SUKKUR, Pakistan – Disease outbreaks pose grave risks to victims of Pakistan’s worst floods in decades, aid agencies said yesterday, causing fresh concern about already complicated relief efforts.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – Alabama is suing BP Plc, Transocean and Halliburton for “catastrophic harm” caused by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the state’s attorney general said yesterday.
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MOSCOW – Russia said yesterday it would begin loading nuclear fuel into the reactor of Iran’s first atomic power station on Aug. 21, an irreversible step marking the start-up of the Bushehr plant after nearly 40 years of delays.
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NEW DELHI – Research In Motion has promised India a technical solution for decoding encrypted BlackBerry data, a senior official said yesterday, a step that could allay Indian security concerns about the smartphone and avert a shutdown.
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PRETORIA – Major South African public sector unions will respond next week to a revised government pay offer, suspending for several days a threatened mass strike they said would bring services to a halt, officials said yesterday. – – – –
BEIRUT – Lebanon may be plunged into a political crisis which could bring down its coalition government if the U.N. tribunal investigating the killing of former premier Rafik al-Hariri indicts members of the Shi’ite group Hezbollah.
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about issues blocking direct peace talks with the Palestinians as the Obama administration boosted pressure for talks to begin, the State Department said yesterday.
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BEIJING – A senior Chinese military strategist called planned U.S. naval exercises in the region a provocation and accused the Obama administration of seeking to encircle China and pursuing a “chaotic” approach towards Beijing.
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YANGON – Myanmar will hold its first parliamentary elections in two decades on Nov. 7, state media said yesterday, ending speculation over the timing of a poll criticised by rights groups as a sham to entrench military power.
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DUBLIN – European economic growth accelerated sharply in the second quarter of 2010 as Germany’s best performance since reunification more than made up for the struggles of Spain, Ireland and recession-ravaged Greece.
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