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An 18-month-old boy has been killed along with an elderly driver who careered off a busy main road and ploughed into the toddler and his mother, police said.
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Defence chiefs must do more to tackle a sharp rise in the number of British troops injured or ill
Defence chiefs must do more to tackle a sharp rise in the number of British troops in Afghanistan suffering from illness and minor injuries, the National Audit Office has said.
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Health crisis in Haiti enters a deadly new phase
Fourteen-month-old Abigail Charlot survived Haiti's cataclysmic earthquake but not its miserable aftermath.
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US Army closes in on targeted southern Afghan town
NATO and Afghan officials, meanwhile, urged militants holding Marjah, where an offensive is expected, to lay down their arms and warned civilians there to "keep your heads down." About 400 U.S. troops from the 5th Stryker Brigade as well as 250 Afghan soldiers and their 30 Canadian trainers moved into positions northeast of the town.
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Nuke fears rise as Iran ramps up uranium enrichment
As promised, Iran began enriching uranium to 20 percent on Tuesday, state media said.
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Toyota recalls 437,000 Prius, other hybrids
Toyota is recalling about 437,000 Prius and other hybrid cars worldwide to fix brake problems a ' the latest in a string of embarrassing safety problems at the world's largest automaker.
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Cattle battle: NZealand has more cows than kiwis
New Zealanders who for decades have endured jokes about being outnumbered 20-to-1 by sheep have a new farm animal majority to worry about: cows.
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British Soldier Killed In Afghanistan Blast
A British soldier has been killed in an explosion in Afghanistan, taking the number of service deaths in the conflict beyond that suffered in the Falklands war.
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Sri Lankan opposition leader arrested for sedition
Sri Lanka's defeated presidential candidate was hauled from his office by military police Monday and will be court-martialed for allegedly planning to overthrow the government while serving as the head of the army.
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Gunmen attack ex-Pakistani minister, kill 2 aides
Police say gunmen have attacked a vehicle carrying a former Pakistani government minister just outside the capital, killing at least two of his aides.
Officials say 6 army soldiers dead, 60 trapped as avalanche hits Indian Kashmir
A massive avalanche hit an Indian army training center at a ski resort town in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Monday, killing at least six soldiers and trapping nearly 60 others.
Costa Rica's ruling party candidate sweeps toward victory that would mark 1st woman president
Costa Rica's governing party candidate swept toward an election victory Sunday night that would make her the first woman president in this Central American nation.
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Harry to make Brits appearance
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The battered bodies may be mending, but the minds still struggle. As many as one in five Haiti earthquake victims have suffered trauma so great with the multiple shock of lost homes, jobs and loved ones that they won't be able to cope without professional help, doctors say.
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Prayers for murder-suicide family
A man believed to have killed his wife and daughter then taken his own life was a doting father who would "go red if you swore in front of him", a family friend said.
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Lebanon: Black box of Ethiopian jet retrieved
Lebanon's marine commandos on Sunday recovered the black box of the Ethiopian Airlines jet that crashed into the Mediterranean last month, the Lebanese army said in a statement.
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Yushchenko rattles Ukraine as election nears
Reporting from Lviv, Ukraine - Sinking into irrelevance as rival politicians scrapped to take his place, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko lobbed a grenade into the final days of the campaign: He named a controversial anti-Soviet nationalist assassinated by the KGB half a century ago a "Hero of Ukraine." Here in Ukraine's most avidly ...
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G-7 Seeks To Calm Global Markets, Sustain Rebound
Top finance officials of the seven major industrial countries sought to calm jittery markets by pledging Saturday to keep providing government aid to sustain a fledgling economic rebound.
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Brown welcomes Haiti debt write-off
Gordon Brown has welcomed the G7's commitment to write off Haiti's debt in the wake of last month's crippling earthquake.
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Haiti relief supplies stall in shipping limbo
Cases of bottled water and cardboard boxes full of blue jeans, diapers and cans of tuna are piled a several feet high in Ruth Estriplet's living room.
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