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Posted On: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:49:54 GMT+00:00

China mine death toll rises to 87
ABC Online
The death toll from a coal mine explosion in north-east China has risen to 87. According to Chinese state media, 21 other miners are still trapped underground. Officials say hopes are fading of finding any more survivors in the ...
Scores dead in China mine explosionTimes Online
China coal mine blast death toll jumps to 87The Associated Press
At Least 87 Die in Chinese Mine ExplosionNew York Times
BBC News -Bloomberg -AFP
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Posted On: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:35:53 GMT+00:00

Second conjoined twin wakes - and blows raspberry
Times Online
The sound of a little girl blowing a raspberry was the sweetest Moira Kelly has ever heard. Krishna, the second conjoined twin separated from her sister in a marathon operation last week, finally awoke from her medically induced coma on Friday night ...
Twins' birth mum told of successful surgeryABC Online
Second conjoined twin out of coma after separation opBBC News
Second Bangladeshi twin wakes, blows raspberryAFP
The Associated Press -Straits Times -Bloomberg
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Posted On: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:10:16 GMT+00:00

'200 Iranian hospitals depend on nuclear fuel'
PRESS TV
Iran's ambassador to the UN nuclear watchdog says over 200 hospitals in the country urgently need higher-enriched uranium. As a timely reminder that obtaining higher-enriched uranium is a matter of great urgency for Iran, Ali-Asghar Soltaniyeh said ...
Iran Plans Military Drills to Guard Nuclear SitesNew York Times
Iran to hold war games to protect nuclear facilitiesReuters
Iranian Commander Announces Air Defense ManeuversVoice of America
The Associated Press -Daily Times -Channel News Asia
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Posted On: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:10:03 GMT+00:00

Israeli Planes Strike Targets In Gaza
New York Times
By REUTERS GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli planes carried out air strikes against targets in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, injuring seven Palestinians, Palestinian medical workers said. An army spokesman said the strikes, which occurred after a rocket fired from ...
Israeli planes strike Gaza StripAljazeera.net
Hamas and Gaza militants 'to end Israel rocket attacks'BBC News
Israel and Hamas inch toward completion of Shalit swapHa'aretz
Washington Post -Reuters -Monsters and Critics.com
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Posted On: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:11:08 GMT+00:00

President Who?
Washington Post
WHO DO I call if I want to call Europe, Henry Kissinger once famously asked. For eight years European federalists labored to produce an answer to that question -- staging a constitutional convention, ignoring repeated rebuffs by voters and bullying ...
Herman Van Rompuy and Baroness Ashton: the eu's perfect couple of nobodiesTelegraph.co.uk
Profile: First EU President Herman van RompuyBBC News
New EU president raises fears in aspirant TurkeyReuters
guardian.co.uk -Xinhua -Bloomberg
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Posted On: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:06:31 GMT+00:00

Sri Lanka vows to free 130000 Tamil refugees
guardian.co.uk
Tamil civilians peep over a fence at an internment camp in Vavuniya yesterday. Photograph: Eranga Jayawardena/AP Sri Lanka today bowed to international pressure and announced plans to close the internment camps that are home to more than 130000 people ...
Sri Lanka to open refugee camps ahead of pollsReuters
Sri Lanka Plans to Let Tamils Leave CampsNew York Times
Resettle war-displaced Tamils by January 31: RajapaksaHindu
Aljazeera.net -ABC Online -BBC News
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Posted On: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:06:17 GMT+00:00

Williams faces pope over Vatican call for converts
guardian.co.uk
The archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, took the highly unusual step yesterday of protesting personally to the pope about his shock announcement last month of special arrangements for the mass conversion to Catholicism of disillusioned, ...
Pope Meets Head of Anglican ChurchCBS News
Archbishop of Canterbury and Pope Benedict XVI share 'cordial' talksTelegraph.co.uk
Pope, Anglican Leader Meet, Agree to Strengthen RelationshipBloomberg
Times Online -Reuters -AFP
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Posted On: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:52:42 GMT+00:00

Brescia arrest driven by fears on terror infrastructure
Hindu
NEW DELHI: For the best part of a year, Italian investigators watched patiently over a nondescript business in Brescia, hoping that two men who played a critical role in guiding the terrorists to their targets in Mumbai last November would one day show ...
Italian police arrest two Mumbai attack suspectsPRESS TV
Italy Arrests Pakistanis Suspected of Mumbai LinksVoice of America
Two held in Italy over Mumbai terror attacksTimes Online
CNN -Reuters -BBC News
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Posted On: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:43:14 GMT+00:00

Medvedev Says 'Backwardness' Undermines Party
New York Times
MOSCOW â President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia accused the governing party, United Russia, of âbackwardnessâ on Saturday, warning its leaders that they must learn to win elections honestly if it is to survive. ...
Russia president criticizes ruling party over voteThe Associated Press
Russia to stick to five priorities in economic restructuring, says PutinXinhua
Russia's Medvedev raps ruling party over electionsWashington Post
PRESS TV -Reuters -Irish Independent
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Posted On: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:27:48 GMT+00:00

Afghan minister: Taliban can be defeated
CNN International
(CNN) -- The war in Afghanistan is winnable, and corruption will be fought, Interior Minister Hanif Atmar told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Thursday, as President Hamid Karzai was being sworn in for a second five-year term in Kabul. ...
'Kabul, Islamabad should join hands against militants'DAWN.com
Karzai inauguration: the empty city of KabulChannel 4 News

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