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Surrender by midnight or pay the penalty, China tells rioters in Tibet (World, 46 articles)
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Twenty people were arrested in the ensuing violence, the London-based Free Tibet Campaign said, and a local official said seven people were injured, as authorities scrambled to quell the worst protests against Chinese dominion over Tibet in two decades. The Chinese official news agency Xinhua says 10 people died in Friday's clashes, including business people it said were "burnt to death". The demonstrations come after protests in the Tibetan capital Lhasa escalated into violence Friday, with Buddhist monks and others torching police cars and shops in the fiercest challenge to Beijing's rule over the region in nearly two decades. Chinese security forces were reportedly surrounding three monasteries outside Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, on Thursday after hundreds of monks took to the streets this week in what are believed to be the largest Tibetan protests against Chinese rule in two decades. A radio report said two people were killed in the largest demonstrations in nearly two decades against Beijing's 57-year rule over Tibet. A group of Tibetan exiles in northern India who began a six-month march this week to protest China's control of their homeland were arrested early Thursday.
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Ahmadinejad's support solid in Iran's parliamentary voting - (World, 17 articles)
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Interior Minister Mostafa Pour Mohammadi said 71 percent of the 290 seats in parliament will go to conservative factions and 29 percent to "other" groups. Conservatives won the largest share of seats in Iran's parliamentary elections, state television said on Sunday, as partial results were announced. The conservative victory is not based simply on the fact that its candidates prevailed, but also on securing a 60% turnout in elections from which all the most prominent reformist candidates were disqualified from running.
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The Seattle Times: Bomb kills 1, hurts 11 at Pakistan restaurant (World, 7 articles)
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The restaurant, Luna Caprese, in a popular shopping area and one of the few places in the capital that serves alcohol, was packed with foreigners when the bomb exploded shortly after 8:30 p.m. at the peak of the dining hour. The blast indicated that insurgents in Pakistan may be changing their strategy, attacking Westerners instead of strictly targeting Pakistani law enforcement and army soldiers. The bold attack, during the dinner hour at Luna Caprese in one of the nicest areas of town, happened when a bomb was either placed in an alley next to a wall outside the garden restaurant or tossed inside.
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40,000 in Karachi Protest Cartoons of Muhammad (World, 8 articles)
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KARACHI, Pakistan, Feb.16 Tens of thousands of people marched through this southern Pakistani city Thursday, shouting " God is great. Burning effigies of the Danish prime minister in the country's fourth day of protests over newspaper cartoons of the prophet Muhammad, police said. KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 8 Like tens of thousands of protesters this week, the crowd that gathered Wednesday in the southern Afghan town of Qalat came to speak out against cartoons in European newspapers mocking the prophet Muhammad.
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Gaza Rockets Barrage Southern Israel (World, 7 articles)
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The new violence highlighted the fragility of efforts to move Israel and Gaza's Islamic Hamas rulers toward an informal truce. The Islamic Jihad commander Mohammed Shehadeh was buried Thursday in the West Bank town of Bethlehem along with three other gunmen killed in the raid late Wednesday. Cheney left Sunday on a 10-day trip that includes visits to Oman, Saudi Arabia, Israel, the Palestinian territories and Turkey.
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The romance is over as French swing away from Nicolas Sarkozy (World, 7 articles)
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François Fillon, France's prime minister, on Sunday night promised to accelerate planned economic reforms despite a heavy defeat for the governing centre-right party in local elections. The opposition socialists won a string of cities from the UMP party, including the key battleground of Toulouse, which fell to the left for the first time in 30 years. The results suggest Nicolas Sarkozy's first electoral test as president will be recorded as a strong protest vote against his leadership, in spite of the largely local nature of the contest.
