Friday's Top 50 World News & Stories
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A few big oil and gas bets show Buffett and his stock-picking lieutenants are open to a wider range of energy investments.
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Ulster Rugby apologise after a photograph showing four players with their faces and bodies coloured with black makeup appeared on a social media site.
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Portugal's central bank seeks to steady investors' nerves, saying the country's largest listed bank, Banco Espirito Santo, does not need extra funds.
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Britain's biggest privatization in years was blighted by a fear of failure and poor advice from state-appointed banks, a committee of MPs said.
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Open a car door on a summer day, and a sauna blast will quickly remind you just how seethingly, sticky hot it can get inside in just a short time. It's suffocating.
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Israel launches an artillery strike after Lebanon fired a rocket into the country's north, the Israel Defense Forces say.
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Iraqi Kurdish forces have taken over two oil fields, Iraq's oil ministry says, amid a growing dispute with the government in Baghdad.
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Pro-Russian separatists fire Grad rockets at Ukrainian troops in the eastern Luhansk region, killing as many as 30, Ukrainian officials say.
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KIEV (Reuters) - A rebel attack with Grad missiles on a Ukrainian post on the border with Russia on Friday may have killed as many as 30 soldiers and border guards and final casualties may even be higher, an interior ministry official said.
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KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday Afghanistan's transition to a self-reliant state hung in the balance after a contested presidential election and urged Afghan officials to focus on auditing the vote cou...
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MIRANSHAH PAKISTAN (Reuters) - The Pakistani Taliban have abandoned their last key stronghold and booby traps and explosives littering their hideouts now present the main danger to the soldiers who control the territory, military officia...
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The death toll from Israeli air strikes in Gaza rises to 100, Palestinian sources say, as militant rocket attacks on Israel continue.
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Friday is World Population Day . How good is your knowledge of all the other people on the planet? Take our quiz to find out All figures are from the UN population division's estimates Continue reading...
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India's new prime minister is on a mission to get more productivity out of the nation's civil servants. As part of that quest, his team laid out these 11 steps for “an improved work culture and work environment including hygiene and cle...
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Steve Inskeep talks to Palestinian-American business consultant and political commentator Sami Abdel-Shafi about living in Gaza while under attack from Israel.
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NEW DELHI — Last week in one of India’s many government offices, the elevator was broken, stacks of files gathered dust and potted plants drooped in the heat. Worse, when the new boss showed up for an impromptu inspection at 9 a.m., he f...
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A proposal which could prevent same sex dance partners from competing against mixed sex couples causes a row in the world of ballroom dancing.
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Actor George Clooney refuses to accept an apology from the Daily Mail's website over a story claiming his fiancee's mother objected to their marriage.
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Obama phones Netanyahu offering to broker a ceasefire with Hamas, while Palestinian officials say 100 killed so far in conflict Continue reading...
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It's the law of unintended consequences.
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Why are Iraqi politicians dragging their feet while ISIS militants fortify their foothold across the country?
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The case of an alleged prostitute charged in the death of a Google executive has shined a light on the darker regions of the technology capital.
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Photographs from the Guardian Eyewitness series Continue reading...
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Kurdish political bloc will no longer take part in Iraq's national government in protest against Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's accusation that Kurds were harboring Islamist insurgents in their capital, the forei...
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Four journalists and an executive from a Myanmar magazine have been sentenced to 10 years of hard labor on charges of violating state secrets by claiming the military was making chemical weapons.
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KABUL — U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry arrived in the Afghan capital Friday to push for a resolution to a weeks-long political crisis stemmed from presidential elections marred by fraud. The dispute over a runoff last month has U....
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KIEV (Reuters) - At least four Ukrainian servicemen and five coal miners were on Friday reported killed in the latest violence in the east of the country, where government forces are fighting pro-Russian separatists.
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Ryutaro Nonomura became internet sensation with wailing and fist-banging attempt to explain profligate use of public funds Continue reading...
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PYEONGTAEK South Korea (Reuters) - Cho Myung-ja ran away from home as a teenager to escape a father who beat her, finding her way to the red light district in a South Korean town that hosts a large U.S. Army garrison.
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The government will have its planned gasoline stockpile in time to respond to possible supply disruptions at the height of the hurricane season.
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The two sides appeared to be set on a course of continuing escalation, while a rocket launched from Lebanon raised the specter of confrontation on a second front.
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Roadside bomb, de-mining convoy attack by Taliban kill 13 in separate assaults in Afghanistan
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One of the two remaining candidates in Afghanistan's disputed presidential election calls for an "extensive audit" of votes.
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Never in my life have I seen a ballot to elect the delegates who meet every year in Beijing.
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Some of 2014's biggest winners are slated to share their next big ideas at this year's Delivering Alpha Conference.
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Slovenia suspends four ski officials for a "rules breach" in qualifying events for Sochi 2014 that violinist Vanessa-Mae raced in.
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Won Jeong-hwa served a five-year prison sentence for using sex to extract information from South Korean military officers. A year later, her notoriety has not brought the usual lucrative book or TV deals, and she is struggling to put her...
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Four servicemen and five coal miners die in three incidents in the east of the country, as Russia closes border posts.
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CNN explores a labyrinth of tunnels in Pakistan that was once a safe haven for militants.
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Man sets himself ablaze outside Libyan Embassy in Berlin, sustains life-threatening injuries
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GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli air strikes on Gaza killed four more Palestinians before dawn on Friday, raising the death toll from the four day offensive to at least 85, while a Palestinian rocket hit a fuel tanker at an Israeli pet...
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Chinese state media branded Apple's iPhone a threat to national security because of the smartphone's ability to track and time-stamp user locations.
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The striking prize-winners from a drone photography competition backed by National Geographic.
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CNN's Saima Mohsin goes on patrol with the Pakistani military as they shut down underground tunnels used by militants.
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GAZA CITY — Rocket fire from both Gaza and Lebanon struck Israel Friday morning as fears of a possible Israeli ground invasion rose in the Gaza Strip as Israel issued warnings to residents of the coastal enclave’s northeast corner, advis...
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An international facility to ensure access to supplies could help support and reinforce an agreement with Iran.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's decision to ask the CIA station chief in Berlin to leave the country was an adequate, inevitable response following fresh allegations of U.S. spying on Berlin, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier ...
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Ghana's government dismisses suggestions the country suffers from religious violence, after 200 Ghanaian World Cup fans ask for asylum in Brazil.
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Three leading figures of U.S. industry have called for an overhaul of the country's immigration system.
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CNN iReporters from across the globe share their incredible images of the skies above us.
