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Wages and war

Monday 26th of July 2010, 0:35
related countries: India

Can India's huge employment schemes counter Maoist rebels?
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Leaks 'reveal Afghan war details'

Monday 26th of July 2010, 2:26
related countries: Afghanistan, United States

More than 90,000 secret US military records are leaked to the media by Wikileaks, revealing unreported details of the war in Afghanistan.
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Jordan police give lettuce lady a dressing down

Monday 26th of July 2010, 3:32
related countries: Jordan
related places: Amman

An animal rights protester clad in lettuce leaves to promote vegetarianism is detained by police in the Jordanian capital Amman.
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India politician held over murder

Monday 26th of July 2010, 3:59
related countries: India

A former minister in India's Gujarat state is held in connection with the 2005 killing of a man by police.
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Maoist rebels 'killed' in India

Monday 26th of July 2010, 4:51
related countries: India

Police in India's eastern state of West Bengal say they have killed five Maoist rebels during a gunbattle.
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French find love for cricket

Monday 26th of July 2010, 5:35
related countries: France, United Kingdom

For centuries, the French have dismissed cricket as a sport for English eccentrics and people from countries which were once part of the British Empire. But the sport is now gaining ground in France.
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How will 'smart sanctions' hit Iran?

Monday 26th of July 2010, 6:14
related countries: Iran

Iran faces tough new sanctions, targeted at certain sections of its economy. But so so-called smart sanctions work?
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Japan exports rise at slower pace

Monday 26th of July 2010, 6:28
related countries: Japan

Japanese exports rise but at a slower pace than in recent months, raising questions about the strength of Japan's recovery.
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Nurse fatally stabbed at hospital

Monday 26th of July 2010, 6:30
related countries: Seychelles

A nurse is stabbed to death as she walks to her vehicle in a staff car park at Blackpool Victoria Hospital.
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Pakistan denies backing Taliban

Monday 26th of July 2010, 6:33
related countries: Afghanistan, United States

Pakistan has strongly denied claims in US military records revealed by the WikiLeaks website that it backed the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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1948 Olympic cyclist sees 2012 site

Monday 26th of July 2010, 6:57
related countries: United Kingdom

Tommy Godwin, a British medal-winning cyclist from the 1948 Olympics, tours the London 2012 velodrome with the BBC's Sophie Raworth.
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Maruti Suzuki shares drop by 12%

Monday 26th of July 2010, 7:13
related countries: India

Shares in India's Maruti Suzuki, the country's largest carmaker, sink 12% after it reported a 20% fall in quarterly profits.
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Submarine focus for Korea drill

Monday 26th of July 2010, 7:14
related countries: South Korea, North Korea, United States

The US and South Korea practised anti-submarine drills on the second day of joint exercises aimed as a show of strength to North Korea.
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Pigeon droppings end Kings of Leon concert

Monday 26th of July 2010, 7:55
related countries: United States
related places: Rock, Leon

Rock band the Kings of Leon abandon a concert after pigeons defecate on them from the rafters of a US venue.
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Justice at last for Cambodia's victims?

Monday 26th of July 2010, 8:20
related countries: Cambodia

Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch has been found guilty of crimes against humanity by Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes tribunal.
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Alonso secures controversial win

Monday 26th of July 2010, 8:28
related countries: Germany
related places: Hockenheim

Fernando Alonso leads a Ferrari one-two at the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim after Felipe Massa appears to be given coded team orders to let his team-mate past.
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Salt fails to shake off Inception

Monday 26th of July 2010, 8:44
related countries: United States

Angelina Jolie's espionage thriller Salt fails to dislodge Inception from pole position at the North American box office.
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Al-Qaeda 'kills hostage' in Mali

Monday 26th of July 2010, 8:49
related countries: France, Mali

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb says it has killed a French hostage being held in Mali, in an audio statement broadcast by al-Jazeera.
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Pakistan drone raids kill dozens

Monday 26th of July 2010, 8:52
related countries: Pakistan

Nineteen people died in three drone strikes in north-west Pakistan on Sunday, a day after a similar raid killed 16 others, say local officials.
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US warship's North Korea combat drill

Monday 26th of July 2010, 9:19
related countries: South Korea, North Korea, Japan, United States

The US and South Korea have begun a major military exercise in the Sea of Japan, despite threats of retaliation with nuclear weapons from North Korea.
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Pace to buy US broadband company

Monday 26th of July 2010, 9:32
related countries: United Kingdom, United States
related places: Pace

UK set-top box maker Pace is to buy US broadband technology firm 2Wire for $475m.
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Bangladesh indicts four over war

