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Solar-powered plane flies for 26 hours
Slender as a stick insect, a solar-powered experimental airplane with a huge wing span completed its first test flight of more than 24 hours on Thursday, powered overnight by energy collected from the sun during a day aloft over Switzerland.The plane -- Solar Impulse -- landed where it had taken off 26 hours earlier at Payerne, 30 miles southwest o...
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Israel holds hundreds seized during raid on flotilla
A day after Israeli commandoes raided an aid flotilla seeking to breach the blockade of Gaza, Israel held more than 600 activists seized aboard the convoy on Tuesday as news reports said activists may be planning a fresh attempt to ferry supplies to the Hamas-run enclave.
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Results bring no majority in British votes
After one of the most passionately contested elections in decades, Britain faced the stalemate of a hung Parliament on Friday, with no party likely to command an outright majority despite significant gains by the opposition Conservatives and damaging losses for Prime Minister Gordon Brown. But, as the country braced for days of wrangling to form a ...
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Tony Blair defends legacy at Iraq inquiry
In an appearance before an official inquiry into Britain's role in the Iraq conflict, Blair sought to reshape the unflattering legacy molded since he left office in 2007 by his many critics in Britain.
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I don't deserve the Nobel, but accept it: Obama
US President Barack Obama announced on Friday that he will accept the Nobel Prize for Peace as a call to action.
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Solar-powered plane flies for 26 hours
Slender as a stick insect, a solar-powered experimental airplane with a huge wing span completed its first test flight of more than 24 hours on Thursday, powered overnight by energy collected from the sun during a day aloft over Switzerland.The plane -- Solar Impulse -- landed where it had taken off 26 hours earlier at Payerne, 30 miles southwest o...
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Israel holds hundreds seized during raid on flotilla
A day after Israeli commandoes raided an aid flotilla seeking to breach the blockade of Gaza, Israel held more than 600 activists seized aboard the convoy on Tuesday as news reports said activists may be planning a fresh attempt to ferry supplies to the Hamas-run enclave.
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Results bring no majority in British votes
After one of the most passionately contested elections in decades, Britain faced the stalemate of a hung Parliament on Friday, with no party likely to command an outright majority despite significant gains by the opposition Conservatives and damaging losses for Prime Minister Gordon Brown. But, as the country braced for days of wrangling to form a ...
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Tony Blair defends legacy at Iraq inquiry
In an appearance before an official inquiry into Britain's role in the Iraq conflict, Blair sought to reshape the unflattering legacy molded since he left office in 2007 by his many critics in Britain.
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I don't deserve the Nobel, but accept it: Obama
US President Barack Obama announced on Friday that he will accept the Nobel Prize for Peace as a call to action.
