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British tourist shot dead in Amarillo
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A BRITISH father shot dead in a US bar was just "in the wrong place, at the wrong time", his family said last night. Tom Reeve, 28, from Maidenhead, Berkshire, had only stopped in Amarillo while travelling
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Deadly suicide attack in Pakistan
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At least three people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack near the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, police say. The blast ripped through a busy market on the outskirts of the city. Reports
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Dalai Lama visits town near Tibet, angering China
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Thousands of poor villagers braved freezing temperatures and icy winds for a rare chance to glimpse the Tibetan spiritual leader. Footage on Indian television showed the Dalai Lama entering the monastery
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Pakistan suicide bombing kills mayor
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Suicide bombing in Pakistan RELATED TOPICS Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- A suicide car bomber struck in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, killing 11 people, including a local mayor, authorities said. At least
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China's Wen seeks to boost blossoming Africa ties
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao meets African leaders on Sunday, aiming to boost a relationship which politically goes back decades and is now economically booming -- to
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Obama wraps up Afghan review, eyes final options
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama is wrapping up deliberations on war strategy in Afghanistan and is considering final Pentagon options that include sending about 30,000 more troops,
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West Africa's Giraffes Make Comeback
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KOURE, Niger (Nov. 7) -- A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil. The tallest animals on
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Some fear backlash against Muslims in US military
- 6 Hours ago
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Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's family says he confided in them that he felt harassed as a Muslim in the U.S. military _ and wasn't treated as an American and soldier should be. He visibly lived his faith, wearing
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FACTBOX - India, China's old border dispute
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REUTERS - The Dalai Lama, branded by China as a separatist began a week-long visit to Arunachal Pradesh, also claimed by Beijing as the two countries struggle to settle a border dispute. * The Asian giants
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Mayor among 10 killed in Pakistan suicide bomb
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) At least 10 people including a local mayor were killed and 20 others wounded Sunday when a suicide bomber blew up a car in Pakistan's northwest Peshawar city, officials and police
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Factbox: Industry winners and losers
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives voted 220-215 on Saturday to pass legislation overhauling the nation's $2.5 trillion health care system. The Senate must also vote on its version
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UK urges G20 to consider bank levy
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ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - Britain pressed the G20 on Saturday to come up with a plan to make banks pay for any future bailouts but one idea of imposing a global financial transactions tax was immediately
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Japan eyes solar station in space
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AFP It may sound like a sci-fi vision, but Japan's space agency is dead serious: by 2030 it wants to collect solar power in space and zap it down to Earth, using laser beams or microwaves. The government
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Iran: Deal 'off' to ship out uranium
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IAEA inspectors arrived at Imam Khomeini airport in Tehran early on October 25, 2009. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Report: Iran would not ship low-enriched uranium out of the country Was a major part of a nuclear
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Blast in northwest Pakistan, several casualties
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A blast ripped through a busy market on the outskirts of Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Sunday, causing several casualties, police said. 'We don't know the nature of
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Pakistan's nuclear weapons are safe, for now
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By Myra MacDonald - Analysis LONDON (Reuters) - Pakistan's nuclear installations are so well guarded that Islamist militants behind a wave of violence in the country's heartland would find it very hard
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Indian capital fights space crunch
- 118 Minutes ago
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New Delhi has become the sprawling home of 17 million and more than half a million cars. STORY HIGHLIGHTS New Delhi i home to about 17 million people and half-a-million vehicles Businesses are being evicted
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At least 11 dead in Pakistan suicide blast
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A suicide car bomber struck in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, killing 11 people, including a local mayor, authorities said. At least 36 others were injured in the attack in the outskirts of Peshawar, said
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Chinese teachers call strike against low pay
- 2 Hours ago
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Hundreds of teachers from private high schools in a western Chinese city called a strike this week to protest about low salaries, despite government efforts to tame a wave of teacher
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Why India Is Playing Hard to Get on Climate Change
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If U.S. diplomats consider India to be a major obstacle to global climate-change negotiations â?? and they do â?? it might be because of Sunita Narain. The director of the influential Centre for Science
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U.S. optimistic about new nuclear pact with Russia
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The optimism stems from a trip to Moscow in late October by national security adviser James L. Jones, who gave his Kremlin counterpart a package of proposals for the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty,
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