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Villagers In Southern Lebanon Fear New War With Israel
Tair Herfa, Lebanon - A day after militants launched three Katyusha rockets from their village in...
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UN Security Council Urges Immediate Ceasefire
New York - The UN Security Council late Thursday urged Israel and Hamas to immediately end the Gaza...
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Sarkozy calls for "moralization of capitalism"
Paris - French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday opened an economic symposium in Paris by...
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Iraq's Prime Minister Demands No More Interaction With Israel
Baghdad - Considering the attacks on Gaza ''a dreadful crime,'' Iraq's Prime Minister Wednesday...
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Israeli tanks, troops continue push into Gaza Strip
Tel Aviv/Gaza - Israeli troops pushed further into the Gaza Strip Sunday morning, battling...
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Israel sends ground troops into Gaza Strip
Tel Aviv/Gaza - Israel launched its long-expected ground invasion of the Gaza Strip Saturday...
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Israel Rejects Calls For Truce, Gaza Toll Nears 370
Gaza/Tel Aviv - Israel rejected calls by the United Nations and European Union for an...
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Documents show British diplomat misjudged threat to Shah of Iran
Even as the British embassy in Tehran was attacked by demonstrators, Anthony Parsons urged the...
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Bangladesh Prepares To Vote And Return To Democracy
Dhaka - Bangladesh votes in national elections Monday to return the South Asian nation to...
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Taiwan Succumbs To China's Panda Diplomacy
Taipei - For six decades, China tried in vain to recover Taiwan with military force and political...
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Philippines Propose Global-Warming Insurance Funds
According to the Philippines Presidential Adviser on Global Warming and Climate Change Secretary...
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African Union Still Fails To Keep The Peace In 2008
Johannesburg/Nairobi - The African Union's attempts to keep peace on the continent were again...
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UN Fears World Financial Turmoil Will Sink Programmes
New York - The United Nations may be the next unintended victim of the global economic crisis as...
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The Hague - Self-Proclaimed Capital Of World's Conscience
Amsterdam/Belgrade - The city of The Hague put itself firmly on the global map in the summer of...
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Cholera Epidemic In Zimbabwe Passes 1,000 Death Toll
Cholera is an infectious gastroenteritis caused by enterotoxin-producing strains of the bacterium...
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US Shift From Iraq To Afghanistan "Came Too Late"
Kabul - Seven years down the line fighting terrorism in Afghanistan, the US government wants to...
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Lebanon Attacked By Militancy, Avoids Civil War In 2008
Beirut - The year 2008 saw Lebanon battling threats on two fronts: On one side the threat of civil...
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Iran In 2008: Inflation At Home, Isolation Abroad
Tehran - It was not the best of years for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
As 2008 drew to...
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World Food Programme appeals for 5.2-billion-dollar aid package
Rome - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said Tuesday it needs some 5.2 billion dollars...
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UN Soldiers Boost South Lebanon's Economy At Christmas
Tyre, Lebanon - Southern Lebanon suffered great losses during the Hezbollah-Israel war in 2006, but...
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Pyongyang Mobile Deal Rings In New Era
Seoul - North Korea's urgent need to trigger economic growth and an Egyptian telecommunications...
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Brown, Sarkozy say Europe united on need for more measures
London - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy insisted Monday...
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Zimbabwe Declares National Emergency
Zimbabwe declared a national health emergency as the cholera epidemic froze the entire health...
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Authoritarian Kazakhstan Prepares To Assume OSCE Chairmanship In 2010
Astana/Moscow - When Western politicians speak of Kazakhstan with a gleam in their eyes, they're...
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Iran's Reformists Start Election Campaign Minus Khatami
Tehran - Iran's reformists held their annual congress Thursday, kicking off their campaign for next...
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Gay rights activists protest Vatican's stance on UN document
Genoa, Italy - A group of gay rights activists in Italy staged Wednesday a protest against the...
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China Promises To Fight AIDS Discrimination
Sunday,
when the AIDS awareness symbol-a red ribbon-was unveiled at the Olympic
Bird's Nest...
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Obama: Terrorists will not defeat Indian democracy
Washington - US president-elect Barack Obama late Friday declared that India's "great...
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Italy's Officials Approved 2.4 Billion Euros In Tax Cuts
Rome - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's cabinet approved earlier today some tax cuts...
