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Tuesday September 07, 2010 03:00:14 AM GMT
LAKKI MARWAT, Pakistan - A Taliban 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-linked militants.
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PARIS - France faces serious rail and air traffic disruption from late on Monday as labour unions aim to mobilise millions of protesters against government plans to raise the retirement age.
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JOHANNESBURG - South African public sector workers, on strike for nearly a month, may soon return to work but continue talks on whether to accept an increased government wage offer, union officials said on Monday.
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FRANKFURT/MUNICH - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday she was confident that a law to extend the lives of nuclear power reactors could be passed without backing from the upper house of parliament, setting up a clash with opposition parties.
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MADRID - Spain cannot trust Sunday's truce announcement by armed Basque separatist group ETA and will continue to pursue its members, Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said on national television on Monday.
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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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WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama launches several economic initiatives this week aimed at generating some desperately needed U.S. job growth and limiting predicted Democratic losses in Nov. 2 congressional elections.
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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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KABUL - The number of foreign troops killed in Afghanistan this year has reached at least 500, compared with 521 in all of 2009, according to an independent monitoring site on Monday and a tally compiled by Reuters.
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CHISINAU - Moldova's pro-Western leaders pondered their next move on Monday after a referendum designed to break a political deadlock in the ex-Soviet republic failed due to poor turnout, dealing them a humiliating setback.
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