Profile: First EU President Herman van Rompuy - BBC News
Telegraph.co.uk
![]() Profile: First EU President Herman van Rompuy
BBC News
The eu's first permanent president, Belgian Prime Minister Herman van Rompuy, is a camera-shy man who has been catapulted from relative obscurity. After his selection at a Brussel...
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UNICEF chief calls for end of "unspeakable violations" against children - Xinhua
Reuters South Africa
![]() UNICEF chief calls for end of "unspeakable violations" against children
Xinhua
UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- The "unspeakable violations" that happen almost everyday to children all across the globe need to be a thing of th...
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UN Official Seeks Global Action on Iran - Wall Street Journal
CBC.ca
![]() UN Official Seeks Global Action on Iran
Wall Street Journal
BERLIN -- Mohamed elbaradei, the departing chief of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency, said Iran's continued refusal to accept tighter scrutiny of its nuclear activities wou...
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Bomb blast injures one in NW Pakistan's Peshawar - Xinhua
Reuters
![]() Bomb blast injures one in NW Pakistan's Peshawar
Xinhua
ISLAMABAD, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- At least one person was injured in a bomb blast outside a non-government organization office in northwest Pakistan's Peshawar on Saturday morning, accordin...
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US, China May Set Emissions Reduction Goals - Voice of America
Boston Globe
![]() US, China May Set Emissions Reduction Goals
Voice of America
During talks in Beijing, US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao endorsed a package of energy projects, including deals on clean coal and electric vehicles. E...
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Flood waters force 500 from homes - BBC News
Times Online
![]() Flood waters force 500 from homes
BBC News
More than 500 people across Cumbria are spending the night in emergency shelters or with relatives and friends after "unprecedented" floods. Cockermouth and Keswick were worst affected, but comm...
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Obama's warning to Israel: Your emails - BBC News
BBC News
![]() Obama's warning to Israel: Your emails
BBC News
BBC readers respond to the US president's warning to Israel that expanding the settlement of Gilo in East Jerusalem would embitter the Palestinians and make peace harder to achieve. As a reside...
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'Russian ties are key' president hopeful Viktor Yanukovych says - Times Online
Novinite.com
![]() 'Russian ties are key' president hopeful Viktor Yanukovych says
Times Online
The man leading the race to become Ukraine's next president has declared his determination to bury its pro-Western Orange Revolution and repair relations with R...
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Afghan MP Escapes Assassination Attempt in Kabul - Voice of America
Chippewa Herald
![]() Afghan MP Escapes Assassination Attempt in Kabul
Voice of America
Five bodyguards were killed. Earlier in the day, a suicide bomber killed at least 16 people in southwestern Afghanistan, while two roadside bombs killed 4 others in eas...
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Palestinian panel to sidestep vote - Washington Post
Aljazeera.net
![]() Palestinian panel to sidestep vote
Washington Post
JERUSALEM -- To keep the Palestinian Authority government working after its term expires in January, Palestinians are turning to an unelected group of political insiders instead of hold...
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