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Mortgage rates hit new lows

Sept 02 – A wave of encouraging economic data in both the housing and jobs markets helped lift stocks ahead of Friday’s payrolls report. Bobbi Rebell reports.


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IMF provides $450 mln for Pakistan

Sep 2 – The International Monetary Fund will give Pakistan $450 million in emergency flood aid. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.


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Mideast peace plans

Sep 2 – Mideast envoy Mitchell says peace talks will be held every two weeks. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.


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Israeli settlers resume building

Sept 2 – The Israeli settlers’ council announces an end to the contruction freeze, a move that could jeopordize peace talks with the Palestinian Authority in Washington.


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UK minister denies gay affair

Sept 2 – British Foreign Secretary William Hague denies he is gay, following reports that he shared a hotel room with a male aide.


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Mideast peace talks begin

Sep 2 – U.S. Secretary of State Clinton welcomes Israeli and Palestinian leaders to the State Department for new round of Middle East peace talks. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.


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Spiralling drug violence in Mexico

Sept 2 – The capture and killings of drug gang leaders is part of the bloodshed in Mexico that has killed 28,000 people since crackdowns began in late 2006.


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Landslide traps dozens in China

Sept 2 – A landslide in southwest China kills at least eight people, as workers race to rescue some 40 people still buried in the rubble.


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Pakistan bomb victims laid to rest

Sept 2 – A thousand mourners in Pakistan attend a funeral for victims of Wednesday’s triple bomb attack on a Shi’ite religious procession in Lahore.


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Typhoon strikes South Korea

Sept 2 – Typhoon Kompasu causes damage and delays flights across South Korea.


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Southern Mexico hit by flooding

Sept 2 – Thousands of residents in Mexico’s Oaxaca are affected, as torrential rains cause the River of Dogs to overflow its banks, flooding local villages.


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Hostages at Discovery Channel

Sep 1 – Police say an Asian man carrying a handgun is holding unknown number of hostages at the Discovery building in suburban Washington, DC. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.


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Obama condemns West Bank attack

Sep 1 – U.S. President Obama condemned the attack on four Israeli settlers in the West Bank, saying that the killings must not be allowed to set back Middle East peace efforts. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.


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Six dead in Mozambique price riot

Sept 1 – At least six people have been killed in Mozambique during street protests over rising prices.


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Video shows upbeat Chile miners

Sep 1. – New video of the trapped miners in Chile shows them in good health and appearance as they receive food supplies, listen to music and send messages to their relatives..


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Biden: New dawn for US in Iraq

Sep 01 – U.S. Vice President Biden pledged that the American engagement in Iraq will continue as the combat mission ends. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.


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Pakistan flood victims return home

Sept 1 – Residents of flood-hit Sindh are heading back to their hometowns, some still a metre deep in water.


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Australian asylum seekers protest

September 1 – Asylum seekers escape from their detention centre in the Australian city of Darwin, to beg for mercy.


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Scores of skeletons found in India

Sept 1 – While digging to widen a drainage system, workers recover about 75 human skeletons in India’s southern Karnataka state.


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Lionrock storm hits Taiwan

Sept 1 – Tropical storm Lionrock batters Taiwan as China prepares for it with mass evacuations.


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Life in a flooded Pakistani hamlet

Aug. 31 – The semi-aquatic daily routine of residents of a small village in southern Pakistan – Dostabad in Sindh – is typical of the hardship faced across the South.


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S.Korea offers flood aid to North

Aug. 31 – South Korea offers large scale aid to Pyongyang after massive flooding devastates areas along North Korea’s border with China.


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Short retrospective on Mideast talks

Aug. 31 – When the Israelis and the Palestinians resume direct negotiations on September 2 it will be the latest of many forays into diplomatic peacemaking over the past decades.


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Iraq PM hails “sovereignty”

Aug. 31 – Iraq’s prime minister said the country had won sovereignty and an equal footing with the United States after the U.S. formally ended military operations there.


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Poland marks Solidarity’s 30 years

Aug. 31 – A Catholic mass is held in the Polish city of Gdansk, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the influential Solidarity trade union.


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