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Roadside memorial itself claims a life
Sydney - A mass of floral tributes piled up where four teenagers were killed in a car crash in Melbourne two weeks ago probably claimed the life of another motorist, Australian police said Friday. Police said the 21-year-old woman, distracted by the ...

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Yen's continued strength sends Tokyo market lower - Summary
Tokyo - The Tokyo market saw its eighth-straight day of losses Friday as the yen's strength sent exporters' stocks down. The Nikkei 225 Stock Average edged down 3.78 points, or 0.04 per cent, to close at 9,287.28. ...

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Philippine volcanologists raise alert level on restive volcano
Manila - Philippine volcanologists Friday raised the alert level on a restive eastern volcano amid an increasing occurrence of low-frequency earthquakes. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology warned residents not to wander into the s...

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Thai prime minister off to Vietnam for Mekong talks - Update
Hanoi - Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva departed Bangkok Friday for a one-day visit to Vietnam to discuss the rice trade, tourism, transport links and protection of the Mekong River with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, officials said...

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[Posted on : 2009-07-10 ] Category : [ Asia (World) ]

18 bodies from Yemen Airways crash found, Tanzanian police say
Johannesburg - Fishermen have pulled 18 bodies from the Indian Ocean off Tanzania more than a week after 152 people died in a Yemen Airways plane crash, a police spokesman said Friday. The spokesman told the South African radio station SAFM that a we...

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[Posted on : 2009-07-10 ] Category : [ Africa (World) ]

Zimbabwe's toddler 'terrorist' struggles to reintegrate - Feature
Harare - A three-year-old Zimbabwean, nicknamed the world's youngest terrorist after his abduction last year by state security agents and imprisonment for three months, is struggling to adjust to life as a free infant. Nigel Mutemagau was two when ...

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[Posted on : 2009-07-10 ] Category : [ Africa (World) ]

Australia debates whether to close sacred Uluru - Feature
Sydney - Climb it, get married on it, abseil down it, bathe it in different colours, seemingly set it alight with fireworks - there's nothing that Australians don't do to it in celebration of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It's a different story with Ulu...

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[Posted on : 2009-07-10 ] Category : [ Australasia (World) ]

Aung San Suu Kyi's trial resumes amid tight security
Yangon - The trial of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi resumed Friday when a defence witness was scheduled to testify. Lawyer Khin Moe Moe, a member of Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party, entered the court at Insein Prison ...

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[Posted on : 2009-07-10 ] Category : [ World ]

Indonesian maids in Hong Kong claim they are abused and underpaid
Hong Kong - Indonesian maids working in Hong Kong are physically and psychologically abused and paid illegally low wages, organizers of a campaign to punish rogue employers said Friday. Many of the city's 135,000 Indonesian maids are beaten by their ...

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[Posted on : 2009-07-10 ] Category : [ Asia (World) ]

Vietnam to discuss Mekong River with Thailand
Hanoi - Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung is to meet Friday with Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejajiva and plans to discuss the exploitation and use as well as the protection of the Mekong River, state media reported. The talks in Hanoi are al...

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[Posted on : 2009-07-10 ] Category : [ Asia (World) ]

Roadside memorial itself claims a life

Yen's continued strength sends Tokyo market lower - Summary

Philippine volcanologists raise alert level on restive volcano

Thai prime minister off to Vietnam for Mekong talks - Update

18 bodies from Yemen Airways crash found, Tanzanian police say

Zimbabwe's toddler 'terrorist' struggles to reintegrate - Feature

Australia debates whether to close sacred Uluru - Feature

Aung San Suu Kyi's trial resumes amid tight security

LA police chief: Jackson investigation might turn criminal - Summary

Indonesian maids in Hong Kong claim they are abused and underpaid

Vietnam to discuss Mekong River with Thailand

Yen's continued strength sends Tokyo markets lower

ANALYSIS: Can world powers walk the climate walk fast enough?

300 hurt, thousands homeless after southwest China quake - Update

No end in sight in talks on resolving Honduran crisis - Summary

Documentarian Moore readies new movie Capitalism: A Love Story

Colombian family says they saw ghost of Michael Jackson

EU official: Possible sanctions unless Iran resolves election issue

More than 300 injured quake in south-west China

Exit festival rocks despite rain, flu, economic crisis - Feature