Meanwhile, the death toll from this month's earthquake in China reached 62, 664, a government official said Sunday.
Earlier on Tuesday, a government official said Sheikh Saad had unconditionally agreed to abdicate in the interests of Kuwait.
The suspicious letter, like all mail entering the Capitol building since 17 October, had been irradiated before it was delivered, a government official said.
Hanna caused massive flooding in Haiti when it pummeled the Caribbean nation earlier this week, killing 137 people, a government official said Thursday.
Official accounts of the extent of the damage in the Solomons remained vague hours after the fact, and a government official said communication with the worst-hit areas remained difficult.
Separately, a government official said China would continue to rely on domestic coal production for most of its energy needs but was also looking to step up investment in renewable industries.
On Sunday, a government official said that the inspector general report also will note that IRS officials said no one outside the IRS was involved in developing the criteria that the IRS now acknowledges were flawed.
Financial firms, especially those that have balance sheets larded with toxic assets, may get a boost tomorrow after a government official said late Wednesday that a Treasury program will add liquidity to the market for distressed securities.
Mubarak initially was said to be either clinically dead or o n life support, according to reports out of Cairo, but later a government official said the deposed president was alive and in critical condition, according to news reports.
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"The problem is many government buildings have also been built on the beach area, " Mohammad Monirul Islam, a senior government official said.
He had no authority to get in the plane alone, a government transportation official said.
And a state government official said there had been no credible threats ahead of the race.
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The city will continue enforcing property curbs to fight speculation, a senior government official said Wednesday.
There were no credible threats before the race, a state government official said.
"This is a pure act of savagery, an outrageous and unjustifiable attack on innocent civilians, " a Syrian government official said.
KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A Japanese aid worker who was abducted in east-central Afghanistan has been found dead, a local government official said Wednesday.
India's cabinet will consider a modified bill on sexual-assault laws on Tuesday to replace an interim bill passed in February, a senior government official said.
India's cabinet was set to consider a modified bill on sexual-assault laws on Tuesday to replace an interim bill passed in February, a senior government official said.
In a playful response, a senior US government official said the Obama administration "does not support blowing up planets".
March 11 (Bloomberg) Brazil is considering new measures to stem gains in the currency, including a requirement that foreign investment in equity markets stay in the country for a certain period of time, said a government official briefed on the plans.
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Netanyahu said at a closed-door Knesset committee meeting that Israel would agree only to a partial reduction of housing construction and for a limited time, not the year the United States would like, said a government official who was not authorized to speak about the meeting and did not want to be identified.
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Earlier in the week, Netanyahu said in a closed-door Knesset committee meeting that Israel would agree only to a partial reduction of housing construction and for a limited time, not the year the United States would like, said a government official who did not want to be identified because he was not authorized to speak about the meeting.
Keumgang, a popular mountain resort in the communist nation, a government official in the South said.
The Pentagon's Africa Command is taking the military lead on the matter, and the State Department and FBI are the lead agencies in contact with the Algerian government, a Defense official said.
If you are detained abroad and there is U.S. consular representation in that country, you have a right to a visit from a U.S. government official, said Alex Puig, regional security director of Americas for International SOS, a medical and security services firm operating in 70 countries.
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Reid also had a safety fuse containing black powder, a U.S. government official said.
Reid told the FBI that he made the shoe bombs himself, a U.S. government official said.
But dignitaries and journalists reporting on the hemispheric meeting were staying there, a U.S. government official said.
The teenager cited the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as motivating factors behind the attack, a U.S. government official said.
"Our supplies ran out late Saturday, and we had not paid on time, " said a government official who asked to remain anonymous for security reasons.
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