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Sunday, 14 March 2010 |
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BADULA QULP, Afghanistan -- He proposed to her on Oct. 6, and she made him say "Will you marry me?" over and over because she liked the sound of it. He proposed again on her birthday four days later, ... |
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Sunday, 14 March 2010 |
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BANGKOK - Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said Sunday that he had no intention of using force against the tens of thousands of anti-government protesters rallying in Bangkok. A 50,000-strong sec... |
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Sunday, 14 March 2010 |
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BEIJING - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Sunday he hoped one day to visit Taiwan, amid warming relations between Beijing and the self-ruled island. "Differences between brothers cannot sever their bl... |
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Sunday, 14 March 2010 |
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BEIJING - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Sunday that the United States violated Beijing's sovereignty by selling arms to Taiwan and welcoming the Dalai Lama to the White House. Wen said the two moves... |
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Sunday, 14 March 2010 |
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In Thaksin's 'red-shirted' country Many were gathered in front of a stage at the rally site to hear their leaders make the demands signalling the official beginning of the protest, says our corr... |
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Sunday, 14 March 2010 |
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U.S. Marine commanders have a different view of the dusty, desolate landscape that surrounds Delaram. They see controlling this corner of remote Nimruz province as essential to promoting economic deve... |
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Sunday, 14 March 2010 |
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Inside the Great Hall, the People's Congress may be a legislative yawn-fest, but outside, paparazzi chase stars, the well-off compare couture and shiny luxury cars line the lots. |
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Sunday, 14 March 2010 |
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BANGKOK: Thousands of protesters gathered in Bangkok on Sunday and planned to give Thailand's military-backed government an ultimatum: either call elections or face more pro-democracy demonstration... |
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Sunday, 14 March 2010 |
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Great swaths of South-East and East Asia are suffering from their worst dry-season drought in decades, and the monsoon is still months away. Worse still, the seasonal rains might be postponed by the E... |
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Sunday, 14 March 2010 |
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SINGAPORE: A strong quake of 6.4 magnitude struck in waters off Indonesia on Sunday morning, the US Geological Survey said. There was no danger of a widespread destructive tsunami from the quake... |
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Sunday, 14 March 2010 |
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An earthquake measuring 7 on the Richter scale struck the eastern Indonesian islands Sunday morning in North Maluku province, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage, meteorologists said. |
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Sunday, 14 March 2010 |
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PORTLAND, Ore. -- Farmers and researchers in the Northwest are racing to control an Asian fruit fly that first appeared last summer and ruined some late-season peach and berry ... |
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Saturday, 13 March 2010 |
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Japan ’s finance minister said Friday that an investigation revealed that Tokyo had secretly agreed with Washington to shoulder extra costs of Okinawa’s 1972 return to Japan beyond the $32... |
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Saturday, 13 March 2010 |
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Eleven rare Siberian tigers died at a wildlife park in a case that activists said hinted at unsavory practices among some zoos and animal farms in |
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Saturday, 13 March 2010 |
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VATICAN CITY: The Vatican fought attempts to link Pope Benedict XVI to child sex abuse in a counteroffensive on Saturday against widening paedophilia scandals. "It is clearly evident that in the... |
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Saturday, 13 March 2010 |
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A Taiwan immigration official has been indicted for sexually molesting four foreign women, a newspaper reported Sunday. |
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Saturday, 13 March 2010 |
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KABUL : The new UN representative to Afghanistan, Staffan de Mistura, arrived Saturday to take up his post at a mission that has suffered blows to its standing and morale in the past year. De Mistura,... |
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Saturday, 13 March 2010 |
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The country only has 300 wild elephants left, squashed into a patchwork of ever-smaller spaces. A wildlife park, and programs to help villagers view them more kindly, may help stave off extinction. |
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Saturday, 13 March 2010 |
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Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan Afghan President Hamid Karzai agreed Saturday to allow foreign observers to sit on an election commission, reversing a decree that sidestepped international oversight... |
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Saturday, 13 March 2010 |
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Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan Four suicide bombers struck the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Saturday evening, knocking over houses and shops and killing at least 31 people, according to gove... |
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