UK colonial papers to be made public Posted: 06 May 2011 12:48 PM PDT Sensitive files from Britain's colonial past are to be released after a court case by Kenyan Mau Mau veterans.  
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Second Air France body recovered Posted: 06 May 2011 12:52 PM PDT Recovery teams raise a second body from the underwater wreckage of an Air France jet that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009, killing all those on board.  
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UK colonial papers to be made public Posted: 06 May 2011 12:48 PM PDT Sensitive files from Britain's colonial past are to be released after a court case by Kenyan Mau Mau veterans.  
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EU to Sanction 13 Syrian Officials Posted: 06 May 2011 12:30 PM PDT European Union ambassadors agreed that the bloc should extend sanctions against 13 Syrian officials, not including President Bashar al-Assad. Sactions could be in place by the end of the week.  
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Ivory Coast's Ouattara sworn in at tense ceremony Posted: 06 May 2011 12:36 PM PDT ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's Alassane Ouattara took his presidential oath on Friday, cementing his rule over the West African state in a tense ceremony conducted by an ally of ousted leader Laurent Gbagbo.  
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Japan PM calls for nuclear plant shutdown Posted: 06 May 2011 11:07 AM PDT Naoto Kan calls for closure of Hamaoka plant, considered at high risk from a powerful earthquake in coming decades.  
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Ouattara sworn in as Ivory Coast president Posted: 06 May 2011 12:07 PM PDT Alassane Ouattara was sworn in Friday as president of Ivory Coast, ending a months-long political standoff.  
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Four ran global paedophile ring Posted: 06 May 2011 11:38 AM PDT Four men admit running a paedophile ring that sent millions of indecent images and films of children around the world.  
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Japan PM calls for nuclear plant shutdown Posted: 06 May 2011 11:07 AM PDT Naoto Kan calls for closure of Hamaoka plant, considered at high risk from a powerful earthquake in coming decades.  
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'New evidence' in Hairi killing probe Posted: 06 May 2011 11:28 AM PDT Prosecutor at UN-backed tribunal investigating former Lebanese prime minister's killing files amended indictment.  
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Cairo Protesters Decry Bin Laden Killing Posted: 06 May 2011 12:21 PM PDT About 200 demonstrators gathered outside the United States Embassy Friday to protest manifestations of what they called American hostility to Muslims.  
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Tunisian police battle anti-government protesters Posted: 06 May 2011 12:12 PM PDT TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian police battled hundreds of protesters demanding the government's resignation Friday in the most violent confrontations for weeks with pro-democracy demonstrators.  
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Britons reject voting reform in referendum Posted: 06 May 2011 12:04 PM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - Britons have overwhelmingly rejected proposals for voting reform in a setback to the coalition government's Liberal Democrats who had championed the change, the BBC said Friday.  
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Euro falls on Greece exit rumours Posted: 06 May 2011 11:45 AM PDT The single currency falls on a report that Greece has raised the possibility of leaving the euro.  
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Lost in the School Choice Maze Posted: 06 May 2011 12:59 PM PDT New York City uses a complex system to match students and high schools, and 10 percent of eighth graders recently learned the hard way how dizzying and disappointing the process can be.  
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Sir Paul McCartney to marry again Posted: 06 May 2011 12:52 PM PDT Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney has got engaged to his girlfriend of four years, New York businesswoman Nancy Shevell, his publicist says.  
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Uefa throws weight behind Blatter Posted: 06 May 2011 12:04 PM PDT Uefa gives its "unanimous support" to Sepp Blatter in the upcoming Fifa presidential elections.  
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Magazine Preview: Tina Brown Is Still Hungry for Buzz Posted: 06 May 2011 12:00 PM PDT Can she get it for her "NewsBeast" operation?  
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Whyte completes Rangers takeover Posted: 06 May 2011 11:26 AM PDT Craig Whyte is the new owner of Rangers after the London-based venture capitalist acquires Sir David Murray's majority shareholding for £1.  
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Families desperate to recover bodies at Mexico mine Posted: 06 May 2011 10:52 AM PDT SABINAS, Mexico (Reuters) - Rescuers pulled a seventh body from a collapsed coal mine in northern Mexico on Friday as families gave up hope of finding seven other trapped workers alive after an explosion earlier this week.  
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