Monday 26th of July 2010, 9:43
related countries: Pakistan, Bangladesh

Bangladesh's war crimes tribunal, which is investigating the country's 1971 liberation struggle against Pakistan, has issued its first arrest warrants.
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Cambodia's Duch is found guilty

Monday 26th of July 2010, 11:04
related countries: Cambodia

Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch is found guilty of crimes against humanity by Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes tribunal.
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UK 'laments' Afghan records leak

Monday 26th of July 2010, 11:31
related countries: Afghanistan, United Kingdom, United States

The government "laments" the leak of documents allegedly revealing cases of Afghan civilians killed by UK troops, Downing Street says.
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French nuns win global singing contest

Monday 26th of July 2010, 12:01
related countries: France

A group of nuns from a remote region of France has emerged victorious in a worldwide search to find the world's finest female singers of Gregorian chant.
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Somali forces raid militant base

Monday 26th of July 2010, 12:07
related countries: Somalia

A cell of the Somali Islamist group al-Shabab is attacked for the first time in the Puntland region.
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Fog from peat fires covers Moscow

Monday 26th of July 2010, 12:12
related countries: Russia
related places: Moscow

An acrid fog from forest and peat fires blankets Moscow, as the Russian capital swelters in a record heat wave.
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Sri Lanka take charge in Colombo

Monday 26th of July 2010, 12:17
related countries: India, Sri Lanka
related places: Colombo

Kumar Sangakkara and Tharanga Paranavitana both hit centuries as Sri Lanka post 312-2 on day one of the second Test against India in Colombo.
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Fast-track deportation 'unlawful'

Monday 26th of July 2010, 12:28
related countries: United Kingdom

The fast-track deportation of foreign nationals refused permission to remain in the UK is declared unlawful by the High Court.
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Four dead in Iraq TV bomb attack

Monday 26th of July 2010, 12:31
related countries: Iraq, Saudi Arabia
related places: `Arab, Baghdad

A suicide car bomber kills four people in an attack near the Baghdad offices of the Saudi-owned pan-Arab news channel, al-Arabiya.
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Hunt for 600-year-old China ship

Monday 26th of July 2010, 12:37
related countries: Kenya, China

Chinese archaeologists are due to begin searching for the remains of a Chinese ship believed to have sunk off the Kenyan coast 600 years ago.
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BlackBerrys pose 'security risk'

Monday 26th of July 2010, 12:40
related countries: United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates says that it is considering restrictions on BlackBerry phones, as they pose a "national security risk".
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Face transplant man TV appearance

Monday 26th of July 2010, 13:37
related countries: Spain

A Spanish man who underwent the world's first full face transplant reveals his new look before TV cameras.
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Pakistan bomber targets mourners

Monday 26th of July 2010, 14:10
related countries: Pakistan
related places: Taliban

A suicide bomber outside Peshawar kills seven at a gathering mourning a cabinet minister's only son killed in a suspected Taliban attack, police say.
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Sarkozy condemns hostage killing

Monday 26th of July 2010, 14:13
related countries: France

Nicolas Sarkozy confirms the death of a French hostage killed by suspected al-Qaeda militants in north-west Africa, condemning it as "odious".
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Sanctions against Iran

Monday 26th of July 2010, 14:15
related countries: Iran

EU's last diplomatic effort to end Tehran's uranium enrichment?
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Rape anonymity pledge is dropped

Monday 26th of July 2010, 14:29
related countries: United Kingdom

The law will not be changed to grant anonymity to men accused of rape in England and Wales, the government confirms.
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UK Film Council to be abolished

Monday 26th of July 2010, 14:51
related countries: United Kingdom

The UK Film Council is to be axed as part of a cost-cutting drive by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
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BP boss Hayward 'to stand down'

Monday 26th of July 2010, 14:51
related countries: Mexico

BP's chief executive Tony Hayward is expected to stand down following widespread criticism of his handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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Rebels 'take Yemen army position'

Monday 26th of July 2010, 15:00
related countries: Yemen

Shia rebels in northern Yemen have taken over an army post and captured a number of soldiers, officials say.
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Nato rocket 'killed 52 Afghans'

Monday 26th of July 2010, 15:28
related countries: Afghanistan

Afghan President Hamid Karzai blames Nato for a rocket attack in Helmand province that killed dozens of civilians.
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Files seized in Love Parade probe

Monday 26th of July 2010, 15:39
related countries: Germany
related places: Duisburg

German prosecutors probing the Love Parade stampede that killed 19 people in Duisburg examine the event organisers' files.
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Unite in BA legal move on perks

