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Israeli strikes, Hamas rockets resume after pause (AP)
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AP - Israeli airstrikes and Hamas rockets resumed after a brief pause Wednesday to allow food and fuel to reach Palestinian civilians in Gaza, where an Israeli warplane dropped leaflets urging some residents to flee because of imminent a...
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Death toll from Guatemalan landslide rises to 37 (AP)
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AP - The death toll from a landslide in northern Guatemala has risen to 37 after villagers discovered two more bodies.
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Mugabe appoints acting ministers: Herald (AFP)
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AFP - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has appointed eight acting ministers days after firing a number of ministers from his ZANU-PF party who lost in the March 2008 elections, state media said on Wednesday.
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Rocket fire defines life in southern Israeli town (AP)
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AP - Few residents of the Israeli town of Sderot are on the streets these days.
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Hostages freed from pirates off Somalia, Nigeria (AP)
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AP - Pirates freed 20 hostages aboard a Turkish freighter commandeered off the Somali coast, as nine captives on a French boat were released off southern Nigeria, the boat owners said Wednesday.
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Hearts legend Conn dies (AFP)
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AFP - Hearts legend Alfie Conn Senior died on Wednesday aged 82.
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EU faces deepening energy crunch over Russian gas (Reuters)
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Reuters - Russian gas supplies to Austria, Slovakia and the Czech Republic were halted on Wednesday, adding to the list of EU states left without Russian fuel in freezing mid-winter temperatures.
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Tsonga recovers from slow start at Brisbane tennis (AFP)
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AFP - Jo-Wilfried Tsonga recovered from a disastrous start to overcome Finland's Jarkko Nieminen and lead a posse of Frenchmen into the quarter-finals of the Brisbane International here Wednesday.
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AP Gaza reporter finds hometown in rubble (AP)
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AP - I live alone in my office. My wife and two young children moved in with her father after our apartment was shattered. The neighborhood mosque, where I have prayed since I was a child, had its roof blown off. All the government build...
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Media watchdog slams Zimbabwe fees for journalists (AFP)
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AFP - Hefty new fees for foreign media in Zimbabwe appear designed to prevent journalists from working in the country and may be illegal, a regional watchdog said on Wednesday.
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US General: Anbar lacks support of Iraq government (AP)
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AP - The top American commander in the former insurgent stronghold of Anbar said Wednesday the Shiite-led government should have poured reconstruction money into the Sunni region after Sunni fighters joined forces with U.S. troops to cha...
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NKorea sets March date for parliamentary elections (AP)
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AP - North Korea announced Wednesday it will hold long overdue elections in March amid indications the impoverished regime plans to fill parliament with finance-savvy legislators and has named new Cabinet ministers with economic know-how.
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Humid weather brings out Australia's deadly funnel web (AFP)
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AFP - One of the world's most venomous spiders, Australia's funnel-web, is enjoying the summer so much it appears to have brought forward its annual mating ritual, according to an expert.
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Russian gas deliveries to Europe halted as bitter weather bites (AFP)
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AFP - All deliveries of Russian gas through Ukraine were halted on Wednesday, officials from both sides said, amid growing prospects European consumers could suffer from the crisis amid freezing weather.
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China fears recession riots as Europe joblessness grows (AFP)
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AFP - A stark warning by state media Wednesday of possible mass unrest in China signalled deepening fears over the global recession, as Europe grappled with more job losses and an energy cutoff during a winter freeze.
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