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The first telephone provided for public use was installed at the New Haven office of the Connecticut Telephone Company on June 1, 1880. In Great Britain, "Call Office Suites" were esta...
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Paris (dpa) - France saw violent clashes for the second night in a
row amid demonstrations against conservative Nicolas Sarkozy's win in
Sunday's presidential election.
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COLOMBO, Jan 8 (Reuters) - A bomb exploded in a phone booth
in a block of flats in the business area of the Sri Lankan
capital on Tuesday evening, but there were no immediate reports
of any casual...
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The recent spate of bomb blasts in Thailand's capital was more
likely caused by political saboteurs and not southern Thai Muslim
rebels, a senior Thai official said here Monday.
''We have ...
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Last night, a livery cab crawled down Grand Street, gingerly avoiding the Chuck Taylor'd toes of a hipster horde numbering in the high hundreds that had congregated outside Deitch Projects to see S...
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Colombo (dpa) - A minor explosion close to an electrical
transformer outside Sri Lanka's capital was reported Monday as
celebrations of the country's 60th anniversary of ind...
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Paris (dpa) - Jacques Chirac attended a World War II ceremony in
Paris in a last major appearance as French President Tuesday, as his
successor-elect Nicolas Sarkozy kept a ...
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - Launch pad
technicians began fueling the space shuttle Atlantis
Thursday for the start of an 11-day mission to deliver a
European laboratory to the International S...
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A roadside bombing blamed on the Tamil Tigers killed a Sri Lankan government minister Tuesday in an attack likely to intensify the civil war already raging across this Indian Ocean island nation.Pr...
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Colombo (dpa) - Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa vowed
Monday to intensify efforts to defeat "terrorism" and recapture Tamil
rebel-controlled areas in the northern pa...
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Colombo (dpa) - Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa vowed
Monday to intensify efforts to defeat "terrorism" and recapture
Tamil rebel-controlled areas in ...
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