HUGO Chavez, president of Venezuela, has seized control of a foreign-owned eucalyptus plantation, vowing to clear the trees and use the land for other crops as he seeks to t
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THE flamboyant Indian tycoon who owns the Whyte Mackay distillery has many reasons to be cheerful.
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MOROCCO has cut diplomatic links with Iran, it said yesterday, in the wake of outcry in the Sunni Muslim world over a statement by an Iranian official questioning Bahrain#3
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POLICE have arrested a Chilean man who tried to smuggle drugs into Barcelona with a cast made of cocaine fitted on a broken leg.
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MORGAN Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe’s prime minister, was injured last night in a car crash that claimed the life of his wife.
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FEARS that Russia is protecting and propagating a Soviet version of history have been heightened after a government minister warned that foreign leaders could be punished unde
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HEZBOLLAH officials last night said they would welcome talks with Britain, but rejected what they said were British demands for the contacts to take place secretly.
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BARACK Obama, the US president, will hold an event on Monday at which he will sign an executive order related to stem cell research, an administration official said last n
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A BOMB-LADEN car exploded in north-western Pakistan today as police were trying to pull a body from it, killing seven officers and a passer-by.
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Josef Fritzl, the Austrian accused of keeping his daughter as a sex slave for 24 years, is likely to plead guilty, his lawyer says.
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