Attack
updated 21 Sep 2013; published 21 Sep 2013
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KENYA SHOPPING MALLATTACK GUNFIRE-Sporadic gunfire continues at Nairobi mall, at least 15 dead
updated 23 Sep 2013; published 23 Sep 2013
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Nairobi Shopping Mall 'Terror Attack' - The Layout Of The Westgate Mall
updated 22 Sep 2013; published 22 Sep 2013
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Kenya attack:inside the Nairobi shopping mall 59 Dead,175 Injured Including 4 Americans
Germany elections: Merkel set for third term; coalition speculation starts
Full Article The Hindu
23 Sep 2013

Chancellor Angela Merkel emerged the clear winner of Sunday’s election after her conservative political bloc surged to its best result in 20 years, giving her a strong hand in likely talks on forming a new grand coalition of the nation’s biggest parties. Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian-based Christian Social...

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, gestures during a news conference in the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Feb. 1, 2010.
photo: AP / Gero Breloer

updated 22 Sep 2013; published 22 Sep 2013
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German elections 2013:Merkel On Way To Winning Third Term As Chancellor 22/09/2013
updated 22 Sep 2013; published 22 Sep 2013
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Great Victory For Angela Merkel In German Elections
updated 23 Sep 2013; published 23 Sep 2013
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Merkel Romps To Victory In German Election
updated 22 Sep 2013; published 22 Sep 2013
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Angela Merkel Romps To Victory In Election
updated 22 Sep 2013; published 22 Sep 2013
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Angela Merkel celebrates after German election
updated 19 Sep 2013; published 19 Sep 2013
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Poll support for German anti-euro AfD party threatens Merkel's coalition
Typhoon blows into China, kills 33 people in Asia
Full Article San Francisco Chronicle
23 Sep 2013

BEIJING (AP) — A powerful typhoon that slammed into southern China with winds that blew cars off the road has caused more deaths, bringing the toll in Asia to at least 33 on Monday. Typhoon Usagi, which was the season's strongest storm at its peak, forced hundreds of flight cancellations and shut down shipping and train lines before weakening to a...

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A woman braves strong wind near the waterfront in Hong Kong Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013.
photo: AP / Vincent Yu

updated 23 Sep 2013; published 23 Sep 2013
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Super Powerful Typhoon Usagi ---- Dozens die as storm strikes China.
updated 15 Aug 2013; published 15 Aug 2013
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China, Hong Kong, utor hurricane, storm run Utor, the most powerful storms in
updated 23 Sep 2013; published 23 Sep 2013
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DEADLY Typhoon Usagi hits Hong Kong and China: 21 Killed over 370 flights cancelled
updated 13 Jul 2013; published 13 Jul 2013
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People in Taiwan are bracing themselves for the arrival of Typhoon Soulik
updated 21 Sep 2013; published 21 Sep 2013
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Typhoon Usagi Devastating storm hits Taiwan and China
updated 23 Jul 2010; published 23 Jul 2010
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Second Typhoon Batters Southern China
With Official’s Conviction, China Calls Attention to Graft Crackdown
Full Article The New York Times
22 Sep 2013

HONG KONG — With one of China’s most divisive politicians, Bo Xilai, banished to life in prison on Sunday, the Communist Party stepped up its efforts to convince a scandal-weary public that the spectacle of his trial proved that national leaders were serious about rooting out official corruption. Related Chinese Official at Center of Scandal Is...

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File - Police officers stand guard as officials and court spectators come out from the Hefei City Intermediate People's Court where a murder trial of Gu Kailai, wife of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai, takes place Thursday Aug. 9, 2012 in Hefei, Anhui Province, China.
photo: AP / Eugene Hoshiko

updated 22 Sep 2013; published 22 Sep 2013
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Lifetime In Prison For Bo Xilai
updated 10 Aug 2013; published 10 Aug 2013
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Economic Planning Director Liu Tienan Ousted for Graft
updated 05 Mar 2013; published 05 Mar 2013
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THE LATEST NEWS : Corruption concerns Chinese officials
updated 13 Sep 2013; published 13 Sep 2013
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China Corruption News 2006
updated 07 Sep 2012; published 07 Sep 2012
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Wang Lijun Charged, Severed From Bo Xilai
updated 19 Apr 2012; published 19 Apr 2012
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Wen Jiabao's "Sunshine" Article Prelude To Catch Zhou Yongkang?
Chinese Official at Center of Scandal Is Found Guilty and Given a Life Term
Full Article Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
22 Sep 2013

