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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African township residents barricaded roads in Soweto on Wednesday, the latest in a series of protests over living conditions that have hit the country less than 100 days before the soccer World Cup.
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S.Africa protests spread ahead of soccer World Cup
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – Supporters of ousted Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra said on Wednesday a special security law would not stop them protesting peacefully at the weekend, as the government warned of trouble, including bombings and arson.
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Thai protesters say security law won’t deter them
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RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Palestinians told U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday that Israel’s new plan to build 1,600 homes for Jewish settlers challenged Washington’s efforts to get indirect peace talks underway.
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Palestinians complain to Biden about settlement plan
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Gates, in Saudi visit, to discuss Iran pressure
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MADRID (Reuters) – A Spanish woman held hostage in Mali by a group believed to be al Qaeda’s wing in North Africa has been freed, the Spanish government said on Wednesday.
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Spanish hostage freed in Mali – government
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya signalled the end of a diplomatic row with the United States on Wednesday, saying it accepted an apology for acerbic comments made by a U.S.
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Libya accepts U.S. apology over diplomatic row
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Preliminary results of Iraq’s parliamentary election, a vote seen as a litmus test of its young democracy, are likely to be released by Thursday, a United Nations official said on Wednesday.
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First Iraq vote results expected by Thursday – U.N.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Ten alleged associates of a slain Islamist rebel leader have been arrested as suspects in a deadly November bombing of a luxury train that left 26 dead, a court official told Reuters on Wednesday.
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Ten suspects held in Russia train bombing
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OGHI, Pakistan (Reuters) – Suspected Islamist militants stormed an office of a U.S.-based Christian aid agency in Pakistan on Wednesday, killing six members of staff in a hail of bullets and a bomb.
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Gunmen kill 6 in Western aid agency raid in Pakistan
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s top climate negotiator said on Wednesday that the cause of global warming was still not clear but the problems it was creating were so serious that the world must anyway act to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
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China unsure on warming cause, to stick with CO2 cuts