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AFP - North Korea has fired two short-range missiles into international waters in the Yellow Sea as part of a routine military drill, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said early Wednesday, quoting a defence source.
Gordon Brown, UK prime minister, on Tuesday night ordered a massive taxpayer-backed cash injection to rebuild the balance sheets of Britain's high street banks, effectively part-nationalising the sector at a cost of tens of billions of pounds
AFP - China will continue to take part in multilateral talks on the Iranian and North Korean nuclear crises despite the country's objections to US plans to sell arms to Taiwan, a US state department official said on Tuesday.
TORONTO, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Enbridge Inc (ENB.TO: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) Chief Executive Pat Daniel said on Tuesday that a campaign pledge by Canada&os;s governing Conservatives to halt exports of tar-like bitumen to countries whose ...
Reuters - Evidence is mounting day by day that mankind is to blame for climate change, and the financial crisis is a temporary setback in the hunt for solutions, the head of the U.N. Climate Panel said on Tuesday.
AFP - The Afghan government held talks with the Taliban in Saudi Arabia last month, a leading Saudi paper reported, despite denials from both Kabul and the Taliban that such talks had taken place.
Volkswagen has overtaken Toyota as the world's largest carmaker by market capitalisation after an extraordinary scramble by hedge funds to cover positions betting on a share price fall in the German company
AP - China's foreign ministry suggested Tuesday that it hopes Chinese human rights activists will not win this year's Nobel Peace Prize, saying the award should go to the "right people."
AP - Israel's prime minister said Tuesday he received assurances that Russia would not allow Israel's security to be threatened, but offered no indication he won the concrete promises he sought on Russian arms sales or sanctions on Iran.
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