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| Australian foreign minister rseigns |
Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd Wednesday resigned, saying he no longer had the support of Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
He announced his resignation at a press conference in Washington.
"I cannot continue to serve as foreign minister if I do not have the prime minister’s support," The Age newspaper's website quoted him as saying.
"I feel very uncomfortable doing this from Washington rather than in Australia but I don't feel I have a choice," Rudd said.
Rudd said the reign of "faceless men" and their iron grip on the control .... |
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| Dead woman married twice in China |
Investigators in China's Hebei province are shocked after coming across a bizarre incident in which a woman's corpse was married twice.
During this year's Spring Festival, a family surnamed Wu sold their daughter's dead body for 35,000 yuan ($5,557) to a man surnamed Liu who wanted to perform a " yin marriage" -- a marriage between two dead bodi .... |
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| Cold kills 24 kids in Afghan province |
Twentyfour children have died over the past four days in Badakhshan province due to snowfall, chilly weather and cold-related diseases, an official sa .... |
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US to import cancer drug from IndiaThe United States today said it will import cancer drug manufactured in India to overcome the acute shortage of the medicine used in treatment of ovarian, bone marrow and AIDS-related skin cancer.
Exercising its enforcement discretion, the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) said the chemotherapeutic drug Lipodox will be i .... |
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10 killed, 17 injured in China factory blastAt least ten persons were killed and seventeen others injured in an explosion at a steel plant in northeast China’s Liaoning province.
Three persons were also reported to be missing.
The accident took place on Monday night at a steel-casting workshop in the city of Anshan, according to a statement issued by the public .... |
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Musharraf denies his involvement in Bhutto' s assassinationFormer military ruler Pervez Musharraf has denied allegations about his involvement in the assassination of ex-premier
Benazir Bhutto, saying President Asif Ali Zardari knows who killed her.Reacting to remarks made by Interior Minister Rehman Malik yesterday during a briefing on the assassination in the Sindh.
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Gillard says she has colleagues' strong supportPrime Minister Julia Gillard said on Tuesday she still had enough support to lead the government despite growing speculation that Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd plans to seize power.
Ms. Gillard came to power in an internal coup within her Labour Party that ousted Rudd in June 2010. She became only the third Prime Minister .... |
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Hitler had son with French teenAdolf Hitler had a son with a French teenager while serving as a soldier during the First World War, The Telegraph reported Friday.
Jean-Marie Loret, who died in 1985 aged 67, never met his father, but went on to fight Nazi forces during the Second World War.
His extraordinary story has now been backed up by a range o .... |
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Eurozone approves bailout for GreeceEurozone finance ministers have reached an agreement on a second bailout for Greece worth 130 billion euros (172 billion dollars), diplomats in Brussels said early Tuesday after more than 12 hours of negotiations.
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After more than 12 hours of talks, the countries that use to euro reached an agreement early .... |
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Iran condemns Bangkok blastsIran Wednesday condemned the three blasts in Bangkok in which five people were injured, including an Iranian who lost both his legs after a bomb he lobbed bounced back from a tree and exploded near him.
Foreign ministry spokesperson Ramin Mehmanparast rejected the accusations levelled at Iran by Israel and denied any lin .... |
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Afghans boils over Koran desecrationAbout 2,000 Afghans protested outside the main US military base in Afghanistan on Tuesday over a report that foreign soldiers improperly disposed of copies of the Koran. US helicopters fired flares to try to break up as many as 2,000 demonstrators who massed outside several gates to the base, chanting anti-foreigner slogans .... |
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Russia may set up defence research agencyThe Russian government will submit a proposal to the parliament on the establishment of an advanced military research agency, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin has said.
The new government body will be similar in its purpose to the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the US.
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