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Monday September 06, 2010 03:00:10 PM GMT
LAKKI MARWAT, Pakistan - A suicide bomber rammed his car into a police station in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 19 people, police said, in a new wave of attacks by al Qaeda- and Taliban-linked militants.
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CANBERRA - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is expected to form a new minority government on Tuesday with the backing of three kingmaker independents, ending two weeks of uncertainty.
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TOKYO - Nearly two-thirds of Japanese voters prefer Prime Minister Naoto Kan to powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa as premier, media polls showed on Monday ahead of a Sept. 14 ruling party leadership race that appears too close to call.
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CHISINAU - Moldova's Western-leaning government acknowledged on Sunday that a referendum it had strongly backed to hold popular elections for president appeared to have failed because of low voter turnout.
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PARIS - President Nicolas Sarkozy has set an ambitious agenda of creating a new international monetary system and taming commodity speculation for France's presidency of the G20 global economic leadership forum from November.
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MADRID - The Basque rebel group ETA called a halt to armed attacks on Sunday but the government said the declaration was not enough and urged the weakened organisation to renounce violence once and for all.
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SEOUL - North Korea said on Monday it was releasing the seven-man crew of a South Korean fishing boat, including three Chinese, a month after they illegally entered its waters.
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WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will ask the U.S. Congress on Wednesday to increase and permanently extend a tax credit for business research as a way of boosting job growth, an administration officials said on Sunday.
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JOHANNESBURG - Unions representing South African state workers are expected to announce on Monday whether they will accept a government wage offer they previously rejected and end a strike by 1.3 million employees.
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