Fire destroys 25 homes near Yosemite National Park |
| | | Smoke had turned the sun a deep glowing red by the time Dutch tourist Trees Duipmans and her three teenage children reached a campground outside Yosemite National Park on Sunday. By Monday, they decided it was time to go. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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Software maker SAP 2Q net profit falls 9 percent |
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6.1 quake shakes eastern Solomon Islands |
| | | A sharp, magnitude 6.1 earthquake shook the eastern Solomon Islands on Tuesday morning, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injury, emergency officials said. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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US beef shipment arrives in SKorea |
| | | The first shipment of U.S. beef under a controversial import deal arrived in South Korea on Tuesday, officials said, amid lingering public concerns over mad cow disease. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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China 'Broke Olympic Promises' |
| | | China has failed to improve human rights ahead of the Beijing Olympics and is at risk of "permanently sullying" the legacy of the Games, a charity has warned. | | From Sky News | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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Nippon Steel fire |
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UN council split over Darfur approach |
| | | The United States said Monday it would be "premature" for the United Nations Security Council to suspend efforts to prosecute Sudan's president on allegations of war crimes in the Darfur region. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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Mexico dig fails to find 1970s victims |
| | | Prosecutors say excavations at a former military base in southern Mexico have concluded without finding any trace of leftist activists who disappeared in the 1970s. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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Shiite pilgrimage reaches climax in Baghdad |
| | | Hundreds of thousands of Shiite pilgrims are gathering around a golden-domed shrine in Baghdad, a day after three female suicide bombers struck their procession and killed 32 people. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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India, Pakistan trade fire in Kashmir for 12 hours |
| | | Indian and Pakistani soldiers traded fire across the Kashmir border for more than 12 hours overnight and into Tuesday in what the Indian army called the worst violation yet of the nuclear-armed neighbors' cease-fire agreement. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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Al-Qaida man reported killed in strike |
| | | Pakistan investigated reports Tuesday that a senior al-Qaida figure was among six people killed in a suspected U.S. missile strike amid anger that the attack had violated the Islamic nation's sovereignty. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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Australia scraps tough asylum seeker law |
| | | Australia will scrap most of the country's tough rules on locking up asylum seekers, but retain the practice for potential refugees who may be a security threat, the government announced Tuesday. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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Military offensive under way in Iraq's Diyala |
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Roadside bomb wounds Fatah commander in Lebanon |
| | | A roadside bomb critically wounded a military commander of the Fatah movement Tuesday, setting off gunbattles at a Palestinian refugee camp that has been torn by factional fighting, Lebanese and Palestinian security officials said. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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Zimbabwe talks deadlocked over leaders' positions |
| | | Officials say the deadlock in power-sharing talks to resolve Zimbabwe's political crisis is over what positions President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will hold in a new government. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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Turkish planes attack rebels in Iraq |
| | | The Turkish military says its warplanes attacked Kurdish rebels in Iraq's north. The attacks came two days after bombings in Istanbul killed 17 people. The government blamed Kurdish rebels. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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Afghan government detains critical talk show host |
| | | Afghan intelligence agents detained a TV talk show host critical of the government, the president's spokesman confirmed Tuesday, accusing private media of coming under the influence of foreign countries. | | From Boston Globe | Add a commentary | Report abuse | | [+] All articles |
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Target Practice Sparks Yosemite Wildfire |
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World trade talks 'failed again' |
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Russia's Isinbayeva breaks own pole vault record |
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