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| HANOI, Vietnam -- Myanmar's foreign minister insists that landmark talks with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi are making progress and says Western sanctions would only push the country towards poverty, not democracy ... |
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MOUNT ETNA, Sicily -- The authorities in eastern Sicily have been forced to close the main airport as emergency crews battle to halt lava flows from Mount Etna.
It was the second time in as many weeks that flights into and out of Fontanarossa airport have had to be cancelled or diverted because thick flakes of gray ash covering the airstrip made flying too dangerous. The move, on Saturday, came as emergency workers ... |
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Peru's President-elect Alejandro Toledo will be inaugurated , a year after enduring smear campaigns in a battle against the autocratic regime of ex-President Alberto Fujimori.
Toledo, an economist who overcame poverty to earn a doctorate from Stanford University, said his top priority will be to improve the plight of ... |
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In coming to grips with AIDS, the worst health calamity since the Middle Ages and one likely to be the worst ever, consideration inevitably turns to the numbers.
According to estimates from UNAIDS, an umbrella group for five U.N. agencies, the World Bank and the World Health Organization, 34.3 million people in the world have ... |
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Bulgaria'sparliament has officially appointed former King, Simeon II, as the country's new prime minister.
In a 141 to 50 vote, the legislature chose the ex-monarch to lead the nation after his National Movement for Simeon II party's ... |
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| GENOA, Italy |
| World leaders called for calm as streets stood empty outside the site of the Group of Eight summit, in marked contrast to the violent demonstrations during the day that left one man dead from gunfire and more than 100 other people wounded. ... |
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The three-day Agra Summit represents the most significant diplomatic encounter between India and Pakistan in recent years.
President Pervez Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee are expected to discuss bilateral relations, the decades-old dispute over Kashmir and their nuclear rivalry. Musharraf will be the first Pakistani leader to visit India in 14 years.
Ever since the partition of the sub-continent along largely religious lines, the two countries have been bitter rivals. Their animosity has escalated into an arms race resulting in ... |
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A man depressed by poverty drugged eight members of his family including five girls and cut their throats with a knife in a Pakistani town, police and reports said Sunday.
"I am unable to feed my family and I have decided to ... |
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