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Britain's Queen Elizabeth has written to newspaper and magazine editors over the issue of paparazzi photographers intruding on the royal family's privacy, Buckingham Palace said.
Italian tax police said Saturday that they had seized works by Van Gogh, Picasso, Cezanne and other giants of art in a crackdown on assets hidden by the disgraced founder of the collapsed dairy company Parmalat.
A top Guyana official says the South American country will buy two new river ferries from the Chinese government for $17 million.
In a potentially valuable boost to fighting climate change, rich and poor countries are close to an agreement to end the destruction of the world's forests in 20 years, government negotiators said.
Iran's vice president said Saturday his country needs 20 industrial-scale uranium enrichment facilities, a potentially dramatic expansion of its nuclear program in defiance of UN demands.
Just days before the UN conference on climate change in Copenhagen, there have been recent "several signs of optimism" with over 100 world leaders expected to attend.
Russia's top investigative body says the number of people who died in a nightclub fire in the Urals city of Perm has risen to 109.
Namibia's ruling SWAPO party clinched its fifth straight landslide victory in last week's presidential and parliamentary elections and President Hifikepunye Pohamba was re-elected, the South African Press Association cited Namibia's Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) as announcing on Friday evening.
NATO allies and partner nations rallied Friday to US President Barrack Obama's call for an international military surge in Afghanistan, by adding at least 7,000 troops to the 30,000 fresh US soldiers due to deploy next year in what could be the last chance to stem the rising tide of Taliban violence.
American college student Amanda Knox was found guilty of murdering her British roommate and sentenced to 26 years in prison early Saturday after a year-long trial that gripped Italy and drew intense media attention.
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