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News International: my son's medical records were hacked, says Gordon Brown - Telegraph.co.uk
Jul 11, 2011 - Medical records disclosing that Gordon Brown's infant son had cystic fibrosis were illegally obtained by The Sun newspaper as part of a News International campaign against him and his family, friends of the former prime minister claims.
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Boat sinks on Russia's Volga, 1 dead - The Associated Press
Jul 10, 2011 - MOSCOW (AP) — A passenger boat with over 180 people onboard sank on the Volga River in central Russia Sunday, killing at least one person, injuring two and leaving 15 missing, officials said. Regional emergencies ministry spokesman Marat Rakhmatullin
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Israel deports dozens of activists - Telegraph.co.uk
Jul 10, 2011 - Israel on Sunday deported 36 pro-Palestinian activists who were taken into custody after flying into Israel for protests over the weekend, an official said. By Richard Spencer, Mark Weiss in Jerusalem Two other activists were deported overnight,
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Libya: A campaign built on sand - Telegraph.co.uk
Jul 10, 2011 - With Gaddafi as determined as ever to cling to power in Libya, tensions between Nato's member states are becoming increasingly exposed. By Con Coughlin Four months ago, when David Cameron led the international call for military intervention in Libya,
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Panetta Says Iranian Arms in Iraq Are a 'Concern' - New York Times
Jul 10, 2011 - BAGHDAD — Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said Sunday that weapons supplied by Iran had become a “tremendous concern” for the United States in recent weeks in Iraq, where more American troops died in June in combat-related
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Labour Party Vows to Fight Murdoch's Bid to Take Over Cable Company - New York Times
Jul 10, 2011 - Rupert Murdoch walked from a hotel to his apartment with his son James Murdoch, left, in central London. By JOHN F. BURNS LONDON — The $12 billion bid by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation to take over Britain's most lucrative satellite broadcast
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Israel to deport barred pro-Palestinian activists - The Associated Press
Jul 9, 2011 - JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel says all pro-Palestinian activists detained at the country's international airport will be sent home soon. Israel's interior ministry says it questioned over 400 activists who landed over the past two days in what activists
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Gunfire rattles Pakistan's Karachi as deaths mount - The Associated Press
Jul 9, 2011 - KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Gunshots rattled Pakistan's largest city Saturday as authorities scrambled to bring an end to political and ethnic violence that has claimed at least 93 lives in five days. The fighting in Karachi, a southern port city of 18
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At least 40 killed in Mexico in 24-hour period - The Associated Press
Jul 9, 2011 - MEXICO CITY (AP) — Fighting among the Zetas gang and other vicious drug cartels led to the deaths of more than 40 people whose bodies were found in three Mexican cities over a 24-hour span, a government official said Saturday.
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Israel hopes to expel activists within 72 hours - The Associated Press
Jul 9, 2011 - JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel hopes to expel within 72 hours the 118 foreign, pro-Palestinian activists who were jailed over the weekend after being denied entry, officials said Sunday. The timetable will depend on foreign airlines' ability to fly the
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US Is Deferring Millions in Pakistani Military Aid - New York Times
Jul 9, 2011 - WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is suspending and, in some cases, canceling hundreds of millions of dollars of aid to the Pakistani military, in a move to chasten Pakistan for expelling American military trainers
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Angelino Alfano: Silvio Berlusconi's anointed successor - Telegraph.co.uk
Jul 8, 2011 - Angelino Alfano, who Silvio Berlusconi has anointed as his likely political successor, is best known as the architect of a highly contentious law that protected the prime minister from criminal prosecution. By Nick Squires Mr Alfano, 40,
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Official: Congo plane crashes; more than 50 dead - The Associated Press
Jul 8, 2011 - KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A plane crashed in a thunderstorm as it was attempting to land in the Congo Friday, killing at least 48 people, and leaving a dozen or more buried in the wreckage. 53 passengers survived. "I confirm the crash of one of our planes
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Malaysia arrests 236 ahead of banned rally - The Associated Press
Jul 8, 2011 - KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian police say they have detained at least 236 people trying to assemble at a stadium for a banned rally seeking electoral reforms. The rally pllaned for Saturday is the culmination of weeks of pressure on Prime
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Gaza flotilla, more cat-and-mouse than crisis - The Associated Press
Jul 7, 2011 - ATHENS, Greece (AP) — On a hotel rooftop in Exarchia, a gritty neighborhood known to breed artists and anarchists, a hodgepodge of activists plotted how to breach Israel's sea blockade of the Gaza Strip. Soaked in Mediterranean sunshine,
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