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- Al-Qaeda says carried out Iraq attacks
- Cash-strapped UK women painting soles red in hopes of getting 'Louboutin look'
- Lose focus
- Pacific economies resilient despite euro crisis: ADB
- Rival PNG prime ministers join forces to form new government
- Syria sends armoured column to Aleppo, strikes from air
- Twelve Vietnamese crew return home after 18 months in captivity
- Explosion rocks PGE power plant in southern Poland
- Cardinal praises prominent Cuban dissident at funeral
- Ecuador says WikiLeaks’ Assange hires Spanish jurist Garzon
- UK, France agree on more military co-operation
- Venezuela withdrawing from regional human rights court
- No damage, tsunami after 6.6 quake hits off Indonesia’s Sumatra
- Ethnic riots sweep India’s Assam, at least 30 killed
- Draft U.N. arms trade treaty full of holes, activists say
- Special Report - Russian Railways' family connections
- India's top court clamps down on tiger tourism
- Taiwan opposition fails bid for no confidence vote
- Suu Kyi urges MPs to back minority rights (UPDATED)
- Crowds flock to Virgin 'miracle' tree in New Jersey
| Al-Qaeda says carried out Iraq attacks Posted: 25 Jul 2012 12:09 AM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq has claimed responsibility for a spate of attacks across the country targeting mostly Shi'ite Muslim targets this week that killed and wounded hundreds of people. 
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| Cash-strapped UK women painting soles red in hopes of getting 'Louboutin look' Posted: 25 Jul 2012 12:13 AM PDT Famed for their iconic red soles, French footwear guru Christian Louboutin's talons are the footwear of choice for fashionistas including Victoria Beckham and Dita Von Teese.
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| Posted: 25 Jul 2012 12:10 AM PDT In fact, the key lies on execution. The government should focus on it to avoid making the plans idle.
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| Pacific economies resilient despite euro crisis: ADB Posted: 24 Jul 2012 11:41 PM PDT Pacific economies will remain resilient despite economic woes in Europe thanks mostly to increased government spending on public infrastructure, according to the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
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| Rival PNG prime ministers join forces to form new government Posted: 24 Jul 2012 11:22 PM PDT PORT MORESBY (Reuters) - Papua New Guinea's rival prime ministers have ended a political feud that left the resource-rich country with two leaders for the most of the past year, joining forces to form a government in a surprise twist to the South Pacific nation's elections. 
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| Syria sends armoured column to Aleppo, strikes from air Posted: 24 Jul 2012 11:22 PM PDT AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria sent thousands of troops surging towards Aleppo in the early hours of Wednesday, where its forces have been pounding rebel fighters from the air, engulfing the country's largest city in total warfare to put down a revolt. 
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| Twelve Vietnamese crew return home after 18 months in captivity Posted: 24 Jul 2012 10:56 PM PDT HANOI, June 25 — Twelve Vietnamese crew held by Somali pirates for more than 18 months returned to Hanoi on Tuesday, Vietnam News Agency reported. The crew were working on Taiwan's fishing vessel Shiuh Fu-1 in the Indian Ocean when they were attacked by Somali pirates in December 2010. They were released on July 17 last week and together with ... 
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| Explosion rocks PGE power plant in southern Poland Posted: 24 Jul 2012 10:31 PM PDT WARSAW, July 25 — A coal dust explosion hit Poland's top utility PGE Turow lignite power plant late yesterday, sparking a fire that caused a shutdown of three out of eight blocks of the plant responsible for 7 percent of the country's power supply. Thirty-five units of firemen were fighting the blaze after the blast at the 2.1 gigawatt plant's ... 
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| Cardinal praises prominent Cuban dissident at funeral Posted: 24 Jul 2012 09:44 PM PDT HAVANA, July 25 — Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega paid tribute to the "clear political vocation" and religious faith of leading dissident Oswaldo Paya at his crowded funeral yesterday, days after the prominent anti-communist activist died in a car crash. Family members have questioned the circumstances of Sunday's crash on a badly potholed road in ... 
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| Ecuador says WikiLeaks’ Assange hires Spanish jurist Garzon Posted: 24 Jul 2012 08:50 PM PDT QUITO, Excuador, July 25 — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has hired Spanish jurist Baltasar Garzon as a legal adviser as he seeks political asylum in Ecuador, the Andean country's foreign minister, Ricardo Patino, said yesterday. Assange has been taking refuge in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London since June 19. The Australian anti-secrecy ... 
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| UK, France agree on more military co-operation Posted: 24 Jul 2012 08:20 PM PDT LONDON, July 25 — Britain and France signed two agreements yesterday for further co-operation on the use of military drones, the British Ministry of Defence said. British Defence Minister Philip Hammond and his French counterpart, Jean-Yves Le Drian, pledged closer military ties and called the countries cooperation as "natural as it is ... 
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| Venezuela withdrawing from regional human rights court Posted: 24 Jul 2012 07:47 PM PDT CARACAS, July 25 — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said yesterday the South American nation is withdrawing from a regional human rights court that Latin America's leftist leaders have increasingly criticised as a pawn of Washington. Allies of Venezuela including Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua have accused the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ... 
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| No damage, tsunami after 6.6 quake hits off Indonesia’s Sumatra Posted: 24 Jul 2012 07:24 PM PDT JAKARTA, July 25 — A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 struck off northern Sumatra in Indonesia on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said, but authorities said there was little chance of a tsunami. The quake was felt by residents on the island of Simeulue off Sumatra's northwest coast but there were no immediate reports of damage or ... 
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| Ethnic riots sweep India’s Assam, at least 30 killed Posted: 24 Jul 2012 05:50 PM PDT GUWAHATI, India — Police shot dead four rioters in India's northeastern state of Assam yesterday as security forces struggled to contain ethnic fighting that has killed at least 30 people and left riverside hamlets ablaze, forcing tens of thousands from their homes. Rioting between Bodo tribes people and Muslim settlers has raged for days in a ... 
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| Draft U.N. arms trade treaty full of holes, activists say Posted: 24 Jul 2012 10:06 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The first draft of a U.N. treaty to regulate the $60 billion global arms trade was slammed on Tuesday by activists as having "more holes than a leaky bucket" as negotiators scramble to reach a consensus by Friday. 
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| Special Report - Russian Railways' family connections Posted: 24 Jul 2012 10:03 PM PDT MOSCOW/LONDON (Reuters) - To get an idea of how parts of the Russian economy still resemble the Soviet Union, take a look at Russian Railways. With 85,000 km of track, 1 million employees and turnover of $40 billion a year, the state run company remains a heavyweight symbol of the old command economy. 
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| India's top court clamps down on tiger tourism Posted: 24 Jul 2012 10:48 PM PDT India's top court has suspended tourism in core areas of tiger reserves as the country struggles to stem the dwindling numbers of the endangered wild cats, a lawyer said.
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| Taiwan opposition fails bid for no confidence vote Posted: 24 Jul 2012 10:47 PM PDT Taiwan's main opposition party on Wednesday failed to press ahead with a vote of no confidence in Premier Sean Chen, after his cabinet came under fire over a recent string of controversies.
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| Suu Kyi urges MPs to back minority rights (UPDATED) Posted: 24 Jul 2012 10:45 PM PDT Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday called for laws to protect the rights of the strife-torn nation's myriad ethnic minorities in her inaugural address to the fledgling parliament.
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| Crowds flock to Virgin 'miracle' tree in New Jersey Posted: 24 Jul 2012 10:45 PM PDT Fervent Catholics in a crime-ridden New Jersey town are flocking to what they say is the miraculous apparition of the Virgin Mary's image in a tree trunk.
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