President Vladimir V. Putin gave top state honors to a Soviet spy who obtained American atomic secrets that speeded the Soviet Unions production of its own atomic bomb, the Kremlin said. In a statement posted on its Web site, the government said Mr.
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KIZILTEPE, Turkey, Oct. 31 — Ten years ago, Turkey ran the Kurdish region here in its southeast like a police state. All signs of Kurdish identity — the language, music, national dress — were strictly banned and subject to punishment. Checkpoints were everywhere. Going out after dark was forbidden.
Today, Kurdish is heard on the streets and in shops, Kurdish satellite TV is legally beamed into homes, and Kurdish holidays are celebrated publicly.
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DAKAR, Senegal, Nov. 1 — Virtually all of the children a French aid group tried to fly out of Chad last week had been living with family members in villages and were not orphans of the Darfur conflict, as the group claimed, the United Nations said Thursday.
The authorities said they had identified a suspect in Wednesdays bombing of a passenger bus in the central Russian city of Togliatti that killed eight people and wounded more than 50, mostly local university students. The bomber was likely aboard the bus at the time of the explosion, said Aleksandr Bastrykin, the head of the prosecutor generals investigative committee. Mr.
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Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldts battered administration received a fresh blow when a top aide resigned after it was disclosed that she had been out drinking while on duty. The aide, Under Secretary of State Ulrica Schenstrom, resigned after the Swedish media published pictures of her embracing a journalist in a bar. Her resignation was the fifth high-profile departure since Mr.
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Three flamingos have been found decapitated in their pen at Frankfurt Zoo, the police said. A fourth flamingo was strangled. We cannot explain why someone would want to murder flamingos,” a zoo spokeswoman said.
PARIS, Oct. 3 Ayaan Hirsi Ali, an outspoken Dutch critic of Islam who moved to the United States to escape death threats in the Netherlands, has returned there to fight a Dutch government plan to cut off financing for her bodyguards, her lawyer said Wednesday.
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STRASBOURG, France, Oct.
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