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China Presses Hush Money on Grieving Parents
100 'slightly contaminated' from French reactor
World's first IVF baby marks 30th birthday
Although her birth opened the door for millions of infertile couples worldwide to give birth to IVF or test tube babies, Brown has no big plans to celebrate the landmark date.
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Ambassador: Al-Qaida leaving Iraq for Afghanistan
Al-Qaida's foreign fighters who have for years bedeviled Iraq are increasingly going to Afghanistan to fight instead, the Iraqi ambassador to the United States said Wednesday.
Sudan's Leader Visits Darfur Amid Genocide Charges
Sudan's president made a defiant visit to Darfur just a week after being charged with genocide in the war-ravaged region, vowing not to be intimidated by the indictment and then breaking into a tribal dance on a parched field to the delight of cheering supporters.
High-yielding peanut tried in Sorsogon
A high-yielding variety of peanut bred by an international research center in India is now being tried in Bicol.
The variety — ICFV 86564 — had earlier been tried and found to thrive in Cagayan Valley.
Introduced in the Philippines in 2005, the variety was bred by the India-based International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), currently headed by former Agriculture Secretary William D. Dar.
Report: Russia mulls sending bombers to Cuba
Thai-Cambodia in military standoff
Cambodia is seeking regional intervention in its territorial dispute with Thailand after talks between the two neighbors failed to end a military standoff around an ancient cliff-side temple, officials said Tuesday.
Suicide car bomber hits Afghan army vehicle in Kabul
A suicide bomber killed three civilians and wounded one more in an attack in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Tuesday, a police official said.
A doctor from the Nepali Congress has been elected the first president of Nepal.
The Constituent Assembly declared Ram Braan Yadav won 308 votes in the second round of presidential elections to become president of the world's youngest federal democratic republic. His major competitor Ram Raja Prasad Singh from the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) won 282 votes.
Islam Bullish In a Bear Market
The Amana funds, invested according to Sharia, have more than doubled since 2003, to $1.3 billion.
Mideast Facing Choice Between Crops and Water
Brown warns Iran in Israel speech
Gordon Brown threatened Iran with tougher sanctions as he became the first British prime minister to address the Israeli parliament.
Barack Obama in Baghdad to meet with US commanders
A U.S. Embassy official said Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama arrived in Iraq on Monday where he will meet with commanders and troops in a war he has long opposed.
TS Dolly continues toward the Yucatan Peninsula
A Tropical Storm warning is in effect for the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico from the border with Belize to Campeche Mexico.
Iraqi PM says US should leave as soon as possible
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says U.S. troops should leave Iraq "as soon as possible," according to a magazine report, and he called presidential candidate Barack Obama's suggestion of 16 months "the right timeframe for a withdrawal."
British hostage in Iraq is dead
A Shiite militia that claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of five Britons in Iraq more than a year ago said one of its hostages committed suicide, a British newspaper reported.
The Sunday Times of London published what it said was a statement in a video it obtained from the group through an intermediary in Iraq.
Unification Church’s Moon hurt in crash
Afghans have freed a journalist who took pictures of an execution
An Afghan journalist who contributes to The Associated Press has been freed after his pictures and video footage of two women executed by the Taliban led intelligence officials to hold him for questioning for two days.
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