The remains of a French national murdered under Argentina’s military dictatorship have been identified after 34 years. High school students helped crack the case involving Frenchman Yves Domergue and his Mexican girlfriend Cristina Cialceta who were killed in 1976.

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A passenger plane of a private airliner carrying 152 people crashed in a ball of flames Wednesday into densely wooded hills outside Islamabad amid heavy rain and poor visibility, killing everyone on board.

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The naval and air readiness exercise being staged by the South Korean and U.S. militaries moved into high gear Monday, as the allied forces conducted unprecedented simultaneous drills in the eastern waters of the Korean Peninsula by employing advanced maritime and air assets.

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Kosovo, the young Balkans nation, is on the right path to become “India of Europe” in terms of information technology development and customer service call center for Europe, especially the German speaking states.

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According to a press release from The Institute of National Statistics, on January 1, 2010, the Romanian population was recorded as 21,462,000 inhabitants. The male population is represented by 48.7 percent and the female population is represented by 51.3 percent. Romania is the seventh country in the European Union on the largest population chart. It follows Germany, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Spain and Poland.

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On Thursday, Caracol Radio Station told its listeners that President Alvaro Uribe would expose incontrovertible evidence of the presence of FARC and ELN commanders in Venezuela. More than one was shocked by the news. Not so much by its content—it’s a known fact that there’s guerrilla presence in Venezuelan territories—but more by the chosen moment for making it public.

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he has sung Soviet-era patriotic songs with the 10 spies deported from the United States and knows the identities of those who betrayed them.

Putin described his meeting with the spies during a trip to Ukraine, where he also rode a Harley-Davidson motorcycle and sought to bolster Russian-Ukrainian relations.

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In what Ta Nea describes as a “planned assassination,” on 19 July, the investigative journalist and radio chief Sokratis Giolias “who was well known for his role in the uncovering of several scandals” was shot 16 times on his doorstep in Athens. “Why was this journalist targeted? And why was he targeted now?” wonders the daily. No one has claimed responsibility for the killing, however Ta Nea reminds its readers of the warning to journalists and police issued 18 months ago by “a group known as the Sect of Revolutionaries, which emerged after the 2008 riots.” Since then the group is believed to be responsible for the death of one police man.

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After 18 years of investigations, we’re closer to the truth about the massacre of Via d’Amelio of July 19^th 1992, in which  anti-mafia judge Paolo Borsellino and 5 men from his escort were killed in an explosion. “An incredible and heavy truth that the political world couldn’t withstand,” were the words spoken before the Anti-Mafia Commission by the prosecutors of Caltanissetta Sergio Lari and Nico Gozzo who have reopened the investigation on the assassination of Judge Paolo Borsellino.

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Germany opens its business gateway into Central Asia.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s presence at the Kazakh-German business forum in Astana on Sunday confirmed the European nation’s growing interest in the developing economy of Kazakhstan but also in that country’s immense energy resources. Merkel, in fact, noted that Kazakhstan was the fourth largest energy supplier in Germany.

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Louis Walsh has some controversial views on what it takes it be a star and it has nothing to do with musical talent.

People who are good at sales, or some other business wholly involving people, all have two things in common.  They are the ability to talk and the ability to remember names.  A man noted for his people skills is David Frost and he frightened people more than once by calling them by their first name after meeting them once years before.  I can’t cite a case like that about Louis Walsh, but it wouldn’t surprise me if I did hear a story like that about him.  He is easy with names, facts and ongoing relationships.  He always gives instant answers.  He gives lengthy answers very quickly.  He never stutters but, like any fast talker, he tends to clutter.

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At least 60 people were killed and over 90 passengers injured when a train in high speed tore through the rear of another at the Sainthia station in Bhirbhum district of West Bengal, after it apparently overshot the signal in the small hours of Monday.

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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced more than $500 million in new aid projects for Pakistan on Monday, which Washington hopes will help win over a sceptical public in an ally vital to winning the war in neighbouring Afghanistan.

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