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On Thursday in India, Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain defended remarks he had made the day before about the need for Pakistan to not give haven to terrorist groups.
The former Soviet republic’s 28-year-old minister for economic development insists that a photograph posted online does not show her dancing at a strip club in Canada five months ago.
The leaked U.S. military documents have prompted Berlin and London to demand expanded inquiries and could increase pressure to withdraw troops from the conflict in Afghanistan.
Greek police used tear gas to disperse protesting fuel-truck drivers, after the government issued an emergency order to force them back to work.
The government plans to sell only minority stakes in the companies, retaining control while letting investors share a larger part of the risks and profits.
Police began questioning French Labor Minister Eric Woerth on Thursday as a witness in an investigation into a political donations scandal that has rocked the government.
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi won a final vote on a $33 billion austerity package on Wednesday, clearing the way for a likely showdown with the co-founder of his conservative movement.
A bomb exploded Wednesday at an Orthodox church in southern Ukraine, killing one person and wounding eight, officials said.
Samuel Kunz is accused of aiding in the murders of 430,000 Jews at the Belzec death camp during World War II, and with shooting 10 people himself during his time there.
Senator John Kerry put the New Start arms control treaty with Russia on his panel’s schedule for next week but then backed off and said he might not call a vote after all.
Bullfighting suffered its most significant setback to date on Wednesday when lawmakers in Catalonia voted to ban fights in their region.
Mr. Albrecht, with his brother Karl, used lessons learned in the lean years of postwar Germany to build an international grocery empire, died Saturday in Essen, Germany.
Banks had trouble raising money to lend in the aftermath of the sovereign debt crisis, the European Central Bank said.
For the second time in as many days, British Prime Minister David Cameron has uttered blunt criticism of a country formed when Britain withdrew from empire six decades ago.
The European Union is about to give its 500 million citizens more say in proposed legislation through petitions. Some see trouble brewing.
An insider account of the culture of corruption in the nation’s police forces has been viewed more than two million times.
The car maker is asking workers to be more devoted to their jobs, mirroring a larger effort by the government.
A former Nazi death camp guard has been charged with participating in the murder of 430,000 Jews and other crimes, German prosecutors said.
A confiscated laptop, memory sticks and a digital camera belonging to a suspected Russian spy will be turned over to United States authorities.
Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday con- demned the partial Israeli blockade of Gaza, describ- ing Gaza as “a prison camp.”
Human rights advocates say the case is a test of the government’s willingness to root out a culture of police abuse.
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SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp set out its ambitions to dominate the consumer electronics market on Thursday with Windows-powered tablet computers and smartphones designed to beat back advances by Apple Inc and Google Inc.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc’s Web search and mobile services in China were blocked on Thursday, according to a message on the company’s website.
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A record heat wave in the country is felt in such ways as smoky peat fires around Moscow and dying trout at a fish farm.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – McAfee Inc, the No. 2 security software maker, reported better-than-expected profit on Thursday, lifted by growth in its consumer business.
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A nursing assistant was charged with what prosecutors called modern France’s worst case of infanticide.
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At a news conference last week in Montreal, members of the Committee for the Reimbursement of the Indemnity Money Extorted from Haiti said that they have not yet begun to prank.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Online travel agency Expedia Inc on Thursday reported a higher-than-expected profit as travel bookings rose, boosting its shares 2 percent.
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The Educational Testing Service had halted registrations two weeks ago after its bank refused to continue processing payments from Iran in light of recent sanctions.
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BANGALORE (Reuters) – Quest Software Inc posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit, helped by a 25 percent jump in license revenue, sending its shares up 6 percent in extended trade.
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In Afghanistan’s Helmand Province there is another place that goes by the name “Green Zone,” but for very different reasons than in Iraq.
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The Pakistani newspaper Dawn criticized the government for what it described as a chaotic emergency response to a plane crash outside the capital, Islamabad, that killed 152 people on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Justice Department said on Thursday it sued Oracle Corp, alleging it defrauded the federal government on a software contract in effect from 1998 to 2006 that involved hundreds of millions of dollars in sales.
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Officials said that they were examining the hull of an oil tanker that was damaged as it traversed a waterway between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula.
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For China’s investigative journalists, who grapple with censors, the case of a Shanghai reporter appears to offer a positive turn.
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The French president on Wednesday ordered the expulsion of Roma who had committed offenses and said that illegal camps would be taken down.
