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Congo boat catches fire, capsizes; 200 feared dead
(AP)
AP - A riverboat loaded with passengers and fuel drums caught fire and capsized in southern Congo, and 200 people were feared dead, a survivor said Sunday. A local official confirmed the boat had tipped but said the passenger manifest apparently vanished in the fire.
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Basque separatist group ETA announce cease-fire
(AP)
AP - The armed Basque separatist group ETA, under pressure from political allies to renounce violence and decapitated repeatedly by the arrests of its leaders, announced another cease-fire Sunday, suggesting it might turn to a political process in its quest for an independent homeland.
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Guatemala mudslides kill at least 38; 2 buses hit
(AP)
AP - Torrential rains from a tropical depression caused mudslides that have killed at least 38 people in Guatemala — most of them in separate disasters along the same highway.
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Taliban threaten to attack Afghan polling stations
(AP)
AP - The Taliban vowed Sunday to attack polling places in Sept. 18 parliamentary elections, warning Afghans not to participate in what it called a sham vote.
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Chile mine disaster exposes old family feuds
(AP)
AP - While a fire warms their campsite, the icy feeling between Cristina Nunez Macias and her mother-in-law is as palpable as the cold Atacama desert.
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Israel: Now, More than Ever, Fascinated By Netanyahu
(Time.com)
Time.com - No one really thinks much will come out of the direct talks with the Palestinians but, when the issue is Bibi, up come visions of Gorbachev -- and Nixon in China
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Scandal-hit Pakistan well beaten by England in cricket Twenty20
(AFP)
AFP - Pakistan's latest match in their controversial tour of Britain ended in a five-wicket Twenty20 defeat by world champions England at Sophia Gardens here on Sunday.
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Former Saddam confidant says he'll die in prison
(AP)
AP - The man who once served as the international face of Saddam Hussein's regime predicted Sunday that he will die in an Iraqi jail, citing his old age and lengthy prison sentence.
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(AP)
AP - Officials say mudslides on a Guatemalan highway kill at least 22 people; scores missing.
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Egypt journalist faces trial over minister 'insult'
(AFP)
AFP - A prominent opposition journalist is to go on trial for allegedly libelling Egypt's foreign minister in a newspaper, a judicial source said on Sunday.
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Pakistan's flooded farms unable to be sown
(AP)
AP - Abid Hussein fears the deep floodwaters that destroyed his cotton crop, rotted his wheat seeds and swept away his farming tools are not done ravaging his life.
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China tells state companies to explore Potash bid
(Reuters)
Reuters - Chinese officials have ordered state companies to meet investment bankers to explore ways to block BHP Billiton's $39 billion bid for Potash Corp, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said.
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NZ cleans up after quake that tore new fault line
(AP)
AP - The powerful earthquake that smashed buildings, cracked roads and twisted rail lines around the New Zealand city of Christchurch also ripped a new fault line in the Earth's surface, a geologist said Sunday.
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Settlers defy Netanyahu with vow to begin construction
(McClatchy Newspapers)
McClatchy Newspapers - JERUSALEM — Jewish settlers across the West Bank have vowed to begin construction in more than 60 locations, posing a direct challenge to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he returned home from Thursday's first round of direct peace talks in Washington.
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North Korea's Kim Jong-il may go public with dynastic rule
(The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-il is expected to convene the first high-level conference of the ruling Workers’ Party in about 40 years amid widespread speculation that the world will finally get the answer to one great question:
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The Last Secrets of the Forbidden City Head to the U.S.
(Time.com)
Time.com - Though Beijing's Forbidden City has been open to the public for decades, parts of it remained off-limits. This month a new exhibition of artifacts from behind the gates heads to U.S.
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Price Hikes Trigger Mozambique Protests
(OneWorld.net)
OneWorld.net - MAPUTO, Sep 3 (IPS) - September in
Mozambique’s capital has begun with violent protests. Thousands have
been striking over an increase in the prices of basic goods, including
bread. Police responded with force - firing on crowds gathered on the
streets in several suburbs and townships in and around Maputo.
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