 | The US wants Russia to participate in plans to field a missile-defence system in Eastern Europe to guard against a potential threat from Iran, the US general in charge of the programme said.
"We are very open to Russian participation and... More |
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 | Most Americans support the US House provision setting a timetable that calls for US troops' withdrawal from Iraq by September 2008, said a survey released.
According to the CBS News poll released Wednesday 59 percent of those surveyed favoured... More |
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 | Arab leaders Wednesday kicked off the 19th Arab League summit in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, with Arab peace initiative, Middle East security, the Iraq issue high on the agenda.
The conference, which started at 1.20 p.m. (1020 GMT) at Abdulaziz... More |
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 | A Russian warship fired a high explosive shell at a Ukrainian town in an apparent accidental firing, the Interfax news agency reported Wednesday.
The incident took place in the Black Sea port city of Sevastopol, where Russia's Black Sea fleet... More |
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 | At least 90 people, busy collecting spilled fuel oil from an overturned petrol tanker near a northern Nigerian village, were killed when the area was engulfed by fire.
People with buckets and jerry cans were scooping up spilled oil after a petrol... More |
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 | A new US study seeks more support from all levels of the US education system to develop an integrated approach to learning certain "critical need" languages, including Hindi and Chinese.
The federal government should contract out for a project... More |
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 | An ethnic leader from the Terai plains was shot dead in Nepal and another supporter critically injured in what protesters alleged were "revenge" attacks.
Mata Prasad Verma, a leader of the Madhesi Janadhikar Forum, the ethnic group from... More |
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 | Two gunmen Wednesday held hostage 30 children and four teachers aboard a bus that was rented for a field trip in the Philippines.
The gunmen demanded guarantees from the government that 145 children of an impoverished district in Manila would be... More |
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 | A Republican effort has failed to remove language from a Democratic spending bill that sets a non-binding timeframe for pulling US troops from Iraq.
Republicans Tuesday were only able to muster 48 of the 51 votes needed to amend the legislation,... More |
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 | Still under construction at Myanmar's new capital of Naypyitaw is a new parliament building, a sign that the country's military leaders are preparing for what they have uniquely termed "discipline-flourishing democracy."
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