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- MP says Iran leader opposes direct talks with U.S.
- South Korea court convicts Hwang of stem cell fraud
- Karadzic trial due to begin
- Tackling Ethiopia's 'human emergency'
- MP says Iran leader opposes direct talks with U.S.
- China hides North Korea trade in statistics
- South Korea court convicts Hwang of stem cell fraud
- South Korea shifts course on aid to North Korea
- Fidel Castro's sister:"I worked with CIA in Cuba"
- U.S. healthcare system wastes up to $800 bln a year
- FEATURE - In a hole, Amsterdam tunnellers just keep digging
- New Merkel minister defends tax cuts after attacks
- South Korea shifts course on aid to North Korea
- Leftist leads Uruguay election but faces run-off
- Obama asked Spain to deliver message to Cuba
- U.N. inspectors reach Iran's new nuclear site - report
- Firefighters put out Puerto Rico oil depot blaze
- Q+A - Japan-U.S. base feud hits nerve ahead of Obama visit
- Israel to review its own Gaza war probe - source
- South Korea shifts course on aid to North Korea
| MP says Iran leader opposes direct talks with U.S. Posted: 26 Oct 2009 12:12 AM PDT TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei opposes holding direct negotiations with the United States, a senior lawmaker said in comments published on Monday.
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| South Korea court convicts Hwang of stem cell fraud Posted: 26 Oct 2009 12:12 AM PDT SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean court on Monday found disgraced stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk guilty of fraud in a case that sent shockwaves throughout the scientific community.
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| Posted: 25 Oct 2009 10:28 PM PDT The trial of the former Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, is due begin at The Hague.
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| Tackling Ethiopia's 'human emergency' Posted: 25 Oct 2009 11:29 PM PDT Health ministers from around the world are meeting in Addis Ababa to discuss Ethiopia's struggle to protect the health of mothers.
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| MP says Iran leader opposes direct talks with U.S. Posted: 25 Oct 2009 11:40 PM PDT TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei opposes holding direct negotiations with the United States, a senior lawmaker said in comments published on Monday.
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| China hides North Korea trade in statistics Posted: 25 Oct 2009 11:40 PM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - China has stopped publicly issuing trade data about North Korea, veiling the potentially sensitive numbers about its wary neighbour under another category while the two countries seek improved ties.
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| South Korea court convicts Hwang of stem cell fraud Posted: 25 Oct 2009 11:10 PM PDT SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean court on Monday found disgraced stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk guilty of fraud in a case that sent shockwaves throughout the scientific community. Hwang, once a scientist with rock-star like status in South Korea for his research that brought the country to the forefront of stem cell studies, was facing trial on charges of fraud, misusing state funds and violating bioethics laws.
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| South Korea shifts course on aid to North Korea Posted: 25 Oct 2009 10:39 PM PDT SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea will make a small grant of humanitarian aid to North Korea, ending its suspension of handouts after a series of conciliatory gestures from its destitute rival, an official said on Monday.
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| Fidel Castro's sister:"I worked with CIA in Cuba" Posted: 25 Oct 2009 10:27 PM PDT MIAMI (Reuters) - The younger sister of Fidel and Raul Castro, Juanita Castro, collaborated with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency against her brothers' rule in Cuba before going into exile in Miami in 1964, she said on Sunday.
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| U.S. healthcare system wastes up to $800 bln a year Posted: 25 Oct 2009 09:39 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. healthcare system is just as wasteful as President Barack Obama says it is, and proposed reforms could be paid for by fixing some of the most obvious inefficiencies, preventing mistakes and fighting fraud, according to a Thomson Reuters report released on Monday.
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| FEATURE - In a hole, Amsterdam tunnellers just keep digging Posted: 25 Oct 2009 09:39 PM PDT AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Early one evening Helena van Gelder heard bricks falling. Minutes later, she and her three young sons were standing outside their 17th-century home, watching it sink eight inches (20 cm) within hours.
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| New Merkel minister defends tax cuts after attacks Posted: 25 Oct 2009 09:39 PM PDT BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's new finance minister cautiously defended the tax cut plans of Chancellor Angela Merkel's incoming government on Sunday, but said it was only a matter of time before steps were needed to rein in the deficit.
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| South Korea shifts course on aid to North Korea Posted: 25 Oct 2009 09:10 PM PDT SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea will make a small grant of humanitarian aid to North Korea, ending its suspension of handouts after a series of conciliatory gestures from its destitute rival, an official said on Monday.
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| Leftist leads Uruguay election but faces run-off Posted: 25 Oct 2009 09:10 PM PDT MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - A former left-wing guerrilla fighter took a commanding lead in Uruguay's presidential election on Sunday but was headed for a run-off to steer one of Latin America's steadiest economies.
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| Obama asked Spain to deliver message to Cuba Posted: 25 Oct 2009 08:39 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama asked Spain to pass Cuba a message on the need for democratic reform when he met Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero earlier this month, according to a U.S. official.
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| U.N. inspectors reach Iran's new nuclear site - report Posted: 25 Oct 2009 08:39 PM PDT TEHRAN (Reuters) - U.N. nuclear experts inspected on Sunday a uranium enrichment site whose existence was announced by Iran last month, the semi-official Mers news agency said.
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| Firefighters put out Puerto Rico oil depot blaze Posted: 25 Oct 2009 08:39 PM PDT SAN JUAN (Reuters) - Firefighters in Puerto Rico extinguished a huge fire on Saturday that had raged for more than two days at an oil storage depot outside San Juan and forced the evacuation of more than 1,000 local residents.
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| Q+A - Japan-U.S. base feud hits nerve ahead of Obama visit Posted: 25 Oct 2009 08:39 PM PDT TOKYO (Reuters) - A feud over plans to relocate a military base on Japan's Okinawa island as part of a broad reorganisation of U.S. troops is straining Washington's ties with Tokyo's new government ahead of President Barack Obama's Nov. 12-13 visit.
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| Israel to review its own Gaza war probe - source Posted: 25 Oct 2009 08:39 PM PDT JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Hoping to defuse a U.N. report fiercely critical of its war in Gaza, Israel plans to review the internal inquiries that cleared its armed forces of serious wrongdoing, a political source said on Sunday.
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| South Korea shifts course on aid to North Korea Posted: 25 Oct 2009 08:39 PM PDT SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea will make a small grant of humanitarian aid to North Korea, ending its suspension of handouts after a series of conciliatory gestures from its destitute rival, an official said on Monday.
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