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Man plunges to death from Greece's Acropolis
ATHENS (Reuters) - A man died after jumping off Greece's Acropolis, a major tourist attraction visited by millions every year, police said Tuesday.
November 11, 2009, 2:16 am -
Obama to visit Asia as issues smoulder back home
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Barack Obama this week makes his first trip to Asia as president, leaving behind a host of domestic problems with a visit that recognizes the region's economic and diplomatic importance to the United States.
November 11, 2009, 2:10 am -
Pakistani Taliban vow tough guerrilla war
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani Taliban militants vowed to fight a tough, protracted guerrilla war against the army on Tuesday as a suicide car-bomber killed up to 20 people in a northwestern town, police said.
November 11, 2009, 2:09 am -
GSK giving H1N1 jabs to developing world
British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline says it will donate 50 million doses of its swine flu vaccine to the WHO to distribute to developing countries.
November 11, 2009, 2:06 am -
Jacko's dad lobs accusations of fraud
Michael Jackson's father is involved in a legal bid to get money from his son's estate and is accusing the administrators of the will of fraud.
November 11, 2009, 2:06 am -
Afghan leader hosts EU head after "difficult" time
KABUL (Reuters) - Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt met Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday, aiming to mend ties between Kabul and the European Union strained by a fraud-tainted election and what Bildt called a "difficult" few months.
November 11, 2009, 2:05 am -
Ida makes landfall on U.S. Gulf Coast, hits oil supply
MOBILE, Alabama (Reuters) - A weakening Tropical Storm Ida lashed the U.S. Gulf Coast with drenching rain and high surf on Tuesday as it moved ashore after shutting down almost 30 percent of Gulf of Mexico energy production.
November 11, 2009, 1:50 am -
Bomb tears through busy Pakistan street
A car bomb ripped through a shopping street in Pakistan's northwest town of Charsadda, killing up to 18 people and wounding more than 30 others, police say.
November 11, 2009, 1:45 am -
U.N. warns of mass displacement without Somalia aid
GENEVA (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands more Somalis are on the brink of leaving their country, where floods have aggravated already desperate humanitarian conditions, United Nations agencies warned on Tuesday.
November 11, 2009, 1:34 am -
Ousted Thai premier Thaksin arrives in Cambodia
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, wanted at home for a graft conviction, arrived in Cambodia on Tuesday to take up a government job offer that has set off a diplomatic row with Bangkok.
November 11, 2009, 1:07 am -
Ten killed, 15 hurt in Pakistan bomb: police
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Ten people were killed and 15 wounded in a car bomb blast in the northwestern Pakistani town of Charsadda on Tuesday, police said.
November 11, 2009, 1:06 am -
Leaders hail Wall fall, vow to topple new barriers
BERLIN (Reuters) - World leaders hailed the ordinary people who helped bring down the Berlin Wall and said the historic events of 20 years ago showed nations were capable of rising to new challenges, from terrorism to climate change.
November 11, 2009, 12:54 am -
Landslide kills 42 in southern India
A landslide triggered by torrential seasonal rains swept through a hilly region in southern India, killing at least 42 people, an official says
November 11, 2009, 12:17 am -
Murdoch stories can be taken off: Google
Google says, in response to Rupert Murdoch's threats to ban it from listing content from his news empire, that any company could ask to have stories taken off.
November 11, 2009, 12:15 am -
APEC to keep spending taps open
Asia-Pacific finance chiefs, anxious about the potential for a "double-dip recession", will keep stimulus spending in place, according to a draft communique.
November 10, 2009, 10:54 pm -
Weaker Ida soaks U.S. Gulf Coast, hits oil supply
MOBILE, Alabama (Reuters) - A weakening Tropical Storm Ida brought drenching rain to the U.S. Gulf Coast as it slowly approached shore on Tuesday after shutting down almost 30 percent of Gulf energy production.
November 10, 2009, 10:39 pm -
Pakistani Taliban vow tough guerrilla war
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani Taliban have started a guerrilla war against the army and will wage a tough, protracted fight in the insurgents' South Waziristan stronghold, a Taliban spokesman said on Tuesday.
November 10, 2009, 10:34 pm -
Militants kill, Kurds intimidate Iraqi minorities:HRW
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Kurdish-Arab tensions in the disputed Nineveh province may create a human rights catastrophe for minority groups that have faced rising attacks since the 2003 U.S. invasion, a rights group said on Tuesday.
November 10, 2009, 9:59 pm -
Rudd seeks to boost ties with India
Kevin Rudd this week will attempt to boost Australia's economic and strategic ties with India, on his first visit to the subcontinent as prime minister.
November 10, 2009, 9:39 pm -
Emotional Germans celebrate Wall's fall
The rain flowed as freely as tears as 100,000 Germans marked the anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall with music, fireworks and a giant domino display.
November 10, 2009, 9:18 pm
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