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113 killed in Armenian plane crash
SOCHI (Russia), May 3: All 113 passengers and crew on board an Armenian airliner were killed on Wednesday when the plane crashed into the Black Sea off the Russian coast as it tried to land in torrential rain.... 
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Bombing claims 18 lives in Falluja
FALLUJA, May 3: A suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of men waiting to sign up to join the police in the Iraqi city of Falluja on Wednesday, killing 18 people, doctors said....
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Nepal govt proclaims truce with Maoists
KATHMANDU, May 3: Nepal’s new interim government called a ceasefire in a decade-long conflict with Maoist rebels on Wednesday to signal it intends to quickly roll back 14-months of autocratic royal rule....
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‘Great’ quake rocks Tonga
WELLINGTON, May 3: A massive earthquake with a magnitude of 8.0 rocked Tonga in the Pacific early on Thursday. However damage was minimal and initial tsunami warnings for the South Pacific were withdrawn within two hours....
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US body seeks ‘aggressive action’ against S. Arabia: Pakistan cited among ‘religious freedom violators’
WASHINGTON, May 3: A US Congress-mandated commission urged the government to take ‘aggressive action’ against Saudi Arabia for alleged religious freedom violations and warned that religious rights were under threat in Iraq and Afghanistan....
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India says it is not out of gas deal
NEW DELHI: India may have been effectively eased out of the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline. Pakistan and Iran agreed in Islamabad on Sunday to lay a gas pipeline from Iran to Pakistan with a higher offtake for Pakistan from the earlier 2.1...
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Gujarat toll rises to six
VADODARA, May 3: The death toll from sectarian killings in India’s Gujarat state rose to six after a man was burnt alive in his car during clashes on Tuesday over the demolition of a Muslim shrine....
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Modi blamed for razing of shrine
AHMEDABAD: The Baroda Municipal Corporation did not heed a compromise formula offered by the caretakers of the Dargah of Sufi saint Syed Rashiuddin Chisti and simply went ahead with the demolition...
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Opposition calls for French PM’s resignation
PARIS, May 3: Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin came under renewed pressure in a dirty tricks scandal at the heart of the French government on Wednesday, openly accused of lying over...
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US general’s role in Iraq abuse questioned
WASHINGTON, May 3: The top US commander in Iraq during the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal urged soldiers to ‘go to the outer limits’ to extract information from prisoners, according to a US official cited in a military document....
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‘Widespread’ torture in US camps: AI
GENEVA, May 3: Torture and inhumane treatment are ‘widespread’ in US-run detention centres in Afghanistan, Iraq, Cuba and elsewhere despite Washington’s denials, Amnesty International said on Wednesday....
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Two Hamas leaders barred from France
PARIS, May 3: France on Wednesday refused entry visas to two senior members of the Hamas, with which the European Union has suspended political contacts, the foreign ministry said....
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American youth deficient in geography: poll
WASHINGTON, May 3: Young Americans know little about world geography, with the majority unable to locate Iraq on a map and three-quarters unable to find Indonesia, according to a study released on Tuesday....
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India on the road to a transport revolution
PUNE: When Yohan Poonawalla took delivery of the first Rolls-Royce Phantom sold in India last year, the car was everything that he was promised. Inside the 2.5-tonne,...
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Lanka minister hopeful of peace talks’ success
COLOMBO: Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva who headed the government delegation to peace talks in Geneva in February is proving to be a staunch optimist....
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Slums, shops make way for ‘world-class’ Delhi
NEW DELHI: Billboards dotting New Delhi are exhorting city residents to imagine a future made up of tall buildings and sky trains that will take the Indian capital from “walled city to world city”....
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Courts ban ‘toxic’ ship from BD waters
DHAKA: A Bahamian-registered ship that environmentalists say is “toxic” and was due to be dismantled in Bangladesh has been banned from entering its territorial waters by the Dhaka High Court, lawyers said on Wednesday....
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‘65kms at 5 - isn’t this child abuse?’
NEW DELHI: The guardian of a five-year-old Indian boy who runs 50 kilometres a day denies media accusations he was flogging him for personal gain....
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Love for Nepal’s king slumps
KATHMANDU: Dozens of framed photographs of Nepal’s bitterly resented monarch and his wife lie stacked against the walls of his shop and Rajendra Shrestha is not hopeful of selling them....
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