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• Posted 2008-05-12
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  Sharif's vows to back Pakistani coalition: PM's office

  ISLAMABAD, May 12, 2008 (Reuters) — The party of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif pledged on Monday to maintain support for Pakistan's 6-week old coalition, whatever the party decides to do over an impasse over the restoration of judges, the prime minister's office said in a statement. ... > full story
• Posted 2008-05-12
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  Serbia in coalition scramble after ambivalent vote

  BELGRADE, May 12, 2008 (Reuters) — Serbia's pro-European alliance was to start coalition talks with smaller parties on Monday to stave off a challenge from nationalist runners-up who say they too can form a government after Sunday's parliamentary election. ... > full story
• Posted 2008-05-12
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  U.S. flies cyclone aid to "outpost of tyranny"

  YANGON, May 12, 2008 (Reuters) — The first U.S. military aid flight left Thailand on Monday for Myanmar, an "outpost of tyranny" according to Washington, as relief supplies continued to dribble into the reclusive state nine days after a devastating cyclone. ... > full story
• Posted 2008-05-12
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  Chinese want to know how much officials paid: survey

  BEIJING, May 12, 2008 (Reuters) — Less than a month after China put into effect a new law supposed to boost government transparency most Chinese want to know one thing -- how much officials get paid, a state newspaper said on Monday. ... > full story
• Posted 2008-05-12
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  China travel agents seek to cash in on torch euphoria

  BEIJING, May 12, 2008 (Reuters) — Missing the patriotic frenzy that has so far accompanied the Olympic torch relay on its China leg? ... > full story
• Posted 2008-05-11
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  Venezuela's Chavez slams Germany's Merkel comments

  CARACAS, May 11, 2008 (Reuters) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday almost told German Chancellor Angela Merkel to go to hell, but stopped short of insulting the woman leader on Mother's Day. ... > full story
• Posted 2008-05-11
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  India's green revolutionary is back in spotlight

  NEW DELHI, May 11, 2008 (Reuters) — Forty years after he helped rescue the world from growing famine and a deepening gloom over the future of food supplies, Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan is once again agitating for revolution -- this time a perpetual one. ... > full story
• Posted 2008-05-11
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  Peace here, Nepal mothers want news of missing sons

  NAUBISE, Nepal, May 11, 2008 (Reuters) — Five years ago on a warm August night loud thuds on the door altered Tirtha Kumari Bhujel's life forever. ... > full story
• Posted 2008-05-11
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  Chavez say Colombia's Uribe trying to spark war

  CARACAS, May 11, 2008 (Reuters) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday accused Colombia of seeking to provoke war, renewing regional tensions after a Colombian attack on a rebel camp in Ecuador sparked the worst Andes diplomatic crisis in a decade. ... > full story
• Posted 2008-05-11
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  60 years on, refugees visit lost Jerusalem homes

  JERUSALEM, May 11, 2008 (Reuters) — Eighty-year-old Beatrice Habesch sobbed when she caught sight of her father's house in Jerusalem on Sunday and remembered how it was taken over by Jews in 1948. ... > full story

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