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- Stalled Chinese warship taken off disputed shoal
- Japan dispatches rescuers to flood-hit areas
- El Salvador's gang truce cuts murder rate
- Afghan minister survives assassination attempt
- Venezuela's Chavez on election campaign trail
- Google Ventures Leads $5M Series A: Pocket Change
- China frigate heads home, averts new Philippines row
- Where Obama failed on forging peace in the Middle East
- The Innovative Indie Goodness That Is 'Bastion'
- China frigate heads home, averts new Philippines row
- VIDEO: Swamp football grips Finland
- One killed in alleged attack on Saudi police
- Russian Soyuz rocket blasts off for space station
- Colombia rail blast slows transport at Cerrejon coal mine: media
- Soyuz rocket launches on mission to space station
- Russian Soyuz rocket blasts off for space station
- Italian court postpones ruling in CIA rendition case
- VIDEO: Thousands flee Japanese floods
- Colombia rail blast slows transport at Cerrejon coal mine: media
- Bouazizi's mother arrested in Tunisia
| Stalled Chinese warship taken off disputed shoal Posted: 14 Jul 2012 10:41 PM PDT Chinese navy ships safely removed one of the country's warships Sunday from a disputed shoal off the western Philippines where it had run aground while on a security patrol and sparked fears of another maritime standoff in the South China Sea.
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| Japan dispatches rescuers to flood-hit areas Posted: 14 Jul 2012 10:59 PM PDT Rescue operations stepped up as more heavy rain and flooding are forecast in the country's south western regions.
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| El Salvador's gang truce cuts murder rate Posted: 14 Jul 2012 11:05 PM PDT QUEZALTEPEQUE, El Salvador (Reuters) - Victor Garcia, alias 'The Duck,' at 39 has survived longer than most gang members in El Salvador, and has seen hundreds of his 'homies' killed by rivals over the years.
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| Afghan minister survives assassination attempt Posted: 14 Jul 2012 11:26 PM PDT KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - An Afghan government minister survived a bomb attack on his motorcade in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, the second assault on a high-profile politician in two days, but two of his bodyguards were wounded, provincial officials said.
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| Venezuela's Chavez on election campaign trail Posted: 14 Jul 2012 10:19 PM PDT The incumbent president, who claims full recovery from cancer, hits the road to campaign for re-election in October.
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| Google Ventures Leads $5M Series A: Pocket Change Posted: 14 Jul 2012 05:41 PM PDT Video Pocket Change, a startup that aims to be the first virtual mobile game economy, raised $5 million in Series A funding. The company plans to be the first universal virtual currency for android game developers to seamlessly integrate in less than 2 hours. "Weather they are buying the game to play [...]
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| China frigate heads home, averts new Philippines row Posted: 14 Jul 2012 09:04 PM PDT MANILA/BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese frigate which ran aground in disputed waters close to the Philippines managed to extricate itself on Sunday and was heading home, averting a possible standoff with Philippine vessels amid rising tensions in the strategic South China Sea. The South China Sea has become Asia's biggest potential military flashpoint as Beijing's sovereignty claim over a huge, looping area has set it against Vietnam and the Philippines as the three countries race to tap possibly huge oil reserves. ...
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| Where Obama failed on forging peace in the Middle East Posted: 14 Jul 2012 08:57 PM PDT It was their first meeting with the new president, and the dozen or so Jewish leaders picked to attend had made an agreement among themselves: No arguing — either with each other or their host. The pledge would be hard to keep. Read full article >>   
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| The Innovative Indie Goodness That Is 'Bastion' Posted: 14 Jul 2012 04:49 PM PDT Video There's a lot to love about Bastion, a top-down action-RPG game that takes a lot of the old Diablo mechanisms and does something entirely new with them. Like Diablo III, Bastion hews to a painterly style, though the game is one of the more colorful I've played. The world builds itself as [...]
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| China frigate heads home, averts new Philippines row Posted: 14 Jul 2012 09:04 PM PDT MANILA/BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese frigate which ran aground in disputed waters close to the Philippines managed to extricate itself on Sunday and was heading home, averting a possible standoff with Philippine vessels amid rising tensions in the strategic South China Sea.
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| VIDEO: Swamp football grips Finland Posted: 14 Jul 2012 08:43 PM PDT In 2012's crowded sports calendar, which includes football's European Championships and the Olympics, one contest could be overlooked: The World Swamp Football Championship in Finland.
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| One killed in alleged attack on Saudi police Posted: 14 Jul 2012 08:26 PM PDT Interior ministry says the man aided attack in restive east, but activists say he was merely walking on the street.
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| Russian Soyuz rocket blasts off for space station Posted: 14 Jul 2012 09:01 PM PDT
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| Colombia rail blast slows transport at Cerrejon coal mine: media Posted: 14 Jul 2012 06:32 PM PDT BOGOTA (Reuters) - An explosion on a railway line that feeds into Colombia's biggest coal miner, Cerrejon, slowed transport between the mine and a Caribbean port in northern La Guajira province, local media reported. The attack on Saturday, just as a coal train was passing by, was likely carried out by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, Caracol Radio cited police commander Elver Velasco Garabito as saying. ...
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| Soyuz rocket launches on mission to space station Posted: 14 Jul 2012 09:39 PM PDT
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| Russian Soyuz rocket blasts off for space station Posted: 14 Jul 2012 10:59 PM PDT ALMATY (Reuters) - A trio of Russian, Japanese and U.S. astronauts blasted off aboard a Soyuz spaceship on Sunday for a four-month mission on the International Space Station (ISS) that Moscow hopes will help restore confidence in its space programme.
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| Italian court postpones ruling in CIA rendition case Posted: 14 Jul 2012 01:19 AM PDT The CIA and U.S. military officials appealing their convictions before the Italian Supreme Court on charges of kidnapping a terrorist suspect in Milan must wait until September for a possible final verdict in the long-running case. Read full article >>
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| VIDEO: Thousands flee Japanese floods Posted: 14 Jul 2012 06:10 PM PDT About 250,000 people have been ordered to leave their homes to avoid floods caused by torrential rainfall in south-west Japan, officials say.
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| Colombia rail blast slows transport at Cerrejon coal mine: media Posted: 14 Jul 2012 06:32 PM PDT BOGOTA (Reuters) - An explosion on a railway line that feeds into Colombia's biggest coal miner, Cerrejon, slowed transport between the mine and a Caribbean port in northern La Guajira province, local media reported.
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| Bouazizi's mother arrested in Tunisia Posted: 14 Jul 2012 10:04 PM PDT Mother of street vendor whose self-immolation sparked uprising got into argument while registering for state benefits.
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