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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. ... more
The US government gave the final green light Thursday for the construction of the first new nuclear power reactors in the country since 1978. ... more
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. ... more
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. ... more
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. ... more
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. ... more
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. ... more
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. ... more
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. ... more
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. ... more
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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. ... more
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. ... more
Australian police Wednesday warned of an epidemic in child pornography, saying paedophiles were increasingly recording themselves abusing children and sharing these images with child sex networks. ... more
Thousands of soldiers in the quake-hit Philippines Tuesday scoured villages buried under landslides, but authorities said hopes of finding dozens of missing people alive were dim. ... more
The world's last surviving First World War veteran, whos erved in Britain's Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF), has died aged 110, British media reported. ... more
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Britain's Prince Harry preparing to go out on an Apache helicopter training mission at the Naval Air Facility (NAF) El Centro in California. Britain's ...
