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at 9:18 on March 12, 2010, EDT.
ALMATY, Kazakhstan - Heavy rain and melting snow have caused severe floods across a region of Kazakhstan neighbouring China, flooding villages and claiming at least 20 lives, emergency officials said Friday.
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at 9:16 on March 12, 2010, EDT.
LAHORE, Pakistan - A pair of suicide bombers targeting army vehicles detonated explosives within seconds of each other Friday, killing at least 43 people in this eastern city and wounding about 100, police said. It was the fourth major attack in Pakistan this week, indicating Islamist militants are stepping up violence after a period of relative calm.
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at 9:10 on March 12, 2010, EDT.
BAGHDAD - An Iraqi Shiite religious alliance with ties to Iran is leading in one southern province according to the latest vote tallies released.
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at 8:40 on March 12, 2010, EDT.
SANTIAGO, Chile - Calling on Chileans to dry their tears and get to work to rebuild the nation, Sebastian Pinera is already setting an example.
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at 8:37 on March 12, 2010, EDT.
JERUSALEM - Israel is moving to amend the country's planning procedures on sensitive political decisions following an embarrassing diplomatic flap during a visit this week by U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden, a Cabinet minister said Friday.
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at 8:33 on March 12, 2010, EDT.
VATICAN CITY - Germany's top bishop has informed Pope Benedict XVI about cases of clerical sex abuse in the pontiff's native Germany and said the pope encouraged him to pursue the truth and assist the victims.
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at 7:12 on March 12, 2010, EDT.
TOKYO - Japan's coast guard arrested an anti-whaling activist from New Zealand on Friday for illegally boarding a whaling ship last month in the latest incident in the ongoing battle over Japanese whaling.
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at 7:07 on March 12, 2010, EDT.
JACKSON, Miss. - An 18-year-old lesbian student who wanted to take her girlfriend to her senior prom is asking a federal judge to force her Mississippi school district reinstate the dance it cancelled rather than let the couple attend.
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at 6:54 on March 12, 2010, EDT.
BEIJING - Eleven rare Siberian tigers, starving and kept in small cages, have died at a cash-strapped zoo in China, heightening concerns about conditions at wildlife facilities in the country, where activists say profiteering off the carcasses of endangered species sometimes drives over-breeding.
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at 6:04 on March 12, 2010, EDT.
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Fighting erupted in Somalia's capital for the third straight day Friday in some of the worst violence in nearly a year, as government-backed troops shelled the front lines of rebels trying to advance into government-held territory.
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