Election officials say Malaysia's ruling coalition has won a simple majority in parliamentary polls, extending its 56-year rule after a tough fight with a strengthened opposition alliance. Final results from Sunday's election show Prime Minister Naji

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One of former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's sons told a Syrian television station late Wednesday he is in the suburbs outside Tripoli and that loyalist commanders have told him their men would fight to the death. Seif al-Islam Gadhafi vowed that he

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1. How does the election work? 大选是怎样运作的? Britain's parliament has 650 members. Any party that wins an outright majority of 326 or more seats can form a government. 英国议会有650名成员。任何党派只要获得不少于326个席

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KABUL, April 15 (Xinhua) -- Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister Jawed Ludin on Monday met with the visiting Special Representative of Australian Prime Minister Angus Houston to discuss bilateral ties and issues of common concern. The two sides discussed t

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NICOSIA, March 19 (Xinhua) -- Cyprus' parliament rejected a Eurogroup imposed haircut on bank deposits on Tuesday, plunging the eastern Mediterranean island into economic uncertainty verging on uncontrolled default. The 56 member-chamber threw out th

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A top U.S. military commander says American forces are responsible for mistakenly hitting a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, in an aerial bombardment Saturday that killed 22 people. Army General John Campbell told a congressional committee in Washing

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The ruling to exclude Sunni politician Salah al-Mutlak from the election, issued by parliament's Accountability and Justice Committee, could derail weeks of patient effort to insure the partication of all parties in the polling. Edward Yeranian | Cai

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PRAGUE, June 13 (Xinhua) -- Czech police raided government offices and the defence ministry and making several arrests, police spokesman Pavel Hantak said on Thursday. According to local media, the arrested persons include former Civic Democrats depu

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ATHENS, June 24 (Xinhua) -- Greece's two partite coalition government leaders proceeded with a cabinet reshuffle, a government spokesman announced on Monday after a meeting between Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and socialist PASOK party head Evangel

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Top Pentagon officials say the U.S. commitment to Afghanistan will not end when the military campaign is over. They are also predicting U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan will inevitably increase th

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The state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is something of a backwater. 梅克伦堡-前波莫瑞州(Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,以下简称梅前州)有点儿闭塞。 Otto von Bismarck is said to have quipped that, if the world was about to end, he woul

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Many Chinese-made counterfeit products are now of better quality than the genuine article, the founder of ecommerce giant Alibaba has said. 电商巨头阿里巴巴的创始人近日表示,现在许多中国制造的山寨产品都要比正品的质量

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The United States military said Wednesday its airstrike campaign targeting Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria killed 64 civilians and injured 8 others during the past year. 美国军方星期三说,过去一年来,针对伊拉克和叙利亚

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LOS CABOS, MEXICO - President Barack Obama is welcoming statements by Europe's major economic powers that they will work toward a plan for growth and an integrated banking system. The president spoke Tuesday, at the end of the annual Group of 20 econ

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- Protesters took to the streets of Washington on Saturday, urging Congress to reject President Barack Obama's plan of military action against Syria. The protesters gathered around noon at the White House, loudly chantin

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1. Deep cracks are emerging in Britain's coalition government. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says he's bitterly disappointed over Prime Minister David Cameron's decision to block European Union treaty changes designed to save the euro. 2. Iran say

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1. President Barack Obama is making a new pitch for revised health care reform. He traveled to Philadelphia today to drum up support for the plan. There Obama accused insurance companies of placing profits over people. 2. A father and son were wounde

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The Democratic presidential candidates said Saturday they are focused on the U.S. economy and defeating the Islamic State group as their top priorities. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said the United States cannot be thought of as the police of the w

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Greek voters will cast ballots Sunday in the second parliamentary election in the past six weeks. Observers worldwide will be watching the poll which is seen as a referendum on the euro currency. Greek soup kitchens reflect the growing poverty in the

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India's finance minister has stepped down to run for president. Pranab Mukherjee submitted his formal resignation to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday. He will be the ruling, Congress Party-led, coalition's candidate in the July 19 presidentia

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