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World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab says Davos 2009 must deal with the crisis in confidence as leaders consider their "ethical values
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Geir Haarde has resigned after the failure of talks to save his coalition government in the grip of the global financial crisis. The government has
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Iceland's Prime Minister prepares to step down after announcing the collapse of the county's coalition government. Geir Haarde said last Friday he
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Farmers demanding compensation for low agricultural prices blocked Greek roads for an eighth day on Monday (26 January, 2009).
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The Pope is under fire after lifting excommunications on four Bishops including one who denies the Holocaust. The Vatican has accepted the four
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A Congolese militia leader goes on trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague accused of training child soldiers to kill, pillage and
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One of Germany's best-known businessmen gets a two year suspended prison sentence for dodging almost 1 million euros in taxes. Klaus Zumwinkel, who
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A man was seriously injured in Germany after losing control of his car and ending up in the roof of a church. The car veered up the embankment like
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Off-duty police may be charged in downtown Vancouver attack
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Ottawa transit talks to continue Tuesday as strike goes on
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Congo warlord pleads not guilty in landmark child soldiers trial
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Throne speech expected to focus on budget. It's expected to include a stimulus package of billions in spending which will take Canada into a huge
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Two giant pandas from rival China are now on display in Taiwan. China presented the four-year-old pandas to mark warming ties between the mainland
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Getting the Afghan army prepared for battle against the Taliban is a daunting challenge for the U.S. As Elizabeth Palmer reports, progress is hard to
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Revellers in China and Hong Kong on Sunday celebrated the traditional Lunar New Year, welcoming 2009, the Chinese zodiac sign of the Ox.
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Authorities in south-western France and northern Spain have begun clearing up after hurricane force winds battered the region, killing 15 people.
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An avalanche slammed into a group of Turkish hikers on a trip to a remote mountain plateau on Sunday, dragging them more than 1,640 feet into a
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A small ferry overloaded with holiday shoppers sank in central Vietnam on Sunday, killing at least 40 people ahead of the traditional Lunar New Year.
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Calls to investigate Israel over alleged war crimes in Gaza prompts Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to promise state protection to his troops. The United
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Rosemary Barton reports: Budget could offer more than $2B for social housing, article says
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Three hikers were killed by an avalanche on one of Scotland's most recognizable peaks, Buchaille Etive Mhor.
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A British tabloid newspaper is reporting that Prince Harry and his longtime girlfriend have broken up.
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A suicide car-bomb attack near an African Union peacekeepers' base killed 14 people in the Somali capital on Saturday, the mayor of Mogadishu said.
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School children across Gaza have returned to school following a three-week war that has claimed the lives of nearly 1300 Palestinians, many of them
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President Obama has sent special peace envoys to the Middle East in order to address the ongoing series of tensions between Hamas and Israel. CBS
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About 500 children were selected to take a peek at the pandas given by Beijing to Taiwan on Saturday, two days before the panda house opens to the
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Part of a sports center collapsed in high winds in the northern Spanish city of Barcelona, killing four children and injuring 16 other people,
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Schools in the Gaza Strip operated by the United Nations have reopened for the first time since the Israeli offensive against Hamas militants.
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Doctors have begun heart bypass surgery on the Indian Prime Minister Manmogan Singh. The Indian Prime Minister was admitted to hospital in Delhi on
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Rwandan troops captured Congo's most powerful rebel leader, a longtime ally who the Congolese government says was at the heart of years of war in the
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A riot at a Mexican jail has left two prisoners dead and about three dozen wounded.
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Palestinian civilians are struggling to rebuild in Gaza, as Hamas confronts an international community that is willing to provide aid but reluctant
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A man goes on a rampage at a Belgium day care center, stabbing two young children and a female worker to death and sending 10 other children to the
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An attacker with a knife kills and injures people at a creche in Belgium, say police. At least two children and an adult were killed in the attack in
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Security forces say they have found a militant hideout belonging to Pakistan based Lashkar-e-Taiba in Indian Kashmir. India blames the Islamist
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Rwanda forces have arrested the Congolese Tutsi rebel leader Laurent Nkunda, whose recent military offensive in eastern Congo displaced a quarter of
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Rescuers in Australia worked around the clock on Friday to try and save a pod of stranded sperm whales, washed up on a sandbar off the Australian
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The Australian state of Victoria remained on extreme bushfire alert on Friday as firefighters struggled to contain blazes in a number of areas across
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The news that the Obama Administration plans to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay within a year has been met with praise by United Nations officials.
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A new publication that reprints Nazi-era newspapers has drawn criticism from Jewish organizations and officials in the German state of Bavaria, who
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U.S. Senate approves Hillary Clinton as secretary of state. The approval came even after renewed concerns by Republicans about potential conflicts of
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Smugglers are back at work in Gaza's tunnels, days after Israel called a halt to its bombing campaign. While some tunnels are used to bring in
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As the number of cholera cases tops 48,000 opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai says the outbreak highlights the urgent need for functional
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Several smuggling tunnels under the Gaza Strip's border with Egypt have begun to operate again, despite the 22-day Israeli military offensive. The
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay says prisoners' rights in all U.S.-run detention centres must be reviewed.
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A Chinese court condemned two men to death Thursday and handed a life term to a former dairy boss in the first sentences in a contaminated milk
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Obama 3rd American president to retake oath
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Port aux Basques may lift state of emergency: mayor
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The crisis facing Iceland's government deepens amid further protests over its handling of the financial chaos. Prime Minister Geir Haarde says his
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2 men sentenced to death in China's milk scandal
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