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BBC

The authorities in Ukraine have approved a giant steel cover for the radioactive site of the worlds worst nuclear disaster - Chernobyl. Ukraine has hired a French firm to build the structure to replace the crumbling concrete casing

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AP

Microsoft lost its appeal of a European antitrust order Monday that obliges the technology giant to share communications code with rivals, sell a copy of Windows without Media Player and pay a $613 million fine — the largest ever by EU regulators.

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Islamonline

(And the good news just keeps coming) In a new blow to embattled Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Shitte leader Muqtada al-Sadr's movement said Saturday, Sept 15, that it was withdrawing from the ruling Shiite alliance in protest

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AP

The number of suspected cholera cases in northern Iraq continues to rise, with 16,000 people now showing symptoms, the World Health Organization said Friday. As of Sept 10, 6,000 have been reported with symptoms such as diarrhea and vomiting

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AFP

(Oh look, Baghdad's own Berlin Wall. What a concept democracy is) Hundreds of Shiites and Sunnis marched on Wednesday in protest at the building by US troops of a tall concrete wall separating their northwest Baghdad neighbourhoods

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FoxNews.com

President Vladimir Putin dissolved Russia's government Wednesday and then quickly nominates Viktor Zubkov, a Russian Cabinet official who oversees the fight against money laundering, to be the new prime minister.

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Daily Mail

The entire 6,000-page French legal dossier into the death of Princess Diana has vanished from the court archives in Paris, a lawyer claimed last night. The mass of official documents - which stand one metre tall - was stored at the Palais de Justice

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TPM Muckraker

It's official: Ayad Allawi is no longer represented by Barbour Griffith & Rogers, the White-House connected lobbying firm he retained to sell the US government on his "parliamentary coup" to become Iraq's next prime minister. Well

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Christian Science Monitor

Lebanese military helicopters flew low Monday over the smoking ruins of this Palestinian refugee camp as soldiers scroued the nearby countryside for remnants of the Al Qaeda-inspired group whose three-month battle against the Army ended Sunday.

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IHN

General Pervez Musharraf agreed to arrest Dr A Q Khan after striking a secret deal with US deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage in 2004 that his own army generals involved in illegal nuclear trade would not be touched and he would be accepted b

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AP

North Korea agreed Sunday to account for and disable its atomic programs by the end of the year, offering its first timeline for a process long sought by nuclear negotiators, the chief U.S. envoy said. Kim Gye Gwan, head of the North Korean delega

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Financial Times

The Chinese military hacked into a Pentagon computer network in June in the most successful cyber attack on the US defense department. The Pentagon shut down a computer system serving the office of Robert Gates, defense secretary, but declined to say

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China Daily

French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday said Iraq's road to recovery begins with a clear timetable for the pullout of foreign troops as he outlined an assertie role for France in world hotspots. Making his first major foreign policy speech si

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Reuters

Georgian forces fired at a plane they believed was Russian after it violated the Caucasus republic's airspace, a senior interior ministry official said. The incident marks an intensification of a row between the two countries in which Georgia has

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ABC News Blog

A political rival of the current Iraqi prime minister has hired a well-known Republican lobbying firm to promote his candidacy among the Washington elite. On the same day US intelligence officials briefed reporters on their lack of confidence

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Reuters

Georgia's radars will probably be integrated into NATO's radar system by the end of this year, earlier than planned because of worries about Russian military flights, the Georgian Defense Ministry said. "Recent incidents prompted discuss

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Consortiumnews

Almost daily, the Bush adminstration ratchets up the war-like rhetoric about Iran's alleged role in destabilizing Iraq. Eerily, like the pre-Iraq War drumbeat, the US press repeats the accusations with little skepticism and Congress marches in l