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ALL World - UK WorldIn a rapidly changing landscape, most Latin American countries are recalibrating their political interests, frustrating Russia’s efforts to deepen regional ties.
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Permanent Link: Flux in Latin America Affects Russia’s Diplomacy
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The woman who masterminded France’s 35-hour workweek won a runoff for the leadership of the Socialist Party by a razor-thin margin.
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Permanent Link: Martine Aubry to Lead French Socialists
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The attack came within days of a Pakistani protest to the United States ambassador over missile attacks on its territory.
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Permanent Link: U.S. Missile Strike Said to Kill 4 in Pakistan
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For weeks, John Sergeant, formerly the BBC’s chief political correspondent, dominated the British television program “Strictly Come Dancing,” but not with his lightness of foot.
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Permanent Link: The Saturday Profile: With Feet of Lead, a British Dance Show Favorite Stomps His Way to Stardom
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Long associated with the Dalai Lama and his “middle way,” the exile movement has reached a crossroads.
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Permanent Link: At Exile Meeting, Tibetans Debate Independence
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A secret court run by Myanmar’s military leadership sentenced a prominent Burmese comedian and activist on Friday, continuing a recent crackdown on regime dissidents.
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Permanent Link: Myanmar Gives Comedian 45-Year Sentence for Cyclone Comments
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Williamsburg is being transformed by an influx of affluent buyers from Western Europe.
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Permanent Link: Old Europe and New Brooklyn in Williamsburg
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At least two dozen people, including six children, were killed in heavy fighting between government troops and Islamic insurgents in the capital.
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Permanent Link: Dozens Killed as Fighting Intensifies in Somalia
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The grisly knifing death of a former health ministry official and his wife by an unknown assailant has thrown this normally low-crime nation into an unusual uproar.
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Permanent Link: Tokyo Killings May Be Tied to Scandal on Pensions
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More than 10,000 supporters of Moktada al-Sadr gathered to protest the Iraqi plan to sign a security agreement to maintain U.S. troops for up to three years.
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Permanent Link: U.S. Troop Pact Protested in Baghdad
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A digital library of Europe’s cultural heritage crashed just hours after it went online, and it will be out of operation for weeks, the European Commission said.
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Permanent Link: World Briefing | Europe: Belgium: European Culture Site Crashes
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said that he would like to add significant U.S. forces to the war in Afghanistan before national elections scheduled for next year.
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Permanent Link: World Briefing | Asia: Afghanistan: Gates Seeks More Troops
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As expected, Russia’s lower house of Parliament gave overwhelming final approval to a change in the Constitution that lengthens the presidency to six years.
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Permanent Link: World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Presidency Measure Advances
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Russia’s flagging economy has forced a halt to construction on the Russia Tower in Moscow, designed to be Europe’s tallest building, its developer said.
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Permanent Link: World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Economy Hinders Tower Project
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Noé Ramírez Mandujano is the highest-ranking official to come under suspicion in a purge of police and prosecutors for possible ties to drug traffickers.
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Permanent Link: Mexico Arrests Ex-Chief of Antidrug Agency
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President-elect Barack Obama spoke via video on Friday to European Olympic committees at a meeting in Istanbul in an effort to sell Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Summer Games.
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Permanent Link: Obama Lobbies For 2016 Games
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President Bush, confessing he already “felt a little nostalgic,” began what could be his last official overseas trip on Friday, arriving in Peru for a financial meeting.
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Permanent Link: Bush, in Peru, Will Press Plans to Avert Future Financial Crises
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Nearly 10 years after it signed a treaty banning land mines, Britain had failed even to start clearing land mines in territories under its jurisdiction.
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Permanent Link: Anti-Land Mine Campaign Says Britain Isn’t Abiding by Treaty
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An error in translation of a news conference by a governor left the impression that the death toll of students in the May earthquake was higher than thought.
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Permanent Link: Garbled Report on Sichuan Death Toll Revives Pain
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Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said that a report released by the International Atomic Energy Agency about Iran’s suspected work to develop nuclear weapons was ambiguous.
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Permanent Link: Iranian Ex-President Says Chief of Atomic Agency Is Unfair
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