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   Day of the locusts for German investor critic 

   Reuters - Yesterday, 11:23 am

   BERLIN (Reuters) - Back in 2005, German politician Franz Muentefering likened unscrupulous financial investors to locusts that chewed up firms and moved on. More »

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   Police and protesters clash violently in Tehran

   AFP - Wednesday, November 4 06:27 pm

   TEHRAN (AFP) - Riot police waded in with batons and teargas to break up opposition protests in Tehran on Wednesday, as huge crowds staged a noisy anti-US rally nearby to mark the storming of the American embassy by students 30 years ago. More »

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   Giant snake capture was a hoax - Florida agents

   Reuters - Thursday, November 5 04:56 pm

   MIAMI (Reuters) - A man who caught a 14-foot (4.2-metre) python in a Florida drain pipe was charged with perpetrating a hoax after wildlife officers discovered he owned the snake and put it in the pipe in order to stage the capture. More »

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   Tsvangirai calls off Zimbabwe unity government boycott

   AFP - Thursday, November 5 08:54 pm

   MAPUTO (AFP) - Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Thursday said he had called off a boycott of power-sharing ties with President Robert Mugabe that had paralysed the fragile unity government for three weeks. More »

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   Zimbabwe faces new deadline for reforms

   AFP - Yesterday, 11:46 am

   HARARE (AFP) - Zimbabwe averted a political meltdown Friday after Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai ended a boycott of the unity government, but faced a new deadline to resolve a slate of thorny disputes. More »

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   Kate Winslet wins damages over exercise libel 

   Reuters - Tuesday, November 3 05:29 pm

   LONDON (Reuters) - Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet accepted libel damages of 25,000 pounds ($41,000) on Tuesday over allegations she publicly lied about her exercise regime. More »

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   Yemeni rebels say holding Saudi soldiers 

   Reuters - Yesterday, 05:11 pm

   RIYADH (Reuters) - Yemen's Shi'ite rebels said they had captured some Saudi soldiers on Friday, after Riyadh said it would press on with its offensive until it had cleared them from its territory. More »

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   Zimbabwe proposes local ownership of foreign firms

   Reuters - Yesterday, 09:00 am

   HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's government has proposed that Zimbabweans take 51 percent ownership of all foreign companies in the country, including mines and banks, according to a draft law seen by Reuters on Friday. More »

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   WITNESS - The news conference that toppled the Wall

   Reuters - Wednesday, November 4 12:08 pm

   BERLIN (Reuters) - It's not often that a historic announcement comes, as an afterthought, almost by accident, at the end of an otherwise stultifyingly tedious press conference. More »

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    Did he or did she? Transvestites on trial theft 

    Reuters - Wednesday, October 28 04:44 am

    SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Five Filipino transvestites have gone on trial in Shanghai, accused of drugging men with adulterated foods before robbing them in a city with a reputation for an adventurous nightlife. More »