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Reports from China say rescue teams have recovered the bodies of 10 workers killed in a gas explosion at a coal mine in the north-eastern province of Heilongjiang. The Xinhua news agency quoted officials at the mine in the city of Jixi as saying another w
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US air traffic controllers who were working on 11 September have recalled their ordeal as hijackers flew planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Speaking at a briefing about the moments leading up to the attacks, they also described their fra
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The largest international child smuggling ring ever seen has been broken up by immigration authorities in the United States. The US Immigration and Naturalisation Service (INS) says the ring had been in operation for years, taking hundreds of children fro
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The appeals of four Islamic militants convicted for the abduction and murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl have been admitted by a court in Karachi in Pakistan. British-born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh was sentenced to death by hanging for masterminding the k
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Tens of thousands of people are fleeing the Czech capital of Prague as torrential rains and floods continue to devastate cities and towns across Europe. Around 50,000 people are being ordered to evacuate the historic city as it braces for what could be th
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A monument to the 118 sailors who died in the Kursk nuclear submarine disaster two years ago has been unveiled in Moscow. Some relatives of the dead joined Russian government ministers and senior naval officers at the ceremony, but others will hold their
World | August 12, 2002, Monday // 00:00
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An influential US senator has added his voice to growing opposition to a military strike against Iraq. Carl Levin, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the US military was much more cautious about going to war with Iraq tha
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Turkey's former economy minister Kemal Dervis on Sunday met rivals of Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit in an apparent attempt to forge a political alliance ahead of general elections on 3 November. The move comes just a day after Mr Dervis, who was charged wi
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A Greek who is suspected of being a member of the country's November 17 extremist group has admitted killing British military attach? Stephen Saunders, according to reports. Savvas Xiros, whose arrest led to the smashing of the shadowy group, told a prose
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United Nations police, backed by Nato-led peacekeepers, have arrested a former ethnic Albanian guerilla leader on suspicion of murder and torture in Kosovo. Rustem Mustafa was detained in the Kosovo capital, Pristina, at 1600 local time (1400 GMT).
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Colombia's new President Alvaro Uribe declared a state of emergency Monday to fight what the government described as a "regime of terror" following a surge of war violence. Uribe, who took office Wednesday accompanied by a salvo of leftist rebel mortar sh
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US Airways Group Inc. sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Sunday, the first such filing by a major carrier since the Sept.
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The German Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, has broken ranks with America's other European allies by saying that Germany will not participate in any military action against Iraq. Mr Schroeder went on to say that after America, Germany had the second-largest
World | August 11, 2002, Sunday // 00:00
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Pope John Paul made an emotional appeal Sunday for peace in the Middle East, and gave his apparent support to an international peacekeeping forces in the region. "I cannot stop thinking with extreme concern about the Holy Land, which unfortunately has not
World | August 11, 2002, Sunday // 00:00
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Supporters of the former Yugoslav president, Slobodan Milosevic, have begun collecting signatures to back his candidacy for the Serbian presidential elections. The party of the former leader declared on Saturday that it will nominate him to stand in the p
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The widow of one of the 11 Israeli athletes and officials killed at the 1972 Munich Olympics has used a memorial service to criticise the German authorities' handling of the hostage-taking. At a commemoration in Munich, Ankie Spitzer, widow of the team's
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Iran has handed over al-Qaeda fighters to Saudi Arabia in an attempt to co-operate with the US war on terror, the Saudi foreign minister says.
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Iraq's military -- including the elite Republican Guard -- is "ready to rise up" against Saddam Hussein, an Iraqi opposition leader told reporters Saturday after speaking with top U.S.
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As the search continues for more victims of flash floods on Russia's Black Sea coast, President Vladimir Putin has criticised rescue efforts as "insufficient" and ordered more help to be sent to the area. So far 44 people are known to have died since torr
World | August 11, 2002, Sunday // 00:00
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Rescuers are still searching the devastated shoreline of Russia's Black Sea Coast for more victims of the past week's flash floods. Torrential rains swept across the popular tourist region, submerging villages and causing rivers and reservoirs to burst th
World | August 10, 2002, Saturday // 00:00
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