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Saturday, 29 November 2008 |
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By Rina Chandran and Greg BeitchmanMUMBAI (Reuters) - Commandos killed the last Islamist gunmen holed up at Mumbai's Taj Mahal hotel on Saturday, ending a three-day rampage and siege that killed at le... |
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Saturday, 29 November 2008 |
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Around 400 people have died due to Cholera in Zimbabwe while 10,000 fresh cases have been reported since the outbreak of the disease in the country in August, the United Nations has said. According t... |
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Saturday, 29 November 2008 |
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-(Dow Jones)- The head of Libya's National Oil Co. said Saturday he is concerned about increasing crude stocks. "We are concerned about the large stock build up," Shokri Ghanem said here on the side... |
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Saturday, 29 November 2008 |
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-(Dow Jones)- Algeria's Oil Minister Chakib Khelil said Saturday the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries would like to see 51 days of inventories. |
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Saturday, 29 November 2008 |
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Some gunmen kidnapped a Scottish named Bruce S.I, working for an oil service firm in Port Harcourt in Rivers State, southeast Nigeria, local media reported Saturday. A security contractor working in t... |
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Saturday, 29 November 2008 |
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The terror attacks in Mumbai, India, are a reminder that intelligence agencies needs to "be on guard", South African President Kgalema Motlanthe said on Friday. In a speech at a closed award... |
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Saturday, 29 November 2008 |
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UN special envoy for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) Olusegun Obasanjo arrived in the troubled Central African country on Friday on his second peace mission in a dozen days. The former Nig... |
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Saturday, 29 November 2008 |
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+ ] By Henrique Almeida LUANDA (Reuters) - Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos called on Friday for a new constitution to allow the first presidential poll in almost two decades, a vote he is... |
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Saturday, 29 November 2008 |
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+ ] LONDON (Reuters) - Global brewer SABMiller expects beer consumption in India to rise five-fold over the next 5 years as the fastest-growing beer market in Asia expands rapidly despite high taxes... |
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Saturday, 29 November 2008 |
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+ ] By Laura MacInnis GENEVA (Reuters) - Talks meant to pave the way for a breakthrough in the Doha world trade round are advancing well in some areas but seem stuck in others, leaving officials pu... |
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Saturday, 29 November 2008 |
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+ ] By Darren Ennis BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union ministers on Friday poured cold water on FIFA president Sepp Blatter's plans to curb the number of foreign players at clubs but opened the do... |
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Saturday, 29 November 2008 |
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+ ] By John O'Brien SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Annika Sorenstam produced a touch of brilliance to ensure her International team go into the Lexus Cup singles matches tied 6-6 with Asia, the Swede's eagl... |
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Saturday, 29 November 2008 |
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+ ] HARARE (Reuters) - Jehan Mubarak made an unbeaten 60 to guide Sri Lanka to a narrow two-wicket win over Zimbabwe on Friday, giving the visitors a 4-0 lead in the five-match series. Zimbabwe, pu... |
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Saturday, 29 November 2008 |
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+ ] By Megan Rowling LONDON, Nov 29 (Reuters) - The United Nations and aid groups are pushing for an urgent increase in international funding to help the world's poorest countries cope with climat... |
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Saturday, 29 November 2008 |
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+ ] GAZA, Nov 29 (Reuters) - The Palestinian group Hamas has claimed responsibility for Friday's shelling of an Israeli military base along Israel's frontier with the Gaza Strip where six soldiers w... |
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Saturday, 29 November 2008 |
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+ ] CAIRO, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Egypt is willing to intervene militarily against piracy in the Gulf of Aden and off the Somali coast, alone or as part of an international force, a minister said in rem... |
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Saturday, 29 November 2008 |
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+ ] (adds claim of responsibility) JERUSALEM, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Palestinian militants fired three mortar bombs across the Gaza Strip's border on Friday, wounding six Israeli soldiers, the army sa... |
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Saturday, 29 November 2008 |
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+ ] ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A suspected U.S. drone aircraft fired a missile at a house in the militancy-plagued Pakistani region of North Waziristan on the Afghan border on Saturday, killing two peopl... |
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Saturday, 29 November 2008 |
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+ ] Phil Smith has been the Reuters Editor for South Asia since 2005. Previously he worked for Reuters in Sydney, Singapore and London. Phil was out on the streets of Mumbai with a reporter's notebo... |
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Saturday, 29 November 2008 |
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In a scathing letter printed in the Star on Friday former South African president Thabo Mbeki accuses Zimbabwe's opposition of stonewalling power-sharing talks. |
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