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Floods worsen in China, killing 18
BEIJING, July 8: Eighteen people have died, thousands of villages are besieged and more than a million residents are stranded in the worst floods since 1991 in China’s Huai River valley,... 
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Blair battles to save his political reputation
LONDON, July 8: Prime Minister Tony Blair, battling for his political reputation, rejected claims on Tuesday that he misled Britain over the case for war in Iraq despite a failure to...
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Luck, tactics save Schroeder again
BERLIN, July 8: A combination of good fortune and shrewd tactics is helping German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder restore his tarnished reputation as resistance to his economic reforms crumbles....
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Bush vows to aid Liberia peace
GOREE ISLAND (Senegal), July 8: US President George W. Bush began an African trip on Tuesday by pledging to help restore peace to war-ruined Liberia and branding slavery one of history’s...
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70pc in HK want their leader to step down
HONG KONG, July 8: Nearly seven out of 10 Hong Kong people want their Beijing-appointed Chief Executive to stop down amid a crisis over a planned security law, according to a...
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Disease spreads as 1.4m left stranded in India, BD
 GUWAHATI, July 8: The mighty Brahmaputra river burst its banks at several points early on Tuesday, bringing to 1.4 million the number of people made homeless by floods in India and...
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US coalition announces new Iraqi currency
BAGHDAD, July 8: Iraqis on the streets of Baghdad heaved sighs of relief Tuesday over the coalition’s plan to replace their battered currency with new banknotes, but worries remain over the...
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Al-Jazeera airs second ‘Saddam’ tape
CAIRO, July 8: The al-Jazeera satellite channel on Tuesday broadcast what it said was a new audiotape from deposed president Saddam Hussein urging Iraqis to continue to resist United States and...
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BD MPs’ perks doubled
DHAKA, July 8: The Bangladesh Parliament, on Monday passed a bill almost doubling the perks enjoyed by 300 legislators....
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Afghan school reconstructed
KABUL, July 8: An affiliate of the Aga Khan Development Network, Focus Humanitarian Associates, has provided state-of-the-art computing facilities, including multimedia and internet access, to a girls’ high school in Kabul....
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Afghanistan flayed by AI over prisoners
KABUL, July 8: Amnesty International said on Tuesday that prisoners in Afghanistan are being mistreated, tortured and sexually abused....
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US gunman kills 5, self
WASHINGTON July 8: A gunman on Tuesday shot dead five people and wounded eight more, some critically, before apparently killing himself inside a plant of military aircraft-maker Lockheed Martin in Meridian,...
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South Asia holds the key to millennium goals: UNDP
LONDON: South Asia holds the “swing vote” whether the Millennium Development Goals can be reached by 2015, according to UNDP Administrator Mark Malloch Brown....
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Military trial of captives may annoy US allies
WASHINGTON: Washington’s announcement on Friday that six of its foreign captives in the US “war on terrorism” are eligible to be tried before military tribunals — where they could potentially be...
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Missionaries read much in Bush’s Africa visit
NAIROBI: Some fly Bibles into war zones, others care for AIDS orphans dying in slums. Many hope a trip by US President George W. Bush to Africa this week will help...
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Bush in Africa armed with a carrot & stick
JOHANNESBURG: President George W Bush arrives in Africa armed with his Millennium Challenge Account carrot of $10 billion over three years to alleviate poverty, his $15 billion pledge over five years...
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Berlusconi’s slur hits Germans hard
BERLIN: Germans got an unwanted reminder of their nightmare past this month with Silvio Berlusconi’s Nazi slur and as they tried to put the episode behind them as fast as possible...
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Small arms still a major killer, warns UN
UNITED NATIONS: A UN conference on small arms opened on Monday with a renewed call for urgent measures to stop the illicit trade in light weapons, which claims at least 500,000...
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