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Congo boat catches fire, capsizes; 200 feared dead
(AP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:44:58 GMT
AP - A riverboat loaded with passengers and fuel drums caught fire and capsized in southern Congo, and 200 people were feared dead, a survivor said Sunday. A local official confirmed the boat had tipped but said the passenger manifest apparently vanished in the fire.
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Basque separatists ETA announce cease-fire
(AP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:01:02 GMT
 AP - The armed Basque separatist group ETA, under pressure from political allies to renounce violence and decapitated repeatedly by the arrests of its leaders, announced another cease-fire Sunday, suggesting it might turn to a political process in its quest for an independent homeland.
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Guatemala mudslides kill at least 38; 2 buses hit
(AP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:56:58 GMT
 AP - Torrential rains from a tropical depression caused mudslides that have killed at least 38 people in Guatemala — most of them in separate disasters along the same highway.
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Taliban threaten to attack Afghan polling stations
(AP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:49:00 GMT
 AP - The Taliban vowed Sunday to attack polling places in Sept. 18 parliamentary elections, warning Afghans not to participate in what it called a sham vote.
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Chile mine disaster exposes old family feuds
(AP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:48:41 GMT
 AP - While a fire warms their campsite, the icy feeling between Cristina Nunez Macias and her mother-in-law is as palpable as the cold Atacama desert.
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Israel: Now, More than Ever, Fascinated By Netanyahu
(Time.com)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:55:00 GMT
Time.com - No one really thinks much will come out of the direct talks with the Palestinians but, when the issue is Bibi, up come visions of Gorbachev -- and Nixon in China
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(AP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:06:17 GMT
AP - Basque government official says ETA ceasefire announcement is 'absolutely insufficient'
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Mideast crisis looms over Israeli settlements
(AP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:58:20 GMT
 AP - Just days after Mideast peace talks began in Washington, the first major crisis is already looming: Israel hinted Sunday it will ease restrictions on building in West Bank settlements, while the Palestinian president warned he'll quit the talks if Israel resumes construction.
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(AP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:52:36 GMT
AP - Officials say mudslides on a Guatemalan highway kill at least 22 people; scores missing.
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Egypt journalist faces trial over minister 'insult'
(AFP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:59:21 GMT
 AFP - A prominent opposition journalist is to go on trial for allegedly libelling Egypt's foreign minister in a newspaper, a judicial source said on Sunday.
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Pakistan's flooded farms unable to be sown
(AP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:42:00 GMT
 AP - Abid Hussein fears the deep floodwaters that destroyed his cotton crop, rotted his wheat seeds and swept away his farming tools are not done ravaging his life.
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China tells state companies to explore Potash bid
(Reuters)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:12:11 GMT
Reuters - Chinese officials have ordered state companies to meet investment bankers to explore ways to block BHP Billiton's $39 billion bid for Potash Corp, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said.
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NZ cleans up after quake that tore new fault line
(AP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 10:09:51 GMT
 AP - The powerful earthquake that smashed buildings, cracked roads and twisted rail lines around the New Zealand city of Christchurch also ripped a new fault line in the Earth's surface, a geologist said Sunday.
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Settlers defy Netanyahu with vow to begin construction
(McClatchy Newspapers)
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:59:00 GMT
McClatchy Newspapers - JERUSALEM — Jewish settlers across the West Bank have vowed to begin construction in more than 60 locations, posing a direct challenge to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he returned home from Thursday's first round of direct peace talks in Washington.
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North Korea's Kim Jong-il may go public with dynastic rule
(The Christian Science Monitor)
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:34:46 GMT
The Christian Science Monitor - North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-il is expected to convene the first high-level conference of the ruling Workers’ Party in about 40 years amid widespread speculation that the world will finally get the answer to one great question:
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The Last Secrets of the Forbidden City Head to the U.S.
(Time.com)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:55:00 GMT
Time.com - Though Beijing's Forbidden City has been open to the public for decades, parts of it remained off-limits. This month a new exhibition of artifacts from behind the gates heads to U.S.
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Price Hikes Trigger Mozambique Protests
(OneWorld.net)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:56:15 GMT
OneWorld.net - MAPUTO, Sep 3 (IPS) - September in
Mozambique’s capital has begun with violent protests. Thousands have
been striking over an increase in the prices of basic goods, including
bread. Police responded with force - firing on crowds gathered on the
streets in several suburbs and townships in and around Maputo.
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