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Grim clear up begins after NZ mine blast
Equipment has arrived to begin clearing a coal mine in New Zealand where 29 miners died after an explosion last week. Efforts to evacuate the…
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Pyongyang slams US-South Korean manoeuvres
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak is under fire for his indecision and failure to keep the public informed following Tuesday's attack by North…
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Sony re-enters Japan's e-book market
Sony is making a fresh bid to enter Japan's electronic book market with an online bookstore with 20,000 titles, and an e-book reader that goes on…
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Soyuz capsule safely back on terra firma
A Soyuz capsule carrying two US astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut back to earth from the International Space Station has landed safely in…
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Saudi Arabia arrests 149 al Qaeda suspects
Saudi Arabia has arrested 149 people suspected of having links to al Qaeda over the last 8 months. Guns and the equivalent of more than 450,000…
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Russia accepts blame for Katyn massacre
After years of outright denial, Russia has finally admitted that Stalin directly ordered the mass execution of Polish officers during the Second…
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Hard times confirmed for the Portuguese
Portugal's belt-tightening budget for next year has been approved by parliament, paving the way for public sector wage and welfare cuts and VAT…
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Brazil tightens control after slum violence
Brazilian security forces are tightening their grip on a violence-hit shanty town in Rio de Janeiro. A show of military might in Vila Cruzeiro,…
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Public transparency for medicines closer to EU law
'Yes' to information on medicines in the EU, 'no' to disguised advertising. The European Parliament has moved along proposed laws on prescription…
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No more suspect plastic BPA in EU baby bottles
No more bisphenol A in plastic baby bottles in the EU next year: the European Union is banning it. Its Health and Consumer authority cited…
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Higher cancer rates near German nuclear dump
The radioactivity levels of an atomic dump in Germany have been thoroughly checked after findings that residents in the area were shown to have…
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Barack Obama injured in basketball game
Barack Obama has been left bloodied and bruised after a basketball game with family and friends. A stray elbow left the US President needing a…
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EU denies Portugal is seeking bailout
The head of the European Commission has dismissed reports that Portugal is joining Ireland in seeking a European bailout. Speaking in Paris, Jose…
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Irish voters punish government over debt crisis
Pressure is mounting on Ireland's embattled government after it was punished by voters angry at the country's economic crisis. The ruling Fianna…
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Tension in Ivory Coast ahead of presidential vote
Tension has marked the run-up to the decisive round of Sunday's presidential election in Ivory Coast. Huge rallies for the sitting president and his…
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China warns US and South Korea over exercises
China has warned America and South Korea not to stage military acts near its coast, ahead of joint naval drills due to start on Sunday in the Yellow…
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Major new breakthrough for CERN scientists
One of the world's leading laboratories for particle physics has produced another remarkable discovery. The ATLAS project superheated the…
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Cholera-ravaged Haiti gears up for election
Haiti goes to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president, in the midst of a cholera epidemic and with the Caribbean nation still reeling from…
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Portugal: are budget cuts enough?
Portugal has taken a big step towards resolving its economic woes, after approving an austerity budget for 2011. But will this budget be enough to…
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Washington braced for more Wikileaks exposure
US diplomats have been hard at work trying to control the fallout from the imminent release of close to three million confidential documents by the…
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