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US to withdraw 70,000 troops from Europe, Asia
WASHINGTON, Aug 14: The United States plans to withdraw about 70,000 troops from Europe and Asia in a major realignment of American military presence prompted by the end of the Cold War and the beginning of the "war on terrorism", US officials said on Saturday. ... 
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Storm leaves trail of devastation in Florida: One million without power
FORT MYERS, Aug 14: Hurricane Charley left a trail of devastation in Florida on Saturday, with authorities fearing a significant number of dead in a coastal town that bore the full brunt of its force. ...
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Italy quietly secures cities, airports to meet terror threat
ROME, Aug 14: Security was boosted - but quietly - in Italian cities, ports, train stations, subways and airports on Saturday, the day before the deadline runs out from a group linked to the Al Qaeda network ...
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Pope Paul visits 'miracle shrine'
LOURDES, Aug 14: Pope John Paul, calling himself a sick man among the sick, arrived in the world's premier Roman Catholic "miracle shrine" on Saturday and urged society not to cast aside the old and the suffering. ...
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Italian film about ME wins award
LOCARNO, Aug 14: An Italian film, "Private", depicting the absurdities of life for a Palestinian family in the Israeli-occupied territories, won the top Golden Leopard award at the Locarno film festival in Switzerland on Saturday. ...
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Polish poet Milosz dies
WARSAW, Aug 14: Czeslaw Milosz, Poland's Nobel Prize-winning emigre poet and symbol of opposition to totalitarianism, died on Saturday at his home in the southern Polish city of Krakow at the age of 93. ...
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Germany 'regrets' 1904
HAMAKARI, Aug 14: Namibia's Herero people on Saturday marked the centenary of a massacre seen as the first genocide of the 20th century, urging a visiting German minister to back compensation for the colonial atrocity. ...
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Maldives calm after protests
COLOMBO, Aug 14: The Maldives was calm on Saturday, a day after police broke up an unprecedented protest rally, but activists said hopes President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom would make good on promises of democratic reforms had faded. ...
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Murderer executed in India
KOLKATA, Aug 14: India executed a criminal for the first time in 13 years on Saturday, a 41-year-old man convicted of raping and killing a schoolgirl in Kolkata. ...
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Superstitious Romanian dies on 13th
BUCHAREST, Aug 14: A superstitious Romanian, who refused to leave his house throughout Friday the 13th to avoid bad luck, died after he was stung by a wasp in his kitchen, police said. ...
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Oil workers go on strike in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, Aug 14: Sri Lanka was thrown into panic and chaos with thousands of workers attached to the main oil installation and the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation continuing a work stoppage for the second consecutive day ...
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Symbolism of the Najaf offensive
The US military offensive against Najaf is a dangerous and ill-judged escalation, revealing the violent reality of an occupation that has undergone only cosmetic change since the supposed handover of power to an interim Iraqi administration in June. ...
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Hanging sparks capital punishment debate in India
NEW DELHI: The hanging early Saturday of an Indian man who raped and murdered a 14-year-old girl sparked off a national debate about capital punishment and the obvious failings of a criminal justice system that kept the man on death row for 13 years. ...
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Florida -a political battleground again
ST PETERSBURG: The people of Florida have been battening down the hatches this week in preparation for Charley, the hurricane that is heading for the state's west coast at more than 100 miles an hour. ...
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