|  Phone-hack victims 'up to 5,800'   Posted: 03 Nov 2011 01:02 PM PDT Almost 6,000 people may have had their phones hacked by the News of the World newspaper, police now estimate.   
 
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  |  Berlusconi faces calls to step down   Posted: 03 Nov 2011 06:02 AM PDT Italian premier's ex-parliamentary allies demand a "new political phase and a new government".   
 
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  |  U.S. warns on new Gaza-bound activist flotilla   Posted: 03 Nov 2011 12:57 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States warned on Thursday that a new effort by pro-Palestinian activists to send a flotilla to challenge Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip was dangerous and urged U.S. citizens not to take part.    
 
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  |  Malaysia Gay Festival Is Banned   Posted: 03 Nov 2011 12:11 PM PDT Tannual festival had drawn fire from conservative politicians and religious leaders, and the authorities said the event "threatens national security."    
 
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  |  Tibetan Nun Sets Herself on Fire in Sichuan Province, China   Posted: 03 Nov 2011 12:27 PM PDT Qiu Xiang died Thursday after setting herself on fire in southwest Sichuan Province, becoming the 11th Tibetan to embrace a grisly protest against Chinese rule.    
 
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  |  Oakland port opens after clashes   Posted: 03 Nov 2011 12:12 PM PDT The port of Oakland reopens the morning after clashes in the centre of the city, as Occupy protesters question how Wednesday's violence flared.   
 
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  |  Green Blog: House Panel Votes to Subpoena Solyndra Documents   Posted: 03 Nov 2011 11:41 AM PDT Republicans assert that White House documents could show that it had extensive contact with a campaign donor who was also a Solyndra investor.    
 
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  |  S Koreans protest against trade deal with US   Posted: 03 Nov 2011 04:56 AM PDT Authorities detain at least 15 people after police clash with demonstrators in the capital Seoul.   
 
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  |  Pakistan's murky cricket-fixing underworld   Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:45 AM PDT Pakistan's murky underworld of bookies and betters   
 
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  |  Libyans want jobs from "grey men" of government   Posted: 03 Nov 2011 12:28 PM PDT TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Jobs, normality and democracy are high on the wish lists of Libyans questioned on the streets of their capital, but after months of civil war, meeting their expectations is a challenging assignment for the "grey men" now trying to run the country.    
 
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  |  Remote UK island to get airport   Posted: 03 Nov 2011 09:29 AM PDT A remote British Island where the French Emperor Napoleon was exiled is to get an airport, the International Development Secretary has announced.   
 
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  |  The Choice: Hard Decisions for Learning Disabled   Posted: 03 Nov 2011 11:52 AM PDT Addressing the issues that students with learning impairments may face on the path to college.    
 
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  |  S Koreans protest against trade deal with US   Posted: 03 Nov 2011 04:56 AM PDT Authorities detain at least 15 people after police clash with demonstrators in the capital Seoul.   
 
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  |  Major berg forming in Antarctica   Posted: 03 Nov 2011 11:51 AM PDT Scientists are monitoring a big rift in the Pine Island Glacier in western Antarctica that will eventually calve an iceberg the size of Berlin.   
 
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  |  Extreme Poverty Is Up, Brookings Report Finds   Posted: 03 Nov 2011 11:25 AM PDT The increase in the number of Americans living in extreme poverty has erased most of the gains from the 1990s, the Brookings Institution says.    
 
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  |  'Moments of madness led to riots'   Posted: 03 Nov 2011 11:32 AM PDT Young people joined the summer riots in a "moment of madness" on "a day like no other when normal rules did not seem to apply", a report suggests.   
 
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  |  Cuba Legalizes Sale of Private Property   Posted: 03 Nov 2011 11:13 AM PDT Cuba announced it will allow real estate to be bought and sold for the first time since the early days of the revolution, the most important reform yet in a series of free-market changes under President Raúl Castro.   
 
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  |  Asia braced for Thai rice shock   Posted: 03 Nov 2011 05:03 AM PDT Flood damage and government subsidies in the world's biggest rice exporter could push up prices across the continent.   
 
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  |  Russia set to end 18-year wait to join WTO   Posted: 03 Nov 2011 11:21 AM PDT MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia is on the verge of ending its 18-year wait to join the World Trade Organization after accepting a trade deal with Georgia, the last big obstacle to membership of a club that will seal its integration into the global economy.    
 
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  |  TIMESCAST: TimesCast | November 3, 2011   Posted: 03 Nov 2011 11:51 AM PDT Greece calls off its referendum as the Group of 20 leaders meet in Cannes, France; and Herman Cain accuses his rival Rick Perry of a smear campaign.    
 
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