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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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A suicide car bomber killed four security forces and wounded passing schoolchildren Tuesday in Pakistan’s volatile northwest, where the government is under...
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AP, Seoul
North Korea runs a cyber warfare unit that tries to hack into U.S. and South Korean military networks to gather confidential information and disrupt service, a news...
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AP, Peshawar
A senior police official says a suicide car bomber has killed at least four paramilitary security forces in northwestern Pakistan.
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AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked an engagement ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 45 people. Two girls survived after the...
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AP, Asuncion
A former dictatorship-era official considered a brutal torturer by human rights groups has made a surprise return to Paraguay, where he faces six pending trials for the...
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AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 45 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
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AP, Mexico City
Mexico announced a return to “normalcy” on Monday, preparing to reopen businesses and schools even as the virus sickened more than 1,200 people in 20...
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AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 44 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
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AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 44 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
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AP, Sao Paulo
The Southern Hemisphere has been mostly spared in the swine flu epidemic. That could change soon as winter sets in with no vaccine in place, leaving half the planet out...
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AP, Ankara
Turkey’s NTV television, citing authorities, says 41 people have been killed and three have been wounded in an attack on a wedding in the southeast.
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AP, Jakarta
The chief of Indonesia’s anti-corruption watchdog was arrested Monday and named a suspect in the murder of a prominent state company official, police and his...
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AP, Mexico City
Mexico’s president says universities will reopen Thursday and all other classes will resume nationwide next week, citing an ebb in the swine flu outbreak.
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AP, Ankara
Assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing at least 16 people and wounding 20 others, new organizations...
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AP, United Nations
Russia has invited Security Council ministers to a meeting next week to give “new impetus” to the Middle East peace process.
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AP, Ankara
Turkish media say at least 16 people have been killed and 20 others wounded in an attack on a wedding ceremony in the southeastern part of the country.
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AP, Baghdad
Iraq’s government Monday ruled out allowing U.S. combat troops to remain in Iraqi cities after the June 30 deadline for their withdrawal, despite concern that...
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AP, Kabul
President Hamid Karzai chose a powerful warlord accused of rights abuses as one of his vice presidential running mates on Monday, hours before leaving for meetings in...
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AP, Jerusalem
Israel dispatched top officials to the U.S. and Europe on Monday in a diplomatic offensive aimed at softening the hawkish image of Prime Minister Benjamin...
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AP, Paris
The French are living up to their image as lovers of food and can add a new love to the mix, sleep, according to a survey released Monday. In fact, the French excel at...
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Foreign policy will be the subject when Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama meet for their first presidential debate. Both covered some of the same ground...
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AP, Moscow
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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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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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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AP, Moscow
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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AP, Moscow
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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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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AP, Moscow
Russia’s relationship with the United States is strained by plenty of disagreements, but the former Cold War rivals share common ground on some key global...
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AP, Moscow
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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AP, Washington
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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AP, Washington
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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AP, Moscow
Dmitry Medvedev may be a man of many qualities, but the one that comes across clearest is loyalty _ and mostly loyalty to President Vladimir Putin, the senior partner...
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Major events in President Vladimir Putin’s rise to power:_ Aug. 9, 1999: President Boris Yeltsin appoints Putin, a former Federal Security Service chief and KGB...
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Like the rest of an anxious world, President Bush said Thursday he’s waiting to see who will wield the real power in Russia after next month’s elections _...
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He does look the President type. With his closely cropped grey hair and the first sign of baldness creeping in, Gary Kasparov does appear a perfect image of the next...
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With Russia getting a new forestry code, severe criticism has sparked among environmentalists. The code would transfer responsibility for forest protection and...
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Money is a very good reason in itself to ignore rest of the things surrounding you. May be that’s one of the reason why Madonna is still continuing with her...
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