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Afghan election official opposes coalition
- Saturday, October 31, 2009, 14:34
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The head of Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission vowed Saturday that he would not support a coalition government in Afghanistan. Full story
Memo shows killed UK officer foresaw own death
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A high-ranking British officer killed this year in Afghanistan warned a month before he died that a shortage of helicopters was putting troops at risk, a leaked memo showed Saturday. Full story
25-year-old massacre haunts India’s Sikhs
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Gurdeep Kaur's wrinkled face was wet with tears, as she recounted what she saw a quarter century ago: the killings of 21 of family members. Full story
Six Afghans arrested for attack on U.N. staff
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Six Afghans have been arrested for planning this week's guest house suicide attack that killed five U.N. employees in Kabul, Afghanistan's chief of national security said Saturday. Full story
Fourth typhoon in month hits Philippines
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The fourth typhoon to hit the Philippines in a month came ashore east of the capital, Manila, on Saturday morning, bringing heavy rain, flooding, and washing away shanty houses near the coast. Full story
Reward bus trip turns deadly in China
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A bus trip intended to reward customers of a health-care products company turned deadly when the vehicle plunged off a road in China's northern Shanxi province, killing 13 people, according to state-run Xinhua news agency. Full story
Source: Afghan election talks break down
- Saturday, October 31, 2009, 2:34
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Talks between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his election opponent, Abdullah Abdullah (pictured), have broken down, a Western source close to the Afghan leadership told CNN's Christiane Amanpour. Full story
Cemeteries breathe life into tourists
- Friday, October 30, 2009, 14:32
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At first glance, the idea of graveyard tourism may seem ghoulish. But for visitors who seek out headstones, this sort of destination travel is about more than death and grief-seeking. Full story
Ghost houses thrive in scary economy
- Friday, October 30, 2009, 2:30
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Despite the tough economy, the haunted house business is good. Full story
Internet goes Arabic and Chinese
- Friday, October 30, 2009, 2:30
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The group that controls top-level domain codes for Internet addresses is poised to permit non-Latin language codes for the first time in its history. Full story
Brazil will have its second-best harvest in the nation’s history this year, the government said.
Dogs bark and whine behind high chain-link fences, some of them gnawing the wire so hard they bleed at the mouths while cats packed into crowded cages cower in fear if anyone approaches.
Every bit of fully synthetic plastic that’s ever been produced over the past 100 years is somewhere on our planet, a leading environmentalist, David de Rothschild, said Tuesday.
India’s upper house of parliament has passed a historic bill aimed at reserving one-third of seats for women in federal and state legislatures.
Militants attacked the office of a humanitarian organization in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday killing five people, police said.
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