Afghan security intercepts insurgents with 10,000 kilograms of explosives |
- Afghan security intercepts insurgents with 10,000 kilograms of explosives
- China top military paper warns of armed confrontation over seas
- Analysis: Did U.S. fumble chance to peer inside China's secretive leadership?
- Campaigns on hold as France prepares to vote
- 'Snow White and the Huntsman' beauty kit details revealed
- Landmark French chateau set for major renovations
- Retired Mexican general shot dead in Mexico City
- Three more US Secret Service agents resign
- No survivors in Pakistani plane crash with 127 on board
- In Russia's sea of drugs, rehab offers a harbour of hope
- Retired Mexican general shot dead in Mexico City
- Obama kicks off battle vs Romney with big money lead
- VIDEO: UAE's only crematorium
- Pakistan probes air crash with 127 feared dead
- More U.N. monitors heading to Syria as 13 people killed
- Aboriginal teens shot by Sydney police
- 6.6 quake rocks Indonesia's Papua: USGS
- China releases Vietnamese after maritime row
- Wayne Rooney among 46 new phone-hacking claims
- Obama briefed on Secret Service scandal
| Afghan security intercepts insurgents with 10,000 kilograms of explosives Posted: 20 Apr 2012 11:43 PM PDT KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan security forces have detained five insurgents in the capital, Kabul, with 10,000 kilograms of explosives they intended to use in multiple attacks in crowded areas, an intelligence agency spokesman said on Saturday. 
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| China top military paper warns of armed confrontation over seas Posted: 20 Apr 2012 11:22 PM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - China's top military newspaper warned the United States on Saturday that U.S.-Philippine military exercises have fanned risks of armed confrontation over the disputed South China Sea. 
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| Analysis: Did U.S. fumble chance to peer inside China's secretive leadership? Posted: 20 Apr 2012 10:30 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Information about a Chinese policeman who implicated the wife of a top Chinese official in a British businessman's murder was not circulated widely in Washington as he was considered of marginal intelligence value, current and former U.S. officials said. 
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| Campaigns on hold as France prepares to vote Posted: 21 Apr 2012 12:46 AM PDT French presidential candidates marked a one day truce Saturday on the eve of voting in a first-round poll to whittle the ten-strong field down to two frontrunners.
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| 'Snow White and the Huntsman' beauty kit details revealed Posted: 21 Apr 2012 12:31 AM PDT While the beauty world is still in the grips of Hunger Games fever with its China Glaze nail collection and dedicated Capitol Couture site, further details on the Benefit Cosmetics kit inspired by upcoming picture Snow White and the Huntsman have been revealed.
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| Landmark French chateau set for major renovations Posted: 20 Apr 2012 10:47 PM PDT With its fairy-tale facade, elaborately turreted roof and vast grounds, Chambord is probably the French Loire Valley's best-known Renaissance chateau.
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| Retired Mexican general shot dead in Mexico City Posted: 20 Apr 2012 09:26 PM PDT MEXICO CITY, April 21 — Retired Mexican general Mario Arturo Acosta, who was once convicted of having ties to drug cartels, died after being shot three times in the head yesterday in Mexico City. The attorney-general's office in the Mexican capital said Acosta, 70, was shot by an unidentified attacker northwest of the city centre. The gunman ... 
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| Three more US Secret Service agents resign Posted: 20 Apr 2012 08:37 PM PDT WASHINGTON, April 21 — The US Secret Service said yesterday that three more of its employees have resigned, bringing to six the number who have left the agency in connection with alleged misconduct involving prostitutes in Colombia last week before President Barack Obama's trip there. The Secret Service also said that a 12th employee had been ... 
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| No survivors in Pakistani plane crash with 127 on board Posted: 20 Apr 2012 07:20 PM PDT ISLAMABAD, April 21 — The Pakistani airliner with 127 people on board that crashed in bad weather as it came in to land in Islamabad yesterday, scattered wreckage and left no sign of survivors. The Boeing 737, operated by local airline Bhoja Air, was flying to the capital from Pakistan's biggest city and business hub Karachi. It crashed into wheat ... 
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| In Russia's sea of drugs, rehab offers a harbour of hope Posted: 20 Apr 2012 10:37 PM PDT Katya Nikitina could not sleep, think, or move during her first seven days at the rehab clinic.
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| Retired Mexican general shot dead in Mexico City Posted: 20 Apr 2012 08:46 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Retired Mexican General Mario Arturo Acosta, who was once convicted of having ties to drug cartels, died after being shot three times in the head on Friday in Mexico City. 
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| Obama kicks off battle vs Romney with big money lead Posted: 20 Apr 2012 08:40 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitt Romney had his best fundraising month yet in March, but the presumed Republican nominee remained far behind Democratic President Barack Obama in the money game, filings with the Federal Election Commission showed on Friday. 
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| Posted: 20 Apr 2012 08:30 PM PDT Simon Atkinson meets Don Fox, the funeral director who runs the first crematorium for non-Muslims in the United Arab Emirates.
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| Pakistan probes air crash with 127 feared dead Posted: 20 Apr 2012 07:44 PM PDT Pakistan has launched an investigation after a passenger jet crashed while attempting to land during a thunderstorm, with all 127 people on board believed dead.
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| More U.N. monitors heading to Syria as 13 people killed Posted: 20 Apr 2012 06:22 PM PDT BEIRUT (Reuters) - An additional 30 United Nations monitors should arrive in Syria in the coming week to join an advance team of seven observing a fragile week-long ceasefire which has failed to end bloodshed in the country, a spokesman for envoy Kofi Annan said on Friday. 
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| Aboriginal teens shot by Sydney police Posted: 20 Apr 2012 07:25 PM PDT Two Aboriginal teenagers aged 14 and 18 were shot by police in central Sydney on Saturday after mounting a crowded footpath in a stolen car and hitting a bystander as officers gave chase.
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| 6.6 quake rocks Indonesia's Papua: USGS Posted: 20 Apr 2012 07:24 PM PDT A strong 6.6-magnitude earthquake rocked Indonesia's Papua region on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said, but no tsunami warning was issued.
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| China releases Vietnamese after maritime row Posted: 20 Apr 2012 07:24 PM PDT Chinese authorities have released 21 Vietnamese fishermen who were detained seven weeks ago near disputed islands in the South China Sea, drawing strong protests from Hanoi.
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| Wayne Rooney among 46 new phone-hacking claims Posted: 20 Apr 2012 07:23 PM PDT Forty-six new phone-hacking lawsuits have been filed against Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper group, with footballers Wayne Rooney and Ryan Giggs among the latest to sue, a court heard Friday.
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| Obama briefed on Secret Service scandal Posted: 20 Apr 2012 07:21 PM PDT Three more US Secret Service agents quit Friday over a sex scandal in Colombia, as President Barack Obama got his first briefing on the notorious incident by the agency's director.
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