China raises benchmark interest rates Posted: 26 Dec 2010 04:19 AM PST Read full story for latest details.  
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Israel says it will not apologize to Turkey over flotilla incident Posted: 26 Dec 2010 12:21 PM PST Despite overtures from Turkey, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said Sunday that his country will not apologize to Turkey over the deaths of nine Turkish activists aboard an aid flotilla headed for Gaza in May.  
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Supply truck headed for Afghanistan attacked Posted: 26 Dec 2010 10:02 AM PST Unidentified gunmen on motorbikes opened fire and killed the driver of a supply truck for NATO troops in southwest Pakistan on Sunday, a senior government official told CNN.  
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Carlos Andrés Pérez, Former President of Venezuela, Dies at 88 Posted: 26 Dec 2010 12:43 PM PST Mr. Pérez tried to make Venezuela a leader of the developing world during a 1970s oil boom only to have his legacy upended.  
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Fresh clashes in central Nigeria Posted: 26 Dec 2010 12:18 PM PST Further violence between armed groups has broken out in the city of Jos in central Nigeria following bombings that killed 32 people.  
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Japan Proposes Budget Posted: 26 Dec 2010 09:07 AM PST The hard-pressed administration of Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has unveiled its budget for the fiscal year starting in April, narrowly abiding pledges to limit spending and borrowing.  
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Ukraine arrests ex-foreign minister Posted: 26 Dec 2010 09:25 AM PST Yuri Lutsenko detained on corruption charges is latest case of probes against members of former administration.  
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Dutch free 5 of 12 Somalis suspected of terrorism Posted: 26 Dec 2010 11:21 AM PST AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch prosecutors said on Sunday that five out of a group of 12 Somalis who were detained just before Christmas on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack had been released for lack of evidence.  
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Aston Villa 1-2 Tottenham Posted: 26 Dec 2010 11:25 AM PST Tottenham hold off Aston Villa for an hour with 10 men as Rafael van der Vaart's double helps secure the spoils.  
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Fresh clashes in central Nigeria Posted: 26 Dec 2010 10:36 AM PST Further violence has broken out in the city of Jos in central Nigeria following bombings that killed 32 people on Christmas Eve.  
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Shooting inside crowded Bullring Posted: 26 Dec 2010 10:55 AM PST A man is arrested after a teenager was shot in the leg inside Birmingham's Bullring Shopping Centre on one of its busiest days of the year.  
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Icy Czech Republic swim competition Posted: 26 Dec 2010 08:29 AM PST Competitors in Prague braved icy cold water in air temperatures of -6 degrees on Sunday for an anuual Christmas swimming competition.  
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Russians rally against racism Posted: 26 Dec 2010 09:25 AM PST More than 1,500 stage protest in central Moscow against xenophobia following wave of ethnic clashes.  
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Dog attack woman had head wounds Posted: 26 Dec 2010 09:08 AM PST A woman who was mauled to death by a dog in a house in south London died from head and neck wounds, police reveal.  
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Starving swans rescued from ice Posted: 26 Dec 2010 09:12 AM PST More than 20 swans are rescued from freezing conditions on a waterway on the Somerset Levels, but 10 are found dead on the ice.  
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Ivory Coast in civil war warning Posted: 26 Dec 2010 11:42 AM PST A spokesman for Ivory Coast's incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo warns that foreign intervention to oust him could ignite an "interior war".  
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Manchester United 2-0 Sunderland Posted: 26 Dec 2010 08:55 AM PST Dimitar Berbatov scores twice as Manchester United ease past Sunderland to stay in control of the title race.  
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Pakistan suicide bomber was woman covered in burqa Posted: 26 Dec 2010 08:58 AM PST ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A woman covered in a head-to-foot burqa carried out a suicide bombing that killed more than 40 people in Pakistan, government officials said on Sunday, adding to security challenges confronting the U.S. ally.  
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Turkey's apology demand is "chutzpah": Israeli Finance Minister Posted: 26 Dec 2010 11:22 AM PST JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's ultranationalist foreign minister on Sunday dismissed as "chutzpah" a Turkish offer to restore ties if Israel apologizes for a deadly raid on a Gaza-bound ship, saying it was up to Ankara to make amends.  
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Eight Americans Killed in Egypt Crash Posted: 26 Dec 2010 09:52 AM PST A tour bus slammed into a truck in southern Egypt, killing eight Americans tourists and injuring 21 others, the state news agency said.  
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