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Page last updated at 07:22 GMT, Friday, 9 October 2009 08:22 UK Rogge once played rugby for Belgium Jacques Rogge has been re-elected unopposed as president of the International Olympic Committee. Full Article at BBC News
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Kabul – Eight US soldiers and two Afghan troops were killed when suspected Taliban insurgents attacked their outpost in eastern Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan, officials said Sunday. Full Article at Global News Blog
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Beijing – North Korean leader Kim Jong Il welcomed Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao at the start of a three-day visit to Pyongyang on Sunday, Chinese state media reported. Full Article at Global News Blog
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Tehran – World powers including the United States have realized there was no secrecy over the country’s new uranium enrichment plant, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday. Full Article at Global News Blog
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Baghdad – Iraqi security forces arrested two members of the al-Qaeda in Iraq group thought to be behind several car bomb attacks in the cities of Baghdad and Kirkuk, the US military said in a statement on Friday. Full Article at Global News Blog
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Kunduz, Afghanistan – Taliban insurgents burned two fuel tanker trucks Friday in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz, nearly a month after a deadly airstrike on militant-hijacked petrol trucks in the same province. Full Article at Global News Blog
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Kabul – An Afghan cabinet minister survived a roadside attack in Afghanistan’s western Herat province Sunday, but police said four civilians were killed and 17 others injured. Full Article at Global News Blog
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Source: Earthtimes.org Posted : Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:11:16 GMT New York - The European Union and Organization of American States (OAS) on Wednesday said they would pull their ambassadors out of Honduras. Full Article at Democratic Underground
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At the funeral Saturday, August 29, for Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy, who died Tuesday, August 25 from brain cancer, several people stood up to give eulogies for the Massachusetts senator. Full Article at Associated Content
