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 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered a halt to military
action in Georgia on Tuesday, after five days of air and
land attacks that took Russian forces deep into its small
U.S.-allied neighbor in the Caucasus.Medvedev said on
national television that the military had punished Georgia
enough for its attack on South Ossetia. Georgia launched an
offensive late Thursday to regain control over the
separatist Georgian province, which has close ties to
Russia.
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 Russia dispatched an armored column into the breakaway
enclave of South Ossetia on Friday after Georgia, a staunch
U.S. ally, launched a surprise offensive to crush
separatists. Witnesses said hundreds of civilians were
killed.
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 Hamas says it has released the top representative of
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party
in the Gaza Strip.
Zakaria Agha was held for four days after being seized by
Hamas gunmen. He was detained as part of a wave of arrests
of Fatah supporters after a beachside bombing killed five
Hamas militants and a young girl.
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 Iraqi forces backed by American troops are pressing ahead
with a major operation against insurgents in the
north-eastern Iraqi province of Diyala.
The region is one of the last al-Qaeda militant strongholds
in the country.
The operation was launched at dawn on Tuesday. A curfew was
imposed across the province as troops and police deployed in
its capital, Baquba
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 A former informant of the US secret service has been accused
of being the ringleader in the country's biggest and most
complex identity theft case.
The US Department of Justice claims that Albert "Segvev"
Gonzalez and 10 others stole, and then sold more than 40
million bank card numbers.
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 Former European colonies have threatened to block a trade
deal to reduce the EU's controversial tariffs on Latin
American banana imports.
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 HSBC has warned that conditions in financial markets are at
their toughest "for several decades" after suffering a 28%
fall in half-year profits.
Europe's largest bank saw profits drop by $3.9bn to $10.2bn
(£5.2bn) in the first six months of the year, as its North
American arm made a $2.8bn loss.
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 Ryanair has warned it could make an annual loss of up to 60
million euros (£47.4m) if oil prices stayed high and it
continued cutting fares.
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 China didn't just walk onto the world stage. It soared over
it.At last playing its long-sought role as Olympic host,
China opened the Summer Games in spectacular fashion Friday
with an extravaganza of fireworks and pageantry dramatizing
its ascendance as a global power.
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 The atmosphere in Beijing today reminds me of being at home
before an important guest arrives. The city is scrambling
with last-minute cleanup and 11th-hour decisions in time for
the opening ceremony. It's such a big day here that the
government declared a state holiday in Beijing. An estimated
16,400 couples have registered to get married today, which
has been widely deemed as auspicious.
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 Talks are taking place with the top test cricket playing
nations of the world in a bid to bring two major
international tournaments to Dubai, starting next year.
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 The humpback whale, nearly hunted into history four decades
ago, is now on the "road to recovery" and is no longer
considered at high risk of extinction, an environmental
group said Tuesday.
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 The world of mobile internet devices is set to explode in
the next four years says chip maker Intel.
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 Attack code that exploits flaws in the net's addressing
system are starting to circulate online, say security
experts.
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 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The leader of a youth movement
that swept the world this past year by encouraging Web users
to share bits of their lives with selected friends, spoke on
Wednesday of spreading his service across the Web, even
while apologizing for past excesses.
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 A giant Batmobile drove down the red carpet and flames shot
into the sky at the European premiere of Dark Knight in
London's Leicester Square. |
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 The tactic of shops ending prices with 99p is nothing new,
but a study has found it's as effective as ever in getting
shoppers to part with their cash. So why is one of the
oldest tricks in the retail trade hard to resist?
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 Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have pleaded with Australian
journalists and photographers to back off while they
introduce their newborn daughter, Sunday Rose, to their
families.The celebrity couple were greeted by a media pack
when they flew into Sydney on a private plane last night.
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 Socialite Paris Hilton has made a spoof advertisement in
response to a jibe by US presidential hopeful John McCain.
A commercial suggested Mr McCain's Democratic rival, Barack
Obama, was no more than a lightweight celebrity, like Hilton
or Britney Spears.
But in a spoof recording placed on the comedy website Funny
or Die, Hilton referred to Mr McCain as "that wrinkly,
white-haired guy".
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 SYDNEY (Reuters) - Hollywood star Nicole Kidman and singer
husband Keith Urban asked the paparazzi on Thursday to leave
them and baby daughter Sunday Rose alone, saying she was a
"tiny doll" who would be scared by the attention.
"Keith and I are both appealing to the press and stuff just
to give us a little space so we can walk around Sydney and
show the baby our town," Kidman told Sydney radio station
2Day FM.
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 Batman film The Dark Knight has broken another box office
record after taking just 18 days to make more than $400
million (£204m) in North America.
That was less than half the time which previous
record-holder Shrek 2 needed to pass the milestone, having
taken 43 days to cross the $400m mark in 2004.
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 The UN goal of achieving "universal access" to anti-HIV
drugs and care by 2010 is unlikely to be reached worldwide,
two leading figures in the campaign against AIDS say.Looking
to the mounting bill for the drugs that keep millions of
poor people alive, they also say China and other
fast-advancing economies could shoulder more of their own
burdens in the future, freeing up resources for countries
mired in poverty.
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 A global conference on HIV/Aids has opened in Mexico City, a
quarter of a century after the disease first became widely
known.
Figures released ahead of the meeting reveal that the number
of people with the condition around the world has gone down
slightly overall.
However, infection rates are still rising in some countries
and access to the right treatment is also an issue
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 The body's own immune system may cause pre-eclampsia, a
common condition which is potentially dangerous for pregnant
women and their babies.
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 It was January 2000 and I'd just started a new job, my dream
job as political correspondent for BBC Scotland.
I was very busy, working long hours, so I didn't have much
time to pay attention to this strange tingling in my face,
but the tingling grew until eventually everything to the
left was tingling and pins and needles, and everything to
the right was fine.
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