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INTERNATIONAL NEWS ....................

against Egypt's ex-president Hosni Mubarak has verged on the farcical as prosecutors and lawyers struggle to rise to the occasion. ...
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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard Friday did not deny a report that she has ordered cabinet ministers not to talk to major newspaper editors in a bid to stamp out leadership speculation. ...
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Thick ice has closed hundreds of kilometres (miles) of the Danube river in half-a-dozen countries and confined scores of ships to port on the busiest European waterway, officials said Thursday. ...
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The US government gave the final green light Thursday for the construction of the first new nuclear power reactors in the country since 1978. ...
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Regime forces launched a new blitz on the Syrian city of Homs on Thursday, killing more than 50 people, activists said, as the UN weighed a joint mission with the Arab League to end the violence. ...
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Britain's Prince Harry could return to Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said Thursday, after he qualified as an Apache attack helicopter pilot with a special award for his gunnery skills. ...
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The new president of the Maldives Mohamed Waheed, who is accused by his predecessor of taking part in a coup, struggled Thursday to contain "anarchy" in the holiday paradise as protests and violence spread. ...
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Australian Immigration Minister Chris Bowen on Thursday defended a steep rise in the cost of Canberra's mandatory detention of asylum-seekers, saying a surge in boatpeople arrivals had stressed the system. ...
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The new Maldivian president has made urgent cabinet appointments to try and contain violence that has spread across the archipelago since his predecessor said he was forced to resign in a coup. ...
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A shock move by Australia's richest person Gina Rinehart into quality newspaper group Fairfax is likely designed to build her influence and reflects the rise of the nation's mineral wealth, analysts say. ...
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Britain's Prince Harry has qualified as an Apache attack helicopter pilot, St James's Palace said Thursday, adding that he had won a prize for shooting skills. ...
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US Republicans today escalated their election-year attacks on President Barack Obama in a feud over health insurance coverage of birth control, accusing him of a "systematic" assault on religion. ...
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Queen Elizabeth II's diamond jubilee tour of Britain will criss-cross the kingdom over five months, Buckingham Palace said today as they released her itinerary. ...
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Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum scored an upset victory in three Republican nominating contests, re-igniting his campaign to be given the chance to tilt at the White House. ...
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Rick Santorum reignited his White House bid Tuesday with wins in Minnesota and Missouri that staked out his claim to be the main conservative alternative to frontrunner Mitt Romney. ...
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