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Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Liberal candidate Brian Jackson, Oxford
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Indian Human Resources minister to reform technology sector
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United States confirms first military death sentence since 1957
Thursday, July 31, 2008 The President of the United States, George W. Bush, has approved the death sentence of an Army Private convicted of multiple rapes and murders. Pvt. Ronald A. Gray, stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina at
Police stop LGBT march in Istanbul for third consecutive year
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Japanese tsunami impacts California coastal town
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Bloc Québécois raise concern over remark made by hockey player
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Cleveland, Ohio clinic performs US’s first face transplant
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USDA says mad cow disease found in cow in California
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