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Fire tears through a Shanghai high-rise apartment building, killing at least 8 people and injuring scores.
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Blocking access to web sites containing child pornography may not be entirely effective, and could be hard to do EU-wide, due to EU Member States' differing sensitivities and traditions, said Civil Liberties Committee MEPs on Monday, in a preliminary debate on a proposed EU directive on sexual abuse of children and child pornography.
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A Buenos Aires-bound Qantas Boeing 747 forced to turn back to Sydney one hour into the flight, due to an electrical fault.
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As a response to the address made by representatives of Lithuania's culture community and civic society concerning the future of Kristijonas Donelaitis museum in Chistye Prudy in the Kaliningrad Oblast, President of the Republic of Lithuania D. Grybauskaitė sent a letter to President D. Medvedev of the Russian Federation.
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From 15 to 17 November, the European Commissioner for Development, Andris Piebalgs, will travel to Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan to discuss the cooperation and assistance that the European Union provides for the two countries.
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Freed Myanmar pro-democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi tells supporters in Yangon she is encouraged to see them.
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Paramilitary troops train young girls in weaponry in India's northern Jammu and Kashmir state.
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Two elephants in northeastern India fight a two-hour-long battle, injuring a local bus driver.
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Steps to overhaul the European Union's flagship single market were discussed on Tuesday (9 November) by MEPs and interested parties.
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Strategy to secure a sustainable EU energy supply and support economic growth over the next decade.
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Enlargement strategy 2010 and assessments of the progress toward EU membership by Croatia, Iceland, Turkey, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo.
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The Euro–Mediterranean Free Trade Area was on the agenda of a meeting between EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht and Trade Ministers of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) in Brussels.
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Millions of Monarch butterflies arrive in Mexico's internationally renowned reserve as part of their annual migration to Mexico's forested mountains in Michoacan.
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Lingerie maker Triumph unveils a bra it hopes will welcome tourists to Japan, including leaders of the upcoming APEC summit.
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A remote-controlled android makes its stage debut in Tokyo.
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EU funding to help 850 former workers in the aircraft maintenance industry around Dublin find new jobs was approved by the European Parliament on Thursday.
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President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė participated in the festive events dedicated to Poland's Independence Day in Warsaw, on the invitation of President Bronislaw Komorowski of Poland.
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At the opening of plenary session in Brussels, Parliament's President Jerzy Buzek voiced support for Russian journalist Oleg Kashin, brutally beaten by unknown assailants in Moscow on 6 November, welcomed the 31 October opposition rally in Moscow, condemned attacks 10 days ago on Christians worshipping in Baghdad, and deplored Chinese pressure on EU Member States not to attend the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Oslo on 10 December.
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Saffron farmers in western Afghanistan hope to oust opium as a harvest crop.
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Mount Merapi's eruption now threatens the biggest Buddhist temple in Indonesia.
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