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UK press predicts rocky ride for PM in 2013
British newspapers welcomed in the New Year on Tuesday with a warning for Prime Minister David Cameron that he will have to lay a clear path to economic growth and national renewal in 2013.
Newspapers said Cameron needed to reset Britain'...
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Galapagos pink iguana captured on film
Veteran British nature broadcaster David Attenborough is to show the first filmed sighting of the rare pink iguana, in a television series on the Galapagos Islands which begins Tuesday.
The 86-year-old filmed the rare Conolophus Marthae i...
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Philippines set to quit Marcos wealth chase
The Philippines is to wind down a near-30-year hunt for the embezzled wealth of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, with more than half the supposed $10 billion fortune still missing, the man in charge of the search said.
With Marcos' widow a...
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Jose Ramos-Horta named UN envoy to G.Bissau
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has tapped Jose Ramos-Horta, a former East Timor president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, as his new special representative to coup-stricken Guinea-Bissau.
The man who helped bring independence to East Timo...
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World to welcome in New Year with a bang
Sydney will Monday kick off a wave of dazzling firework displays welcoming in 2013 from Dubai to Paris and London, with long-isolated Yangon joining the global pyrotechnics for the first time.
Australia's famous harbour city will usher in...
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Chavez suffers new post-op setback: VP
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has suffered a new setback after cancer surgery in Cuba on December 11, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said.
"We have been informed of new complications that arose as a consequence of the respiratory infec...
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No House vote before US fiscal cliff deadline
The US House of Representatives will not vote on Monday on an 11th-hour proposal to prevent the country from tottering over the so-called "fiscal cliff," a senior Republican source told AFP.
US markets will not immediately feel the shock ...
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Syria backs plan for talks to end conflict
Syria's government on Monday welcomed any initiative for talks to end bloodshed in the country, after UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said he had a peace plan acceptable to world powers.
The Damascus regime's stand, expressed by Prim...
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Obama blames Republicans as cliff talks go to wire
US President Barack Obama blamed a Republican refusal to raise taxes on the rich for the "fiscal cliff" crisis as top lawmakers haggled in a desperate end-of-year search for a stop-gap deal.
Obama slammed foes in Congress as the clock tic...
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C. Africa army repelled trying to retake rebel-held city
Rebels in the Central African Republic have repelled army soldiers who were trying to recapture the central city of Bambari, officials on both sides said Saturday.
"I am currently still in Bambari. We hold the city. We were attacked by th...
