LONDON ---- Health experts say extraordinary measures against swine flu ---- most notably quarantines imposed by China, where entire planeloads of passengers were isolated if one traveler had symptoms ---- have failed to contain the disease.
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UNITED NATIONS ---- UNICEF urged the world to help the 1 billion children still deprived of food, shelter, clean water or health care ---- and the hundreds of millions more threatened by violence ---- two decades after the U.N. adopted a treaty guaranteeing children's rights.
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GENEVA ---- Four years after cartoons of the prophet Muhammad set off violent protests across the Muslim world, Islamic nations are mounting a campaign for an international treaty to protect religious symbols and beliefs from mockery --- essentially a ban on blasphemy that would put them …
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BEIRUT ---- An Iranian doctor who went public with reports of tortured protesters he treated at Tehran's most feared detention facility dies, amid conflicting reports of a heart attack, a car accident or suicide ---- raising opposition accusations that the 26-year-old was killed.
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STOCKHOLM ---- Russia indicated on Wednesday that it is ready to slash its greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 25 percent, if other countries do the same, the president of the European Union said.
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ROME ---- The director of a U.N. food agency questioned Wednesday how world powers could commit so much money to fighting the financial crisis and not to feeding the 1 billion hungry.
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BERLIN ---- Germany will extend its mission in Afghanistan for another year, the government said Wednesday, despite the growing unpopularity of the war at home.
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MOSCOW ---- A simmering confrontation between far-right youths and anti-racist activists has erupted into Moscow's streets after the fatal shooting of an anti-racist activist known as the Bonebreaker.
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BRUSSELS ---- The European Union is about to pick its first president, a post conjured up after years of tortuous political machination to give the bloc a unified voice on the world stage.
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WASHINGTON ---- Pollution typically declines during a recession. Not this time.
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TAGAB VALLEY, Afghanistan ---- Rockets slammed into a market northeast of Kabul on Monday, killing 12 civilians but missing their presumed target: a meeting between France's top general in Afghanistan and dozens of tribal elders and senior local officials.
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SINGAPORE ---- President Barack Obama said Sunday that "time is running out" for Iran to sign on to a deal to ship its enriched uranium out of the country for further processing, and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said he still hopes to persuade Iran to send its enriched uranium to his…
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