• The abandoned U.S. Embassy in Kabul was set on fire during an anti-U.S. demonstration in the Afghan capital.

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  • In July 1998 Thaksin abandoned Thailand's political mainstream and founded his own Thai Rak Thai (Thai Unity) Party.

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  • The problem was that having abandoned Reagan's principles, they had nothing to replace them with except political expediency.

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  • He's abandoned his controversial plans to greatly widen the powers of public bodies to snoop on private communications.

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  • Kuan-Shu aims to transform one of the area's abandoned sugar factories into an educational center for local farmers and a tourist attraction dedicated to environmental issues.

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  • When officers identified Dorner's abandoned vehicle and traced him to a vacation cabin, a barrage of gunfire erupted, and hundreds of rounds were exchanged, authorities said.

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  • Some historians have argued he was killed for attempting to bring back polytheism after succeeding Akhenaten, who had abandoned Egypt's old gods in favour of monotheism.

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  • Sassano said he found in Sandusky's abandoned Penn State office lists of Second Mile children with notations next to the names of some of the alleged victims.

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  • Feeling its oats, the AKP abandoned Washington's protective umbrella and struck out on an independent neo-Ottoman course, aiming to be a regional power as in centuries past.

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  • These systems largely abandoned Napster's central servers, putting users directly in contact with one another and making it impossible to issue one injunction to shut the network down.

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  • Hypermarkets have sprouted in the husks of Lodz's abandoned factories.

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  • It must deliver the vision he set out in the now infamous "burning platform" memo in February 2011, when he abandoned Nokia's in-house operating systems in favour of Microsoft's Windows Phone.

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  • With plutonium no longer needed for use in the world's abandoned fast breeder reactor programmes and nuclear powers getting rid of their atomic weapons, large stockpiles of the highly toxic plutonium metal are starting to build up.

    BBC: More suspect nuclear fuel found

  • While it was originally presented so effectively as a rocking rhythm number that few noticed it had a storyline, now lyric and rhythm are rebalanced so that its portrait of an abandoned woman's last vestige of connection with her ex via the airwaves stays up front.

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  • Now, considering that there's been plenty of time since this filing to bring such a smartphone to market, we're going to guess that LG's abandoned plans for its tri-screen device, opting instead to boost the primary display size in smartphones like its Optimus G Pro, or the poorly received 5-inch Optimus Vu.

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  • He saw things he recognized but his brain, befuddled with chemicals released by fear, couldn't locate the words to describe them: the twin stacks spewing plumes of dirty white smoke, the abandoned custom's station with a faded red star painted above the door, the line of white-washed bee hives on a slope near a copse of stunted apple trees.

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  • The dissenting senator was a stalwart in Lula's Workers' Party before she was thrown out for saying Lula had abandoned the party's principles.

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  • For example, in the Dominican Republic, following the proclamation of the Brotherhood of the Holy Spirit of the Congos of Villa Mella, which organises socio-religious ceremonies stemming from African-American culture, threats have disappeared: the plan to build a road that would have cut in half the village of Mata Los Indios, the community's core, has been abandoned, and the confraternity's activities have become more famous than ever (via CD-Rom, participation in events, etc.).

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  • There is likely to be widespread anger within BBC News at what will be seen as a pre-empting of the results of Nick Pollard's investigation into why Newsnight abandoned an investigation into Jimmy Savile's paedophile activities last December.

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  • Much of it has been abandoned and there's no central land registry of ownership.

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  • Belgian star Tom Boonen also abandoned that year's Tour de France after suffering a concussion in a crash.

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  • The Clinton Administration, however, has unilaterally abandoned this U.S. stance on linkage.

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  • He has abandoned the US's quiet defense of Israel's purported nuclear arsenal.

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  • He abandoned his party's stance of equidistance between the other two parties in the last Parliament in favour of friendlier relations with Labour.

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  • Many feel they have been abandoned by Colombia's government as a form of punishment for living in a region long dominated by the Farc.

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  • These currencies have now far overshot the depreciations expected after Thailand, the first to fall, abandoned the baht's peg against the dollar on July 2nd.

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  • But as oil prices plunged in the Clinton era, the U.S. abandoned its grand solar experiment, and molten salt technology got shoved into cold storage.

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  • In Mexico, Cirilo Elotlan Diaz, president of the Regional Coffee Council of Coatepec, said 70% of the area's producers abandoned their plantations from 2001 to 2004.

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  • Netflix's ultimately abandoned foray into the hardware business with its own streaming device has been known for some time -- Wired revealed many of the details in a 2009 article -- but Fast Company has now uncovered some more on the effort that hadn't yet seen the light of day.

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  • Last week, as French war planes fought in the Malian sky and French soldiers stepped in after some of Mali's own soldiers abandoned their posts to al Qaeda-linked militants, President Dioncounda Traore welcomed more French troops to the capital's airport.

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