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- Cubans go to polls as dissident group harassed
- News Analysis: For Greece, Restructuring Is No Longer Unthinkable
- 90,000 Protest U.S. Base on Okinawa
- More Tensions Over East Jerusalem
- TV Debates Shape British Election, for Good or Ill
- 42,000 Gallons Per Day May Be Gushing Out of Well
- Highway rift symbolizes long road to peace
- 90,000 Protest U.S. Base on Okinawa
- Lebanese rally calls for secularism
- City Critic: Vote Buys Time, but Not Life, for OTB
- Parties Edge Closer on Financial Regulation Bill
- Allison Stacey Cowles, Educational Advocate, Dies at 75
- Greece's finance minister: $60B rescue talks going well
- Author Alan Sillitoe dies aged 82
- Iran 'remains open' to nuclear swap
- Emerging economies get bank boost
- Hungary's Fidesz wins historic two-thirds mandate
- Five new missiles tested, Iran says
- Report: Close-range blast sank S. Korean ship
- Al Qaeda confirms death of 2 top leaders
| Cubans go to polls as dissident group harassed Posted: 25 Apr 2010 12:36 PM PDT HAVANA (Reuters) - Cubans voted on Sunday in municipal elections touted as proof of democracy on the communist-led island, but at the same time the dissident "Ladies in White" were manhandled by government supporters as they tried to march for the freedom of political prisoners.
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| News Analysis: For Greece, Restructuring Is No Longer Unthinkable Posted: 25 Apr 2010 12:10 PM PDT Only a few weeks ago, the idea that Greece might restructure its debt seemed like the nuclear option. Now restructuring — a polite way of saying "default" — is not only thinkable, it is likely.
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| 90,000 Protest U.S. Base on Okinawa Posted: 25 Apr 2010 11:31 AM PDT More than 90,000 Okinawans rallied to oppose the relocation of an American air base on their island.
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| More Tensions Over East Jerusalem Posted: 25 Apr 2010 12:02 PM PDT A march by Israeli far-rightists in East Jerusalem raised passions over the future of the city as a U.S. envoy ended a visit aimed at getting peace talks under way.
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| TV Debates Shape British Election, for Good or Ill Posted: 25 Apr 2010 12:04 PM PDT Thanks to the first-ever televised debates among its party leaders, Britain's election is shaping up to be the most intriguing in a generation.
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| 42,000 Gallons Per Day May Be Gushing Out of Well Posted: 25 Apr 2010 11:54 AM PDT In what was called "game changing" by a Coast Guard official, robotic devices monitoring the deepwater well off the coast of Louisiana detected leaks in two places.
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| Highway rift symbolizes long road to peace Posted: 25 Apr 2010 09:00 PM PDT BEIT UR AL-TAHTA, WEST BANK -- For eight years, Israeli commuters have whizzed between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv on Route 443, a highway whose West Bank portion is lined with barriers and is off-limits to Palestinians who live along the way.
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| 90,000 Protest U.S. Base on Okinawa Posted: 25 Apr 2010 11:31 AM PDT More than 90,000 Okinawans rallied to oppose the relocation of an American air base on their island.
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| Lebanese rally calls for secularism Posted: 25 Apr 2010 12:00 PM PDT Thousands of demonstrators demand an end to the religious-based political system.
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| City Critic: Vote Buys Time, but Not Life, for OTB Posted: 25 Apr 2010 10:52 AM PDT The city's betting parlors bring in $1 billion a year. But you wouldn't know it, to look at some of them.
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| Parties Edge Closer on Financial Regulation Bill Posted: 25 Apr 2010 11:30 AM PDT Top Republicans appeared nearer to a deal with Democrats on a financial regulation bill, with the ranking senator on the banking committee saying that they were "very close" on the key particulars.
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| Allison Stacey Cowles, Educational Advocate, Dies at 75 Posted: 25 Apr 2010 11:30 AM PDT Ms. Cowles, a longtime trustee of Wellesley College, was the wife of a newspaper publisher in Spokane, Wash., and, after he died, of the former publisher of The New York Times.
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| Greece's finance minister: $60B rescue talks going well Posted: 25 Apr 2010 10:48 AM PDT Negotiations over a $60 billion rescue package for Greece are going well and could be completed within a few weeks, Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou said Sunday.
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| Author Alan Sillitoe dies aged 82 Posted: 25 Apr 2010 12:36 PM PDT The author Alan Sillitoe, one of the "Angry Young Men" of British fiction in the 1950s, has died aged 82, his family says.
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| Iran 'remains open' to nuclear swap Posted: 25 Apr 2010 09:53 AM PDT Iranian foreign minister discusses fuel proposal with head of UN nuclear agency.
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| Emerging economies get bank boost Posted: 25 Apr 2010 10:13 AM PDT World Bank members agree to change voting system to better represent developing world.
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| Hungary's Fidesz wins historic two-thirds mandate Posted: 25 Apr 2010 12:06 PM PDT BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's center-right Fidesz party won a two-thirds parliamentary majority in Sunday's election, giving the new government the power to enact reforms and boost the recession-hit economy.
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| Five new missiles tested, Iran says Posted: 25 Apr 2010 08:44 AM PDT Iran said Sunday it fired five new types of locally made coast-to-sea and sea-to-sea missiles in the last stage of its "Great Prophet 5" maneuvers in the Persian Gulf. | NO OIL DEAL IN UGANDA | MINISTER MEETS WITH IAEA |
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| Report: Close-range blast sank S. Korean ship Posted: 24 Apr 2010 11:24 PM PDT An explosion at close range, and not a direct hit, caused the 1,200-ton patrol ship Cheonan to sink last month, a team of South Korean military and civilian investigators has tentatively concluded.
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| Al Qaeda confirms death of 2 top leaders Posted: 25 Apr 2010 03:23 AM PDT Al Qaeda in Iraq has confirmed in a statement posted online that two of its two most senior leaders have been killed.
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