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• New Abu Ghraib prison to show crimes of Saddam

  - 2008-09-03

  BAGHDAD AFP — Iraq said on Wednesday it plans to rebuild the the notorious Abu Ghraib prison, complete with a museum to portray crimes committed by the regime of executed dictator Saddam Hussein. The prison, located 25 kilometres (15 miles) west of Baghdad, was closed in September 2006 after...

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• Thousands pay tribute to late Zambian president Mwanawasa

  - 2008-09-03

  LUSAKA AFP — Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai put aside their rivalry Wednesday to join African heads of state at the funeral of Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa. The bitter rivals mingled with more than a dozen African heads of state and government, as well as...

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• Pakistan border attack 'counter-productive': foreign ministry

  - 2008-09-03

  ISLAMABAD AFP — Pakistan said Wednesday that an attack on its soil by international troops that killed at least 15 civilians was "counter-productive" to joint efforts at fighting terrorism. "Such actions are counter-productive and certainly do not help our joint efforts to fight terrorism," the foreign ministry said in...

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• Spanish region prepares pioneering euthanasia law

  - 2008-09-03

  MADRID AFP — The local government of Spain's southwestern region of Andalucia said Wednesday it was preparing a pioneering euthanasia law which would allow terminally ill patients to refuse medical treatment and make it illegal to keep someone alive by artificial means. Under the text of the draft law,...

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• Trial begins for Venezuelan in alleged hush-money case

  - 2008-09-03

  MIAMI AFP — The trial of a Venezuelan accused with four others of seeking to silence a US-Venezuelan national caught entering Argentina with a suitcase full of 800,000 dollars got under way here Tuesday. Franklin Duran, three other Venezuelans and an Uruguayan living in the United States have been...

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• African migrants die on route to Spain's Canary Islands

  - 2008-09-03

  MADRID AFP — Fourteen African migrants died, mostly of hypothermia, trying to reach Spain's Canary Islands by boat after they became lost at sea several times, local officials said Wednesday. The wooden fishing boat carrying 46 passengers and the bodies of 13 others was spotted by a police patrol...

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• Hong Kong Disneyland needs to expand, attract Chinese: chief

  - 2008-09-03

  HONG KONG AFP — Hong Kong Disneyland's new managing director said Wednesday the troubled theme park needed to build more attractions in order to thrive, but a government funding dispute had not yet been resolved. Andrew Kam said Disney were hoping to resolve the dispute with the Hong Kong...

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• Legal challenge to French warship dismantling in Britain

  - 2008-09-03

  LONDON AFP — Environmental campaigners said Wednesday they would go to the courts in a bid to stop an asbestos-contaminated French aircraft carrier from being broken up in Britain. The 32,700-tonne Clemenceau, once the pride of the French navy, has spent the past five years being moved around the...

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• Romanian farmers demand 50-percent cut in fuel prices

  - 2008-09-03

  BUCHAREST AFP — About a thousand farmers protested Wednesday across Romania, driving into the capital with their tractors and lorries to demand a drastic cut in fuel prices, unions said. "We want a 50-percent cut in oil prices for farmers," the president of the federation of farmers' unions Agrostar,...

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• Protests could cut Bolivian gas exports, opposition warns

  - 2008-09-03

  LA PAZ AFP — Bolivia's opposition governors turned up the heat on President Evo Morales Wednesday, threatening that stepped-up protests against his socialist government could cut off exports of natural gas, the country's main economic asset, to Argentina and Brazil. Authorities in Santa Cruz, Beni, Pando, Tarija and Chuquisaca,...

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