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Diesel fuel supplies are running low around the city of Lyon as the country braces for new protests against government plans to raise the retirement age.
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The more you follow professional cycling, the more you wish you'd gone to medical school first.
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On Monday, Pakistani television showed footage shot during a militant attack on a government checkpoint near the American consulate in the city of Peshawar.
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Officeholders are spurned. Patronage counts less. Tribes desert their leaders. Religion loses some of its clout.
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Peter Bethune, a New Zealander, was charged with five criminal counts for illegally boarding a Japanese whaling vessel in February.
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The bond issue is the first borrowing test since the euro zone unveiled a rescue plan. But borrowing costs remained high.
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North Korea warned of deadly consequences if the U.S. and South Korea did not stop allowing journalists inside the zone dividing the Korean Peninsula.
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Israel is starting an experiment in organ donation: sign a donor card, and you and your family move up in line for a transplant if one is needed.
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The incomplete results will offer an incomplete picture of the vote but will provide the broad outlines of the country’s political landscape.
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A heavily armed group stormed a poker tournament in Berlin’s Grand Hyatt hotel Saturday afternoon and made off with a jackpot, a police spokesman said.
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There was a familiar undertone to the exchanges provoked by the visit of President Jacob G. Zuma of South Africa to Buckingham Palace — a clash of caricatures of reflexes born centuries earlier.
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Emergency management authorities announced that they had significantly overestimated the toll from last week’s earthquake.
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One of Pope Benedict’s ceremonial ushers and a member of an elite choir in St Peter’s Basilica have been implicated in a gay prostitution ring.
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It took about 19 hours for the navy to deploy a search aircraft after it received a distress signal from the S. V. Concordia on Wednesday, but officials said that was in line with standard procedure.
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The U.N. said that Washington's concerns about aid being diverted to terror groups was holding up desperately-needed food.
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Two commuter trains collided at rush hour in a Brussels suburb, killing at least 18 people, officials said.
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No gunfire, not even in the distance, broke the quiet as Marine platoons secured the northern edge of Marja, the focus of "Operation Moshtarak."
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Three crates of Scotch whisky and two crates of brandy left beneath the floorboards of a hut in Antarctica by the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton in 1909, at the end of a failed expedition to the South Pole, have been unearthed.
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Decades after the Cultural Revolution, China has reversed its attitude toward antiques, and the market has become hot.
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At least 41 people were killed on the outskirts of Baghdad, officials said, as a suicide bomber struck at a procession.
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The members of a Baptist group were arrested for trying to take 33 children across the border.
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Pakistani and American officials said that they were increasingly convinced that Hakimullah Mehsud had died from wounds sustained in a drone strike.
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A shipment seized by Thai authorities last month was headed for Iran, according to a confidential report sent to a United Nations Security Council committee.
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When the poorest lose all, they are twice robbed. In calamity, the effort to survive can steal even their will to stop and cry.
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Users discovered that their e-mail accounts were compromised after Google said last week that hackers had tried to attack its security infrastructure.
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A social revolution is driving a search for fresh ways of combining family life and motherhood with a more powerful role for women.
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An Iraqi court sentenced a former aide to Saddam Hussein to death by hanging for having ordered a poison gas attack on a Kurdish village in 1988.
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Voters disenchanted with the center-left Concertación coalition will be the key to deciding Sunday’s presidential runoff.
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The Lede is tracking news coverage of the rescue effort in Haiti on the Web. We are also looking for personal accounts posted online, and ask readers to help draw our attention to any news and first-hand accounts they come across.
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A slight but endearing memoir about the deprivations and joys of growing up in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and ’70s.
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Less than a month after a group calling itself the "Iranian Cyber Army" attacked Twitter, users of China's most popular search engine, Baidu, were redirected on Tuesday morning to a Web page displaying a message claiming that the same group had blocked access to that site as well.
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Brandon Neely, a former Army guard at Guantánamo Bay, met two of his previous wards face to face. The encounter will be broadcast on Tuesday.
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Officials say that senior advisers are frustrated by the Pentagon’s inability to live up to an initial promise to have all of the forces in the country by summer.
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The Department of Defense has identified 4,363 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the death of the following American this week:.
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Northern Ireland's government, a local authority in which power is shared by two communities divided for decades by terrorist violence, is in danger of falling apart as two of the province's most senior leaders deal with sex scandals in their families.
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The Ikhwan Polygamy Club says it aims to help women find husbands, but authorities accuse it to be an attempt to revive a banned Islamic movement.
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The bishop encouraged quiet opposition to China’s strictures on religion but also heeded the pope’s call to improve relations.
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If full-body scans of airport passengers are not so complete as to be pornographic will they be ineffective?
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A jet veered off the runway at a western German airport Sunday, but no one was injured, authorities said.
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has been raising money for an American pavilion at the 2010 fair.
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Setbacks in its nuclear program and protests in the streets are making Iran’s leaders vulnerable to strong new sanctions, the Obama administration says.
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Security forces filled Tehran streets to deter protests, as the opposition leader said he did not fear to give his life to his cause.
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An American jailed in Myanmar was placed in solitary confinement after ending a 12-day hunger strike, prompting the United States Embassy to request his return to a standard prison cell.
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Prime Minister Wen Jiabao of China struck a defiant note on exchange rate policy, saying the government would not give in to foreign demands that it let the renminbi rise in value.
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A Thai court on Friday ordered the crew of a cargo plane carrying weapons from North Korea to remain in prison for 12 more days.
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Economists expect more gradual trims in the coming months as policymakers try to stimulate the country's blighted economy.
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A Dutch court allowed the teenage sailor Laura Dekker to stay in her father’s care on Wednesday after her disappearance last week.
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Russia has failed to fully observe the peace deal that ended last year’s war with Georgia, the chief of the European Union’s monitoring mission, said Wednesday.
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Coalition squabbling and looming decisions await the German chancellor in 2010.
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Failures in the train service between France and Britain have affected nearly 90,000 passengers, and full service probably won’t be restored until next Monday.
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