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Nations condemn deadly North Korean artillery attackCNN International
By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- Nations reacted swiftly Tuesday in condemning a North Korean artillery attack that South Korea said killed two marines and wounded 15 soldiers and civilians. The strongest reaction came from South Korean President Lee ...
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Impostor: US Officials Confirm Talks with Phony Taliban LeaderABC News
By NICK SCHIFRIN and KIRIT RADIA High level talks facilitated by NATO forces between Afghan officials and the man thought to be the second ranking leader in the Taliban, were supposed to open a line of communication in the near decade-long war in ...
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Cambodian monks bless dead after night of horrorReuters
By Martin Petty and Prak Chan Thul PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Saffron-robed Buddhist monks chanted as onlookers gazed silently across a bridge piled with the shoes and torn clothing left behind by victims of a stampede in Cambodia's capital. ...
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Palestinians Criticize Israeli Land BillVoice of America
Photo: AP Palestinians are criticizing a new bill passed by Israel's parliament that would make it difficult for Israel to withdraw from the captured territories of East Jerusalem or the Golan Heights. The legislation, approved Monday, ...
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Vatican: Condoms lesser evil for heterosexuals tooThe Associated Press
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Using a condom is a lesser evil than transmitting HIV to a sexual partner — even if that means a woman averting a possible pregnancy, the Vatican said Tuesday, signaling a seismic shift in papal teaching as it further explained Pope ...
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Europe-wide terrorism arrests after plans for attack on BelgiumTelegraph.co.uk
Counter-terrorism police across Europe have rounded up 10 suspects accused of planning attacks on targets in Belgium. By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent 3:47PM GMT 23 Nov 2010 The individuals were detained in swoops on addresses in Belgium, ...
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China, Russia Sign Energy Accords, No Gas Price BreakthroughBusinessWeek
By Anastasia Ustinova and Anna Shiryaevskaya Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- China and Russia agreed to expand oil, coal and nuclear power cooperation as economic growth in the Asian country drives energy demand while talks continued on gas pricing to start ...
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Reunion for Suu KyiSydney Morning Herald
Reunited after a decade . . . Aung San Suu Kyi and her younger son, Kim Aris, after his arrival at Yangon Airport yesterday. Photo: AFP/Soe Than Win RANGOON: The Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, freed from house arrest this month, ...
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APNewsBreak: UN: Iran enrichment was stoppedThe Associated Press
VIENNA (AP) — The UN nuclear agency says that Iran temporarily stopped enriching uranium earlier this month for unspecified reasons. The finding is contained in a report from the International Atomic Energy Agency released Tuesday to the UN Security ...
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Mine rescue: 'Bleaker by the day'New Zealand Herald
By Catherine Masters CEO of Pike River Coal Mine Peter Whittall shows CCTV footage of the portal of Pike River mine at the time of the explosion. Photo / Getty Images Police Commissioner Howard Broad has admitted the situation for 29 missing miners at ...
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New York Times
Smoke rose from South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island after North Korea reportedly fired hundreds of rounds of artillery from its stronghold on the west coast. By MARK McDONALD SEOUL, South Korea — North and South Korea exchanged artillery fire on Tuesday ...
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Afghan president still against NATO night raids
Washington Post
By RAHIM FAIEZ AP KABUL, Afghanistan -- President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday reaffirmed his opposition to coalition night raids targeting insurgent leaders, saying they disrupt the lives of the Afghan people and too often result in civilian deaths. ...
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Washington Post

