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G8 to boost funds for farming: report - 07/06/2009

LONDON - G8 leaders will this week commit more than 12 billion dollars (8.6 billion euros) over three years for agricultural development in the developing world, the Financial Times said Monday....

Hard work in a DR Congo hospital near the front lines - 07/05/2009

RUTSHURU, Emmanuel Peuchot - With her bright yellow nightdress, it is impossible to miss Dafrose, 50, lying on a bed at the far end of a ward in the Rutshuru hospital in the east of the Democratic...

Forty years ago man first walked on the moon - 07/05/2009

WASHINGTON, Jean-Louis Santini - Forty years ago on July 20, 1969, American astronaut Neil Armstrong realized the oldest dream of human civilizations when he became the first man to walk on the...

Incoming MI6 chief in Facebook security slip - 07/05/2009

LONDON - Photographs and personal details about the next head of Britain's MI6 foreign intelligence service, John Sawers, were removed Sunday from social networking website Facebook after a British...

Violence erupts in China's restive Xinjiang: state media - 07/05/2009

BEIJING, Marianne Barriaux - Three people were killed and more than 20 injured when violence broke out Sunday in the capital of China's mainly Muslim northwest region of Xinjiang, the official Xinhua...

Jackson fans scramble for tickets as probe deepens - 07/05/2009

LOS ANGELES - A total of 1.6 million people scrambled for tickets to Michael Jackson's memorial service, officials said Sunday as the probe into the singer's death zeroed in on the role of drugs....

Lebanon's struggling fishermen angling for a catch - 07/05/2009

TYRE, Jocelyne Zablit- Mustapha Shaalan yearns for the days when he would go out to sea and haul in 40 kilograms (88 pounds) of fish in the blink of an eye. Nowadays, like most fishermen in this...

UN chief chides Myanmar over Suu Kyi visit - 07/05/2009

BANGKOK, Rachel O'Brien - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon delivered a stern rebuke to Myanmar's junta Saturday after the country's military ruler refused to let him meet detained pro-democracy...

Iraq tells US not to interfere in 'internal' matters - 07/05/2009

BAGHDAD, Arthur MacMillan - Iraq on Saturday told the United States to back off in its attempts to resolve rows between the strife-torn country's sects, saying such interference could cause problems...

Vegetarian diet weakens bones: Australian research - 07/03/2009

SYDNEY - People who live on vegetarian diets have slightly weaker bones than their meat-eating counterparts, Australian researchers said Thursday. A joint Australian-Vietnamese study of links...
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