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QUETTA, Pakistan - A suicide bomber struck a rally in the Pakistani city of Quetta on Friday, killing at least 54 people in the second major attack this week, piling pressure on a U.S.-backed government overwhelmed by a flood crisis.
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WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will outline new measures next week to boost the U.S. economy after August data on Friday showed again that jobs -- the central issue in November elections -- were being created too slowly.
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JOHANNESBURG - Striking South African state workers held small-scale protests on Friday as union and government negotiators prepared for bargaining next week aimed at ending the three-week walkout by about 1.3 million.
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BAGHDAD - After an explosive device tore through the back of an armoured SUV carrying Chinese oil workers in Iraq in mid-July, security contractors said the U.S. military, not China's Daqing Petroleum, was the likely target.
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LONDON - BP Plc said the cost of dealing with its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico had risen to $8 billion as the oil giant prepared to release the findings of an internal probe into the causes of the disaster.
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BEIJING - North Korea is angling for foreign investment with a new government body set up to attract money into the isolated country, but little is likely to be forthcoming, a regular visitor to Pyongyang said on Friday.
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WELLINGTON - A major earthquake of 7.4 magnitude hit New Zealand, 30 km (20 miles) west of Christchurch early on Saturday morning, causing no immediate reports of casualties but widespread damage, authorities said.
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PARIS - French trade union bosses said on Friday that Labour Minister Eric Woerth, plagued by an influence-peddling scandal, was no longer fit to defend a controversial reform of the pension system.
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TEHRAN - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged Palestinians to keep up their armed struggle against Israel a day after Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed to continue talks on a U.S.-backed peace deal.
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MANTEO - Hurricane Earl slapped North Carolina's coast with heavy wind and surf on Friday and then weakened as it swirled up the U.S. eastern seaboard toward New England and Canada as a much tamer storm than feared.
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MILAN - Russia's plan to extend its grain export ban destabilises markets but does not bring closer a repeat of the 2007/2008 food crisis, a senior UN economist said on Friday as new protests flared in Mozambique after food riots.
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MAPUTO - Mozambique police fired rubber bullets and teargas at demonstrators on Friday as rioting flared in the capital following two days of protests over high bread prices in which ten people were killed and hundreds wounded.
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