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Chad rebels dismiss peace accord (World, 5 articles)
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DOGDORE, Chad The sun beat down on 18-month-old Izzedine Adam, who sat naked and crying on the floor of his roofless straw hut. The Adam family fled to Dogdore, in eastern Chad, in October when Arab fighters burned their village to the ground, raided their food stocks and stole their animals. The workers from the group Zoe's Ark were taken in a prison van to the international airport in Chad's capital, N'Djamena, where they boarded an airplane in handcuffs as security officers looked on, according to news service accounts.
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Albanian Army depot explosion kills at least 5, injures 243 (World, 6 articles)
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TIRANA, Albania - A massive explosion at an Albanian army ammunition dump near Tirana Saturday killed at least five people and injured 215, including many children, authorities said. The initial blast at the depot at Gerdec village, about six miles north of the capital, Tirana, set off a series of explosions, and ammunition continued to detonate into the night. The blast was heard as far away as the Macedonian capital of Skopje, a distance of 120 miles, and prompted a brief suspension of flights at Tirana's nearby international airport, which was slightly damaged.
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Al-Qaida operative sent to Guantánamo (World, 5 articles)
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GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba - A high-level al-Qaida operative who helped Osama bin Laden escape from Afghanistan in 2001 during the U.S. military operation has been captured and sent to Guantanamo Bay, the Pentagon and CIA said Friday. Muhammad Rahim al-Afghani was captured in July in Lahore, Pakistan, by Pakistani authorities, who handed him over to the CIA, according to sources familiar with Rahim's detention. In a memo issued Friday to CIA employees, Director Michael Hayden said Rahim's detention last summer " was a blow to more than one terrorist network.
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Abducted archbishop's body is found in Mosul (World, 4 articles)
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Leading the procession down the streets of a village outside Mosul was a church official who held a wooden cross with Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho's picture. Since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, Iraqi Christians have been targeted by Islamic extremists who label them "crusaders" loyal to U.S. troops. Militants have attacked churches, priests and businesses owned by Christians, many of whom have fled the country in a trend mirrored across the Islamic world.
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Doomsday Vault (World, 4 articles)
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Fowler was online Tuesday, Feb. 26, at Noon ET from Norway to answer questions about the " doomsday vault. Biblical references repeatedly cropped up as guests at the opening ceremony carried the first seed deposits into the vault in the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. " This is a frozen Garden of Eden European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said, standing in one of the frosty vaults against a backdrop of large discs made of ice.
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Fighter Jet Crashes in Arizona, Killing Student Pilot (World, 4 articles)
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The pilot of an F-16C fighter jet that crashed in a rugged area of western Arizona was killed when his plane went down, Air Force officials confirmed on Saturday. The student pilot was practicing air-to-air combat with another F-16 from Luke Air Force Base at about noon on Friday when his plane crashed, said a spokeswoman for the base , Mary Jo May. Aircraft from the Air Force, Marines, Civil Air Patrol and Arizona Department of Public Safety spent hours trying to find the wreckage, which was spotted late Friday in a remote area about 80 miles northwest of Phoenix.
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Russia's turn to move on missile shield: Pentagon (World, 4 articles)
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The Russian monopoly, OAO Gazprom, is demanding Ukraine sign documents resolving a $600 million debt dispute and enabling further gas deliveries. A spokesman for Naftogaz, Ukraine's natural gas company, said earlier Tuesday that the company could begin diverting transit gas if a second cut were imposed. After Kupriyanov's announcement, another spokesman said such a move was not in the immediate offing because of warm weather and substantial reserves.
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Zimbabwe poll: Head to head (World, 4 articles)
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The key issues will be the economic crisis, land reform and the entry of former Finance Minister Simba Makoni to the political race. Academic and ruling Zanu-PF supporter George Shire and Wilf Mbanga, critic of President Robert Mugabe and publisher of the Zimbabwean newspaper, discussed how they thought the elections would go. In the darkened provincial hall, the audience of 40-50 Zimbabweans could hardly see the man on the stage who was claiming to have come to liberate them from President Robert Mugabe's autocratic rule.
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