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<a href='http://news.xinhuanet.com/...On the heels of the new year, India, Colombia, Germany, Portugal and South Africa began their two-year tenure on Saturday as non-permanent members of the UN Security Council. The...
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<a href='http://news.xinhuanet.com/..."At the start of 2011, we're still just emerging from a once-in-a-lifetime recession that's taken a terrible toll on millions of families," Obama said in his weekly address, taped...
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<a href='http://news.xinhuanet.com/...At least three people were killed and more than 40 others injured when a Russian Tu-154 passenger jet exploded and caught fire at a Siberian airport on Saturday.
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<a href='http://news.xinhuanet.com/...Dilma Rousseff was sworn as Brazil's 1st female president Saturday at the National Congress in Brasilia, taking over from Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva who had served for 8 years.
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Gbagbo entrenched unless ousted by force...ABIDJAN (Reuters) - A spokesman for Ivory Coast presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara said on Saturday that the West African bloc ECOWAS must use military force soon to oust...
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Nigeria: Questions surround latest bomb...Nigeria's president says a bomb that struck an army barracks in the nation's capital could have come from militants in the country's oil-rich delta or from Muslim extremists in the...
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Suspected suicide bomber kills 17 at Egypt...ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (Reuters) - A bomb killed at least 17 people outside a church in the Egyptian city of Alexandria early on New Year's Day and the Interior Ministry said a foreign-...
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Estonia joins crisis-hit euro clubTALLINN (Reuters) - Estonia switched smoothly to the euro on Saturday, brushing off worries about a crisis in the currency club which is likely to put off bigger eastern European...
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3 US missile attacks kill 18 in northwest...Three U.S. missile strikes hours apart killed 18 people in a militant stronghold near the Afghan border in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, two Pakistani intelligence officials said.
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Russian passenger jet explodes; 1 dead, 10...A Russian passenger jet carrying 128 people caught fire and later exploded at a Siberian airport on Saturday, killing one person and injuring 10, officials said.