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An abandoned humpback whale calf that has been trying to suckle from boats in the waters off north Sydney has rebuffed fresh attempts by wildlife workers to return it to the open ocean.
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Hua Guofeng, who briefly ruled China as Mao Zedong's handpicked successor before being toppled by reformists, died Wednesday. He was 87.
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Sudan's indicted president denied Wednesday that his regime is orchestrating genocide in the troubled western region of Darfur - and offered hope for an end to the violence and the dawn of reconciliation by promising free and fair elections next year.
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The agreement prompts an infuriated Russia to warn of a possible attack against the former Soviet satellite. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Polish counterpart signed a deal today to build a U.S. missile defense base in Poland, an agreement that prompted an infuriated Russia to warn of a possible attack against the former Soviet satellite.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited a military chapel in Kabul on Wednesday where the bodies of 10 French soldiers killed in battle lay before they were to be flown home.
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Myanmar's main opposition party says it has been told that U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit in December to hold talks on the country's political problems.
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Having upped contributions to NATO's forces, Sarkozy has public support. But does NATO have a winning strategy?
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A convoy of badly needed food aid for beleaguered Georgians rumbled through a Russian checkpoint today, waved through by soldiers who themselves showed no signs of fulfilling their president's promise of a pullback within two days.
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British glam rocker Gary Glitter, who served nearly three years in a Vietnamese prison for molesting children, refused to board airplanes out of Thailand on Wednesday after being denied entry into the country, a senior immigration official said.
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Beijing - Yin Jian of China won the women's RS:X windsurfing event in Qingdao Wednesday to give China its first ever Olympic sailing gold and take its tally to 44 gold medals overall. In the first event on day 12 Russian teenager Larisa Ilchenko used...
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An airliner bound for the Canary Islands swerved off the runway while departing from Madrid airport Wednesday, Spain's national airport authority said.
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Beijing - Chinese security personnel detained five US pro-Tibet activists after they unfurled a banner in Beijing's Olympic Park, and another six activists who planned similar protests were arrested or missing, a rights' group said Wednesday. The ban...
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An airliner bound for the Canary Islands swerved off the runway while departing from Madrid airport today, Spain's national airport authority said.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's main opposition MDC said on Wednesday plans by President Robert Mugabe's government to convene parliament would endanger power-sharing talks between the country's political rivals.
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Kabul - One coalition soldier and more than 20 Taliban militants, including foreign fighters, were killed in Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday. A soldier of the US-led coalition was killed by small arms' fire during a combat patrol on Wednesday a...
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London: It was Katie and Darren's wedding day and they were in the clouds — strapped to the top of biplanes reciting vows 1,000 feet above the earth.Katie Hodgson, 23, took to the skies on Tuesday in a full bridal gown on the top wing of red-and-white plane operated by Team Guinot, a group of stunt pilots.
hrishikesh | 07/15/2008
Dairy in Japan industry profile is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the Ice Dairy industry. It includes data on market size and segmentation, plus textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, demographic information, and descriptions of the leading companies. Scope This report covers the following: Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume...
