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• French court to deliver final ruling on Concorde crash

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   | Friday - November 30th, 2012

  VERSAILLES, France: A French court will yesterday deliver a final verdict on who was to blame for the [...]

• China leaning tower ‘stable at present’ — Report

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   | Friday - November 30th, 2012

  BEIJING: An ancient Chinese tower tilting at a perilous angle has earned comparisons with Italy’s Leaning Tower of [...]

• UN tribunal acquits Kosovo ex-PM of war crimes

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   | Friday - November 30th, 2012

  THE HAGUE: The UN Yugoslav war crimes court yesterday acquitted Kosovo’s ex-prime minister Ramush Haradinaj and two aides [...]

• China says considering attending US-hosted military exercise

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   | Friday - November 30th, 2012

  BEIJING: China’s Defence Ministry said yesterday it was considering a US invitation to attend military drills in the [...]

• Indonesia: New Chinese passports ‘counterproductive’

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   | Friday - November 30th, 2012

  JAKARTA: Indonesia’s foreign minister said in an interview published yesterday that new Chinese passports featuring a map laying [...]

• Cops uncover Australia’s biggest ever credit card data theft

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   | Friday - November 30th, 2012

  SYDNEY: Australian police said yesterday they had uncovered the country’s biggest ever credit card data theft and smashed [...]

• Botswana to ban wildlife hunting

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   | Thursday - November 29th, 2012

  Botswana, one of Africa’s premier safari destinations, said Thursday it will ban commercial hunting of wildlife because of [...]

• Attacks against Shiites kill eight in Iraq

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   | Thursday - November 29th, 2012

  Bombs targeting Shiite Muslims in areas south of Baghdad on Thursday killed eight people and wounded 20 others, [...]