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U.S. aircraft to join international effort to fight Israeli fire
Others | 5 December 2010
Jerusalem (CNN) -- Five U.S. Defense Department aircraft will leave for Israel this weekend to help fight a wildfire that has killed at least 41 people and injured 17...
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Spain flights paralysed over controllers' strike
Others | 5 December 2010
A wildcat strike by Spain's air traffic controllers has grounded flights across much of the nation, stranding hundreds of thousands of travellers...
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Obama praises troops in unannounced visit to Afghanistan
Others | 5 December 2010
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- President Barack Obama made an unannounced visit Friday to Afghanistan, where he delivered holiday greetings to U.S. troops stationed there and promised continued full support in the war against Taliban and other extremists...
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Snowfall disrupts northern Europe's airports and roads
Others | 2 December 2010
Heavy snowfall has caused disruption across northern Europe, closing airports and bringing traffic to a standstill...
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Pakistan dismisses nuclear fears in leaked U.S. cables
Others | 2 December 2010
(CNN) -- Top Pakistani officials on Wednesday dismissed fears over the safety of the nation's nuclear weapons revealed in U.S. diplomatic cables.
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Portugal denies that it needs an EU-led bail-out
Others | 2 December 2010
The Portuguese government has reiterated that it will not require a European Union-led bail-out.Prime Minister Jose Socrates made the comments, saying that what the country needed instead was confidence in its economy...
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Wikileaks release 'shows China thinking on Korea'
Others | 1 December 2010
Officials in China have expressed frustration with communist ally North Korea, according to leaked classified US diplomatic cables...
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North Korea claims 'thousands' of nuclear centrifuges
Others | 1 December 2010
North Korea says it has thousands of centrifuges operating at a previously undetected uranium enrichment facility it revealed earlier this month...
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All 24 hostages free after young Wisconsin gunman shoots himself
Others | 1 December 2010
(CNN) -- A 15-year-old northeast Wisconsin high school student held 24 hostages for about five hours Monday, then turned one of his guns on himself when police broke in at the sound of gun shots...
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US condemns Wikileaks diplomatic cables release
Others | 30 November 2010
The US has strongly criticised the release by the website Wikileaks of thousands of extracts from US diplomatic messages...
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New round of climate talks set to start in Cancun
Others | 30 November 2010
Mexico City, Mexico (CNN) -- The latest round of United Nations climate change talks begins Monday in the coastal resort city of Cancun, Mexico...
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Shelling by North Korea was 'inhumane crime' - Seoul
Others | 30 November 2010
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has described as an "inhumane crime" the North's deadly shelling of a South Korean island last week...
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Amid tension, U.S. and South Korea begin military drills
Others | 29 November 2010
Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- South Korea and the United States started joint military exercises Sunday, U.S. Forces Korea spokesman David Oten told CNN...
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Finance meeting over Irish Republic rescue scheme
Others | 29 November 2010
European finance ministers are to meet in Brussels to discuss the details of a bailout worth more than 85bn euros ($113bn; £72bn) for the Irish Republic...
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Haitians takes part in elections amid cholera epidemic
Others | 29 November 2010
Haiti is set to vote in general elections, as the earthquake-hit nation continues to battle a deadly cholera epidemic.
Up to 4.7m registered voters will cast their ballots for one of 18 presidential candidates, as well as parliamentary deputies and senators...
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Iraq arrests 12 over deadly church siege
Others | 28 November 2010
Twelve suspected militants have been arrested in connection with a deadly church siege in Baghdad last month, Iraq's interior minister said...
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South Korea buries marines killed by N Korea attack
Others | 28 November 2010
South Korea has held funerals for the two marines killed when North Korea fired artillery shells at the South's Yeonpyeong island earlier this week...
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Teen suspected of trying to set off bomb at Oregon tree-lighting event
Others | 28 November 2010
(CNN) -- A 19-year-old has been arrested in connection with a plot to detonate a vehicle bomb at an annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, Oregon, on Friday evening, the Justice Department announced...
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New Zealand mine: 'No survivors' after second blast
Others | 25 November 2010
All 29 miners trapped in a New Zealand coal pit since Friday are believed to be dead after a second explosion...
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Two South Korean civilians 'died in attack by North'
Others | 25 November 2010
The bodies of two civilians have been found on the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong, shelled in Tuesday's attack by the North...
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Iranian official: Woman sentenced to death by stoning could be spared
Others | 25 November 2010
Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- An Iranian woman whose death sentence has sparked an outcry outside Iran may yet be spared, the Islamic Republic's chief human rights official said Monday, according to the state-run Press TV...
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