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Reuters – AbitibiBowater Inc has reached a tentative labor deal affecting about 4,000 workers, bringing the newsprint maker closer to emerging from bankruptcy protection, the company and union said on Sunday.
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AP – Preparations have begun for a crucial campaign to assert Afghan government control over Kandahar, spiritual home of the Taliban, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan said Monday.
Read More: Gates meeting with military, political leaders
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AP – A strong, pre-dawn earthquake knocked down stone and mud-brick houses, barns and minarets in eastern Turkey on Monday, killing 51 people in five villages, the government said.
Read More: Strong earthquake slams eastern Turkey, kills 51
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AP – Early estimates from a range of Iraqi parties predict a coalition led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will take the lead in the parliamentary race.
Read More: Iraqi PM's coalition seen leading vote
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AP – The South African president’s office has announced the nomination of its tourism minister for the United Nations’ top climate post.
Read More: South African minister is nominated for UN post
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AP – Lawyers for six former Guantanamo detainees on Monday appealed a ruling that the British government can use secret evidence to fight a claim that it was complicit in their abuse.
Read More: UK justices hear detainees' torture appeal
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AFP – An elephant calf has died during days of labour at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo, where its mother was a part of a programme to breed endangered Asian elephants, officials said Monday.
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AP – Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday that an action plan to reintegrate low- to mid-level insurgent fighters into society and negotiate with the Taliban’s top echelon will be crafted at a springtime peace conference aimed at ending the war.
Read More: Afghan president to host April peace conference
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McClatchy Newspapers – ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani officials Sunday said they’d arrested the American face of al Qaida, a key militant propagandist, which if it’s confirmed would be the first high-profile capture of a leader of the terrorist group since Pakistan’s civilian government was elected in February 2008.
Read More: Pakistanis say they arrested al Qaida's American mouthpiece
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Nigeria violence in Jos: Q&A
BBC News Hundreds of people are reported to have been killed in Nigeria's Plateau State in clashes between Muslims and Christians. The latest violence is apparently revenge for similar clashes in January. More than 2000 people have been killed in communal … Hundreds slaughtered in Nigeria religious violence Ethnic Violence in Nigeria Killed 500, Officials Say Hundreds dead as more religious violence hits Nigeria |
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Suicide Blast Rocks Lahore
Voice of America A powerful suicide car bomb attack in eastern Pakistan has left at least 12 people dead and more than 60 wounded. Women and children are among the victims. Authorities blamed the attack on al-Qaida-linked Taliban militants. Local police say the bomb … Pakistani Taliban Claim Responsibility For Lahore Attack – Spokesman Pak Minister sees RAW hand in Lahore attack Eleven killed in Pakistan's Lahore city blast |
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Pakistan: American al-Qaida suspect nabbed
The Associated Press ISLAMABAD — An American member of al-Qaida was picked up in a raid in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi, Pakistani officials said Monday, but reversed earlier assertions that the detained man was the terror network's US-born spokesman. … Arrested Al Qaeda operative isn't Riverside man Suspect arrested in Pakistan not Gadahn: officials Pakistan holds US 'Al-Qaeda suspect': officials |
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AP – Ariel has ambitions of becoming a city, and already boasts 19,000 people, a college, a $10 million sports complex, and a four-lane highway leading to it.
Read More: Settlement deep in West Bank seen as peace spoiler
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Time.com – UBS agreed to give up the names of alleged American tax cheats — but for Switzerland, giving up secrecy is a hard thing to do
Read More: Switzerland Keeping the Secrets of Alleged Tax Evaders
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OneWorld.net – LOMÉ, Mar 4 (IRIN) – As up to 3.2 million Togolese cast their ballots
in the presidential election on 4 March, IRIN asked voters and experts
what it would take to reach true reconciliation after decades of
political violence. This is the first of a two-part series on Togo’s
road to reconciliation.
Read More: Togo Tip-Toeing Toward Reconciliation
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AP – Togo’s election commission on Saturday declared the son of the country’s late dictator winner of the presidential race, extending the family’s rule into a fifth decade in a deep blow to Togo’s opposition, which vowed to take to the streets in protest.
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Reuters – Closing the stimulus tap and cutting spending sharply after the economy recovers will rein in Canada’s record budget deficit, the government said on Thursday.
Read More: Canada details plans to slay deficit once recovery entrenched
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AP – Iraqi police say mortar fire has killed three people in northeastern Baghdad.
Read More: Iraqi police: Mortars kill 3 as nation votes
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McClatchy Newspapers – KABUL, Afghanistan — Hours before boarding a flight out of Kabul, Norwegian diplomat Kai Eide delivered a final warning Saturday as he wrapped up his two-year tenure as the top United Nations diplomat in Afghanistan.
Read More: Departing UN envoy says Afghan strategy is too 'military-driven'
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AP – Police in northern Mexico protested Saturday hours after three of their colleagues were shot to death in an ambush and a fourth was wounded.
Read More: Northern Mexico cops protest after ambush kills 3
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