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Factbox: British government plans to reform political system

FIXED PARLIAMENTARY TERMS Under the current system, the prime minister can choose when to call a legislative election. Critics have long argued that …
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Cows moo-ve over: Camel milk coming to Europe

An animal famous for bad breath and ill humour might seem an unlikely source of liquid to lubricate a bowl of breakfast cereal or froth up a latte, …
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Study: U.S. voters favor incumbents when team wins

The success of major college teams in the two weeks before an election can have a measurable impact on how well incumbent politicians do at the …
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Abu Zeid, prominent Egyptian scholar, dies

Officials at the Cairo hospital where Abu Zeid had been receiving treatment for the past two weeks said he died Monday from a brain infection. A close …
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British hunt for alleged killer intensifies

Raoul Thomas Moat, 37, was released from prison last week after serving a sentence for assault. His former girlfriend, Samantha Stobbart, 22, was shot …
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Mercedes-Benz sales up 13 percent on year in June

Daimler said Monday that Mercedes-Benz sold 113,300 cars worldwide last month — which the company said made it the best June performance in its …
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Chess icon Fischer’s body exhumed over paternity

Police district commissioner Olafur Helgi Kjartansson said Fischer’s corpse was dug up from a cemetery near Selfoss in southern Iceland early Monday …
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South Africa government workers threaten strike within 2 weeks

But the unions representing workers including nurses, police officers, teachers, immigration staff and other government officials said on Monday …
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Congo president to visit explosion site; 235 dead

Marcellin Cishambo, a Congolese governor, says President Joseph Kabila already has visited some patients in the eastern province of South Kivu. Kabila …
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Update: Komorowski win strengthens Polish government

Bronislaw Komorowski was declared the winner Monday, meaning his governing pro-business Civic Platform party now has a year of control of both …
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Japan’s speed-eating king arrested at New York contest

The rake-thin 32-year-old, who was not a competitor in this year’s event, scuffled with police moments after Joey "Jaws" Chestnut won the …
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Bangladesh detains 200 after Jamaat protest violence

The activists attacked vehicles, public offices and a police station in Chittagong on Sunday when the Jamaat-e-Islami party called for nationwide …
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Israel says no plan to apologise to Turkey

Turkey’s Hurriyet newspaper earlier quoted Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu as saying that Israel has three paths. "It either apologises, or …
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Turkey says to cut ties with Israel if no apology

"Israel has three paths ahead: It either apologises, or accepts the findings from an international commission investigating the raid, or Turkey will …
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Komorowski wins Polish election, reforms in focus

Komorowski won 52.6 percent of the vote in Sunday’s poll, according to results based on 95 percent of the ballots, after a cliffhanger vote that saw …
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China’s new migrant workers pushing the line

Many retaliated, not with violence, but by snapping images of the stony-faced officers on pocket cameras and mobile phones to post on the Internet. …
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New York airport terminal evacuated after anonymous call

The female caller warned of a bomb set to explode in the terminal, and at the same time airport personnel noted a suspicious bag or package in that …
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China’s far-west city held in check on bloody anniversary

On July 5 last year, mobs of Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking people who have called Xinjiang their homeland, attacked hundreds of Han Chinese after a …
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