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Chinese Premier Shows Up On Great Wall of Facebook

BEIJING – Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao now has a Facebook page. It’s not known who set up the profile on the popular social-networking Web site, but it’s clear the premier has some fans — with more than 13,000 “supporters” as of Wednesday, more than U.S. President George W. Bush has …

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Monet Painting Sells for Record $41 Million at NYC Auction

NEW YORK – A Claude Monet painting of a bridge with two trains passing over the Seine while pleasure boats float below was auctioned Tuesday for more than $41 million, breaking the auction record for the French impressionist artist. “Le Pont du chemin de fer a Argenteuil” was sold at …

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U.N. Security Chief Resigns Over Deadly Attack in Algeria

UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. security chief resigned Tuesday over the Dec. 11 Algiers truck bombings after an expert panel found “gaps and weaknesses” in the U.N.’s overall security operations due to cost-cutting. The bombings at U.N. offices and another government building killed 17 U.N. staffers and injured 40 others, …

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