Archive for the October 28, 2005
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The United Nations has urged India and Jordan, the top contributors to the UN peacekeeping force in Ethiopia and Eritrea, not to withdraw their troops over restrictions imposed by Asmara, officials said Thursday. UN chief
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Polish Prime Minister-designate Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz offered economic concessions to the pro-business Civic Platform on Thursday in a bid to revive coalition talks and avert an uncertain future of minority government. "I am convinced that I
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Refugees from Darfur's bloody 2-1/2 year conflict urged rebel leaders to use an upcoming meeting to end their bickering and get on with the task of making peace with Sudan's Khartoum-based government. Some of the
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About 50 people were feared dead in the Philippines when a tunnel in a gold mine collapsed after a blast, police said on Thursday. Police said they had pulled out five dead bodies after the
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Students from more than 20 universities across Europe have designed, built and on Thursday launched their own satellite into space. The SSETI Express satellite is about the size of a standard washing machine and was
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Egypt's religious authorities have banned a book about a puritanical brand of Islam on the grounds that it is offensive to the faith, the university co-publishing the work said Thursday. Tim Sullivan, provost of the
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The United Nations on Thursday paid out a further $654 million to people, companies and countries who demonstrated losses due to Iraq's 1990-91 invasion and occupation of Kuwait, taking total payments to $20 billion. The
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's call for Israel to be "wiped off the map" does not signal the start of a more aggressive stance toward Israel by Tehran, officials and analysts said on Thursday. "Iran's policy
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Israel on Thursday rolled tanks into the West Bank city of Jenin and launched air raids over the Gaza Strip as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon threatened a widespread response to a suicide bombing. One of
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A fire killed 11 people and injured 15 at a detention centre at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport housing suspected drugs traffickers and illegal immigrants early on Thursday, Dutch police said. The cause of the fire, which
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