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| Pakistan Braces for More Damage After Deadliest Floods Affect 13.8 Million |
Flood victims, escaping rising waters, scramble to alight a Pakistan Army helicopter during air rescue operations by the Pakistan Army on August 9, 2010 in the Muzaffargarh district in Punjab, Pakistan. |
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Aug 8, 2010 Re-election for Kagame Likely as Campaigns Conclude in Rwanda |
| Photo: AP Presidential hopefuls in Rwanda have wrapped up their campaigns as the country prepares to go the polls Monday. Despite challenges from three opposition leaders, President Paul Kagame is widely expected to be returned to office. | |
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Aug 8, 2010 Pakistan Sees More Rains as Worst Floods in 80 Years Hit 12 Million People |
| Pakistani flood survivor queue food supplies in Nowshera. Pakistan's army is leading the relief effort, evacuating people, distributing drinking water and food and repairing bridges and ... | |
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Aug 8, 2010 South Korea Urges North to Release Fishing Boat, Crew as Tension Increases |
| South Korea called on North Korea to return a fishing boat and its crew seized by the communist nation amid heightened tensions over military exercises involving the US Navy. | |
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Aug 7, 2010 Pakistan's President Zardari is pelted with shoes at Birmingham rally |
| Pakistan's president, Asif Ali Zardari, had shoes thrown at him today as he attended a political rally in Birmingham. Mr Zardari, who is under criticism for visiting Britain while Pakistan is suffering from devastating floods, ... | |
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Aug 7, 2010 Colombia's new president lays out his vision in speech |
| Juan Manuel Santos catapulted to the presidency of Colombia after the armed forces, under his watch, delivered the biggest blows against the FARC rebel group in the country's long conflict. | |
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Aug 6, 2010 U.S. Envoy to Go to Hiroshima Memorial |
| WASHINGTON—The US will for the first time send a representative to attend Japan's annual memorial marking America's atomic bombing of Hiroshima, in a move that could strengthen US ties with Japan but one that also ... | |
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Aug 6, 2010 Poland's new pro-European president is sworn in |
| WARSAW, Poland - Poland's new president pledged to serve as a unifying force and work closely with European allies as he was sworn in Friday - but the ceremony was overshadowed by the plane crash that killed his predecessor and snubbed by his defeated ... | |
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Aug 5, 2010 Naomi Campbell: Taylor's blood diamonds could be worth £950 million |
| The value of diamonds looted by Sierra Leone's rebels and allegedly traded for weapons with Charles Taylor, the West African warlord, could have been as high as £950 million. | |
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Aug 5, 2010 Japan Seeking US Wheat, Corn for Livestock Feed as Russia Bans Exports |
| Japan, Asia's second-largest wheat buyer, is seeking US supplies for livestock feed after Russia halted exports because of the worst drought in at least 50 years. | |
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