|  Medvedev and Putin spend day fishing in Volga river   Posted: 16 Aug 2011 01:50 PM PDT MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's two top leaders, believed to be close to a decision on which of them will run for president, spent Tuesday fishing and boating on the Volga river in a rare, day-long private meeting, the Kremlin said.    
 
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  |  Arsenal 1-0 Udinese   Posted: 16 Aug 2011 01:36 PM PDT Theo Walcott's first-half goal is enough to give Arsenal a slender advantage over Udinese going into the second leg of their Champions League play-off tie.   
 
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  |  Mideast Quartet Criticize Israel Over Settlements   Posted: 16 Aug 2011 12:47 PM PDT The U.S.and other Mideast mediators criticized Israel for a rush of new settlement building approvals, warning it won't be able to shape a peace agreement through unilateral construction in lands claimed by Palestinians.   
 
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  |  Canadian Economy Shows Risk of Shrinking   Posted: 16 Aug 2011 12:19 PM PDT The Canadian economy, a stalwart of growth among the G-7 in the post-recession recovery, is at risk of shrinking in the second quarter, data indicated.   
 
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  |  Group claims newspaper HQ attack   Posted: 16 Aug 2011 01:37 PM PDT A group of vandals who smashed 17 windows at the headquarters of the Bristol Evening Post claim responsibility for the attack.   
 
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  |  Body found after Thames capsize   Posted: 16 Aug 2011 12:19 PM PDT A man's body is found, following the sinking of a tug boat from Kent in the Thames at Greenwich last Friday.   
 
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  |  Indictment served on Nat Fraser   Posted: 16 Aug 2011 01:00 PM PDT An indictment is served on Nat Fraser citing him to appear at a preliminary hearing for a retrial over the murder of his wife.   
 
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  |  Court Sides With Trustee Over Madoff Payouts   Posted: 16 Aug 2011 01:23 PM PDT A federal appeals court decision is a setback for thousands of "net winners" in the vast fraud by Bernard L. Madoff.    
 
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  |  Hop Tien Journal: In Vietnam, Healing a Village Wounded by Trafficking   Posted: 16 Aug 2011 12:40 PM PDT A textile cooperative started for women rescued from the sex trade is thriving, lifting a small Vietnamese village near the border with China.    
 
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  |  In Poll, Lowest Marks for Bloomberg in 6 Years   Posted: 16 Aug 2011 01:00 PM PDT Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's 45 percent approval rating comes as residents express widespread economic anxieties.    
 
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  |  Brawling Tweed told to 'grow up'   Posted: 16 Aug 2011 04:45 AM PDT Jade Goody's widower Jack Tweed is given community service for attacking a man during a scuffle outside a nightclub in Essex.   
 
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  |  World Bank says famine in Horn of Africa is manmade   Posted: 16 Aug 2011 01:07 PM PDT BERLIN (Reuters) - The famine in the Horn of Africa is manmade -- the result of artificially high prices for food and civil conflict, the World Bank's lead economist for Kenya Wolfgang Fengler told Reuters Tuesday.    
 
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  |  VIDEO: Anti-corruption protester arrested   Posted: 16 Aug 2011 12:31 PM PDT Thousands have taken to the streets of India in protest, after one of the country's leading anti-corruption activists was arrested ahead of a planned hunger strike.   
 
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  |  Hacking practice 'approved' at UK tabloid   Posted: 16 Aug 2011 12:24 PM PDT Letter written in 2007 by former News of the World reporter alleges illegal bugging was discussed in editorial meetings.   
 
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  |  Bomb Kills 8 at Afghan Market   Posted: 16 Aug 2011 12:03 PM PDT A bomb planted on a motorcycle exploded in a vegetable market in southern Afghanistan, killing eight people.   
 
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  |  Hop Tien Journal: In Vietnam, Healing a Village Wounded by Trafficking   Posted: 16 Aug 2011 12:40 PM PDT A textile cooperative started for women rescued from the sex trade is thriving, lifting a small Vietnamese village near the border with China.    
 
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  |  Rights panel shuts Bahrain office   Posted: 16 Aug 2011 10:24 AM PDT An international commission investigating recent unrest in Bahrain closes its office after an angry crowd clashed with staff.   
 
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  |  Dutch Probe 1950s Deaths at Catholic Boys' School   Posted: 16 Aug 2011 12:09 PM PDT Dutch authorities say they are investigating possible murders at a Catholic institution for psychiatrically ill boys, where 34 children under the age of 18 died over a three-year span ending in 1954.   
 
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  |  Child victims   Posted: 16 Aug 2011 11:38 AM PDT Family tragedies amid Karachi's escalating ethnic tension   
 
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  |  Bin Laden's doctor spotted in Egypt   Posted: 16 Aug 2011 09:07 AM PDT The Egyptian army and police are cracking down in an "anti-terror" operation in the Sinai area of Egypt, state-owned media reported on Tuesday, as reports emerge of Osama bin Laden's doctor surfacing in the area.    
 
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