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Teenage striker Vokes rescues Wales

Posted on Sep 06, 2008 - 12:02 pm
AFP - Teenage striker Samuel Vokes came off the bench to score a late winner as Wales beat Azerbaijan 1-0 in their opening World Cup qualifier at the Millennium Stadium here on Saturday.

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Talks to salvage India's cheap-car plant enter second day
Posted on Sep 06, 2008 - 4:02 am - AFP
AFP - Talks to end violent protests over a factory in eastern India designed to manufacture the world's cheapest car entered a second day Saturday, with both sides expressing optimism.

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Teen killed as floods hit Britain
Posted on Sep 05, 2008 - 6:43 pm - AFP
AFP - A 17-year-old girl was killed as floods struck Britain on Friday, forcing evacuations from homes as severe weather warnings were issued.

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Turkey, Armenia try to mend ties through soccer
Posted on Sep 05, 2008 - 12:55 pm - AP
AP - Turkey and Armenia are hoping soccer diplomacy will help them overcome decades of antagonism rooted in Ottoman-era massacres of Armenians that many historians call a genocide.

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Talks held to rescue India's cheap-car plant, more planned
Posted on Sep 05, 2008 - 11:19 am - AFP
AFP - Talks on Friday between India's West Bengal government and protesters aimed at rescuing a factory slated to make the world's cheapest car ended without a breakthrough, an official said.

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Tens of thousands still trapped by India floods: official
Posted on Sep 05, 2008 - 8:44 am - AFP
AFP - Rescue workers in flood-hit northern India have brought over 800,000 people to safety, but tens of thousands more are still believed to be trapped, officials said Friday.

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Top Kashmir separatists under house arrest
Posted on Sep 05, 2008 - 1:20 am - AFP
AFP - The three top separatist leaders in Muslim-majority Indian Kashmir were put under house arrest Friday ahead of planned protests against Indian-rule during weekly prayers, police said.

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Taliban behind French soldier deaths killed: coalition
Posted on Sep 04, 2008 - 7:14 pm - AFP
AFP - US-led Coalition forces in Afghanistan have killed five Taliban subcommanders in recent weeks, including a bomb-maker and two behind the August 18 attack that left 10 French soldiers dead, they said.

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Thousands cheer Ethiopian obelisk restoration
Posted on Sep 04, 2008 - 1:28 pm - AP
AP - Thousands of Ethiopians on Thursday cheered the long-awaited restoration of the 1,700-year-old Axum obelisk to its original site in the country's north.

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Thai PM offers referendum to end political crisis
Posted on Sep 04, 2008 - 11:32 am - AP
AP - Thailand's prime minister refused again on Thursday to cede to protesters determined to oust him, but offered an unconventional compromise — a referendum on his fate aimed at ending the political crisis that has paralyzed the government and raised fears of economic chaos.

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Talks resume on US-India nuclear technology deal
Posted on Sep 04, 2008 - 8:38 am - AP
AP - International talks resumed Thursday on a contentious U.S. plan to sell peaceful nuclear technology to India — a deal that critics contend would reverse decades of progress in discouraging nations from potentially developing weapons of mass destruction.

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Toll rises to six in Ethiopian blast
Posted on Sep 04, 2008 - 7:02 am - AFP
AFP - Two people died on Thursday of their injuries following an explosion that rocked a bar in the Ethiopian capital, bringing the death toll to six, police said.

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TV official: US military arrests cameraman in Iraq
Posted on Sep 04, 2008 - 5:06 am - AP
AP - The U.S. military arrested an Iraqi cameraman and three of his family members Thursday during a raid on their home in Baghdad, an official with Baghdad TV said.

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Thai govt float referendum plan, PM refuses to resign or call elections
Posted on Sep 04, 2008 - 2:32 am - AFP
AFP - Thailand's cabinet floated plans Thursday for a referendum to ask the public if the prime minister should stay in office, in an attempt to defuse the crisis engulfing the seven-month-old government.

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Thailand suggests referendum on crisis
Posted on Sep 04, 2008 - 2:13 am - AP
AP - Thailand's Cabinet agreed Thursday to hold a referendum on a civic group's street campaign to oust the prime minister, which has paralyzed the government for the last 10 days and raised fears of violence and economic chaos.

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Thai Cabinet agrees to hold referendum on crisis
Posted on Sep 04, 2008 - 1:34 am - AP
AP - A government minister says Thailand's Cabinet has agreed to hold a referendum on how to deal with the country's political crisis.

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Taliban kidnap 25 police recruits in Pakistan: official
Posted on Sep 04, 2008 - 1:34 am - AFP
AFP - Taliban militants kidnapped 25 police recruits while they were travelling to a training centre in northwestern Pakistan, a senior police official said Thursday.

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Trial of suspected NKorean spy to open next week: judge
Posted on Sep 03, 2008 - 11:19 pm - AFP
AFP - A suspected North Korean spy will go on trial in South Korea next week, a judge said Thursday, as Pyongyang branded her a criminal who had defected to the South to flee justice.

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Thai PM refuses to resign or call elections
Posted on Sep 03, 2008 - 10:00 pm - AFP
AFP - Thai Premier Samak Sundaravej on Thursday refused to resign or call snap elections, and instead launched a verbal offensive against protesters who have besieged his offices for 10 days.

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Thai prime minister refuses to resign
Posted on Sep 03, 2008 - 9:41 pm - AP
AP - Embattled Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej called the political crisis in Thailand a shameful embarrassment for the country but vowed not to resign or dissolve Parliament, saying Thursday it was his job to protect democracy.

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Thai PM accepts resignation of FM as protesters refuse to budge
Posted on Sep 03, 2008 - 8:43 pm - AFP
AFP - Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej said Thursday that he had accepted the resignation of his foreign minister, but refused to step down himself despite more than a week of street protests.

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Thai PM refuses to resign
Posted on Sep 03, 2008 - 8:23 pm - AP
AP - Thailand's embattled Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej has vowed in a live radio broadcast that he will not resign.

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