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The Pakistani military regained control of the Red Mosque Wednesday, freeing at least 160 students held hostage there during a weeklong standoff, the army spokesman said.
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British media quoted a government spokesman Wednesday chastising Russia over its refusal to extradite a prime suspect in the poisoning of a Russian defector and U.K. national, while Russia has said it was "perplexed" by the British position.
- 17:07 11/07/2007
Andrzej Lepper, Polish deputy prime minister and agriculture minister, whose recent dismissal by President Lech Kaczynski has provoked a government crisis, said he plans to return to the Cabinet.
- 16:58 11/07/2007
Trade between Russia and China is expected to grow from $33 billion in 2006 to about $35 billion in 2007, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov said Wednesday.
- 16:45 11/07/2007
EU officials said Wednesday the death sentences passed on six foreign medics for allegedly deliberately infecting children with HIV, upheld in a Libyan court, were unacceptable and hoped the convicts would be shown clemency.
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Chinese authorities have liberalized the country's birth-control policy allowing urban families to have two children in some circumstances, the Xinhua news agency quoted a senior official at the family planning commission as saying Wednesday.
- 14:42 11/07/2007
- 14:31 11/07/2007
Britain could cease cooperating with Russia in some areas after its refusal to extradite a prime suspect in the poisoning of a Russian defector and U.K. national, British newspapers said Wednesday.
- 14:28 11/07/2007
The European Union's foreign policy chief said he expected a new round of talks with Iran's top nuclear negotiator to be held later this month, an Iranian news agency said.
- 14:14 11/07/2007
- 13:44 11/07/2007
Russia will send a team of mine-disposal experts to a mountainous area in Lebanon to the east of Beirut in 2008, a spokesman for the Lebanon Mine Action Program said Wednesday.
- 13:25 11/07/2007
Russian metals giant Norilsk Nickel [RTS: GMKN] said Wednesday it had extended its cash offer to acquire the common stock of Canada's gold and nickel producer LionOre until July 23.
- 12:46 11/07/2007
