Myanmar rebels, government to hold talks

MYANMAR'S government and ethnic Kachin rebels in the country's north will hold talks in China this week after some of the worst fighting in the country in years, even as fresh shelling boomed across the frontline. The talks will begin on Monday...

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Paraguay presidential hopeful Oviedo dies

PARAGUAYAN presidential candidate Lino Cesar Oviedo has been killed in a helicopter crash, authorities say. Oviedo was returning with his bodyguard from a political rally on Saturday night in northern Paraguay when his pilot encountered bad...

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Etch A Sketch creator dies

ANDRE Cassagnes, the French inventor of the Etch A Sketch, a toy beloved of children around the world, has died at the age of 86. His death in France in mid-January was announced by the Ohio Art Company, which has been making the Etch a Sketch since...

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Fiat boss eyes Chrysler merger in 2014

FIAT boss Sergio Marchionne says he expects the merger of the Italian car giant and its US partner Chrysler will take place in 2014. "We will succeed in doing it," he said in an interview with the editor of the Repubblica newspaper. "We and...

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Gillard's new ministers to be sworn in

PRIME Minister Julia Gillard is wasting no time getting her new ministers straight into the job with the official swearing-in by the governor-general to be held in Canberra on Monday. With last week's surprise resignations of Senator Chris Evans...

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Poor light halts search for missing plane

A SEARCH will resume on Monday morning for an ultralight aircraft and its pilot missing north of Brisbane. Police said the aircraft, piloted by a woman in her 50s, left Caboolture around 9.15am Sunday on a trip to the Glass House Mountains....

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Libyan TV crew 'assaulted' in parliament

SECURITY guards at Libya's parliament have beaten up a crew of Alassema, an independent television network, the channel says. "A team from (Alassema TV) went to cover a meeting of the national assembly on Friday, entering as they were permitted...

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UK police use stun gun on man at palace

A MAN waving large knives outside Buckingham Palace in the presence of tourists has been shocked with a Taser stun gun and arrested, police say. The Queen and Prince Philip were at one of their weekend retreats, in Sandringham, eastern England,...

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