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PORT-AU-PRINCE Feb 27, 2010 Laura Silsby and Charisa Coulter, the two U.S. missionaries still in jail in Haiti will not be freed at least until Tuesday.
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MOSCOW Feb 19, 2010 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday announced staff cuts and stiff punishments for police who break the law. He plans to clean up corruption
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and other problems troubling Russia’s huge police force.
ROME Feb 18, 2010 18 top Catholic scholars from United States, Germany and Australia have written a private letter to Pope Benedict asking him to slow down the sainthood procedure for Pope Pius XII.
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PARIS Feb 16, 2010 France knowingly exposed its soldiers to nuclear explosions in Algeria in the 1960s to study the effect of radiation on humans. Le Parisien newspaper reported this today, citing secret government papers.
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JAKARTA Feb 11, 2010 Antasari Azhar, Indonesia’s former anti-graft chief was today sentenced to 18 years in jail for his role in the murder of Nasrudin Zulkarnaen, a businessman.
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BEIJING Feb 8, 2010 Chinese inspectors have shut dairy firms in the northwest after they found contaminated milk powder there. Melamine is a compound commonly used in plastics or fertilizer. But it can also be added to foods to show high protein levels in tests.
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They seized 72 tonnes of milk powder tainted with
PORT-AU-PRINCE Feb 8, 2010 Hundreds of Haitian earthquake survivors protested in a suburb of their wrecked capital on Sunday.
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PARIS Feb 05, 2010 French police are inquiring into whether ex-Prime Minister Edouard Balladur received kickbacks from submarine sales to Pakistan. This money is said to have been used for his 1995 presidential campaign.
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PARIS Jan 29, 2010 Former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin was cleared on Thursday in the so-called "Clearstream case". The verdict represents a sharp blow to Sarkozy and a victory for Villepin.
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PARIS Jan 27, 2010 Judgement in the Clearstream case, in which former
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French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin is the accused, will be delivered on Thursday. 
