BAGHDAD (AFP) - Vice President Joe Biden on Friday warned Iraqi officials that Washington would politically disengage if sectarian and ethnic strife resumed as he warned of a "hard road ahead".
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PARIS (AFP) - France warned Yemenia Airways on Friday it must make "very big efforts" to avoid being blacklisted in Europe following the Airbus crash off the Comoros.
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - A senior Iranian cleric warned on Friday that detained British embassy staff would face trial for their alleged role in post-election unrest, and EU countries summoned Iranian envoys to protest against the detentions.
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Mrs Palin will step down from her job on July 26 - transferring power to Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell - and will not seek re-election in her home state.
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SIRTE, Libya (AFP) - The African Union decided Friday not to cooperate with a war crimes warrant against Sudan President Omar al-Beshir and again appealed to the United Nations to delay the case.
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Former vice-presidential running mate Sarah Palin says she will resign this month and will not run for re-election as Alaskan Governor.
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TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - The Organisation of American States tried to convince Honduras on Friday to restore toppled President Manuel Zelaya or suffer a diplomatic sanction from the Western Hemisphere.
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Two female aid workers, one Irish and one Ugandan, have been kidnapped in the Darfur region of Sudan.
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A German barman has been jailed for serving at least 44 shots of tequila which killed a 16-year-old boy during a faked drinking contest.
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SIRTE, Libya (AFP) - The African Union decided Friday not to act on an international war crimes warrant for Sudan's president, at a summit that also yielded a deal on the powers of a new regional Authority.
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Three adults and three children, including a three-week-old baby, have been killed in a blaze which swept through a tower block.
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A fire in a block of flats left has six people dead, including three children.
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LONDON (AFP) - Three adults and three children have died in a major fire at a tower block in London, the city's emergency services said Friday.
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Three people, including a three-week-old baby and a child aged seven, have been killed in a blaze which swept through a tower block.
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A three-week-old baby, a seven-year-old child and an adult have died after fire ripped through a tower block.
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A three-week-old baby and a seven-year-old child are killed in a blaze which swept through a tower block, trapping dozens of residents.
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The victims were a three-week-old baby and a seven-year-old child, the Metropolitan Police said.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Two children, including a three-week-old baby, were killed when a blaze spread rapidly through a 12-storey block of flats in southeast London on Friday, emergency services said.
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The clamour for tickets for Michael Jackson's public memorial has begun - but the singer's British fans will be left disappointed.
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LONDON (AFP) - Two children died after a fire in a London tower block, police said Friday.
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It is "utterly unconvincing" that protection for carers cannot be on the face of the Equality Bill, a leading academic has said.
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Harriet Harman has waded into the row over gay rights by saying the "heart of the Tories is homophobic".
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The government has pledged to create a society with "fair changes and fair rules for everyone", in its response to a Commons work and pensions committee report.
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Alan Duncan, an openly-gay shadow cabinet minister, has accused Labour "stirring up hatred and division" ahead of this year's Gay Pride.
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Iran's ambassadors are being summoned by member states across the European Union, it has emerged, in what is being viewed as a major victory for the Foreign Office.
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The Freedom of Information Act is being undermined by "severe delays" in the processing of complaints, a report has found.
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Two Conservative frontbenchers have rejected suggestions they improperly clamed parliamentary expenses.
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Billion of pounds could be saved by scrapping Trident and ID cards, the general secretary of Unison will declare today.
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The prime minister is set to slash £21 million from Boris Johnson's development budget to fund the social housing programmes announced in his manifesto, it has been revealed.
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Gordon Brown has condemned the personal attacks which have become common practice among politicians.
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