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• Inquiry closes into Trump's Scottish golf course plans

  - 2008-07-04

  LONDON AFP — A public inquiry into a refusal to allow Donald Trump to build a luxury golf resort in Scotland ended Friday, with the US property tycoon's lawyer saying it would be a "tragedy" if it was not built. "In my submission, this truly is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity....

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• UN's top disaster official arrives in Myanmar

  - 2008-05-18

  YANGON AFP — The UN's top disaster official John Holmes arrived in Myanmar on Sunday on a three-day visit to convince the reluctant regime to open the doors to a massive relief effort after Cyclone Nargis. He arrived just hours after the latest UN emergency report on the country...

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• China mine blast leaves 40 dead, 74 trapped: government

  - 2007-12-05

  BEIJING AFP — An explosion at a coal mine in northern China killed 40 people Thursday and trapped another 74 underground, officials said, in the latest tragedy to strike the notoriously unsafe industry. The gas blast happened just after midnight at a mine in Linfen city, a big coal...

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• US unsure who carried out Pakistan attacks

  - 2007-10-19

  WASHINGTON AFP — The White House on Friday condemned the attack on former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto as "an horrific tragedy" but declined to blame Al-Qaeda or any other specific group for the bombings. "I don't have any specific information on who it might be, which organization. I think...

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• Cyprus diplomat's death a 'tragedy': US embassy

  - 2007-07-03

  NICOSIA AFP — The death of the US defence attache in Cyprus was a personal tragedy without security connotations, the embassy said Tuesday after his body was found on a remote hilltop with a self-inflicted injury. "At this point in the investigation, it is now clear that LCT Thomas...

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• Queen Elizabeth II to pay Virginia Tech tribute on US visit

  - 2007-04-24

  LONDON AFP — Queen Elizabeth II is to pay tribute to the 32 victims killed in the Virginia Tech massacre when she visits the United States next month, her office said Tuesday. A spokeswoman said Buckingham Palace was in discussions with the British embassy there and Virginia state authorities...

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• Gun store owner feels numb but not responsible for US shooting

  - 2007-04-18

  BLACKSBURG, United States AFP — The owner of the store where gunman Cho Seung-hui bought one of the pistols used in Monday's US university shooting said he feels numb over the tragedy, but not responsible. John Markell, the owner of Roanoke Firearms in Virginia, told the New York Daily...

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• Veteran Mugabe to stand again in 2008

  - 2007-03-30

  HARARE AFP — Zimbabwe's veteran leader Robert Mugabe was chosen by his ruling ZANU-PF party on Friday to stand again as its candidate in presidential elections next year, a party spokesman said. The decision was taken after a lengthy closed-door session of the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic-Front (ZANU-PF)...

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• SKorea plans memorial to US slaughter of civilians

  - 2007-03-22

  SEOUL AFP — The South Korean government said Thursday it will build a park in memory of scores of civilians killed by US soldiers in the early months of the 1950-53 Korean War. The government has allocated 19.1 billion won (20.3 million dollars) for the park at the scene...

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• Indonesia plane inferno kills 21

  - 2007-03-06

  YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia AFP — An Indonesian airliner with more than 130 people aboard burst into flames and shot off the runway Wednesday after landing in Yogyakarta city, killing at least 21 people, officials said. Witnesses and survivors described a horrific inferno that swept through the Boeing 737-400 of state...

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