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 U.S. stops African refugee program after DNA tests |
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has halted a program that united African refugees with relatives in America after DNA testing revealed many people were lying about family links, the State Department said on Wednesday.
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 20-Aug-08 05:29 PM CST
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| Cemex says arbitration an option in Venezuela |
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| MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican cement firm Cemex said on Wednesday it could turn to international arbitration to resolve a dispute with Venezuela's government, which seized the company's unit there in a nationalization drive.
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| 20-Aug-08 05:12 PM CST
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| France shocked by Afghan deaths |
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| PARIS (Reuters) - France reacted in shock on Wednesday to the death of 10 of its soldiers in an ambush in Afghanistan and questions began to be asked about the country's worst military loss in 25 years.
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| 20-Aug-08 05:06 PM CST
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| U.S. ships wait to deliver aid to Georgia |
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| The first U.S. military ship carrying humanitarian aid for Georgia is headed to the Black Sea after loading the supplies from a port in Crete on Wednesday, according to U.S. Navy officials.
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| 20-Aug-08 04:46 PM CST
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| Wales 1-2 Georgia |
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| Wales lose in injury time to Georgia after a mistake allows Beka Gotsiridze to grab the winner in Swansea. |
| 20-Aug-08 04:17 PM CST
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| At least 153 dead as jet crashes at Madrid airport |
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| MADRID, Spain (AP) -- A jetliner heading to the popular Canary Islands vacation resort crashed during takeoff Wednesday, turning a wooded area off the end of a runway into a hellish scene of charred bodies and smoldering wreckage. Some 153 were believed dead - Spain's worst air disaster in nearly 25 years.... |
| 20-Aug-08 04:00 PM CST
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| Rudd says Fiji still on Niue agenda |
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| Prime Minister Kevin Rudd expects the focus of today's talks at the Pacific Island Forum in Niue will still be on Fiji's boycott of the event, as well as climate change. |
| 20-Aug-08 04:00 PM CST
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| Israel, Russia hold talks on Georgia, Middle East |
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| JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev discussed Middle East peace moves with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday, in advance of an expected visit by Syria's leader to Moscow, an Israeli official said.
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| 20-Aug-08 03:59 PM CST
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| Iraq's Sunni politicians angry over arrests |
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| BAGHDAD (AP) -- Top Sunni politicians on Wednesday accused Iraq's Shiite-dominated security forces of carrying out political arrests, and warned that this could push Iraq into another round of sectarian fighting.... |
| 20-Aug-08 03:30 PM CST
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| 4 more foreign activists detained in China |
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| BEIJING (AP) -- Two elderly Chinese women who applied to hold a protest during the Olympics were ordered to spend a year in a labor camp, a relative said Wednesday. Police later squelched a pro-Tibet demonstration.... |
| 20-Aug-08 03:00 PM CST
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| Officials: Deal calls for troop pullback in Iraq |
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| BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraqi and U.S. negotiators have completed a draft security agreement that would see American troops leave Iraqi cities as soon as June 30, Iraqi and American officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.... |
| 20-Aug-08 03:00 PM CST
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| Iran says talks with IAEA "positive" |
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| TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran described talks with a top U.N. inspector over its nuclear program -- which the West fears is a cover to build atomic bombs -- as "positive", the official IRNA news agency reported on Wednesday.
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| 20-Aug-08 02:37 PM CST
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| Russia circulates draft U.N. resolution on Georgia |
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| UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia circulated its own draft U.N. resolution aimed at bringing peace to Georgia to the Security Council on Wednesday, a day after blocking a rival Western draft that demanded an immediate Russian withdrawal.
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| 20-Aug-08 02:33 PM CST
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| Fiery plane crash at Madrid airport kills 153 |
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| MADRID, Spain (AP) -- A Spanish airliner bound for the Canary Islands at the height of the vacation season crashed, burned and broke into pieces Wednesday while trying to take off from Madrid, killing 153 people on board, officials said.... |
| 20-Aug-08 02:30 PM CST
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| No timetable in draft deal on U.S. troops: Iraq |
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| BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. and Iraqi negotiators completed a draft deal on Wednesday to give U.S. troops a legal basis to stay in Iraq after 2008, without setting out a timetable for their withdrawal, Iraq's top negotiator said.
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| 20-Aug-08 02:19 PM CST
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| Glitter refused entry to Hong Kong |
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| Former glam rocker and convicted paedophile Gary Glitter has been refused entry to Hong Kong after being thrown out of Thailand, the British foreign ministry says. |
| 20-Aug-08 02:11 PM CST
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| Russia halts military work with NATO: Norway |
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| OSLO (Reuters) - Doubts surfaced over the future of military cooperation between NATO and Russia on Wednesday after Norway said Moscow had informed it of a decision to freeze all joint work with the alliance in the row over Georgia.
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| 20-Aug-08 02:06 PM CST
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| Ailing US mortgage giants face fresh pressure |
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| WASHINGTON (AFP) - US mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac saw their share prices plummet Wednesday amid heightened concerns about their ability to ride out the credit crisis without government help. |
| 20-Aug-08 02:00 PM CST
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| Beijing bishop urges pope to visit China |
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| ROME (AP) -- The Beijing bishop appointed by China's state-controlled Catholic Church said in an interview Wednesday that he hopes Pope Benedict XVI will visit his country and that relations with the Vatican are improving.... |
| 20-Aug-08 02:00 PM CST
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