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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 official said on Sunday.
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WELLINGTON - Strong aftershocks and gale-force winds buffeted a clean-up of New Zealand's second biggest city on Sunday following the country's most damaging earthquake in 80 years.
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JERUSALEM - A peace deal with the Palestinians will require a creative, new approach to issues that have defied resolution in past negotiations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday.
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KABUL - Afghanistan's Taliban said on Sunday they would attempt to disrupt elections this month and warned Afghans to boycott the vote, the first explicit threat against the poll by the hardline Islamists.
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MADRID - Basque rebel group ETA, weakened by arrests and facing calls for ceasefire within the separatist movement, announced on Sunday it had called a halt to armed attacks, according to the Basque-language newspaper Gara.
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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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MAKHACHKALA, Russia - At least three people were killed and 33 wounded on Sunday when a suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a military camp in Russia's southern region of Dagestan, the Defence Ministry said.
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BAGHDAD - Up to five suicide bombers, some armed with rifles, tried to storm an army base in Baghdad on Sunday, killing 12 people and wounding 36 less than a week after Washington declared U.S. combat operations in Iraq over.
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PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy has yet to decide whether Prime Minister Francois Fillon will keep his post when he reshuffles the government this autumn, his chief of staff Claude Gueant told Europe 1 radio on Sunday.
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CHISINAU - Moldovans voted on Sunday on whether to elect their president directly, a change that Moldova's West-leaning ruling coalition says could bring an end to chronic political paralysis.
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