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India's green revolutionary is back in spotlight
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Forty years after he helped rescue the world from growing famine and a deepening gloom over the future of food supplies, Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan is once again agitating for revolution -- this time a perpetual one.
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China trains guides as tourists flock to mountains (AFP)
AFP - As mountain climbing booms in China, the first group of guides trained by an expert Frenchman will soon graduate -- part of a government drive to boost safety standards.
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Peace here, Nepal mothers want news of missing sons
NAUBISE, Nepal (Reuters) - Five years ago on a warm August night loud thuds on the door altered Tirtha Kumari Bhujel's life forever.
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Clandestine workers step forward in French protests
Strikes by illegal immigrants working in restaurants have mushroomed into a broader protest, spreading fast outside the capital.
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Platypus looks strange on the inside, too
The platypus genome is an amalgam of genes reflecting significant branching in evolution, scientists reported.
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Fierce fighting breaks out east of Beirut
The fighting followed overnight clashes in the northern city of Tripoli that left at least two people dead and five wounded, according to security officials.
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Young Saudis ask, 'Where is the love?'
Young Saudis have completely accepted the religious and cultural demands of the Muslim world's most conservative society, including strict taboos on pre-marital romance.
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As inflation squeezes middle-class Europe, anxiety about the future
A generation of European workers is coping with the reality that they may be becoming worse off, not better off, than their parents.
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Modern American architectural gems set for auction
The Kaufmann House in Palm Springs, California, designed by Richard Neutra, and the Margaret Esherick House in Philadelphia, designed by Louis Kahn, will go on the block in New York and Chicago, respectively.
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As Gazprom's chairman moves up, so does Russia's most powerful company
Dmitri Medvedev's swearing-in as the president of Russia confirms that the line separating big business and the state is becoming so fine that it is almost nonexistent.
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Gas prices send surge of riders to mass transit
Cities with long-established public transit systems and areas with a strong driving culture are both reporting increases in ridership on trains and buses.
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In reality, TV contestants turn up losers
Contestants on reality shows in Europe and the United States have gone to court for better pay and working conditions and have scored an initial victory in France. If they continue to be successful, TV producers may lose their least expensive programming.
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Serbian president claims victory in elections
The pro-Western leader of declared victory in parliamentary elections Sunday in a stunning upset over ultranationalists, but his rivals vowed to fight on.
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Deal reached on truce in Sadr City
Shiite leaders in Parliament and in the Sadrist movement agreed to a truce that would end more than a month of bloody fighting in the Baghdad ghetto.
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Republicans forced to turn to their nemesis: John McCain
U.S. Republicans, petrified about a November debacle, are seeking help from John McCain, the presumptive presidential nominee who was once vilified by party leaders.
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A medical mystery: Artificial hips that squeak
The artificial hips made of ceramic materials were promoted as being more durable, but the noises have raised concern about possible malfunctions.
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Sudan cuts ties with Chad over alleged rebel support
Hundreds of Darfur rebels flooded into the outskirts of Khartoum, Sudan's well-fortified capital, then were repulsed by the military.
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Remember Andijan?
The West didn't have to sacrifice the victims of the Uzbek massacre.
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Tempting targets
The Middle East's military tapestry has established atomic plants as fair game.
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Souren Melikian: In a changed world, million-dollar works continue to soar
The new reality of wealth was partly concealed this week by the huge numbers posted at Christie's on Tuesday evening, $277.27 million, and at Sotheby's on Wednesday evening, $235.33 million.
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Brooks: Conservative revival
It used to be that American conservatives shaped British political thinking. Now the influence is going the other way.
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For Obama and McCain, similar plans for victory
Even before the Democratic nomination fight ends, the candidates are focusing on independent voters, Latinos and about a dozen states.
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Tornadoes and storms kill 22 in 3 U.S. states
Emergency crews searched through the wreckage Sunday from violent storms that killed at least 22 people in Missouri, Oklahoma and Georgia.
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International students turn to recruiters
British and Australian universities have for years paid commissions to overseas recruiting agents. Now the practice is spreading in the United States.
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Myanmar junta still blocking cyclone aid
A trickle of aid shipments arrived more than a week after a massive cyclone hit, but officials continued to bar major shipments to the storm's survivors.
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A port without shelter: Clandestine migrants stuck in 'jungle' by Calais
On the coasts of northern France, Kurds, Afghans and Eritreans bide their time as they wait to be smuggled over the English Channel, undeterred by regular tear gas assaults by French riot police.
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Sadr City bomb squad: Looking for trouble before it explodes
American soldiers search for roadside bombs around the clock, in dangerous missions hidden behind the bland job description of "route clearance."
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Instrument, now unwelcome in Iraq, thrives in exile
Two musicians - one in Iraq, one in the United States - are bound by their passion for the oud, a pear-shaped instrument whose roots run deep in Iraq's history.
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Fighting spreads to Beirut outskirts
Fighting between pro- and anti-government supporters in Lebanon spread Sunday beyond the capital of Beirut to the mainly Druse mountains east of the city, officials said.
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Tragedy of dead and survivors in Myanmar grows worse
YANGON (Reuters) - Desperate survivors of Cyclone Nargis headed out of Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta in search of food, water and medicine, but aid workers said on Sunday that thousands will die if emergency supplies don't get through soon.
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Militants withdraw from streets of Sadr City
Shops were reopening in the Baghdad neighborhood on Sunday on the first day of a cease-fire between Shiite extremists and U.S.-backed Iraqi forces, after two months of intense clashes.
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Chad denies involvement in Sudan's Darfur rebel attack on capital Khartoum
The Chadian government on Sunday denied accusations made by the Sudanese government that N'Djamena was involved in the Saturday attack of the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) on capital Khartoum.
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Politically suicide attack by Darfur rebels in Sudan
By infiltrating into the Sudanese capital Khartoum and launching attacks, a major rebel movement in the western Sudanese region of Darfur could get nothing but grievous losses and unanimous condemnation by the international society, local a ...
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Gov't of Sudan to lodge complaint to UN Security Council against Chad
Sudan announced on Sunday it would lodge an official complaint to the United Nations Security Council against Chad's government for its role in the rebel attack on Khartoum.
Undersecretary of the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs ...
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Sudan announces end of "terrorist operation" of rebels in Khartoum
The Sudanese government termed on Sunday night the Saturday's attack by rebels in Khartoum as a "terrorist operation for sabotage," announcing that the operation had "finished."
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