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Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet dissident writer and Nobel literature prize winner, has died aged 89, the Interfax news agency has reported.

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LONDON (Reuters) - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet dissident writer and Nobel literature prize winner, has died aged 89, the Interfax news agency reported on Sunday.

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ATHENS (Reuters) - A 31-year-old Greek beheaded his girlfriend and carried her head round the popular tourist island of Santorini before he was arrested, police said on Sunday.

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A millionaire British skipper whose yacht sank on a coral reef off the Australian coast on a round-the-world trip has invited salvagers to help themselves to “the goodies”.

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The two candidates favored to succeed Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Sunday they may seek to forge a government with rightists, a step that could hurt peace talks but avoid an early election.

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At least nine climbers have been killed on the world’s second highest peak after a massive chunk of ice broke away and plunged down the mountain, tearing away fixed lines used by the adventurers to guide their expedition.

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Tragedy at temple in northern India after false rumours of a landslide.

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DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Syrian officials attended the funeral on Sunday of a senior security officer whose killing has shaken the tightly controlled country.

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LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivian President Evo Morales’ approval rating rose to 59 percent in July, according to a poll published on Sunday, a margin that would see him survive a recall vote next week if voters poll accordingly.

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Almost 200 fighters in Gaza who are loyal to the Palestinian leader Mahmoud
Abbas have been ordered to return to the territory after they fled over the
border into Israel to escape from their Hamas rivals.

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