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January 19, 2007

11:15
Police have begun to question all 37 residents of a village in northern Spain in connection with the shooting death of the village mayor last week, according to a report in a Spanish newspaper.
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10:32
Hackers are using the storm that killed at least 27 people in Europe this week as a "hook for the unsuspecting" to distribute a virus, a Finnish computer security company says.
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08:42
Hackers are using the storm that killed at least 27 people in Europe this week as a "hook for the unsuspecting" to distribute a virus, a Finnish computer security company says.
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08:27
Thousands of civilians fled as the Sri Lankan military took over large areas of a rebel-held town in eastern Batticaloa district on Friday.
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07:51
A Turkish journalist of Armenian descent who was convicted of insulting Turkey's national identity was shot to death Friday outside his newspaper's offices, police said.
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07:16
Officials on both sides of the border foiled a convicted U.S. sex offender's recent attempt to start a new life with a new identity in Canada, said an immigration official in Manitoba on Thursday.
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04:55
Jordan is pursuing plans to develop a nuclear program for peaceful purposes, King Abdullah told an Israeli newspaper.
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04:53
The federal government is planning to send MP Wajid Khan on a second trip to the Middle East even though a report from the first trip he made as a special adviser has yet to be made public, a newspaper reported Friday.
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03:33
Prince Charles is being accused of hypocrisy after planning to fly more than 11,000 kilometres with a staff of 20 people on a jumbo jet to accept an environmental award.
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02:37
Israel has transferred more than $100 million US in tax revenues to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, an official from the Israeli prime minister's office said Friday.
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January 18, 2007

21:02
The worst storm in years is pounding Northern Europe, killing at least 46 people, knocking out power to millions and bringing most travel to a standstill.
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14:46
After withering criticism in a Senate hearing, the U.S. attorney general promised more details on the case of Maher Arar, a Canadian who ended up in a cell in Syria.
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14:46
After withering criticism in a Senate hearing, the U.S. attorney general promised more details on the case of Maher Arar, a Canadian who ended up in a cell in Syria.
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13:26
The Public Health Agency of Canada has sent five infectious disease specialists and a mobile laboratory to help contain an outbreak of Rift Valley fever in Kenya.
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13:26
The Public Health Agency of Canada has sent five infectious disease specialists and a mobile laboratory to help contain an outbreak of Rift Valley fever in Kenya.
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10:56
Canada, Australia and the United States told China on Thursday that they are upset that it conducted an anti-satellite weapons test involving a ballistic missile last week.
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10:37
Israel intends to hand over more than $100 million US in frozen tax revenues to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas by the end of Friday, according to a senior Israeli offical.
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10:26
A Missouri man pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges of kidnapping a 13-year-old boy who was found four days later in the man's apartment with another boy missing for more than four years.
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06:58
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is expected to brief British Prime Minister Tony Blair in London on Thursday on the results of her recent tour of the Middle East.
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06:01
Flames trapped dozens of workers in an unfinished highrise in Dubai on Thursday, injuring up to 39 workers and claiming four lives, according to reports.
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