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At least nine miners died in an explosion that occurred in a private coal mine in Colombia’s northwestern province of Antioquia, authorities said on Thursday.
The explosion was caused by an accumulation of methane in the mine, 3 km away from the city center of Amaga, according to Amaga’s Health Secretary, Carlos Aguirre.
“There were about 15 [...]

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According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), about 14 percent of the estimated $1.91 trillion US consumer debt will turn sour.
In the US, as a spike in unemployment and the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression took their toll on overstretched consumers, credit-card defaults have been rising for months, the rate of losses [...]

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Terrorism expert Rohan Gunaratna said in a telephone interview with Xinhua on Friday that the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), which China alleges instigated the riot, is closely associated with the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), a separatist group that has been labeled by the U.N. Security Council as well as the Chinese and U.S. governments [...]

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“The embassy seemed out of step. They were very disappointing, very inflexible,” Sue Higgins, head of the Parliament Hill School for Girls, said, according to the newpaper.
She said one embassy staff member had refused to visit a teenage girl isolated in a hospital because he was afraid of catching the virus, according to the report.
The [...]

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The largest armed separatist group in the Philippines has declared truce with the government, following a similar move of the military and signaling a possible end to the ten-month hostility that killed hundreds in Muslim Mindanao region, local media reported Sunday.
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF)’s secluded leader Murad Ebrahim has signed the suspension of [...]

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Dragged by a stronger dollar, McDonald’s announced on Thursday that its earnings in the second quarter of 2009 fell 8 percent mainly due to the negative impact from foreign currency translation.
In the second three months of 2009, although the global comparable sales increased 4.8 percent and consolidated operating income rose 2 percent compared with the [...]

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