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Merkel steels Germans for 'more difficult' 2013
Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Germans that the economy, Europe's biggest, would experience a harder time next year than in 2012 and cautioned too that the eurozone debt crisis was far from over.
In her annual New Year address published ...
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Serb nationalist regime turns a step closer to EU
Serbia's new government, a deja-vu coalition of nationalists and socialists that led the country during the 1990s bloody Balkan wars, has surprised many with its pro-European moves, especially regarding breakaway Kosovo.
After winning a M...
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Record number of Afghan soldiers killed in 2012
More than 1,000 Afghan soldiers died in action this year, the highest since the Taliban insurgency began, as the army assumes more responsibility before NATO forces withdraw in 2014, officials said Sunday.
"In the past nine months, 906 Af...
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Guptill shows form after bowlers toil
Opening batsman Martin Guptill hit an assured unbeaten half-century as the touring New Zealand cricketers completed their warm-up match against a South African Invitation XI at Boland Park on Sunday.
Guptill said the match had provided a ...
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Brahimi says has Syria plan world powers may adopt
Peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said on Sunday he has a proposal to end the deadly 21-month conflict in Syria "that could be adopted by the international community."
"I have discussed this plan with Russia and Syria... I think this proposal c...
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Philippines braces for bloody New Year revelry
The Philippines braced Sunday for its annual orgy of New Year's Eve merrymaking which every year leaves hundreds maimed by firecrackers or hit by bullets fired in the air by armed revellers.
A total of 171 people have been injured by fire...
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Police trap reveals how Afghan 'insider attacks' work
The Taliban believed Beyar Khan Weyaar was the perfect candidate to prepare an insider attack on Afghan police, but instead he set a daring trap that has given a rare insight into suicide bombing tactics.
Weyaar, a low-ranking police offi...
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Swedish anti-immigrant MP quits after racist scandal
A Swedish lawmaker once seen as a future leader of the anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats party announced Sunday he was quitting parliament and the party after a racist scandal.
Erik Almqvist, 31, was one of three party officials caught on f...
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Switzerland 'freezes $300 mn of Mubarak sons' assets'
Swiss authorities have frozen 300 million dollars (227 million euros) sitting in Credit Suisse accounts in Geneva held by the sons of deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, the newspaper Le Matin Dimanche reported on Sunday.
The funds ...
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'Islamists' slit 15 Christians' throats in Nigeria
Suspected Islamist extremists have killed 15 Christians by slitting their throats in an attack on a village in Nigeria's volatile northeast, residents and a relief source said Sunday.
"From the information we gathered, the attackers broke...
