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German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the recent downgrades of credit ratings of nine European countries shows that the European Union has a "long road" ahead to restore investor confidence
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A magnitude 7.3 earthquake has struck Indonesia off the west coast of northern Sumatra, according to a report issued by the U.S. Geological Survey
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As tensions continue to escalate in the Persian Gulf, Republican presidential candidates have been launching verbal assaults at Iran as they compete for their party's U.S. presidential nomination
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Brazil has overtaken Britain as the world's sixth-largest economy, a leading economic research group says. Britain lost out to the South American country in 2011 and will likely slide further as faster-growing economies such as Russia and India surge ahead
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Kim Jong Un, the successor of Kim Jong Il in North Korea, has assumed another leadership position within the North Korean power structure
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The United States State Department has announced that they will offer a reward of up to $10 million for information that leads to the whereabouts of an al-Qaeda financier. Al-Suri is believed to be working out of Iran
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Officials said Thursday's blasts struck across the city, including the Karrada neighborhood where television footage displayed expansive plumes of smoke emanating from the blast site
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Facing unprecedented voter protests, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says he has ordered his government to investigate allegations of electoral fraud in last week's parliamentary elections
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The results of last month's disputed presidential election in the Democratic Republic of Congo were "mismanaged" and lack credibility, according to a team of international election observers
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Backed by tanks, army defectors in southern Syria clashed with loyalist forces in a major armed confrontation Sunday near the Jordanian border. Meanwhile, up to 18 people were killed in nationwide violence
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Perm was a closed city in the Soviet era, lost in the gulag archipelago. The city was called Molotov for years, named after Stalin's foreign minister
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The people of Russia voted in elections for parliament on Sunday, with a number of those interviewed saying they expected a victory for the government party
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Officials from the 17-nation eurozone are holding another set of talks Tuesday and Wednesday in an effort to renew faith in their continental currency, amid more negative financial news
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The United States and its European allies could face setbacks if the alliance is degraded under the heavy weight of budget pressures currently facing its members
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Europe has been plunged back into political and economic uncertainty after a few days of relative calm. Greece has sent shockwaves across Europe by calling a referendum on the latest bailout deal.
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Taiwanese funeral homes allegedly lack permission to play recorded music at services, resulting in two lawsuits. But the industry says it has the right to broadcast that music
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The European Union on Thursday announced a plan to chop Greece's debt in half and significantly increase a bailout fund designed to contain the eurozone debt crisis
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Ambassador Robert Ford returned to Washington due to threats on his life, the U.S. Embassy says, that no longer made it safe for him to remain in Syria
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The Moody's ratings agency has warned that the credit rating of France could be downgraded in the next three months if the European country's budget is strained
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Nokia's third-quarter loss was not as large as expected, and the company forecasts a profitable quarter for the mobile phone business as the company prepares to sell new models based on
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Some Middle East analysts believe the release of an Israeli soldier for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners might have an unintended effect on security in Israel
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Libya's NTC forces are claiming to have seized most of the town of Bani Walid, where resistance forces
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The iPhone 4S hit retailers October 14 around the world. Excited Apple consumers have been anxiously waiting for days
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Astronomers have generated the first complete full-color map of the surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan
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The worldwide economic problems seems to be hitting Turkey, one of the most rapidly expanding economic zones on the planet. The government has
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The USA and Saudi Arabia have promised to pursue a "strong and unified" international response to the apparent plot by
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South Africa has deported more than 250 Zimbabweans this week and may expel twice as many by
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According to sources, Syrian security forces have opened fire on anti-government protesters, leading to the deaths of
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As economic crises intensify in Europe, governments are cutting budgets and ordinary people are tightening their belts. Even richer countries,
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Researchers at the CERN physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, claimed recently to have clocked a subatomic particle, known as a neutrino, traveling in excesss of the speed of light.
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Moody's Investors Service has downgraded the credit ratings of 12 British banks over concerns that the government will not provide adequate support to
