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BEIJING - China warned Japan on Thursday that ties would suffer if Tokyo mishandles a dispute over a Chinese boat seized in disputed seas, intensifying a territorial rift that could deepen discord between Asia's top two economies.
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GAINESVILLE - An obscure U.S. Christian pastor whose plan to burn copies of the Koran on Sept. 11 has sparked an international outcry said on Wednesday he would go ahead with the event despite warnings it would endanger American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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PARMA, Ohio - President Barack Obama, fighting to keep Democrats in charge of Congress, said on Wednesday the United States could not afford to extend Bush-era tax cuts for the rich and accused Republicans of being fiscally irresponsible.
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TOKYO - Japan's deputy finance minister said the government is ready to take swift steps if necessary to craft an extra budget to boost the economy but that it must first examine the effects of a planned stimulus package.
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MOSCOW - Regional police said 12 people were killed in a bomb blast on Thursday outside a market in the southern Russian city of Vladikavkaz, the Interfax news agency reported.
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PARIS - The global recovery looks to be slowing more than expected as growth weakens in the world's rich economies, and monetary stimulus should be extended or stepped up if the slowdown proves more than momentary, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said on Thursday.
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ABUJA - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has told state governors in the ruling party he intends to stand in elections next January, one of the governors who attended the meeting said on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON - Afghan President Hamid Karzai intends to impose rules restricting international involvement in anti-corruption investigations, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.
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LONDON/WASHINGTON - BP Plc and its Gulf of Mexico oil well partners traded blame on Wednesday after an internal BP investigation tried to downplay the company's role in the world's biggest offshore spill.
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MEXICO CITY - The Mexican government proposed on Wednesday to boost security spending in its war on drugs while keeping a lid on the deficit as it seeks to steer Latin America's No. 2 economy out of deep recession.
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CANBERRA - Uncertainty over the shape of Australia's controversial mining tax is likely to last well into 2011 after national elections which returned the country's first minority government since World War Two.
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