Monday 26th of July 2010, 15:46
related countries: United Kingdom

The union representing British Airways cabin crew plans to take it to court to regain staff's lost travel concessions.
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US new home sales still sluggish

Monday 26th of July 2010, 15:53
related countries: United States
related places: June

New US home sales rose sharply in June compared with the previous month, but the pace of sales remains slow, figures show.
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Pirates sentenced in Seychelles

Monday 26th of July 2010, 16:05
related countries: Indian Ocean, Somalia, India, Seychelles

Eleven Somali men are sentenced to 10 years in jail in the Seychelles for piracy on the Indian ocean, in the country's first case of its kind.
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Sarkozy: Hostage killed in cold blood

Monday 26th of July 2010, 16:16
related countries: France

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has confirmed the death of a French hostage killed by suspected al-Qaeda militants in north-west Africa.
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Castro silent on Revolution Day

Monday 26th of July 2010, 16:19
related countries: Cuba

Cuban President Raul Castro attends Revolution Day events but does not speak, while despite speculation, Fidel does not appear.
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Brazil tribes occupy power plant

Monday 26th of July 2010, 16:26
related countries: Botswana

Brazilian indigenous protesters occupy a hydro-electric plant they say is being built on an ancient burial ground.
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Court action over Congo minerals

Monday 26th of July 2010, 17:14
related countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, United Kingdom

Legal action has been launched against the UK government for allegedly failing to refer companies trading in Congo "conflict minerals" for UN sanctions.
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BP chief to step down in October

Monday 26th of July 2010, 17:31
related countries: Mexico

BP boss Tony Hayward is to leave the firm on 1 October after sustained criticism of his handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil leak - but is understood to be set for a non-executive role
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Face transplant man seen on TV

Monday 26th of July 2010, 17:31
related countries: Spain

A Spanish man who underwent the world's first full face transplant has revealed his new look before TV cameras.
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Radical police shake-up outlined

Monday 26th of July 2010, 17:51
related countries: United Kingdom

Elected police commissioners and a new National Crime Agency are among the plans unveiled by Home Secretary Theresa May.
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Twin car bomb in Iraq kills 20

Monday 26th of July 2010, 18:00
related countries: Iraq
related places: Karbala'

The southern Iraqi city of Karbala is hit by a double car bombing leaving at least 20 dead and dozens injured, officials say.
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US hits out at Afghan war leaks

Monday 26th of July 2010, 18:44
related countries: Afghanistan, United States
related places: White House

Washington condemns as "irresponsible" the release by Wikileaks website of 90,000 secret US military records about the conflict in Afghanistan.
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Ferrari boss slams F1 'hypocrisy'

Monday 26th of July 2010, 19:06
related countries: Germany

Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo slams the 'hypocrisy' of those who have criticised Fernando Alonso's victory in Sunday's German Grand Prix.
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Police question L'Oreal heiress

Monday 26th of July 2010, 20:25
related countries: France

Police have questioned France's richest woman, L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, over claims of illegal political donations and tax evasion.
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'Bodies found' in Romania crash

Monday 26th of July 2010, 21:19
related countries: Israel, Romania

At least four bodies have been found after an Israeli helicopter with six Israeli soldiers and one Romanian on board crashed in Romania, reports say.
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White House condemns leak

Monday 26th of July 2010, 21:21
related countries: United States
related places: White House

Information concealed within the 90,000 secret US military records released by the Wikileaks website has the potential "to do harm", says White House spokesperson Robert Gibbs.
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Brazil tribes let workers leave

Monday 26th of July 2010, 21:27
related countries: Botswana

Indigenous people protesting against a hydro-electric plant in the Brazilian Amazon allow most workers to leave the site.
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EU hits Iran with new sanctions

Monday 26th of July 2010, 21:36
related countries: Iran

EU foreign ministers impose new sanctions on Iran's energy sector, to block its controversial nuclear programme.
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BP well responsibilities 'must come first'

Monday 26th of July 2010, 21:50
related countries: Mexico

BP must fulfil its obligations and responsibilities to plug and clean up the well in the Gulf of Mexico regardless of who leads the company, the White House spokesperson Robert Gibbs has said.
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Deadly liquor kills 17 in Kenya

Monday 26th of July 2010, 23:13
related countries: Kenya
related places: Nairobi

A batch of home-distilled spirits leaves many dead and at least a dozen blind in a slum area of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
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UK 'misled' on broadband speeds

Monday 26th of July 2010, 23:44
related countries: United Kingdom

The majority of people using broadband are not getting the speed they are paying for, research by the regulator Ofcom suggests.
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