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Chris Bishop paces as he beams the world’s biggest laser at a peppercorn-sized fuel pellet, a crucial step toward fusing hydrogen atoms to replicate the explosive power of the sun, stars and thermonuclear weapons.
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Yelena Bonner, the widow of physicist, human-rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, died yesterday at the age of 88, RIA Novosti reported.
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin faced more mass protests today over alleged election fraud as former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin warned of a “revolution” unless the government assuages popular anger.
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When Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi collects her Nobel Peace Prize this week, 21 years after winning it, she will send a message that human-rights struggles pay off, said Nobel Committee head Thorbjoern Jagland.
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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s spokesman dismissed a call by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for Putin to pull out of March presidential elections.
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Vladimir Putin’s opponents clashed with police in central Moscow at a rally for fair elections, less than 24 hours before the prime minister returns to the Kremlin as president for a third term.
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Nobel Peace Prize folks have done something even past winner Barack Obama hasn’t: take on China.
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Nobel Peace Prize folks have done something even past winner Barack Obama hasn’t: take on China.
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Ethiopian opposition leader Birtukan Mideksa was freed from prison today after the government granted her request to be pardoned from a life sentence she began serving almost two years ago.
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky , once Russia’s richest man and owner of its biggest oil company, has been spending his days in a glass cage in a Moscow courtroom, facing 22 1/2 years in jail if convicted of money laundering and embezzlement.
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