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Ike blasts Turks and Caicos, floods Haiti again
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AP - Ike ripped off roofs, swept away boats and collapsed a bridge on the last road into a flooded Haitian city on Sunday as it roared over the southern Bahamas as a ferocious Category 4 hurricane. The Florida Keys evacuated and Cuba prepared for a direct hit.
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Ike's floods add insult to Haiti's misery, kill 10
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AP - Haitians took to their roofs to escape rising floodwaters Sunday for the second time in a week as squalls from Hurricane Ike added insult to their misery, inundating homes and collapsing a bridge on the last open land route for aid to the desperate city.
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Egypt rock slide toll rises to 31
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AP - Hopes diminished Sunday for finding survivors among hundreds of people believed trapped beneath massive boulders that destroyed an impoverished neighborhood on Cairo's outskirts, killing at least 31 people, including whole extended families.
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Canada's prime minister calls early election
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AP - Canada's prime minister on Sunday triggered an early election, dissolving Parliament in a bid to bolster his party's grip on power in a vote next month that will be the country's third national ballot in four years.
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Health chiefs battle to bring back Iraqi doctors
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AP - A kidney specialist who fled Iraq's bombings, kidnappings and sectarian killings 20 months ago has reported back to work at his Baghdad hospital ? one of some 800 doctors who have returned over the summer.
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EU probes newspaper cash-for-secrets allegations
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AFP - The European Commission said Sunday it is looking into allegations by a British newspaper that a senior EU official gave market-sensitive information to reporters posing as business lobbyists.
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Iraqi parliament faces urgent national issues
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AP - Iraqi lawmakers end their summer break this week facing urgent tasks of approving a new election law and signing off on a still-unfinished security pact with the U.S. ? key steps in laying the foundation for a lasting peace.
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Fierce Hurricane Ike approaches Turks and Caicos
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AP - The National Hurricane Center in Miami says an "extremely dangerous" Hurricane Ike is roaring toward the Turks and Caicos islands as a fierce Category 4 storm.
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Zimbabwe opposition chief wants new vote if no talks breakthrough
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AFP - Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai called on Sunday for fresh elections, supervised by international observers, if deadlocked power-sharing talks do not reach a breakthrough.
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Taiwan leaders seek to ease economic concerns
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- AP - Taiwanese leaders sought to ease mounting complaints about the island's slowing economy on Sunday, the latest in a string of public apologies and promises to prop up consumer demand and investment.
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Thousands of Australia's koalas felled by land-clearing: WWF
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AFP - Australian koalas are dying by the thousands as a result of land clearing in the country's northeast, while millions of birds and reptiles are also perishing, conservation group WWF said Sunday.