BEIJING -- Bo Xilai, the pugnacious Chinese politician whose downfall shook the Communist Party, was sentenced to life in prison on Sunday after a court found him guilty of bribetaking, embezzlement and abuse of power in a failed attempt to stifle murder allegations against his wife. The sentence means Mr. Bo, the son of a Communist revolutionary...

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A police officer stands guard at the Hefei City Intermediate People's Court where the murder trial of Gu Kailai, wife of ousted Chinese politician Bo Xilai, takes place Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012 in Hefei, Anhui Province, China.
photo: AP / Eugene Hoshiko

updated 22 Sep 2013; published 22 Sep 2013
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China's Bo Xilai gets life sentence for corruption
updated 23 Sep 2013; published 23 Sep 2013
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Bo Xilai Found Guilty Of Corruption In China
updated 22 Sep 2013; published 22 Sep 2013
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SENTENCED TO LIFE _ Bo Xilai Guilty: Disgraced Chinese Politician Convicted In Corruption Case
updated 22 Sep 2013; published 22 Sep 2013
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Bo Xilai found guilty on all charges, sentenced to life in prison.
updated 22 Sep 2013; published 22 Sep 2013
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Bo Xilai Found Guilty Of Corruption In China
updated 22 Sep 2013; published 22 Sep 2013
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Bo Xilai Found Guilty Of Corruption in China | Bo Xilai Jailed For Life
Suicide bombers kill 78 Christians outside Pakistani church
Full Article Sun Sentinel
22 Sep 2013

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A pair of suicide bombers blew themselves up outside a 130-year-old church in Pakistan after Sunday Mass, killing at least 78 people in the deadliest attack on Christians in the predominantly Muslim South Asian country. Violence has been on the rise in Pakistan in past months, undermining Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's...

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People gather at the site of suicide attack on a church in Peshawar, Pakistan, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013.
photo: AP / Mohammad Sajjad

updated 22 Sep 2013; published 22 Sep 2013
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Suicide Bombers Kill 78 Christians Outside Pakistani Church Pakistan: Suicide Bombing At Church
updated 23 Sep 2013; published 23 Sep 2013
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PESHAWAR:Dozens Killed As Suicide Bombers Attack Christian Worshipers In Pakistan
updated 22 Sep 2013; published 22 Sep 2013
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Church bombed in Pakistan's worst attack on Christians
updated 23 Sep 2013; published 23 Sep 2013
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Terror Attack Targets Peshewar Christians: Scores dead after suicide bombers target church service
updated 22 Sep 2013; published 22 Sep 2013
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Suicide Bombers Kill 78 Christians Outside Pakistani Church | Pakistan: Suicide Bombing At Church
updated 23 Sep 2013; published 23 Sep 2013
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Killed In Suicide Bombing At Christian Church Pakistan
E. coli in water supply adds to woes in flooded Lyons, Colo.
Full Article The Oklahoman
22 Sep 2013

The residents of the foothill town of Lyons, hit hard by Colorado flooding, have another misery piled on their already destroyed and damaged homes, businesses and roads: the potentially deadly E. coli bacteria has been found in the town's water system. The residents of the foothill town of Lyons, hit hard by Colorado flooding, have another misery...

