Allies of Sheik Abdul Sattar Buzaigh al-Rishawi, also known as Abu Risha, a Sunni leader in Iraq’s Anbar province who was killed this week, said they would avenge his death.
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The legislature passes tax measures sought by Calderon's conservative party and electoral reforms wanted by leftist rivals.
MEXICO CITY — Mexico's legislature approved major overhauls of the nation's tax and election laws Friday, untangling a months-long stalemate that had threatened to make the country ungovernable in the wake of last year's bitterly contested presidential election.
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At a meeting in Eritrea, various groups opt for armed resistance but elect a moderate Islamist to head the alliance.
ASMARA, Eritrea — Following a week of walkouts and heated arguments, an unlikely alliance of Somalian opposition groups found an ideological middle ground Friday, electing a moderate Islamist leader after agreeing to omit a reference to "jihad" from its charter.
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Ex-prime minister plans to return Oct. 18, but it is unclear whether she will come as a rival or ally of President Pervez Musharraf.
-- To the cheers of supporters who set off celebratory firecrackers and flung pink flower petals, the party of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto announced Friday that she planned to return to her homeland Oct. 18.
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Al Qaeda in Iraq claims to have killed Rishawi, whose brother is likely to take over his council. A blast in Diyala kills four U.S. soldiers.
BAGHDAD — Thousands of people paid respects Friday to the slain sheik credited with forging ties between Sunni tribesmen and the U.S. military, as American leaders mulled over the prospects of his expected successor.
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Zhao Yan was jailed for three years as after the newspaper ran an exclusive article on a government figure.
-- Zhao Yan, the New York Times researcher imprisoned after the newspaper published an exclusive article about the Chinese leadership, was released Saturday into the arms of friends and family after three years in jail.
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In a new report to Congress, the White House acknowledged Friday that the Iraqi government has made little political progress in recent months.
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Facing the latest sabotage of the country's energy grid, Mexican leaders and analysts are reconsidering a tiny militant group that many had presumed to be inconsequential.
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About 1,000 people paid respect Friday to Abdul Sattar al-Rishawi, the sheik credited with forging ties between Sunni tribesmen and the U.S. military.
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Burj Dubai, the world's tallest building since July, has also become the tallest free-standing structure on Earth, reaching 1,822 feet, the developers said.
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Lead singer Freddy Lim carefully drew black and red veins over his white-caked face while his mates in the heavy metal band adjusted their combat boots and studded leather.
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Chinese regulators have ordered 11 radio shows off the air for talking too explicitly about sex.
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A roadside bomb blast and clashes between soldiers and secessionist Tamil Tiger guerrillas across Sri Lanka's volatile north have killed 29 people.
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A UK minister has accused leading universities like Oxford and Cambridge of being biased towards poor and middle-class teenagers.
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US President George Bush ordered gradual troop reductions in Iraq but defied calls for a dramatic change of course.
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Urban Chinese who have more than one child will get a black mark on their credit record, the government said.
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The yellow ribbons in the trees are tattered and faded near the Church of
Our Lady of Light here, where the spiritual torch burned at its brightest
following Madeleine McCann's disappearance. The last image of the child has
gone, too ? covered by a list of this month's festival services.
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Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, sought to dispel once and for all speculation that he might seek a third term in office, despite mounting public pressure for him to do so. He also quashed expectations that he would name ? or even indicate ? a favoured successor, stressing that he intended to use every last second of the last six months of his term to accelerate national infrastructure projects.
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France has been plunged into an anguished debate following the pre-match recital of a celebrated letter from a condemned 17-year-old Resistance hero to the national rugby team.
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This was the fourth of the Valdai Club meetings, and ? for all Mr Putin's determination to work to the very end, it surely marked the start of a long farewell.
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The pivotal role of DNA fingerprinting in the Madeleine McCann investigation was brought further into question yesterday when the inventor of the forensic technique warned that it was insufficient to provide police with a firm conclusion.
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At least 88 people were killed when a tourist plane carrying 123 passengers crashed in Phuket, Thailand Sunday
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At least 41 people were killed or found dead throughout Iraq Sunday as the result of stepped-up Al Qaeda attacks.
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The sole suspect in the radiation poisoning death of a former KGB agent announced plans to run for parliament Sunday on the ticket of a pro-Kremlin ultranationalist party.
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Richard Branson, chairman of Virgin Group, pledged $200,000 on Sunday to help the British couple declared suspects in the disappeareance of their young daughter to clear their name, a spokeswoman said.
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Allies of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf opposed to sharing power with exiled former leader Benazir Bhutto are pushing Pakistan toward anarchy, Bhutto said Sunday.
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A 23-year-old B.C. woman said she escaped through a window as smoke and flames filled an airplane that crashed in southern Thailand on Sunday, killing dozens of people.
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More than 80 people are dead after a budget airliner crashed as it tried to land in heavy rain in Phuket in southern Thailand on Sunday, officials said.
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Foreign and Afghan forces killed more than a dozen militants in battles in several Afghan provinces on Sunday, U.S. military officials said.
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The government of Iraq was weakened Saturday when parliamentarians affiliated with radical Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said they were leaving the coalition.
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One day after former NFL star O.J. Simpson was questioned as a suspect after a confrontation at a Las Vegas casino hotel room involving sports memorabilia, his accuser now wants the case dropped.
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The president’s language in his speech on Iraq reflected a debate in the White House over how aggressively to confront Iran.
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Anger in Serbia is flaring again as Western governments consider recognizing Kosovo this year as an independent state.
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In a sign of its frustration with the government, the movement of the anti-American cleric Moktada al-Sadr announced it would withdraw from the largest political bloc in Parliament.
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Officials are concerned that the British pullback from Basra will leave a major supply route at greater risk of attack.
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