The head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has described as “tragic” the lack of action on climate change by developed countries.
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Two suicide bombers blew themselves up near the gates of a military arms factory in Pakistan on Thursday, killing more than 20 people and wounding 50, police said.
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Spanish gold medal-winning sailors Fernando Echavarri and Anton Paz paid their own tribute to victims of the Madrid air disaster by donning black armbands at their victory ceremony in Beijing.
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown arrived in Afghanistan on Thursday, the prime minister’s office said.
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Pirates hijacked two ships off the coast of Somalia on Thursday, the latest of several attacks that have generated international concern.
For the first time that sumo wrestling’s governing body can recall, one of its revered athletes has been nabbed for drug possession.
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