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E. coli in water supply adds to woes in flooded Lyons, Colo.
photo: US Army / Joseph K. VonNida

updated 24 Aug 2012; published 24 Aug 2012
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Girl eaten alive by a snake -CGI-
updated 21 Sep 2013; published 21 Sep 2013
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Colorado Flooding Update: E. Coli Found in Town's Drinking Water #coflood
updated 21 Sep 2013; published 21 Sep 2013
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Colorado Town Unlivable For Months After Flooding, Residents Are Told
updated 22 Sep 2013; published 22 Sep 2013
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Colorado Flood 2013 : Lyons, Colo. Residents Unable To Return Home For 2-6 Months,
updated 21 Sep 2013; published 21 Sep 2013
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Colorado Flooding Fallout Continues
updated 22 Sep 2013; published 22 Sep 2013
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Breaking Environment Headlines: Sep 21st, 7pm
UN chief, Security Council condemn terrorist attack in Kenya
Full Article United Nations
22 Sep 2013

Print 22 September 2013 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Security Council have condemned the terrorist attack at a shopping mall in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, which killed scores of people and wounded many more....

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UN chief, Security Council condemn terrorist attack in Kenya
photo: UN / Mark Garten

updated 30 Oct 2009; published 30 Oct 2009
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MaximsNewsNetwork: AFGHANISTAN TERRORIST ATTACK: UN SECRETARY-GENERAL BAN KI-MOON
updated 20 Oct 2009; published 20 Oct 2009
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Security Council condemns deadly terrorist attack in Iran
updated 24 Aug 2013; published 24 Aug 2013
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WorldLeadersTV: LEBANON: TERRORIST BOMBLING CONDEMNED by U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL
updated 29 Aug 2013; published 29 Aug 2013
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SYRIA: "GIVE PEACE A CHANCE" BAN KI-MOON to UN SECURITY COUNCIL
updated 17 Sep 2010; published 17 Sep 2010
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MaximsNewsNetwork: SOMALIA ATTACKS & HUMANITARIAN CRISIS - UN SECURITY COUNCIL (UNTV)
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Mumbai Terror Attack Pak bans Jammat-ud-Dawa, arrests Hafiz Saeed

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Pakistani Christians chant slogans as they burn materials during a protest against a suicide attack on a church, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013 in Karachi, Pakistan. A suicide bomb attack on a historic church in northwestern Pakistan killed scores of people Sunday, officials said, in one of the worst assaults on the country’s Christian minority in years.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistan police official says the death toll from a church bombing has risen to 81 as angry Christians protested the deadliest attack ever in Pakistan...
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File - Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans and hold placards showing an open palm with four raised fingers, which has become a symbol of the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, where Morsi supporters had held a sit-in for weeks that was violently dispersed in August during a protest in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Sept. 13, 2013.
Egypt is likely to completely rewrite the constitution adopted under Mohamed Morsi, a spokesman for the committee amending it said on Sunday, in a further push to reverse changes introduced under the deposed president. The 50-member...
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Soldiers walk through a newly constructed municipal building, ransacked by anti-government protesters nine days earlier in the Ratoma neighborhood of Conakry, Guinea Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2007. Two waves of violent anti-government protests and rioting in Guinea since mid-January have left at least 115 dead in the capital. President Lansana Conte declared martial law a week ago, saying a military crackdown was the only way to prevent a civil war.
CONAKRY, GuineaSecurity forces in Guinea's capital used tear gas to break up clashes that erupted Sunday between supporters of the opposition and ruling parties campaigning for long-delayed and hotly-contested legislative elections, resulting in...
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Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir speaks to reporters during a visit to Tripoli, Libya
Reuters September 22, 2013 - 22:24 By Ulf Laessing and Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, wanted by the International Criminal Court on genocide charges, said on Sunday he planned to attend this...
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Ahead of General Assembly summit, UN and AU chiefs discuss stronger partnership
Print 22 September 2013 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, today discussed ways to further strengthen the relationship between the two organizations. “The...
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Catholics cheer pope's remarks on gays, abortion
Catholics around the globe are reacting mostly positively to Pope Francis' recent remarks that the church has become too focused on "small-minded rules" on hot-button issues like homosexuality, abortion and contraceptives. At Masses over the weekend,...
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Colorado's massive pet rescue initiative helps survivors evacuate flood areas
As Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, thousands of pets were forced to be left behind, but Colorado's massive pet rescue in Boulder taught emergency personnel that keeping humans and their four-legged friends together have made the...
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