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IAEA Approves Nuclear Aid For Syria Despite West's Concerns
Vienna - International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) members on Wednesday approved nuclear aid for...
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Technology
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IT Panel Demands Openness, Efficiency In Obama Cybersecurity Era
The appointed commission for cyberspace security released
its recommendation plan for an improved...
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U.S. Commission Releases Guidelines For War Against Cyberattacks
The Obama administration has a lot of issues to address,
from the economy, to the health care...
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Google Earth Comes To Life In iPhone, iPod Touch
Google yesterday announced it has extended the outreach of its popular service Google Earth to the...
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Over 600 Million Internet Users Vulnerable To Web Browser Exploitation
Web browser exploitation has been an increasing phenomenon
in recent years, and according to the...
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Initiative Group Lobbies For Prioritizing Broadband Access
A national initiative group, formed of various
entrepreneurs, organizations and venture...
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38 Charged In Phishing Scam in U.S. and Romania
Thirty-eight people in U.S and Romania have been charged Monday
with stealing personal information...
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Google Earth Announces Partnership with United Nations
The web-search giant Google unveiled in June 2007 a new program designed to help charities and...
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Gates Asks Congress For Commitment To Progress And Innovation
Bill Gates testified Wednesday before
the U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology, on the...
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MTV's Social Activism Network: Think.MTV.com
MTV is to launch a youth social activism network at Think.MTV.com backed by funding from AOL...
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Google Launches Google Earth Outreach
The web-search giant, Google, unveiled today a new program
designed to help charities and other...
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Science
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UN Talks Kyoto Protocol Successor In Poland Reunion
United Nations officials gathered in Poland to discuss climate
change and the need to address this...
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Marine Wildlife Endangered By Human-Made Underwater Noise
The impact of human activities on marine wildlife has undoubtedly
taken an unwanted course in the...
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Early HIV Diagnosis And Treatment Essential To Save Babies’ Lives
A United Nations report has shown that
early HIV testing and treatment procedures which provide...
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Space association calls for UN strategy against asteroids
Vienna - The international Association of Space Explorers (ASE) on Tuesday called on the United...
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Spacewalk To Mark Giant Step For China
Beijing - When Zhai Zhigang floats out of a space capsule wearing his 120-kilogram,...
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Update: The LHC Is Ready For Its Upcoming Scheduled Objectives
After its first official test, which took place yesterday and
ended up being a complete success,...
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Update 1: The Large Hadron Collider’s First Test Goes Well
"We've got a beam on the LHC." That’s what Lyn
Evans, the project leader for the Large...
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NASA Program Seriously Imperiled by War Between Russia and Georgia
The war between Russia
and Georgia
may prove to be a serious problem for NASA, as its capability...
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The AIDS Battle Continues! Researchers Join Efforts To Find A Vaccine
Around 33 million people had the AIDS virus in 2007. The majority lived in Sub-Saharan Africa,...
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Large Human Trial Of HIV Vaccine Canceled By NIAID
The National Institutes of Health on Thursday canceled a US human trial
of a human...
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North Pole Region Might Turn into Arctic Pool this Year
National Snow and Ice Data Center scientists at the University of Colorado found that the North...
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Space Symposium: Competition For Space Gets Tough
Space – everyone wants a piece
of it, and the United States is no exception, as it should not...
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Polish Professor Is Awarded $1.6 Million Templeton Prize
The Templeton Prize, granted by
the Templeton Foundation for “progress toward research of...
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U.S. Rejects Russian-Chinese Proposal To Ban Weapons In Space
The Tuesday United Nations Conference
on Disarmament in Geneva brought face to face three of the...
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Fermilab, US science face disaster due to trimmed budget for 2008
America’s most famous particle physics lab will almost certainly cease to develop key projects, due...
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Euro Lab to Launch 15 Years Late, AMS May Never Reach ISS
About 25 years in the making, Europe's Columbus space laboratory will finally be launched on a...
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UN Experts Warn of Irreversible Climate Changes
United Nations experts have agreed on a 20-page draft report which warns of the effects of climate...
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NASA Plans Five Spacewalks For Discovery Mission
NASA officials plan a full schedule of five spacewalks for
the next mission of US
space shuttle...
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Indonesian Health Officials Still Alert Over Bird Flu Threat
Indonesian health officials say the country’s efforts to contain the deadly H5N1 virus have...
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