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Afghan government would fall if NATO withdraws - Miliband
LONDON (Reuters) - The Afghan government would quickly be overthrown if NATO troops pulled out of the country now, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Friday.
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Britney Spears' ex-boyfriend, photographer jailed
LOS ANGELES, Nov 20 (Reuters) - A celebrity photographer
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who briefly dated Britney Spears at the height of her career
meltdown was sentenced to 45 days in jail on Friday after
clashing with an official trying to serve him a restraining
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Cuba offers free penis implants
Cuba's government has offered its first free penis implants, part of a program set to be expanded across the communist island, a newspaper has reported.
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Knox weeps as prosecutor sums up case
American exchange student Amanda Knox wept at the trial in which she is accused of murdering her British housemate in Perugia two years ago.
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Albania opposition protests to demand vote recount
TIRANA (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Albanian opposition Socialist Party supporters launched their latest protest Friday to demand the government either recount the vote in a controversial June 28 election or hold another.
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U.S. to drop charges against one Blackwater guard
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Justice Department prosecutors asked a federal judge on Friday to dismiss the charges against one of five Blackwater security guards accused of killing 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians in a 2007 shooting in Baghdad.
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Driver dies in Miley Cyrus tour bus crash
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Afghan govt would fall if NATO withdraws: UK minister
LONDON (Reuters) - The Afghan government would quickly be overthrown if NATO troops pulled out of the country now, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Friday.
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Sears plot mastermind jailed 13 years
A US judge sentenced the leader of a plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago to 13 years in prison Friday, far less than the 70 years sought by prosecutors.
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Amazon countries to hold climate talks
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is calling a meeting of eight Amazon countries to forge a common stand on climate talks, officials said.
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Hershey Trust backs bid for Cadbury: report
NEW YORK (AFP) - A charitable trust controlling US chocolate maker Hershey is backing a bid of 17 billion dollars for Britain's Cadbury, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
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CERN atom-smasher restarts after 14-month hiatus: official
GENEVA (AFP) - The world's biggest atom-smasher, shut down after its inauguration in September 2008 amid technical faults, restarted on Friday, a spokesman for the European Organisation for Nuclear Research said.
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Swine flu may have hit one peak; more to come
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The pandemic of swine flu may be hitting a peak in the Northern Hemisphere, global health officials said on Friday, but they cautioned it was far from over.
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Leader of Sears Tower plot sentenced to 13 years
MIAMI (AFP) - A US federal judge sentenced the leader of a plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago to 13 years in prison Friday, far less than the 70 years sought by prosecutors.
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Five million given swine flu jab in EU
The European Medicines Agency announced that five million people in the European Union have been vaccinated against swine flu.
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US lawmakers press on Taiwan arms sales
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Supporters of Taiwan in the US Congress on Friday pushed for President Barack Obama to move toward selling arms to the island, a step that would almost certainly anger China.
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Home hope Rochette leads short programme
KITCHENER, Canada (AFP) - Canada's world silver medallist Joannie Rochette skated to the top of the women's leaderboard at Skate Canada on Friday with a flawless short programme that earned a personal best score of 70.0.
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Art collector finds Galileo's lost tooth, fingers
ROME (Reuters) - An art collector has found a
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tooth, thumb and finger of the renowned Italian scientist
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Colombia says will not be provoked by Venezuela
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia will not be provoked into armed conflict with Venezuela despite its neighbor's aggressive rhetoric and dynamiting of two border bridges, Colombia's defense minister said on Friday.
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Hospital hearing for Fort Hood suspect
A lawyer for the US Army psychiatrist charged in the mass shooting at Fort Hood says his client will have his first court hearing in his hospital room.
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