JERUSALEM - Israel would like to sever its remaining connections with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip after militants blasted open the territory's border with Egypt, a top Israeli defence official said on Thursday.
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MOSCOW - Russia's Central Election Commission said on Thursday it had grounds to disqualify former prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov from running as an independent in a March presidential election, news agencies reported.
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TEL AVIV - U.S. Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns said on Thursday a new draft resolution against Iran agreed by major powers would be punitive, despite remarks to the contrary by Russia's foreign minister.
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PARIS - European stocks surged in early trade on Thursday, tracking a Wall Street recovery on hopes that a rescue for troubled bond insurers could prevent more writedowns, while investors digested the announcement of a huge fraud at Societe Generale.
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JERUSALEM - Hamas has exposed Israel's inability to rein in the Gaza Strip, proving it holds the power to blow open the border and turn a crippling Israeli blockade into a public relations nightmare for the Jewish state.
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DAVOS, Switzerland - Climate campaigner Al Gore challenged policymakers on Thursday to step up action against the "planetary emergency" of global warming by making new laws, saying action by individuals could help only at the margins.
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BEIJING - China on Thursday defended its policies in Tibet and its relations with the government of Sudan, saying it was wrong for activists to seize on the issues as a way to pressure Beijing ahead of the Olympic Games in August.
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BAGHDAD - The police chief of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul was killed in a suicide bomb attack on Thursday as he toured the scene of a blast a day earlier in which at least 20 people died, police said.
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NAIROBI - Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan met Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Thursday to try to end a crisis over the nation's disputed election, after having persuaded the opposition to call off street protests.
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SYDNEY - Australian actor Heath Ledger, who was found dead in his New York apartment, was edgy and anxious during his Christmas holidays about not seeing his daughter Matilda, close friend and model Sophie Ward told local media.
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