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Accident at BP Rotterdam refinery kills worker
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A construction worker was killed at BP's Rotterdam refinery after a wall collapsed on him, a spokesman for the oil major said on Wednesday.
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Kyrgyz city still tense after ethnic fighting
OSH, Kyrgyzstan (Reuters) - Kyrgyz troops patrolled the burned-out streets of the southern city of Osh on Wednesday to maintain a fragile peace between ethnic groups after days of fighting that forced tens of thousands to flee.
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British PM apologizes for Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday
LONDON/LONDONDERRY (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron apologized on Tuesday for the 1972 killings by British troops of 13 protesters on Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday after a long-awaited report said all those shot were unarmed.
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Obama pick for deputy attorney general comes under fire
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's nominee for deputy attorney general on Tuesday faced Republican ire for how the administration has been handling terrorism prosecutions and giving suspects U.S. legal rights.
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Pentagon decries bleak views on Afghan war
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon decried overly negative assessments of the Afghan war on Wednesday, telling Congress the conflict was a "roller coaster" of ups and downs but insisting progress was being made.
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Two strong quakes off Indonesia's Papua
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Two quakes off Indonesia's easternmost Papua province within minutes of each other killed two people and damaged hundreds of buildings, but did not impact a major LNG project, officials said on Wednesday.
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BP agrees to $20 billion fund for spill claims
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Under intense pressure from President Barack Obama, BP Plc agreed on Wednesday to set up a $20 billion fund for claims from its huge Gulf of Mexico oil spill and suspended dividend payments to its shareholders.
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Wall Street bill preserves Fed's independence
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After suffering sustained criticism of its role in the financial crisis, the Federal Reserve emerged on Wednesday from an overhaul of financial regulations with its jealously guarded independence intact.
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U.S. boosts flow estimate of BP oil leak by 50 percent
HOUSTON (Reuters) - A team of U.S. scientists on Tuesday upped their high-end estimate of the amount of crude oil flowing from BP Plc's stricken Gulf of Mexico well by 50 percent, the second major upward revision in less than a week.
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Americans, Russian blast off for space station
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Two U.S. astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut blasted off aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket from Kazakhstan on Tuesday for a two-day trip to the International Space Station.
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Obama pick for deputy atty general comes under fire
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's nominee for deputy attorney general on Tuesday faced Republican ire for how the administration has been handling terrorism prosecutions and giving suspects U.S. legal rights.
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U.S. claims victory after Iran rebuked at U.N. rights body
GENEVA (Reuters) - Iran was rebuked at the U.N. Human Rights Council on Tuesday for its violent crackdown on unrest after the 2009 presidential election, in what the United States called a victory for the Iranian people.
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British PM apologizes for N.Ireland's Bloody Sunday
LONDON/LONDONDERRY (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron apologized on Tuesday for the 1972 killings by British troops of 13 protesters on Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday after a long-awaited report said all those shot were unarmed.
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Petraeus collapses, doubts grow over Afghan war effort
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top U.S. lawmakers voiced strong concern about the direction of President Barack Obama's war effort in Afghanistan on Tuesday at a congressional hearing abruptly halted after the key U.S. general fainted.
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Gen. Petraeus briefly collapses during hearing
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Gen. David Petraeus, who is in charge of U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, briefly collapsed at a Capitol Hill hearing on Tuesday, most likely from dehydration, and then regained his composure.
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Lawmakers blast oil firms' drilling plans
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers blasted major oil companies on Tuesday for "virtually worthless" and "cookie cutter" plans to handle a deepwater oil disaster, with one top executive conceding the industry was ill prepared to handle big offshore spills.
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New 'morning-after' pill effective, safe: FDA staff
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new, longer-lasting "morning-after" pill to prevent unwanted pregnancy appears to work with no unexpected side effects, U.S. health regulatory staff said in documents released on Tuesday.
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Pakistan holds American man hunting bin Laden
CHITRAL, Pakistan (Reuters) - An American man accused of trying to sneak into Afghanistan to hunt down and kill al Qaeda head Osama bin Laden has been detained by authorities in Pakistan, police said on Tuesday.
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Israel sets up inquiry into deadly Gaza ship raid
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's cabinet approved on Monday an Israeli inquiry into a deadly raid on a Gaza aid flotilla, responding to international demands for impartiality by putting two foreign observers on the panel.
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Goals come slowly in South Africa
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Slovakia and New Zealand drew 1-1 on Tuesday in a clash of the outsiders which did little to remedy a worrying goals shortage at Africa's first World Cup.
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