Consumer prices were 0.9% lower in September than they were in September 2008, following a 12-month decline of 0.8% in August.
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Family violence accounted for about 23% of all police-reported violent crime in 2007. Of the nearly 75,800 incidents of police-reported family violence, about 40,200, or 53%, were violent incidents perpetrated by a current or former spouse or common-law partner.
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New motor vehicle sales fell 0.3% to 126,401 units in August, following strong gains in July. Lower sales of passenger cars were responsible for the decline.
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MOSCOW - There are indications that North Korea may be preparing to conduct new launches of short-range missiles from its west coast a day after missile tests from the east coast, South Korea's news agency Yonhap reported according to RIA Novosti.
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Contractors' selling prices increased 0.1% in August following a 0.3% advance in July.
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BEIJING - The recent U.S. comments that China poses a military threat to itself is "totally groundless and irresponsible", Spokesman with China's Ministry of National Defens Hu Changming said Thursday according to Xinhua.
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As DD India reports, India on Monday successfully testfired in quick succession two nuclear-capable 'Prithvi-II' surface-to-surface missiles with a range of 350 km from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur, about 15 km from Balasore.
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Moscow - Kumertau Aviation Production Enterprise, JSC, part of the industrial holding managed by Russian Helicopters, has produced the first shipment of the anti-submarine Ka-28 for The Republic of China Navy.
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Universal Society of Hinduism President Rajan Zed and Nevada Rabbi Jonathan B. Freirich have demanded a thorough probe into the high rate of permanent exclusion of Roma/Gypsy children from schools in England, which is, according to them, about five times as compared to percentage of all excluded children.
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Cooperation is growing between navies and commercial shipping interests in many nations, a US Navy official said yesterday.
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