Britain, arguing that climate change is now unstoppable, urged the United States on Tuesday to sign up to life-saving cuts in greenhouse gas emissions as environmentalists warned of approaching Armageddon. Opening a three-day scientific meeting

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Malaysia postponed a controversial round-up of illegal immigrants at the last moment on Tuesday. But the delay could be more of a tactical move than a response to pleas to suspend the crackdown from its

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Food, housing and other services for US troops in Iraq will cost four billion dollars more than the Pentagon anticipated in its 2005 budget, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing figures from Halliburton, the

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Israel's attorney general ordered the government on Tuesday to rescind a decision to enforce a decades-old law under which large tracts of Palestinian land in Arab East Jerusalem could be confiscated, officials said. The government

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Both Sudan's government and Darfur rebels criticised a UN report which accused Khartoum and allied militias of atrocities in the country's western region but stopped short of calling the violence genocide. The UN report, released

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Israel put the transfer of security control in parts of the West Bank on hold Tuesday as a new volley of mortar attacks by Palestinians in Gaza further undermined a fragile truce. Palestinians had been

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King Gyanendra dismissed Nepal's coalition government on Tuesday and enforced an indefinite emergency, igniting charges he had staged a coup in the Himalayan outpost battling a Maoist revolt. "I have exercised the rights given to

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Sterling drifted lower against the dollar and euro on Tuesday as disappointing British manufacturing data overshadowed broadly sterling-positive mortgage lending and consumer credit data. However, moves were limited as all eyes were focused across the

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The dollar edged up against major currencies on Tuesday, but kept to tight ranges versus the euro ahead of an expected Federal Reserve rate hike and a meeting of Group of Seven industrialised nations later

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US stocks rose Tuesday, helped by a more than 6 percent jump in shares of American Express Co after the Dow component said it will spin off its personal finance unit. Exxon Mobil Corp, the

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