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Russia to Build New Space Launchpad
Apr 11 2008, AP

President Vladimir Putin ordered his government Friday to speed up construction of a new cosmodrome and development of a booster rocket in a bid to revive the nation’s space glory.Russia’s space agency chief, meanwhile, said the country may stop...

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Panama creates controversial intelligence force
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AP, London
In another embarrassing stumble with computerized data, Britain’s government confirmed Thursday that a contractor lost a memory device containing information on...
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Russians dig in but still promise Georgia pullout
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French deaths in Afghanistan show rising Taliban
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A French patrol marches up a rocky and dusty Afghan mountain pass. Suddenly, Taliban insurgents open fire from front and back, setting off an hours-long gunfight _ the...
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Russian maestro Gergiev performs in South Ossetia
AP, Tskhinvali
Surrounded by flickering candles and flanked by armored personnel carriers, Russian conductor Valery Gergiev led a requiem concert Thursday for South Ossetia’s...
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Actor Jean Reno released from Martinique hospital
AP, Fort-de-france
French actor Jean Reno has been released from a hospital in the Caribbean island of Martinique after falling ill.
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South African who threw man to lions out of prison
AP, Johannesburg
A white farmer who threw the body of his fired black worker into a lions’ pen has been freed on parole after less than three years in prison.
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US, Iraq reach deal to pull US troops out by June
AP, Baghdad
Iraq and the U.S. have reached preliminary agreement to withdraw American forces from Iraqi cities by next June, six years into the increasingly unpopular war, Iraqi...
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Spanish couple misses doomed flight by minutes
AP, Madrid
A Spanish couple got to Madrid’s airport three minutes late, but it kept them off a doomed flight.
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US military frees Iraqi journalist after 26 days
AP, Baghdad
The U.S. military released an Iraqi television cameraman for the Reuters news agency and other news organizations without charges Thursday after 23 days in detention.
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Saudi ban on woman drivers may be eroding
AP, Riyadh
When Ruwaida al-Habis’ father and two brothers were badly burned in a fire, she had no choice but to break Saudi Arabia’s ban on women drivers to get them...
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USVI man sentenced to life for strangling of girl
AP, Charlotte Amalie
A judge has imposed a life sentence on a U.S. Virgin Islands man convicted of strangling a 12-year-old girl.
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Suicide bombers kill 59 at Pakistani arms factory
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Two Taliban suicide bombers blew themselves up at the gates to a huge weapons factory near Pakistan’s capital Thursday, killing at least 59 people and wounding 70...
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Nuclear exporters mull lifting India trade ban
AP, Vienna
A group of nations that export nuclear material on Thursday debated whether to give India access to nuclear fuel and technology _ a decision crucial to finalizing a...
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State media: 5.9-magnitude quake kills 1 in China
AP, Beijing
A 5.9-magnitude earthquake jolted southern China near the border with Myanmar Thursday, killing a woman _ one day after another quake damaged homes in the same area,...
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Delegates told to speed up talks on climate change
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Africa already is suffering from “climate shocks,” the president of Ghana told a 160-nation climate conference Thursday, joining a chorus of calls to speed...
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Russia blocks Georgia's main port city
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Russian forces dug trenches and built fortifications in key areas of Georgia Thursday, but also rolled columns of tanks north toward home, picking and choosing how...
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Lawyer Alan Dershowitz interviews Radovan Karadzic
AP, Amsterdam
U.S. criminal defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz said Thursday he plans to call former Bosnian Serb political leader and war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic as a witness in...
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Pirates seize 3 ships off Somalia in 1 day
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Kremlin Expects US Deal at Bush Summit
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Russia said Tuesday that it expects President Vladimir Putin and President Bush to produce a blueprint for improved cooperation on foreign policy, security and other...
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Putin Critic to Be Questioned in Probe
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Russian investigators conducting a real-estate fraud probe will question a critic of President Vladimir Putin who was barred from running in the country’s...
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Putin: Russia Wants More Work in Iraq
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President Vladimir Putin lobbied Iraq’s prime minister Monday on behalf of Russian companies trying to get a cut of contracts for rebuilding Iraq’s...
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Who's in Charge? Putin, of Course.
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Two U.S. Cabinet secretaries came courting Monday at a Kremlin in transition from the leadership of President Vladimir Putin to that of his hand-picked successor,...
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Putin: Off With Bribe-Takers' Hands
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President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday suggested a striking punishment for Russia’s bribe-hungry bureaucrats: off with their hands.The quip, less a policy plan than...
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Putin: Medvedev Won't Be Any Easier
AP, Novo-ogaryovo
President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that the West should not expect relations with Russia to be any easier under his newly elected successor, who is “no less...
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Putin: US, Russia Share Common Ground
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Kremlin Signals Tough Line After Vote
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President Vladimir Putin fast-tracked the transfer of power to his newly elected protege Monday and signaled the Kremlin won’t back down from its pull-no-punches...
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The United States said Monday it expects Russia’s next president, Dmitry Medvedev, and his promised prime minister, current President Vladimir Putin, to be guided...
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Bush to Call New Russian President
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Bush Says New Russian Leader a Mystery
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Russia's new forestry code sparked criticism among environmentalists!
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