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LONDON (AP) - The reigning Miss England has relinquished her crown after being accused of a fight in a bar.           ]]></description>
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MIAMI (AP) - Ida has weakened to a tropical depression with 35 mph top winds as it sweeps over Nicaragua.           ]]></description>
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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - A 69-year-old watchman in Vietnam has been rescued after surviving three nights and two days clinging to a tree to avoid a flash flood sparked by Tropical Storm Mirinae.           ]]></description>
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MIAMI (AP) - Ida has reached hurricane force as it nears Nicaragua&#8217;s mainland.           ]]></description>
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PARIS (AP) - Families of victims of Rio-Paris Flight 447 say a new search for wreckage has been delayed and accuse French investigators of dragging their feet.           ]]></description>
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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - Zimbabwe&#8217;s transport ministry says one of the national airline&#8217;s planes collided with five wild pigs on the runway in the capital during takeoff.           ]]></description>
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Kenya&#8217;s attorney general says he is seeking legal advice as to whether he can sue the United States government for revoking his travel visa.           ]]></description>
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NEW DELHI(AP) - Police say eight children have drowned after a boat carrying at least 35 students capsized in southern India.           ]]></description>
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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - The death toll from a Pacific tropical storm has risen to 87 in Vietnam today, even as authorities speed up rescue and relief operations.           ]]></description>
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SIAYA, Kenya (AP) - Final stages of testing are under way in malaria-plagued Africa on a vaccine that appears to be able to prevent the disease in about 50 percent of children.           ]]></description>
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LONDON (AP) - There&#8217;s a new video out imagining what a missing British toddler might look like two years after she disappeared.           ]]></description>
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea says it has completed reprocessing spent nuclear fuel rods to extract weapons-grade plutonium.           ]]></description>
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LONDON (AP) - A man has been jailed of 18 months for embezzling more than 500,000 pounds ($800,000) from the official composer to Queen Elizabeth II.           ]]></description>
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MADRID (AP) - A Spanish judge has indicted seven people for allegedly helping the suspected Madrid train bombers flee after the 2004 terror attacks.           ]]></description>
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LONDON (AP) - Fancy a piece of British royal history? Then head to Christie&#8217;s in London this month.           ]]></description>
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 THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - A legal adviser of Radovan Karadzic says the former Bosnian Serb leader will boycott his genocide trial again today.           ]]></description>
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PARIS (AP) - Novelist Marie NDiaye has won France&#8217;s top literary prize.           ]]></description>
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VIENNA (AP) - An Iranian diplomat says his country wants to buy fuel for its Tehran research reactor, the latest indication that Iran is not willing to ship most of its enriched uranium out of the country.           ]]></description>
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LONDON (AP) - Two Beefeaters at the Tower of London have been suspended for allegedly bullying a female colleague - the first woman appointed to the post at the royal fortress.           ]]></description>
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea is warning the U.S. that if Washington doesn&#8217;t accept its demand for direct talks, Pyongyang (pyuhng-yahng) will go its &#8220;own way.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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BERLIN (AP) - Police say a soldier has crashed a car into a crowd of people gathered on a German army base in the east of the country and injured several people.           ]]></description>
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Iran&#8217;s foreign minister says Tehran has not rejected a U.N.-backed nuclear deal, despite statements by lawmakers and the country&#8217;s president.           ]]></description>
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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Coastal areas of Vietnam have been evacuated ahead of Tropical Storm Mirinae, which battered the Philippines as a typhoon, leaving 20 people dead.           ]]></description>
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LONDON (AP) - A century-old British lemonade has run into trouble in the U.S. because a high school student complained that the company&#8217;s Victorian-style drink contains alcohol.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Chinese officials have agreed to lift the ban on U.S. pork imports they imposed last spring out of fear of swine flu.           ]]></description>
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Trucks, helicopters, and even donkeys are delivering new paper ballots to use in Afghanistan&#8217;s new presidential election.           ]]></description>
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - NASA has posted a satellite image showing huge plumes of smoke billowing across northeastern North Korea.           ]]></description>
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TBILISI, Georgia (AP) - Hollywood filmmakers have recreated a rally in Georgia&#8217;s capital while filming a movie about the 2008 Russia-Georgia war, with Andy Garcia playing President Mikhail Saakashvili.           ]]></description>
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