Archive for the November 8, 2005
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Ireland's obsession with the mobile phone has sunk to new depths with a growing number of people now taking them with them to the grave, according to undertakers on Monday. The mobile phone has become
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Pope Benedict on Monday said Catholics and Lutherans still had some way to go to overcome differences if they were to reach eventual re-unification. "Our ecumenical path together will continue to encounter difficulties and will
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The head of the UN nuclear watchdog chastised nuclear powers on Monday for reducing their arsenals too slowly and said the international community has made little progress toward a post-Cold War world that was no
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The EU will launch its first border control mission at the Palestinian border crossing of Rafah in response to a request from both Israel and the Palestinian Authority, EU officials said on Monday. The mission,
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The family of a Palestinian boy killed by Israeli troops have donated his organs to be used for transplants in Israel, voicing hope that the life-saving gesture could bring peace a little closer. Soldiers shot
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Rioters shot at police and torched more than 1,400 cars in the worst violence since unrest erupted in France's poor suburbs 11 days ago, and a man beaten by a youth became the first fatality
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Tens of thousands of communists in India's West Bengal state, many waving red flags, protested on Monday against joint exercises by Indian and US air forces. India's left-wing parties, whose support shores up the federal
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A Chinese company has had its license suspended after it tried to make money by selling land on the moon, state media reported Monday. The Beijing Lunar Village Aeronautics Science and Technology Co managed to
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The European Union's police agency and the US Secret Service agreed on Monday to share more information to beef up the fight against terrorism and organised crime, Europol said. The crime-fighting agencies will share sensitive
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US military intelligence warned the Bush administration as early as February 2002 that its key source on al Qaeda's relationship with Iraq had provided "intentionally misleading" data, according to a declassified report made public Sunday.
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