Published: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:27:32 -0400
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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Authorities declared an overnight curfew for Saturday after a major earthquake hit New Zealand's second biggest city, Christchurch, bringing down power lines and bridges and wrecking roads and building facades.
Published: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:03:51 -0400
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QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber struck a rally in the Pakistani city of Quetta on Friday, killing at least 54 people in the second major attack this week and piling pressure on a U.S.-backed government overwhelmed by a flood crisis.
Published: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:47:25 -0400
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday urged Israel and the Palestinians to overcome the final obstacles to peace, saying their new talks may be a last chance to end the conflict.
Published: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:05:17 -0400
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pro-Taliban Pakistani militants are trying to fuel a sectarian rift, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Saturday, as a new wave of violence piled pressure on a government already struggling with a flood crisis.
Published: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:15:35 -0400
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's foreign minister has resigned over accusations of nepotism involving his daughter, sources at the president's office and ministry said on Saturday, the latest senior official to step down because of scandal.
Published: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:32:38 -0400
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Wildfires swept through dozens of villages in southern Russia, killing at least eight people and reducing more than 400 homes to smoldering ruins, officials said Friday.
Published: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:11:11 -0400
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OAXACA, Mexico (Reuters) - Two members of Mexico's Congress were among six people killed on Friday when their private plane crashed near a popular Mexican Pacific beach resort, officials said.
Published: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:58:07 -0400
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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Nine people have died after a light aircraft used for skydiving crashed in New Zealand's South Island, police said on Saturday.
Published: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:00:16 -0400
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MEHMOOD KOT, Pakistan (Reuters) - Crime and the sale of donated aid supplies are undermining the aid effort for Pakistan's flood victims.
Published: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:55:07 -0400
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MAKHACHKALA, Russia (Reuters) - A senior official in the province of Dagestan in Russia's Caucasus was wounded on Saturday and his driver killed by a bomb planted in their car, a police spokesman told Reuters.