Survivors Fill Hospitals as Cambodia Toll Rises
New York Times
Heng Sinith/AP By SETH MYDANS PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Injured survivors lay on the floors of hospitals here Tuesday and the dead were loaded into coffins after one of the worst stampedes in recent years killed at least 378 people at a holiday ...
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BBC News
By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News The promises countries have made to control carbon emissions will see temperatures rise by up to 4C during this century, a UN report concludes. The report, from the UN Environment Programme (Unep), ...
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New York Times
By THOMAS FULLER BANGKOK — Myanmar's leading dissident, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, was reunited with her youngest son on Tuesday after a decade-long separation during which he was not allowed to enter the country. The decision by the military government to ...
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Jerusalem Post
By JPOST.COM STAFF AND AP Defense Minister warns law can be used against us; Rivlin says prevents plenum from making decisions, calls Knesset "completely average." Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Tuesday attacked the National Referendum Law passed a day ...
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BBC News
Iran has denied that the Stuxnet virus has caused any delays in its nuclear power programme. It issued the denials following speculation from a former UN nuclear inspector that Stuxnet had managed to damage key equipment. But Iran said it had caught ...
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Pope comments about condoms, HIV broadened
Washington Post
Pope Benedict XVI blesses the faithful during an audience he held for newly appointed cardinals and their relatives, in the Pope Paul II hall at the Vatican, Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. At right is his personal aide Rev. Georg Gaenswein, and Archbishop ...
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Bloomberg
By Chris Bourke - Tue Nov 23 11:00:00 GMT 2010 Gerry Brownlee, the New Zealand minister charged with cleaning up the country's worst earthquake in 80 years, is now grappling with a mining disaster just three months later. “It's pretty somber,” Brownlee ...
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Topless protesters gain fame in Ukraine - World news - Europe ...
How to protest domestic violence, corruption and a visit by Russia's Vladimir Putin? Ukraine's answer: take off your bra!
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Roatan Charter Dives Into Their 30th Year : Travel World News Online
Nov - 18 | By: Travel World News Editor. Roatan Charter, the San Antonio Florida -based travel ... 2010 Travel World News, Inc. All rights reserved. ...
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EURO GOVT-Bunds rise after N.Korean artillery fire reports
Reuters
By William James LONDON, Nov 23 (Reuters) - German Bund futures rose on Tuesday, matching a sharp rally in US Treasuries after reports of North Korean artillery fire at a South Korean island pushed investors towards safe-haven government bonds. ...
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At least 349 die in stampede at Cambodian festival
Washington Post
By SOPHENG CHEANG AP PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Thousands of people stampeded during a festival in the Cambodian capital, leaving at least 349 dead and hundreds injured in what the prime minister called the country's biggest tragedy since the 1970s reign ...
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Afghan president denies meeting Taliban leader
The Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan's president is denying he met with a senior Taliban leader. Hamid Karzai told a news conference on Tuesday that he never met Akhtar Mohammad Mansour. He says the ranking Taliban did not travel from Pakistan to ...
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Second robot arrives to aid New Zealand mine rescue
CNN International
By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- A second robot has arrived at the site of a coal mine in New Zealand where an explosion trapped 29 workers underground, police said. But police officials stressed that it remained too dangerous for human rescuers to go ...
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CNN International
China says climate compromise needed at Cancun
Washington Post
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN AP -- BEIJING - Participants in next week's UN climate conference in Mexico need to agree on financing and technology transfer arrangements to help developing nations reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, China's climate envoy ...
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Aung San Suu Kyi reunited with son
Telegraph.co.uk
Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's pro-democracy leader, has been runited with her son in Rangoon after 11 years apart. Kim Aris, 33, had lingered in Bangkok, the Thai capital for more than three weeks unsure whether the military regime would grant his ...
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Dmitry Trenin: Russia suffers from a security deficit in relations with NATO
RIA Novosti
Joint efforts by Russia and the EU or Russia and NATO to mediate specific conflicts in the region could help build up mutual trust, which is the cornerstone of any partnership. Valdaiclub.com interview with Dmitry Trenin, director and chairman of the ...
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RIA Novosti
Israeli clinic in Haiti made cholera treatment facility
Jerusalem Post
By GIL SHEFLER Over the past month about 1200 Haitians have died in an outbreak of cholera while thousands more have sought treatment in hospitals. Almost a year since an earthquake struck Haiti, killing at least 200000 people and reducing much of its ...
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Lebanon response to scandal over Hariri probe may be war against Israel
Ha'aretz
Wave of arrests among officials in Lebanese mobile phone operators - all on suspicions of spying for Israel - also reflects just how close cooperation has become between Lebanese intelligence and Hezbollah. By Avi Issacharoff An investigation by the ...
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VW BRAZIL BUILDS CAR FOR LITTLE PEOPLE | Weekly World News
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Urban Ears Tanto multicolor headphones are a grab bag of ugly, but ...
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Everyone knows that the only way to prove your non-conformity is to wear multi- colored headphones. At least that seems to be the theme Urban Ears is hinting at via its Tanto headphones, which are assembled from randomly colored parts at ...
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BMC Racing Team Earns ProTeam Status | Bike World News
By Al Fresco
BMC Racing Team President Jim Ochowicz said ProTeam status guarantees participation in all the world's greatest races. “What this means is that we can certainly prepare the team better and have more opportunities for success throughout ...
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Silent craft with changing and strobing lights flew low along I-44 ...
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Traveling eastbound on I-44 in Webster Groves about 1 mile from the Laclede Sta. Rd. exit, I noticed what I at first thought was a commercial airliner taking off from St.
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Euro Declines for Second Day on Irish Election, Europe Contagion ...
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The euro declined for a second day against the dollar and the yen on speculation an election in Ireland will hinder the nation's aid talks with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.
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Australian Sean Ngu, who is visiting family and friends in Phnom Penh, describes the stampede during Cambodia's water festival, in which at least 339 people were killed. "I was in the park, some 30m away from the bridge. There was lots of noise and ...

Australian robot heads to mine site
ABC Online
The miners are still trapped underground five days after a massive explosion ripped through the mine. (AFP: New Zealand Police) An Australian robot is being flown to New Zealand after the mayor of the town at the centre of the mine rescue drama ...
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By John Pomfret The North Korean government told a team of visiting American experts last week that it would effectively dismantle one of its nuclear weapons programs if the United States again pledged that it had "no hostile intent" toward the ...

By Ulet Ifansasti, Getty Images By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY As prospects dim for a major agreement on capping pollution worldwide, deforestation, renewable energy and other smaller steps that target global warming will take center stage at a United ...

A homeless man walks next to a banner for Jude Celestin, a candidate for Haiti's presidential elections, in down town Port-au-Prince November 22, 2010. By Allyn Gaestel PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - A raging cholera epidemic in Haiti may deter some voters ...

By ISABEL KERSHNER JERUSALEM — Israel's right-leaning Parliament approved legislation late Monday that could hamper the leadership's ability to seal future peace deals with the Palestinians or Syria. The measure requires that any peace deal involving ...

Saudi King Abdullah flew to the United States on Monday to undergo treatment for a herniated disc as analysts said his absence was not expected to affect stability in the OPEC kingpin and US ally. Before leaving for a medical centre specialising in ...

The investigation by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. is apparently based on leaks from a special tribunal probing the death of the Lebanese leader in 2005. By Borzou Daragahi, Los Angeles Times A broadcast report apparently based on extensive leaks ...



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They wanted to figure out why their city's trees were developing weird growths, according to PC World. The study, conducted by Nobel Prize winning Professor Gunnar Hofverberg – the leading Wi-Fi expert in the United States, ...

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