09/02/2010 06:46 PM
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Pakistan withdraw trio from one-day series
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TAUNTON, England (Reuters) - Pakistan withdrew test captain Salman Butt and their two opening bowlers Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif from their one-day team on Thursday after intense pressure from the world and English governing bodies.
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09/02/2010 06:41 PM
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U.S. says Israel, Palestinians agree to more talks
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israeli and Palestinian leaders began their first round of direct peace negotiations in more than a year on Thursday, pledging to meet again in two weeks as part of a U.S.-brokered quest for peace.
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09/02/2010 06:33 PM
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No injuries, signs of spill in Gulf rig explosion
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - An oil and gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico exploded on Thursday in an accident that recalled the worst offshore oil spill in history, though there appeared to be no injuries and no initial signs of pollution.
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09/02/2010 06:32 PM
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Royal Bank of Scotland to cut 3,500 jobs
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LONDON (Reuters) - Royal Bank of Scotland announced thousands of new job cuts on Thursday as the part-nationalised bank continues with its drive to trim costs and improve its profitability.
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09/02/2010 06:05 PM
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Afghan leader condemns air strike as Gates arrives
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KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai strongly condemned an air strike by NATO-led forces which he said killed 10 campaign workers for this month's election, a sour note as U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates arrived for talks.
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09/02/2010 06:03 PM
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Hurricane Earl takes aim at U.S. East Coast
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HATTERAS ISLAND, North Carolina (Reuters) - Powerful Hurricane Earl bore down on the U.S. East Coast on Thursday on a path towards North Carolina's barrier islands, which it was expected to lash with dangerous winds and pounding surf.
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09/02/2010 05:36 PM
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Pakistan gets IMF relief, tightens security
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LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund will give Pakistan $450 million (£292.26 million) in emergency flood aid, providing some relief for a government overwhelmed by the disaster and facing renewed militant violence.
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09/02/2010 04:25 PM
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Gordon Brown begins charity work
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LONDON (Reuters) - Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown will join efforts to improve access to education and the internet as part of pro bono work following Labour's election loss in May, his spokesman said on Thursday.
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09/02/2010 04:23 PM
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London Tube strikes to go ahead from Monday
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LONDON (Reuters) - Thousands of workers on London's underground rail system will start a series of strikes next Monday after talks aimed at ending a dispute over job cuts broke down, a union said on Thursday.
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09/02/2010 01:43 PM
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Iceland, UK, Dutch holding new Icesave talks
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Icelandic negotiators and their British and Dutch counterparts held new talks in the Netherlands on Thursday in a fresh attempt to solve a dispute over $5 billion in debts related to Iceland's banking collapse.
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09/02/2010 01:18 PM
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Hague's aide quits over gay rumours
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LONDON (Reuters) - Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Thursday he had gone public to deny rumours he was gay and in a relationship with an aide because he and his wife were fed up of the allegations.
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09/02/2010 12:00 PM
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God did not create the universe, says Hawking
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LONDON (Reuters) - God did not create the universe and the "Big Bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book.
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09/02/2010 03:16 AM
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Apple TV takes aim at Web-connected living room
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc unveiled a smaller, cheaper version of its Web-to-TV device on Wednesday, stepping up a battle with Google Inc and Microsoft Corp for control of the digital living room.
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09/02/2010 02:22 AM
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Police end hostage drama at U.S. Discovery Channel
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SILVER SPRING, Maryland (Reuters) - U.S. police shot and killed a man who took three people hostage, waving a gun and apparently fitted out with explosives, in the headquarters of the Discovery Channel near Washington on Wednesday.
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09/02/2010 12:58 AM
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Apple TV takes aim at Web-connected living room
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc unveiled a smaller, cheaper version of its Web-to-TV device on Wednesday, stepping up a battle with Google Inc and Microsoft Corp for control of the digital living room.
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09/02/2010 12:48 AM
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Obama to Mideast leaders - seize moment for peace
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Wednesday not to let the chance for peace slip away as he opened a Washington summit shadowed by Middle East violence.
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09/02/2010 12:32 AM
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Police end hostage drama at U.S. Discovery Channel
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SILVER SPRING, Maryland (Reuters) - U.S. police shot and killed a man who took three people hostage, waving a gun and apparently fitted out with explosives, in the headquarters of the Discovery Channel near Washington on Wednesday.
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09/02/2010 12:08 AM
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BP to remove equipment at Gulf well by Sunday
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - BP Plc expects to remove a failed blowout preventer atop its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well by Saturday or Sunday and later plug the leak for good, the top U.S. official overseeing the spill response said on Wednesday.
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09/01/2010 11:15 PM
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Stronger Hurricane Earl nears U.S. East Coast
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HATTERAS ISLAND, North Carolina (Reuters) - Looming Hurricane Earl strengthened and churned up dangerous swells on Wednesday, forcing evacuations on some of North Carolina's barrier islands and prompting storm alerts along much of the U.S. east coast.
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09/01/2010 10:13 PM
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Blasts kill 20 in Pakistan's Lahore, 170 hurt
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LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Three bombs exploded at a Shi'ite procession in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Wednesday, killing at least 20 people and wounding over 170, piling pressure on a government already overwhelmed by floods.
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09/01/2010 09:44 PM
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Fix political impasse before you go, Iraqis tell U.S.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) -President Barack Obama is pushing Iraq's democracy out of the nest before it can fly and abandoning Iraqis while they are still at war, many Iraqis said on Wednesday after the end of U.S. combat operations.
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09/01/2010 07:46 PM
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Blair says did not foresee Iraq "nightmare"
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LONDON (Reuters) - Former prime minister Tony Blair said on Wednesday he could have not have imagined what he called the "nightmare" that unfolded in Iraq but still did not regret joining the U.S.-led invasion.
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09/01/2010 07:21 PM
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BBC staff vote for strike over pension overhaul
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LONDON (Reuters) - Staff at Britain's BBC voted on Wednesday to strike in protest against the state-funded broadcaster's plans to reduce a large pension deficit by capping the growth of pensionable pay, unions said.
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09/01/2010 06:38 PM
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Dutch free two Yemenis arrested as terror suspects
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch authorities said on Wednesday they had freed two Yemeni men held on suspicion of terrorism at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, after finding no evidence of wrongdoing despite a trans-atlantic security scare.
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09/01/2010 06:06 PM
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U.S. adds Pakistan Taliban to terror list
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday formally added the Pakistani Taliban to its list of foreign terrorist organizations, imposing financial and travel sanctions on the group which claimed responsibility for the failed bomb plot in New York's Times Square.
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